Pitchfork: Silver Jews Announce Lookout Release Date

Silver Jews Announce Lookout Release Date

Nevermind a light, Silver Jews fans now have an end of the tunnel, period. The wait for David Berman and co.'s sixth album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, will end with its June 17 release on Drag City.

The follow-up to 2005's Tanglewood Numbers is the first Silver Jews record played by the touring lineup that formed in 2006 in defiance of Berman's previous refusal to tour: Berman, his wife Cassie, Tony Crow, Peyton Pinkerton, and William Tyler. Lookout Mountain's tracklist has been rearranged a bit since our initial report, and one thing we didn't know then was that "Open Field" is a cover of a Maher Shalal Hash Baz song.

Back to touring, the Jews' May appearances at the Primavera Sound Festival and the Explosions in the Sky ATP are just a couple of stops on a spring European jaunt. Then, for the fall, the band is planning a tour of the U.S. And according to The Tennessean, Berman will give a poetry reading at Nashville's Watkins College of Art and Design on March 12.

For a lot more about the album and everything else going on in the Silver Jews universe, read our recent interview with Berman here.

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea:

01 What Is Not But Could Be If
02 Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer
03 Suffering Jukebox
04 My Pillow Is the Threshold
05 Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
06 Open Field
07 San Francisco B.C.
08 Candy Jail
09 Party Barge
10 We Could Be Looking for the Same Thing

Dates:

05-07 Brighton, England - Concorde 2
05-09 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC *
05-16-18 Minehead, England - Butlins Holiday Resort (Explosions in the Sky ATP)
05-29 London, England - Indig02
05-30-31 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival

* with Monotonix