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The music of Vancouver's Ladyhawk sure sounds like it was recorded under the bleariest, booziest circumstances, and as it turns out, that's pretty much how the magic happens. Rumor has it (OK, it was in a press release) that their sophomore set Shots-- out now in North American on Jagjaguwar, with a UK release to follow April 7-- was put to tape in an abandoned farm house with a bottomless supply of sangria serving as fuel for the proceedings.

You can take in all that sloppy, sticky glory-- sans the hangover-- on either the record or Let Me Be Fictional, a documentary about the Shots sessions by filmmakers Mona Mok and Rob Leickner that's hitting the festival circuit now. And, hey, if you wanted to fix yourself a drink while you were taking in that Ladyhawk, well, that'd probably be all right with them.

Shots fired, the band has plans for a little North American tour, with a few dates with their fellow British Columbians in Black Mountain.

Shots:

01 I Don't Always Know What You're Saying
02 S.T.H.D.
03 Fear
04 Corpse Paint
05 (I'll Be Your) Ashtray
06 Faces of Death
07 Night You're Beautiful
08 You Ran
09 Ghost Blues

Ladyhawk tour:

03-15 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
03-16 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
03-18 London, Ontario - Salt Lounge !
03-19 Hamilton, Ontario - Casbah !
03-20 Montreal, Quebec - Le Divan Orange !
03-21 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox !
03-22 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern !
03-24 Sudbury, Ontario - Townehouse Tavern !
03-26 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Kilroy's
03-27 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Pyramid Cabaret *
03-28 Regina, Saskatchewan - The Distrikt *
03-29 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Amigo's *
03-31 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite Room *
04-01 Calgary, Alberta - The Warehouse *
04-02 Kelowa, British Columbia - The Habitat
04-05 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *

! with Immaculate Machine
* with Black Mountain