aaamusic | On 08, Dec 2010

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“A sophisticated and mature sound that draws from the noirish elements of Tom Waits, the textures and moods of Portishead, and ‘20s and ‘30s big band tunes and folk music.”-Popmatters.com

“Portland’s Tu Fawning beget a sound that is smoky and ethereal. It’s filled with slinky keys and cabaret songstress vibes and can sometimes make a trumpet feel like it’s something to be feared.” – RCRD LBL

“Hearty pop that’ll have you spellbound in minutes.”– Neu Magazine

With their luscious wintery debut single ‘I Know You Now’ released this comingMonday December 13th on City Slang, Tu Fawning have confirmed their first European tour for February.

Taking in a mixture of headline and support shows, including one with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, so far the tour looks like this:

February
17th London Old Blue Last
18th Saint Malo La Route Du Rock Hiver @ L’Omnibus
19th Paris Fleche D’Or    supporting Dean Wareham and Civil Civic
20th Vendome Chapelle St. Jacques    supporting 22 Pistepirkko
21st Lille L’Aeronef    supporting The Pains At Being Pure At Heart
22nd Lyon Sonic
24th Rorschach Mariaberg
28th München Feierwerk

March
1st Heidelberg Karlstorbahnhof
2nd Nürnberg MUZ
3rd Schorndorf Manufaktur
4th Hamburg Hafenklang    supporting Free Moral Agents
5th Berlin Comet Club
7th Amsterdam Paradiso
8th Duisburg Steinbruch

More shows will be announced imminently, but in the meantime you can see the video for ‘I Know You Now’ here:

Tu Fawning – I Know You Now (Official Video) from City Slang on Vimeo.

‘I Know You Now’ is taken from album ‘Hearts on Hold’, set for release at the beginning of 2011. Tu Fawning recently told Popmatters that they aim to make their songs “sound as though they were played while a giant walks through a valley, a piano is stabbed in a 1920’s basement, drums are beat on a mountain or that you’re singing in a cave.” – wide ambitions that they undoubtedly achieve throughout the elegant and sophisticated 11 tracks that form Hearts on Hold.

Tu Fawning is a collective of songsmiths and multi-instrumentalists founded by Joe Haege (31Knots, Menomena) and Corrina Repp. After releasing the Secession EP (Polyvinyl) in 2008, the group doubled in size when longtime collaborators Toussaint Perrault and Liza Rietz joined full time last year.

Steeped in dark mystery, texture, and beauty that pours forth from an assortment of instruments including guitar, drums, piano, brass, and samples, Hearts on Hold is a polished, revealing record that perfectly complements Winter’s fire-side warmth and crisp breezes that seductively overcome lungs accustomed to more temperate air. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the album opener and first single, ‘I Know You Now’, a haunting piece where guitars punctuate a sepia-soaked 1920’s waltz, distorted and submerged to hair-raising effect.