They Are Gutting a Body of Water announce their new album, LOTTO, will drop on October 17th via Julia’s War/Smoking Room/ATO Records. The Philadelphia band has also announced a run of North American tour dates. Today, the band are sharing new single/video, “trainers.”

TAGABOW began as the solo project of singer Doug Dulgarian, and is now is a full band, including bassist Emily Lofing, guitarist PJ Carroll, and drummer Ben Opatut. Dulgarian, the son of a dirt track racecar driver, grew up in the Hudson Valley before relocating to Albany for court-mandated rehab in 2010. Soon after getting clean in 2013, he attended his first house show. Inspired by this community of musicians self-releasing and organizing shows in makeshift spaces, he dove into DIY. “I chased that shit like I chased drugs,” he says. “Just being in a band—touring, playing awful fucking shows.”

Says Doug Dulgarian: “In a world of perpetually increasing artifice, this record is my attempt to surface through the sea of false muck,” says Dulgarian. “It’s rife with perceivable mistakes, ebbing and flowing with the most humanity I can place on one record. The more I utilized [technology], the softer I got. I return again and again to that world because it’s more comfortable than my physical body. The dopamine flooding my brain. And in moments of clarity, I am often very aware that we’re currently watching the homogenization of art right before our very eyes. I am afraid that technology and convenience will cure the world of life.”

Since 2021, Dulgarian has also headed up his own record label Julia’s War. The label has released music from countless artists, including early releases by Wednesday, MJ Lenderman, Feeble Little Horse, and Glixen, proving that Dulgarian’s influence on the scene is not confined to his own musical output.

Tickets for TAGABOW’s North American tour are on sale this Friday at 10am local time and can be purchased here. The annual Julia’s War Festival will be held this weekend in Philadelphia at Ukie Club, featuring Chanel Beads, NAH, Draag, MSPAINT, Bedridden, & more.

Pre-order LOTTO HERE