Daughn Gibson announces UK tour and video

Daughn Gibson has revealed the freewheeling video for ‘Kissin on the Blacktop’, directed by Jeremiah Rouse. The track is lifted from his highly acclaimed album on Sub Pop, released last week and is currently Rough Trade’s ‘Album of the Month’. Daughn will also return with full band to tour the UK in late August/early Sept, around a stop off at End of the Road. Dates below.

Check out the video here: http://youtu.be/JyfeNOkM5t0

Credit: Jacek Poremba

Praise for Me Moan:

‘Revel in the murky atmospherics that surround the melancholy and extraordinary power of that voice’ Sunday Times ‘Album of the Week’
‘Its uniqueness makes it indispensable’ Time Out 4/5 ‘Album of the Week’
‘A bewitching star whose rumbling baritone may be one of the breakout voices of the year’ Shortlist
‘Me Moan is a remarkable record that takes a genre rooted in formulae and clichés – country – and spins it into something fresh, compelling and edgy’ 9/10 Drowned in Sound
‘Traditionally, country music and club-derived electronics make for awkward bedfellows, but it’s a testament to the strength of Gibson’s strange vision that Me Moan might well become a touchstone of modern-day Americana’ 8/10 Uncut
‘Gibson radiates confidence and a taste for the unexpected’ 4/5 The Guardian
‘The desolate blend of despair and deep, deep affection is unlike anything I’ve ever encountered in pop’ 4/5 The Independent
‘A woozy and intoxicating road trip’ 4/5 Q
‘4/5’ The Fly
‘8/10’ NME
‘Gibson spits steel out of one side of his mouth and syrup out of the other’ 8/10 The Line of Best Fit
‘8/10’ This is Fake DIY
‘8/10’ Clash Magazine
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‘Me Moan confidently elaborates upon his already impressive vision’ 4/5 The Skinny
‘There is a Lynchian quality to his work, where you are, on one hand, disturbed, on the other, bewildered by its beauty’ 8/10 Bowlegs 

Daughn Gibson Dates:

Fri 30 August Bristol The Exchange
Sat 31 August End of the Road Festival
Sun 1 Sept Brighton The Haunt 
Mon 2 Sept Manchester The Deaf Institute 
Tues 3 Sept Glasgow Broadcast
Wed 4 Sept Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Thurs 5 Sept London Electrowerkz

For those new to Daughn Gibson, the first name rhymes with the Vaughn’s Robert and Stevie Ray. He was born in the village of Nazareth, PA, (ironic given the title of his debut album All Hell) and currently resides in the sleepy college town of Carlisle, PA, where he frequents local watering holes like The Cave and Alibis. He’s 6’5”, hovers at 200 pounds and has a head of jet black hair thicker than a porcupine. He played drums in Pearls & Brass for a number of years, touring the US to small but enthusiastic crowds. For some time in between, Daughn was a trucker, but he’s also been packing boxes in an un-airconditioned warehouse, climbing up commercial broadcast towers with untested levels of radiation, working the register at an adult bookstore, doing sound at dive bars and collecting unemployment checks to earn to earn a living. Daughn’s been around.

Daughn Gibson first entered the minds and fantasies of the music loving public in the Spring of last year, care of his critically acclaimed debut album All Hell, released on Matthew K of Pissed Jeans’ label White Denim. At once both foreign and familiar, Daughn’s music is immediately striking, through the use of dusty thrift store records and baptized them as fierce, future Americana. His songs as frequently tender as they are prurient, as hopeful as they are brimming with despair. He treats the past with respectful reverence while still appreciating what is happening at the forefront of electronic production.

The follow up and Sub Pop debut Me Moan has taken All Hell’s wilful lead, grabbed the rule book, laughed in its face and driven it to the tip. The woozy baritone remains intact but what surrounds it is utterly unique. Like Scott Walker’s 1-4 sharing a drink with Waylon Jennings, neon lit and glowing with the hazily blue-ish light of a computer screen. Daughn was also going through a big Fleetwood Mac phase during the album’s gestation, endlessly submerged in Mirage and Tango In The Night, resulting in a record that bubbles with melodic invention, taking in the classics and re-tooling them to create an entirely new musical landscape. He also has a penchant for the likes of Demdike Stare and is smitten with all things hip hop. Like we said, Daughn likes to get around.

Me Moan isn’t just Daughn Gibson’s primal scream, it’s a skirmish through the full spectrum of emotion, unfiltered and impassioned. Like an aural amalgam of Cormac McCarthy and Robert Altman. Daughn is a uniquely American and modern artist who throw’s his romantic soul into his work, free of compromise, possessed by a singular vision. And because of this, it will take a few listens to get on board this particular freight train. But for Me Moan, we can surely all find the time. Better days are not yet done.