Handsome Furs Announce New Record "Sound Kapital" Out June 28th

Sub Pop Records has announced the upcoming release of Handsome Furs' "Sound Kapital" on June 28, 2011. In addition, Handsome Furs are currently on the road touring in support of their upcoming relase.

"Sound Kapital" is the third full-length from Handsome Furs, the Canadian two-piece of husband and wife Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry. It's also the first Handsome Furs album written exclusively on keyboards. This was a conscious decision. Here in 2011, the suggestion that electronic music is cold, alien or unfeeling, somehow detached from the human experience, is as lingering as it is outdated. Handsome Furs don't just shrug off this myth on "Sound Kapital," they reject it with every fiber of their shared being. On this new album they use keyboards and drum machines to forge life-affirming anthems taut with muscle and blood. These nine songs of innocence and experience occasionally look ahead to a better world in the not-so-distant future, but Handsome Furs know what time it is: Now. They are fully engaged in the moment and their surroundings, wherever that may be.

"Sound Kapital" was recorded quickly, polished and rehearsed in the Furs' derelict Montreal studio, then preserved for posterity by longtime producers Howard Bilerman and Arlen Thompson at Hotel2Tango, mixed by Finnish dudes Antti Joas and Jonas Verwijnen at Kaiku Studios in Helsinki and Berlin, and mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal.

Track listing for Sound Kapital:

1. When I Get Back
2. Damage
3. Bury Me Standing
4. Memories of the Future
5. Serve the People
6. What About Us
7. Repatriated
8. Cheap Music
9. No Feelings

Tour Dates:

• Apr 22 RBF Club, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Apr 23 Zdravo Mladi Festival, Skopje, Macedonia
• Apr 26 Club 21, Pristina,, Albania
• Apr 27 Soul2Soul, Podgorica, Montenegro
• Apr 28 Orlando, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Apr 29 SLOGA, Sarjevo, Bosnia and Herzegowina
• May 03 Flex, Vienna, Austria
• May 04 KC Dunaj, Bratislava, Slovakia
• May 05 Laznia, Krakow, Poland
• May 06 Café Kulturalna, Warszawa, Poland
• May 07 Puzzle (PL), Wrocław, Poland
• May 08 007, Prague, Czech Republic
• May 09 West Germany, Berlin, Germany
• May 11 De Centrale | intercultureel centrum, Gent , Belgium
• May 12 Bitterzoet (NL), Amsterdam, Netherlands
• May 13 Great Escape Festival, Brighton, Ireland
• May 14 Buffalo Bar, Cardiff, Cardiff
• May 16 Lexington, London, United Kingdom
• May 17 Captain's Rest, Glasgow, United Kingdom
• May 18 Rainbow, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• May 19 Sounds City Festival, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• May 20 Fleche D'Or, Paris, France
• May 21 Landmark, Bergen, n/a
• May 22 Betong, Oslo, Norway

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