The Obsessives Announce Spring Tour With Nervous Dater // ‘The Obsessives’ Out Now On Lame-O Records

The Obsessives Announce Spring Tour With Nervous Dater

The Obsessives Out Now On Lame-O Records

RIYL: The Pixies, Modern Baseball, Violent Femmes, Joyce Manor

photographer credit: Jessica Flynn

The Obsessives have just announced their spring tour with Nervous Dater. Tickets for all shows are available today at 12PM local time. A full list of dates can be found below. The Obsessives are touring in support of their 2017 album The Obsessives, produced by Evan Bernard and Chris Baglivo at Big Mama’s (Mannequin Pussy, Spirit of the Beehive), and out now physically and digitally via Lame-O Records in the US, Dog Knights Productions in the UK and Europe, and Cooking Vinyl in Australia.

Tour Dates:
05/04 – Newark, DE – The Temple
05/05 – Norfolk, VA – Toast
05/06 – Asheville, NC – Fleetwood’s
05/07 – Nashville, TN – Fond Object
05/08 – St. Louis, MO – Foam
05/09 – Chicago, IL – SubTerranean Downstairs
05/10 – Detroit, MI – Trubullplex
05/11 – Cleveland, OH – Mahall’s Locker Room
05/12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Roboto Project
Biography:

Nick Bairatchnyi and Jackson Mansfield built The Obsessives at fifteen, out of a childhood friendship and a misplaced love for blues-rock. “We wanted to start a band with a “The” because bands like that three years ago were cool, like The Black Keys and The White Stripes,” Bairatchnyi remembers while laughing at his ninth-grade naivety. Three years later, the band became fixated on a new form.
The Obsessives released their debut record, Heck No, Nancy in 2015. The album chronicled a series of revelations which center around a musical mentality that volleys between the expressive texture of emo bands like Braid and the bouncy indie of bands like The Pixies and Violent Femmes.
On March 17th, 2017, The Obsessives released their follow up self-titled album on Lame-O Records, continuing even further along their indie rock inspirations, the band has found an acclivity for pop hooks and vibrant instrumentation that give a nod to their heroes (even naming a song referencing listening to a Pixies record), while also fitting alongside the top artists of the modern indie/emo scene.

“Pop hooks that bum rush the amp stacks” – NPR Music
“Goofily earnest and likable” – Stereogum
“The Obsessives excel in the modern age, their hooky, mightily endearing brashness underpinned by a sentimentality that has flooded the associated genres over the past couple of years.” – GoldFlakePaint

1. Intro
2. You’re My God
3. Surfer Rosa
4. Violent
5. A Shady Place
6. If You Really Love Me
7. Now She’s Smoking
8. It’s Not Fair
9. In Her Belly
10. It’s Okay If
11. He Is Wise
12. Sometimes
13. When One Thing Ends
14. You’re Gonna Be

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