Photo by Noel Conrad
On June 23rd, Philly four-piece Creepoid will release its third studio album, Cemetery Highrise Slum, through Geoff Rickly’s Collect Records. The follow-up to last year’s self-titled LP was produced and mixed by Peter Mavrogeorgis (The National, Sharon Van Etten) at Dollhouse Studios in Savannah, Georgia. According to a press release, Cemetery sees the indie rockers continuing to explore their gloomy roots, in particular their “own tenuous mortality, our personal struggles and our individual shortcomings as human beings.”
As a preview, Creepoid has let “American Smile”, a gruff and grunge-y song that succinctly captures the record’s dark themes. “Its chorus contains the words ‘cemetery highrise slum’,” noted singer Sean Miller. “We chose that phrase for the title of our album because we felt it best encapsulates how we see our own abject reality.” Listen in below.
Cemetery Highrise Slum Tracklist:
01. American Smile
02. Devil in the Subtext
03. Fingernails
04. Seams
05. Dried Out
06. Shaking
07. Calamine
08. Tell the Man
09. Worthless & Pure
10. Eating Dirt
11. Here
In support of the LP, Creepoid will tour the US on a spring tour alongside A Place To Bury Strangers. Consult the full itinerary.
Creepoid 2015 Tour Dates:
03/04 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Conservatory *
03/06 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar *
03/07 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace *
03/09 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress *
03/10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Var *
03/11 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
03/12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Beauty Bar *
03/13 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst *
03/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel *
03/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex *
03/18-21 – Austin, TX @ South By Southwest
05/15 – Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape Festival
05/17 – Guildford, UK @ The Boileroom ^
05/18 – London, UK @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen ^
05/19 – Kingston, UK @ Fighting Cocks
05/20 – Liverpool, UK @ The Arts Club Loft ^
* = w/ A Place To Bury Strangers
^ = w/ Pity Sex
