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March 18, Denver's daring DeVotchKa will return with A Mad and Faithful Telling, their proper LP-length follow-up (epilogue?) to 2004's How It Ends. The disc, their first for the Anti- imprint, spices up its ten tracks with the band's trademark Eastern European folk-inflected flavor and, reportedly, "improved production." Isn't that somethin'?

DeVotchKa have a trio of Spanish tour dates in the run up to Telling's release, and frontman Nick Urata will play a solo gig in his hometown December 14 at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret.

A Mad and Faithful Telling:

01 Basso Profundo
02 Along the Way
03 The Clockwise Witness
04 Head Honcho
05 Comrade Z
06 Transliterator
07 Blessing in Disguise
08 Undone
09 Strizzalo
10 New World

DeVotchDates:

12-14 Denver, CO - Lannie's Clocktower (Nick Urata solo)
01-06 Logroño, Spain - Palacio de los Deportes
01-08 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo
01-09 Madrid, Spain - El Sol