“Big and bold and triumphant synth-rock … ‘Permanent Sunlight’ is a tremendous, surging song, the sort of song that makes you want to stretch your arms skyward while you’re standing on a hockey-arena floor somewhere.” – Stereogum
“‘Permanent Sunlight’ is the closest No Devotion have come to arena alt-rock yet. It opens with U2-style guitars, and then layers them with synths taken right from The Cure’s
poppiest moments.” – Brooklyn Vegan
Collect Records and No Devotion have announced a handful of North American appearances in support of the Friday, September 25 release of the band’s debut full-length album, Permanence (pre-order & bundles). Spanning the middle of October and including a stop at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon with a performance at the Brooklyn Vegan/Collect Records showcase at Baby’s All Right, in Brooklyn, NY on Wednesday, October 14, the tour will also hit other east coast markets such as Boston, MA on Monday, October 12, Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, October 13, Washington DC on Thursday, October 15 and Fords, NJ on Saturday, October 17 for an in-store performance at Vintage Vinyl. Tickets are on sale now and more information on the tour can be found via Collect Records’ official site, http://www.collectrecords.org.
The end result is Permanence – an album as ambitious and expansive as its name suggests.
Mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Cut Copy, Thursday), produced by Stuart Richardson and Alex Newport (Bloc Party, Frank Turner, The Mars Volta), this is the sound of a band not only liberated from their pasts, but perhaps liberated by them. Slates finally clean, No Devotion have refined those early flirtations with nostalgic pop-noir to find themselves at the intersection of post-punk heart and contemporary tricknology. It’s an album as aggressively rhythmic as the singles are unrepentantly melodic – a development powered by the band’s recently departed drummer Luke Johnson and founding Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong, who split the drum duties on this record.
Of course, at its core, No Devotion’s debut album still draws on a subject matter that bleeds with equal measures longing and satisfaction; in the same way that he did in Thursday, Rickly finds his muse somewhere between the anxiety and relief of modern life. But ultimately, Permanence is about the mark that’s left after the bleeding: It’s something new, something unpredictable, something there to remind you.
No Devotion will be making the following appearances this fall in support of Permanence. Tour dates below.
OCTOBER
12 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall (w/ Wax Idols, Creepoid)
13 – Philadelphia, PA – Foundry at the Fillmore (w/ Creepoid, Wax Idols) *
14 – New York, NY – Baby’s All Right (BrooklynVegan & Collect Records CMJ Showcase w/ Nothing, Creepoid, Wax Idols & Foxes in Fiction) +
15 – Washington D.C. – The W Hotel Rooftop (Free with RSVP to: http://www.povlivenodevotion.eventbrite.com)
17 – Fords, NJ – Vintage Vinyl (live in-store performance)
* Creepoid headlining
+ Nothing headlining
