Last month Craft Spells  shared “Breaking the Angle Against the Tide“, the first single from his sophomore album Nausea (June 10th).  Today he’s back with another cut from the album,”Komorebi“.

Craft Spells can also announce the first set of dates for their Summer tour. Kicking off at Captured Tracks’ Norhtside Festival showcase on June 13th, Craft Spells will play a series of East Coast dates, sharing stages with Crystal Stilts and Small Black on the way.

After a dormant period following the release of the Gallery EP in 2012, Craft Spells’ Justin Vallesteros is back with the gorgeously ambitious Nausea. It’s Craft Spells’ second proper full length LP, and first since 2010’s critically acclaimed Idle Labor.

Since last on the radar, Justin moved to San Francisco to find a niche in the Bay Area music scene. This proved difficult within the regarded garage rock scene and insular DJ night crowds currently dominating the area’s music community. Here, Justin fell into a slump, creatively. With a severe bout of writer’s block he retreated to his parent’s house in Lathrop, CA. Away from the city, he put down his guitar for a full year in favor of properly training himself on piano, the instrument from which all the tracks for Nausea were written.

Being in limbo between the city and the suburbs, Justin felt actual nausea, added to by his admitted semi-addiction to social media and quickly found himself disillusioned. Vallesteros unplugged from that world as much as possible and completely immersed himself in the music (Emmit Rhodes and the solo works of Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haroumi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi) and writing (the works of Mishima, for one) that would come to form the LP.

The demos came together in early 2014 and Vallesteros flew to Seattle to produce and record the LP with producer/engineer Dylan Wall. Joining Vallesteros were Craft Spells stalwarts Javier Suarez and Andy Lum. The band went into the studio and recorded a whole and complete work, full of ideas and a new found maturity in both songwriting and recording sophistication.  Nausea is out June 10th.

6/13 – Brooklyn, NY – Captured Tracks Northside Showcase – Warsaw*
6/14 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel**
6/15 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar**
6/17 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Cafe
6/18 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
6/19 – Chicago, IL – Township
6/20 – Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch***
6/21 – Toronto, ON – NXNE
6/21 – Montreal, QC – Il Motore
6/23 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

* w/ Beach Fossils, Juan Wauters, Axxa/Abraxas
**w/ Crystal Stilts, Juan Wauters
*** w/ Young Magic

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