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Let it be known once and for all: Au mastermind Luke Wyland is a man of action. Why else would he and his Portland collective title their sophomore album Verbs?

Aagoo will issue Au's Verbs on CD and vinyl come June 24. Boasting contributions from members of Yellow Swans, Parenthetical Girls, and other PDX luminaries, the set was recorded over three days at the city's Type Foundry studios and subsequently "finished" by Wyland for release. And here we are!

Verbs will be preceded on May 20 by a 7" single for the album's recently Forkcasted "RR vs. D". And between Verbs and that upcoming No Age disc, we can form complete sentences! Sweet!

As for where Au will be, well, they'll be a bunch of places along the West Coast in the coming weeks, joined at many of these places by Parenthetical Girls.

Verbs:

01 All My Friends
02 Are Animals
03 Summerheat
04 RR vs. D
05 All Myself
06 Two Seasons
07 Prelude
08 The Waltz
09 Sleep

Au:

04-19 Portland, OR - Holocene *
05-12 Portland, OR - Valentine's
05-23 Seattle, WA - Happy Times Fun Club ^
05-24 Portland, OR - Backspace ^
05-25 Davis, CA - The Firehouse ^
05-26 Irvine, CA - UC Irvine ^
05-27 San Diego, CA - Ché Café ^
05-28 Los Angeles, CA - The Smell ^#
05-29 San Luis Obispo, CA - Retrospect ^
05-30 San Francisco, CA - The Cushionworks ^

* with Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes
^ with Parenthetical Girls, PWRFL Power
# with Abe Vigoda