Surfer Blood Debut New Track; Announce SXSW/March Tour Dates

Today Surfer Blood debut I Can't Explain, the latest track off its highly anticipated new album 1000 Palms, (due out May 12 on Joyful Noise) along with upcoming tour dates including multiple appearances at SXSW (see below for full schedule). Pre-order via iTunes

Premiering today exclusively via Consequence of Sound, I Can't Explain offers fans a third taste of the band's new album (following previously revealed album tracks Dorian and Grand Inquisitor). The track will be available as a digital instant-grat immediate download with album pre-order, and as a limited-edition 7" ft. an exclusive B-Side of Surfer Blood covering The Verlaines' 1983 track Death & The Maiden.

"I Can't Explain is one of our most collaborative efforts to date," explains Surfer Blood's John Paul Pitts. "The hook just came to us one day in the practice space and we wrote the rest of the song around it. The lyrics (by Kevin Williams) tell the story of a romantic encounter on a New Year's Eve past and build slowly with the rest of the song. I've always been keen on a long instrumental outro, so this seemed like the perfect spot for a long, jammy guitar section - a place for us to get some Yo La Tengo/Built to Spill guitar fetishizing out of our system."

1000 Palms, Surfer Blood's third full-length and first release with acclaimed indie imprint Joyful Noise marks a return to the band's DIY ethos. Abandoning the big time studio, the band decided to head back home to self-record and self-produce their third album. Free of major-label-influence, Surfer Blood has delivered a uniquely compelling album, unlike anything in their catalog.

SURFER BLOOD MARCH 2015 TOUR DATES

3/13 - Vinyl - Pensacola, FL *
3/14 - Spanish Moon - Baton Rouge, LA *
3/15 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX *
3/16 - Fitzgerald's Downstairs - Houston, TX * (free show)
3/17 - Clive Bar (Cultures Collide / StubHub SXSW Party, free with rsvp) ~ - Austin, TX
3/19 - 405 Club (Joyful Noise SXSW Showcase) ^ - Austin, TX
3/20 - Swan Dive (NoiseTrade / Clif Bar SXSW Party, free with rsvp) - Austin, TX
3/20 - Paper Tiger (free show) - San Antonio, TX +
3/21 - Stubbs (Rachel Ray's Feedback SXSW Party, free with rsvp) # - Austin, TX
3/21 - Hotel San Jose (SX San Jose Show, free) ** - Austin, TX

* with Turbo Fruits
+ with Iceage, King Tuff
~ with Portugal The Man, Future Islands
^ with Jad Fair, J Fernandez, Reptar, Stranger Cat, Yonathan Gat
# with Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeros, Delta Spirit, Reptar
** with The Church, David Garza, The Ting Tings

1000 Palms track listing

Grand Inquisitor
Island
I Can't Explain
Feast/Famine
Point of No Return
Sabre-Tooth and Bone
Covered Wagons
Dorian
Into Catacombs
Other Desert Cities
NW Passage

1000 Palms is due out May 12 on Joyful Noise

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