Tera Melos Announce Headlining Tour Dates In US And Japan

Long-running Sacramento genre-benders Tera Melos have announced headlining tour dates in the US and Japan in support of the trio's forthcoming full-length, "Patagonian Rats," due out this fall via Sargent House. The Japanese tour includes dates with Mike Watt and the Missing Men. The first video for the song "The Skin Surf" -- directed by Behn Fannin (The Melvins, Nurses) -- shows the band at its quirky, clever finest.

Have Tera Melos gone pop? Much like the band's intricate and complex song structures, it's not quite that simple. Tera Melos' songs have traditionally been densely packed with so many wild shifts of time signature and chord structures that guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Nick Reinhart jokes they were sounds that, "only wizards could decipher."

Tera Melos formed in 2004 as a quartet, releasing their first self-titled disc in 2005 (later re-released by Sargent House in 2008). The band became a trio in late 2006, releasing the all-instrumental "Drugs to the Dear Youth" EP early the following year. A split disc with "By The End of Tonight" (2007) on Temporary Residence and an EP of cover songs, "Idioms, Vol 1" followed in 2009. In the meantime, Reinhart collaborated with prolific drummer Zach Hill under the band name bygones, releasing the "by-" album in 2009 and "Spiritual Bankruptcy" EP in 2010, both on Sargent House. Clardy has also recently spent downtime as the touring drummer with guitar goddess Marnie Stern.

"Patagonian Rats" will be available everywhere via Sargent House on September 7th, 2010.

Audio: Tera Melos - "Frozen Zoo"

Tera Melos on tour:

• 09/09 Sacramento, CA @ Sol Collective
• 09/10 Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
• 09/11 Portland, OR @ The Artistery
• 09/12 Reno, NV @ HSS Rainshadow
• 09/14 Englewood, CO @ Moe's
• 09/15 Omaha, NE @ The Slowdown
• 09/16 St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird
• 09/17 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
• 09/18 Kalamazoo, MI @ The Strutt
• 09/20 Toronto, ON @ The Shop at Parts and Labour
• 09/21 Montreal, QC @ Bar St. Laurent II
• 09/22 Binghamton, NY @ Bazooka/Bazooka
• 09/23 Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio
• 09/24 Richmond, VA @ Exit 76
• 09/25 Durham, NC @ Duke University
• 09/26 Columbus, SC @ The Whig
• 09/27 Atlanta, GA @ Wonderroot
• 09/28 Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box
• 09/29 New Orleans, LA @ The Big Top
• 09/30 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's
• 10/01 Dallas, TX @ The Nightmare
• 10/02 San Antonio, TX @ The Korova
• 10/03 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
• 10/05 Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space
• 10/07 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
• 10/11 Okayama, JP @ Pepperland
• 10/12 Fukuoka, JP @ Graf
• 10/13 Kyoto, JP @ Metro
• 10/17 Rappongi, JP @ Superdeluxe *
• 10/18 Yamagata, JP @ Sandinista *
• 10/19 Aomori, JP @ Sublime *
• 10/20 Morioka, JP @ Club Change *
• 10/21 Sendai, JP @ Park Square *
• 10/22 Toyama, JP @ Club Mairo *

* with LITE and Mike Watt and the Missing Men

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