aaamusic | On 29, Mar 2011

The tour now looks like this:

Sat Apr 9 Rome, Italy Traffic
Sun Apr 10 Paris, France La Java
Tue Apr 12 Lille, France Aeronef w/Battles
Wed Apr 13 Brighton, UK The Green Door Store
Thu Apr 14 London, UK Corsica Studios
Fri Apr 15 Liverpool, UK Mello Mello
Sat Apr 16 Dublin, Ireland Button Factory
Sun Apr 17 Cork, Ireland Crane Lane
Tue Apr 19 Manchester, UK Islington Mill
Wed Apr 20 Glasgow, UK Arts School
Thu Apr 21 Nottingham, UK Spanky Van Dykes
Fri Apr 22 Den Haag, Netherlands Paard
Sat Apr 23 Amsterdam, Netherlands OCCII
Sun Apr 24 Koln, Germany Genau
Mon Apr 25 Trier, Germany Exhaus
Tue Apr 26 Leipzig, Germany Conne Island
Wed Apr 27 Berlin, Germany Levee

Mi Ami “Hard Up” video

Mi Ami – Hard Up from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

And here is a link to the “Hard Up” mp3

Dolphins makes it hard to believe that Mi Ami used to be a rock band. Gone are the ferocious guitar, hypnotic bass-lines, and the thundering drums of Steal Your Face and Watersports, now replaced by an unrelenting electronic vibrancy. Bass player Jacob Long left the band earlier this year, creating an opportunity for founding members Damon Palermo and Daniel Martin-McCormick to dive headfirst into a new setup: Damon on the 707 drum machine and a sampler that uses floppy disks, Daniel on the mic and keys, riding the mix. Elements of this new approach can be heard on their Cut Men and Techno 12″s, but those were baby steps. Dolphins is the sound of a band diving head first into the musical fray. Listeners can feel Damon’s command of the rhythm expressed through the drum machine, alchemizing the inorganic into the organic, while Daniel’s trademark vocals remind you that this is Mi Ami. Psyched on their fresh palette as a duo, they went in the studio only three months later with Phil Manley (Watersports, Steal Your Face) performing these four tracks live.
Dolphins is the fruit of that labour. A melting, dystopian refraction of left-field new age, lush soundscapes and Italo daydreams overlapping with slaughtered dolphins and the heartbreak of “Hard Up.” Simultaneously ingesting and rejecting pop pleasure, wide-eyed optimism and modern despair, it is equal parts improvisatory winging it and forceful, fully-realized vision. Blurring the line between the tainted and the sublime, Dolphins is the sound of a band thrillingly re-imagining itself.