Exploding In Sound and Community Records are thrilled to team up for the co-release of Blistered, the full length debut from New Orleans’ Woozy. After a pair of EPs, singles, splits, and a compilation of the band’s earliest material, the long awaited Blistered will be released on October 16.
Woozy, comprised of Kara Stafford (guitar/vocals), John St. Cyr (guitar/vocals) and Ian Paine-Jesam (drums/percussion) have evolved their sound on the album, pushing the trio’s experimental “rock music” into new territory while remaining true to their intricate melodies and introspective lyricism. Blending gorgeous songwriting with heavy and extreme dynamic shifts, the band’s dual lead vocals and guitars challenge natural pop tendencies to create something that avoids easy genre categorization.
Elements of indie rock, first wave emo, slowcore, post-punk, art rock, anti-folk, sludge, post-harcore and pure unadulterated pop all swirl together under the demanding beauty of Stafford and St. Cyr’s harmonies. Fidgeting in every direction that the band describe as the sound of a “introspective singer/songwriter brain in a frankenstein body.
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10/01 – Birmingham, AL @ Desert Island Supply Co. w/ Velouria
10/02 – Nashville, TN @ Stone Fox w/ Idle Bloom, Watcher
10/03 – Knoxville, TN w/ Lions 10/06 – Richmond, VA w/ Sundials, Ostraca
10/07 – Washington, DC @ Above The Bayou w/ Two Inch Astronaut, Swings
10/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA w/ Two Inch Astronaut, Lithuania, Clique
10/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Shea Stadium (w/ Two Inch Astronaut, Leapling, Very Fresh
10/10 – Boston, MA @ Out Of The Blue (w/ Palehound, Pile’s Rick Maguire
10/11 – Purchase, NY w/ Palehound
10/12 – Chester, NY @ Elephant Graveyard
10/13 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The People’s Warehouse w/ One Hundred Year Sleep, Skull Kid
10/14 – Akron, OH @ Fool Mansion w/ Setsuna, Alaska, Forever Losing Sleep
10/15 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Milhouse w/ The Reptilian
10/16 – Grand Rapids, MI w/ Ratboys, Odd Dates
10/17 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean w/ Ratboys, Coaster, Churchkey
10/18 – Davenport, IA @ Uncle Stu’s w/ Ratboys
10/19 – Ames, IA w/ Ratboys
10/20 – Kansas City, MO @ Records With Merritt w/ Ratboys
10/22 – Little Rock, AR w/ Ratboys
10/23-24 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa (Community Records Block Party)
10/29 – Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder w/ Ex-Breathers, Gnarwhal
10/31 – Gainesville, FL @ The Fest