Pitchfork

What do the founder of the Canadian province of Manitoba, a world record-holding collector of four-leaf clovers, and cheap furniture have in common? They all pop up on the tracklist to the forthcoming debut from Seattle's Grand Archives, naturally.

The almost self-titled The Grand Archives arrives February 19 on some upstart hometown imprint known as Sub Pop. It collects 11 tracks, at least three of which Forkcast fiends may already know well: "Torn Blue Foam Couch", "Sleepdriving", and our aforementioned mutant shamrock collector, "George Kaminski", all of which also appeared in demo form on the self-released Grand Archives tour EP. A pair of tunes from the debut LP-- "Miniature Birds" and "A Setting Sun"-- may be streamed from the boys' MySpace as well.

Recently expanded to a quintet, Grand Archives will take to the road the day after their debut's release and four-part harmonize their way into early March.

The Grand Archives:

01 Torn Blue Foam Couch
02 Miniature Birds
03 Swan Matches
04 Index Moon
05 George Kaminski
06 A Setting Sun
07 Breezy No Breezy
08 Sleepdriving
09 Louis Riel
10 The Crime Window
11 Orange Juice

Outings:

02-20 Seattle, WA - Triple Door
02-28 San Francisco, CA - Independent
02-29 West Hollywood, CA - The Troubadour
03-01 San Diego, CA - Casbah
03-08 Chicago, IL - Schubas