Hailey Wojcik's Book of Beasts EP Out Today on Wiener Records

By: Mar. 03, 2015
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Hailey Wojcik engineered and produced the majority of the Book of Beasts EP by herself in the south of France, and completed it in Michigan and Brooklyn with drummer Brian Viglione (The Dresden Dolls, The Violent Femmes). Book of Beasts will be released in March 2015 on cassette with Wiener Records and digitally on Bandcamp. The Book of Beasts EP is an intimate record, akin to Kathleen Hanna's bedroom recording process for the first Julie Ruin album.

Hailey Wojcik's darkly witty lyrics and fierce aesthetic have earned her the title of "the Wednesday Addams of her genre" (The Deli Magazine), and My Old Kentucky Blog notes that she "sounds mighty fine at volumes that may disturb others who may be in the room with you." Her music and videos have caught the attention of Magnet, After Ellen, MTV, Logo, and Girls Get Busy Zine. She has co-directed several music videos, many of which included her own stop-motion animation. Her debut album, Diorama, was produced by Dan Romer in 2010 (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jukebox the Ghost). In the intervening years since releasing Diorama, Hailey pursued a side project, the garage rock two-piece, WOJCIK, which released an eponymous EP and an LP entitled Wise Blood, in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

Book of Beasts track listing

1. XO Skeleton
2. Dog V. Man
3. Cigarette
4. Prosimian
5. East Coast

Engineered and produced by Hailey Wojcik
Guitar, vox, drum machine: Hailey Wojcik
Drums: Brian Viglione
Mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato
Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound

Remaining tour dates with The Shondes:

3/4/2015 Minneapolis, MN @ The 7th Street Entry
3/6/2015 Missoula, MT @ The VFW
3/7/2015 Portland, OR @ The Alhambra Theater
3/8/2015 Seattle, WA @ Columbia City Theater
3/9/2015 Eugene, OR @ TBA
3/10/2015 San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
3/11/2015 Davis, CA @ KDVS
3/13/2015 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell
3/14/2015 Tucson, AZ @ Che's Lounge
3/16/2015 Albuquerque, NM @ Burt's Tiki Lounge
3/17/2015 Denver, CO @ The Sidewinder Tavern
3/19/2015 Beloit, WI @ The Coughy Haus at Beloit College
3/20/2015 Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
3/21/2015 Covington, KY@ Come Together Kentucky Conference at NKU
3/22/2015 Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie's
3/23/2015 Asheville, NC @ University of North Carolina - Asheville
3/24/2015 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
3/26/2015 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree
3/27/2015 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
3/28/2015 Nashville, TN @ The End
3/29/2015 Louisville, KY @ The New Vintage
3/31/2015 Oberlin, OH @ The 'Sco at Oberlin College
4/1/2015 Rochester, NY @ TBA
4/2/2015 Brooklyn, NY @ The Rock Shop



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