Tenement Shares "Dull Joy" From ‘Predatory Headlights’ Double Album 6/2 via Don Giovanni
Tenement 1st Release In Four Years, Predatory Headlights
Double Album, Drops June 2 via Don Giovanni Records
Listen to “Dull Joy” below
Photo Courtesy of Tenement
“Tenement has been a favorite in the D.I.Y. community for years, but Predatory Headlights is sure to extend the band’s reach. Following in the footsteps of such classic, sprawling works as Zen Arcade and Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, Tenement shows each side of itself on a double record that’s as dense as it is catchy.” – AV Club
“The Wisconsin punk trio Tenement has been making old-school college-radio music for almost a decade now, and much of it has been scattered across different sorts of limited releases.“ –Stereogum
Tenement’s new double album Predatory Headlights is the bands first release in four years and will be released June 2nd via Don Giovanni Records. It was completed with the assistance of engineer and co-producer, Justin Perkins (The Goodnight Loving, The Sugar Stems, and The Mystery Girls) who also worked with Tenement on their 2011 offering, Napalm Dream. Frontman Amos Pitsch has often cited Perkins’ involvement in early 2000’s groups Yesterday’s Kids and The Obsoletes as a heavy influence.
The bulk of Predatory Headlights was written and recorded at BFG in Appleton, Wisconsin – a retired DIY venue as well as Tenement’s home and personal studio. The house was symbolically demolished within days of finishing the record. In a fitting display of finality, three years of sweat and nightmares and beauty and dissonance returned to the soil and found its way back into the water and woods with only this document to prove it ever even existed at all. Thanks to Don Giovanni Records (Screaming Females, Priests, Downtown Boys, Waxahatchee), you hold the very document in your hands – Tenement’s newest window into the nature of the human being and the complexity of life:Predatory Headlights. The release is not available for pre-order digitally at iTunes and physically via Don Giovanni’s webstore.
“Dull Joy” premiered with AV Club