ALL NEW EP OUR BONES OUT AUGUST 9, 2019

PRE-ORDERS/SAVES AVAILABLE NOW

ON TOUR WITH BTBAM THIS SUMMER WITH SHOWS ACROSS CANADA IN JULY
WATCH VIDEO FOR EARLY GRAVE HERE

Toronto, ON – June 25, 2019 –  The Contortionist have announced a new EP today, and the release of a new single and music video titled, Early Grave. Produced and Directed by Corey Norman and produced and edited by vocalist, Michael Lessard, this is the first music video and original song we’ve seen from the progressive group since the release of Clairvoyant in 2017. Watch the video here.

The Contortionist will release Our Bones on August 9, 2019, via Entertainment One / Good Fight Music. Crafted in the compound owned by producer/engineer, John Douglass (Coheed & Cambria, Bad Wolves, Carnifex), where the guys were able to live and work, Our Bones began with some ideas Robby Baca would regularly run through at the band’s sound checks. 

“Once I was finally able to get Robby to record that riff we started piecing together the song in the back of the van, while on tour in Europe,” Lessard recalls. The result was lead single, Early Grave, an expression of gratitude to the fans who’ve shared their stories of heartbreak, loneliness, and depression, and found new strength in the music of The Contortionist.

The band’s blistering new EP sees The Contortionist step outside the atmospheric storytelling of their critically-lauded conceptual masterpiece Clairvoyant (2017) to indulge an aggressive shadow side. More an anthology of standalone bursts of intensity, Our Bones isn’t a mere stopover between albums. It’s both a definitive look back and an ambitious leap forward.

“We try to do something different with everything we create,” explains Lessard. “With our albums, we tend to work with overarching interconnected themes. Our Bones is a departure. It offered an opportunity to dive into some things we haven’t had a chance to explore, and the shorter EP format allowed us to be hyper-focused on each song.”

Our Bones was mixed and mastered by longtime collaborator Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, Through The Eyes Of The Dead), who worked on Language and Clairvoyant.

While The Contortionist ultimately has proven themselves masters of psychedelic-enhanced experimentation and trippy melodicism, endearing them to fans of later period Enslaved and Sigur Ros alike, they have never entirely forsaken the urgent impact of tech-leaning extremity. 

“From The Beatles to Pink Floyd to Mastodon, all the great rock bands in history have clear, non-linear musical trajectories,” Metal Sucks observed. “It’s great to see a band taking chances and moving forward. The result is a fully formed band, four albums in, to which no other bands compare. Literally: no one else sounds like The Contortionist even a little.” 

The Contortionist is:
Joey Baca / Robby Baca / Cameron Maynard / Michael Lessard
 / Jordan Eberhardt / Eric Guenther

Pre-order Our Bones: ffm.to/ourbonesep

Track List:
1. Follow
2. Early Grave
3. All Grey
4. 1979

TOUR DATES:
July 7 – Ottawa, ON – Barrymore’s Music Hall

July 9 – Kitchener, ON – Elements

July 10 – London, ON – London Music Hall

July 11 – Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation @The Intersection

July 13 – Winnipeg, MB – The Garrick Centre

July 14 – Regina, SK – The Exchange

July 16 – Fargo, ND – The Windbreak

July 17 – Minneapolis, MS  - Varsity Theater

July 18 – Madison, WI – The Red Zone Madison

July 19 – Lafayette, IN – Lafayette Theater

July 20 – Newport, KY – Thompson House

July 21 – Syracuse, NY – Wescott Theatre

July 23 – Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater

July 24 – East Saratoga Junction, NY – Upstate Concert Hall

July 25 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place

July 26 – Providence, RI – Fete Music Hall

July 27 – Amityville, NY – Amityville Music Hall

July 28- Reading, PA – Reverb

July 29 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry

August 3 – Venice, IT – Argo16

August 4 – Milan, IT – Circolo Svolta

August 6 – Wiesbaden, GR- Kesselhaus

August 7 – Dresden, GR – Beatpol

August 8 – Warszawa, PL- Hydrozagdka

August 9 – Jaromer, CZ – Brutal Assault Festival

August 10 – Berlin, GR – Musik & Frieden

August 11 – Hamburg, GR – Knust

August 13 – Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn

August 14 – Cologne, GR – Club Volta

August 15 – Dinkelsbuhl, GR – Summer Breeze Festival

August 17 – Bristol, UK – Arctangent Festival

August 19 – Dublin, UK – Voodoo Lounge

August 20 – Belfast, UK – The Speakeasy

August 22 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club

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