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NYC quartet French Kicks will deliver their second Vagrant Records full-length on May 20. Produced and mixed entirely by the Kicks themselves, the follow-up to 2006's Two Thousand is called Swimming. Technically it's already out, thanks to an exclusive-to-iTunes digital release, but the tangible artifact still doesn't arrive until next month.

French Kicks will support Swimming with a two-part U.S. tour that begins today (April 24) in Washington, D.C. They'll be joined by Scotland's Frightened Rabbit on the second batch of dates.

Swimming:

01 Abandon
02 Over the World
03 Carried Away
04 New Man
05 Said So What
06 Atlanta
07 Love in the Ruins
08 With the Fishes
09 The Way You Arrive
10 All Our Weekends
11 Sex Tourists
12 This Could Go Wrong

French Kicks:

04-24 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
04-25 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
04-26 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
04-27 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
05-15 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
05-16 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
05-18 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
05-19 Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp
05-22 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
05-23 San Diego, CA - Casbah
05-28 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop *
05-29 Chicago, IL - Double Door *
05-30 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon *
05-31 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Club *
06-02 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar *
06-04 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater *
06-05 Austin, TX - Mohawk *
06-06 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington *
06-07 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon *
06-09 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree *
06-10 Nashville, TN - Exit/In *
06-11 Columbus, OH - The Basement *

* with Frightened Rabbit