Gang Gang Dance new song ‘Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)’ out today
GANG GANG DANCE
NEW SONG
‘YOUNG BOY (MARIKA IN AMERIKA)’
RELEASED TODAY
NEW ALBUM KAZUASHITA OUT 22ND JUNE
Gang Gang Dance‘s long-awaited album Kazuashita is released later this month, and following ‘J-TREE’ and ‘Lotus’, today the New York act have released a third new song, ‘Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)’.
A piercing, heartfelt elegy, Lizzi Bougatsos empathetically sings for those lives unjustly lost to police brutality over weighty, tug-o-war synths and destabilising beats.
Hear ‘Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)’ below
‘Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)’ [Audio]
By Gang Gang Dance
Founded by Lizzi Bougatsos, Brian DeGraw and Josh Diamond, Gang Gang Dance has consistently blurred the boundaries between the New York art and music scenes for nearly two decades. They are as comfortable performing rare improvisational sets at the Whitney Biennial as they are at Coachella and count Dash Snow & Dan Colen, Tinchy Stryder and the Boredoms as previous collaborators.
Kazuashita – the band’s first record together since the acclaimed Eye Contact in 2011 – is an intoxicating mix of shoe gaze and electronic ambience and was produced by DeGraw after recording sessions across several New York studios and art spaces. The trio were joined by drummer Ryan Sawyer (who met the band through the Boredoms’ BOADRUM project) and Jorge Elbrecht (who worked on additional production and mixing duties). Pre-orders of Kazuashita from 4AD come with an exclusive double-sided poster with art and design from DeGraw and Bougatsos.
For more information head to smartURL.it/Kazuashita.
GANG GANG DANCE TOUR DATES
22 June – BROOKLYN, NY, Elsewhere (Record Release Show)
30 June – LOS ANGELES, CA, The Broad Museum (w/ Terry Riley)
28 July – DENVER, CO, Underground Music Showcase
1 September – QUEENS, NY, MOMA PS1 Warmup
23 October – OSAKA, JP, Big Cat (w/ Deerhunter) **SOLD OUT**
24 October – NAGOYA, JP, Electric Ladyland (w/ Deerhunter)
25 October – TOKYO, JP, O-East (w/ Deerhunter)
“Magical.” – Q
“One of their strongest and most coherent records yet.” – Uncut
“Expansive, career-spanning music.” – MOJO
“Like Arthur Russell before them, they give equal floorspace to the spiritual and the sensual.”
Pitchfork
Gang Gang Dance – Kazuashita
4AD 0079 – CD/LP/Download/HD Audio
High glove UV sleeve, limited edition LP on red vinyl
Tracklisting:
1. ( infirma terme )
2. J-TREE
3. Lotus
4. ( birth canal )
5. Kazuashita
6. Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)
7. Snake Dub
8. Too Much, Too Soon
9. ( novae terrae )
10. Salve on the Sorrow
Gang Gang Dance photographed by Ari Macropolis