Le Butcherettes Announce New Album
“bi/MENTAL” And U.S. Tour in 2019
The Punk-Rock Band Releases New Video/Single, father/ELOHIM Today!
Watch Video Here
The album was produced by Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads
and will be released on Rise Records February 1, 2019
The El Paso-LA based Punk rock band, Le Butcherettes announce today they will release fourth studio album, bi/MENTAL February 1, 2019 and surprise fans with the release of new live video,father/ELOHIM filmed during the band’s headlining show in Los Angeles at The Hi-Hat this past October. The video was directed by Gus Black (Gary Clark Jr., Sheryl Crow, The Used, Deftones) who directed the band’s last video strong/ENOUGH. The band is slated to tour February/March 2019 in U.S., México and Canada in support of the new album.(See Tour Dates & Ticket Sale Info Below)
Never content to sit still or get comfortable, Le Butcherettes worked on new album with iconic Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison (No Doubt, Violent Femmes, KD Lang) as the producer for the new album, adding a new creative environment and creating another dimension to the band’s sound. Le Butcherettes first three albums were produced by Omar Rodríguez-López of At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta.
The band dissect the meaning of family on their fourth full-length album, bi/MENTAL and first on Rise Records. Themes of internal and familial strife hang over the opener and first single spider/WAVES(feat. Jello Biafra). The song is a ticking timebomb of riffs, clicks and clacks as Teresa Suárez howls falsetto swings towards a searing screech punctuated by spoken word from the Dead Kennedys frontman.
“A quiet depression has been the blinders to many people we have loved, sometimes blinding us all from the light itself. Though at times, it is necessary to let the darkness sit still, to resist fighting its suffocating breaths, to let its fumes pass through you, to listen and process.
There is something so animal and empowering to simply just stare at the dying carcass of sadness just before digging its grave.
Essentially, this record was inspired by the death of a living mother but none of that matters anymore. A disconnection in itself is so ravage so confusing it leaves one feeling incomplete… is there hope? Is there light? Maybe it all isn’t so black and white. in the end there is a Duality in All. Life is a cycle, the moon, the sun, the ocean waves transcending into sand. It will be okay” states Le Butcherettes frontwoman, Teresa Suárez Coscío (Teri Gender Bender) about new album.
bi/MENTAL is a personal ode to mental health and filled with equal parts cerebral poetry, art assault, and primal punk cacophony. The album includes 13 tracks that represent the Guadalajara-born and El Paso-LA based group at its most incisive and infectious album to date and includes additional features by Latina punk-rock demigod, Alice Bag on mothers/HOLD and a feature by alternative pop darling,Mon Laferte from Chile on la/SANDÍA.
Le Butcherettes—Teri Gender Bender (vocals/guitar/piano), Alejandra Robles Luna (drums), Rikardo Rodríguez-López (guitars) and Marfred Rodríguez-López (bass).
Tickets for Le Butcherettes 2019 tour go on-sale Friday, November 30th with a limited number of tickets for each show (excluding Mexico) available now via a special pre-sale bundle that includes ticket and album exclusively at www.lebutcherettesofficial.com/tour
Le Butcherettes – bi/MENTAL (Track listing)
- spider/WAVES ft. Jello Biafra
- give/UP
- strong/ENOUGH
- father/ELOHIM
- little/MOUSE
- in/THE END
- nothing/BUT TROUBLE
- la/SANDÍA ft. Mon Laferte
- struggle/STRUGGLE
- dressed/IN A MATTER OF SPEECH
- mothers/HOLDS ft. Alice Bag
- sand/MAN
- /BREATH
Le Butcherettes Tour Dates 2019 (TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 11/30)
February
02 Mexico City, MX – Versalles 64
05 Tustin, CA – Marty’s On Newport
06 Sacramento, CA – Holy River
08 Portland, OR – Star Theatre
09 Seattle, WA – The Sunset
11 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of The Hill
12 Los Angeles, CA – Morrocan Lounge
14 Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse Saloon
15 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court Gallery
16 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
18 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
19 Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club
20 Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge
22 Toronto, ON – The Underground – Drake
23 Detroit, MI – El Club
24 Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theatre
26 Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
27 Brooklyn, NY – Zone One at Elsewhere
March
01 Philadelphia, PA – Milkboy
02 Washington, DC – DC9
04 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade – Purgatory
06 Birmingham, AL – Saturn
07 New Orleans, LA – Parish at HOB
08 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live – Studio
(Click On Tour Poster Below to Purchase Tickets)
