Ecce Shnak Shares “Stroll With Me” Video | Announces Western U.S. Tour Supporting Spacehog + EMF
ECCE SHNAK ANNOUNCE JUNE TOUR
SUPPORTING SPACEHOG + EMF ACROSS WESTERN U.S.
SHARE VIDEO FOR “STROLL WITH ME”
FEATURED ON THE NEW EP SHADOWS GROW FANGS
OUT NOW VIA RECORD MAN, RECORDS
Photo Credit: Tommy Krause
New York, NY (March 3, 2024) – New York City art rockers Ecce Shnak today have announced they will be joining Spacehog and EMF on tour across the Western U.S. this June in support of their newly released EP, Shadows Grow Fangs. The tour kicks June 14 in San Jose, California and wraps June 28 in Las Vegas [all dates below].
Ecce Shank released Shadows Grow Fangs last month via Record Man, Records, and celebrated last week with a performance at The Red Pavilion in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With the announcement they have shared a video for “Stroll With Me.” Watch + share via YouTube.
If there’s a fine line between wild-eyed, inspired genius and utter, irrepressible insanity, that’s where you’ll find Ecce Shnak, teetering on a neon tightrope. Composer, bassist and co-vocalist David Roush is joined by Bella Komodromos (vocals), Chris Krasnow(guitar), Gannon Ferrell (guitar), and Henry Buchanan-Vaughn (drums) in this group subverts notions of style. The quintet playfully but reverently embrace multiple forms from across the spectrum, frequently within a single tune, while addressing weighty themes and notable trivia with striking articulacy. “Each genre has its own manner of expression, mannerisms, history, motivations, virtues, flaws, limitations, and so on,”Roush says. “At my best as a composer and lyricist, I listen to and respect each one, then whatever I take from their souls informs mine, inhabiting it, expanding, and merging.”
Shadows Grow Fangs is the latest in a list of releases that, though still too short, is on the verge of swelling. It showcases Roush’s incomparable ingenuity and limitless invention over five songs running the gamut from slow-burning meditations on love’s indispensability to mockery of the web from the perspective of a time-traveling poet – “What the fuck is the internet?!” Of course, this might sound a little ‘zany’, but it’s really not. Not at all. It’s intricately constructed, methodically fashioned, and – while undeniably offbeat – as serious and logical as it’s entertaining. Some have pointed to Franz Zappa, Primus and Meshuggah.
Talking with Roush is like meeting a thoughtful stranger with extraordinary knowledge of the weird and arcane, a fascination for society and what led us to where we are, and a noteworthy ability to share stories in an enlightening and empathetic manner. Then finally, while you’re still absorbing all the information he’s imparted, he’ll tie the knot to complete this elegant necklace. His narrative style, in fact, is much like listening to an Ecce Shnak song. “The meaning,” he concludes is, ‘look at this!’”
Asked about his restless musical and lyrical nature, Roush confesses that, “I can’t sit still in terms of genre and I can’t really sit still, either, in terms of what I want to try to understand. But if something in me says, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about, nor could you possibly learn anything writing about it’, then I don’t write about it. That still leaves a lot open. Even a banal experience is awesome. Just the fact of anything at all is utterly, absurdly breathtaking, at least up to the point where you get bored of it. Yet sometimes you can be reminded of that by something loud and jarring or expressionistically wild, and I have too much fun jumping around from one boat to another, boarding somebody else’s and capsizing them, then trying to right it and get back in again. Of course, the only reason these exist is because their creators have made them well. If I destroyed them, then I couldn’t jump from one to another.”
Tour Dates:
06/14 – San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
06/15 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
06/17 – Portland, OR @ Star Theater
06/18 – Seattle, WA @ The Neptune
06/20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
06/21 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
06/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
06/24 – San Diego, CA @ Music Box
06/26 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
06/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent
06/28 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
* all dates supporting Spacehog + EMF
