Starcrawler Announce Second Album ’Devour You’

Los Angeles’ Starcrawler will release their remarkable second album ’Devour You’ on 11th October on Rough Trade Records. Pre-order/pre-save it and hear/watch the video for “Bet My Brains” here*

*Limited edition, deluxe LP comes in blood-red marbled vinyl, with a scratch & sniff sleeve. All orders of ’Devour You’ on the Rough Trade Records webstore come with a free fanzine, subject to availability, whilst stocks last.

’Devour You’ dynamically captures the essence and aggression of the foure-piece’s gloriously unhinged live shows. Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, L7) at Sunset Studios, the record takes the feral intensity of their 2018 self-titled debut and twists it into something grander and more gracefully composed. With its more elaborate and nuanced yet harder-hitting sonic palette, the result is a selection of songs radiating both raw sensitivity and untamable power, and a record that the band’s Arrow de Wilde says, “encapsulates all the blood, sweat, bruised knees, and broken fingers of a Starcrawler show.” 

To kick off the album announcement, Starcrawler share the heavy, swinging and brutally catchy “Bet My Brains” alongside its manic and murderous music video. “That song came from thinking about the tunnel people in New York and Vegas and the Catacombs in France, and the underground village of people who live in the sewers of the L.A. River,” says de Wilde. “I was fascinated with the fact that there is a whole other world happening right under our feet.” Guitarist and vocalist Henri Cash adds: “Arrow and I hadn’t even talked about it yet, but I’d already written something about the same thing—about how these people’s eyes adapt to pitch-blackness, and they end up going crazy from never seeing the sunlight.” Check out the song and Jellyclaw-directed video here.

’Devour You’ Tracklisting:

1. Lizzy
2. Bet My Brains
3. Home Alone
4. No More Pennies|
5. You Dig Yours
6. Toy Teenager
7. Hollywood Ending
8. She Gets Around
9. I Don’t Need You
10. Rich Taste
11. Born Asleep
12. Tank Top
13. Call Me A Baby

Starcrawler will bring their quintessentially crazed and chaotic live show—an impressive spectacle that’s simultaneously lurid and sublime—on the road this fall for a headline tour of North America with more dates to come in the UK, Europe and Japan.  Prone to spitting fake blood and slapping phones from the hands of crowd members, de Wilde has proven to be a captivating, once-in-a-lifetime performer. “We want to put on a real show and give people some kind of escape from all the shit going on in the world,” she says. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets here.

Starcrawler tour dates (tickets HERE)

10/4/19 - San Diego, CA - The Irenic
10/5/19 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
10/7/19 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
10/8/19 - Vancouver, BC -      Fortune Sound Club
10/9/19 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
10/11/19 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
10/12/19 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake Lounge
10/14/19 - Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room
10/15/19 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge
10/16/19 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
10/17/19 - Chicago IL - Lincoln Hall
10/19/19 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
10/22/19 - Montreal - Bar Le Rtiz PDB
10/23/19 - Somerville, MA - ONCE Ballroom
10/25/19 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/26/19 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
10/27/19 - Washington, DC - Pie Shop
10/28/19 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café
10/30/19 - Detroit, MI - Hell Night @Third Man Records
10/31/19 - Nashville, TN - Halloween @Third Man Records
11/1/19 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
11/2/19 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
11/5/19 - Austin, TX - Barracuda
11/8/19 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
11/9/19 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre