…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead are set to release new album, ‘XI’, on Monday 20th October in Europe, with a US date scheduled for the 11th November.
Having revealed the lead track last week, the band are now streaming ‘A Million Random Digits’.
“A Million Random Digits – the title stolen from a book I found on one of those shelves in a guest house where backpackers are supposed to leave a book when they take one,” the band explain. “Fortunately I’m not a backpacker so I’m not obligated to leave anything if I take one – which is also how I got a copy of Balthazar Gracian’s Art of Worldly Wisdom (in it Gracian recommends allowing yourself one vice, and mine is stealing useful things like books). The lyrics were inspired by the Viking series I’d recently watched on the History Channel -actually I watched a pirated copy (yet another vice) because we don’t get the History Channel out here. I felt a sense of connection to the idea of the Northmen being away from family while going a-raiding, similar to being away from family while working on a record – you end up killing about the same amount of people as well.”
Pre-orders via iTunes come complete with instant downloads of both new tracks.
NOVEMBER
14 GLASGOW The Art School
15 COVENTRY Kasbah
16 MANCHESTER The Ruby lounge
17 LONDON Dingwalls
18 LONDON Dingwalls (Playing ‘Source Tags and Codes’ in full)