Philadelphia indie-pop outfit Literature recently released their sophomore album ‘Chorus’ via Slumberland Records. Today the band shares the kaleidoscopic music video for their singlet “Kites.”

Philadelphia, PA’s Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, met Cardaci and Whaland at the house venue they both operated in Austin, TX. Cardaci and Whaland each ran small imprint labels and, a million adventures later, the trio decided to form a band. Upon moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who also joined the fold.

In 2012, following a well-received single and a track on Gerard Cosloy’s “Casual Victim Pile II” compilation they released their debut album, Arab Spring, which became a cult hit within the indiepop community. That album is sharp and immediate, almost mod-ish in its attack, but always tuneful and going for melody where it counts. They toured the US in support, and have performed with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Eternal Summers, Ted Leo, Sic Alps, White Fence, Gentlemen Jesse, Hospitality.

Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, Chorus, lauded engineer Gary Olson (whose body of work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.

Literature

Chorus
(Slumberland Records)

1. The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything
2. The English Softhearts
3. Blasé
4. Tie-Dye (Your Life)
5. Court/Date
6. New Jacket
7. Chime Hours
8. Chorus
9. Jimmy
10. Dance Shoes
11. Kites

Tour Dates:

09/05 Bethlehem, PA – Nancy Run Fire Company w/Slow Warm Death
09/06 Baltimore, MD – Holy Underground w/Expert Alterations
09/07 Washington DC – George Washington University
09/08 Marietta, OH – Project Active Media
09/09 Cleveland, OH – Dag House w/Heart Attack Man, Sunmouth, Two Hand Fools
09/10 Dayton, OH – South Park Tavern
09/11 Nashville, TN – Betty’s
09/12 Athens, GA – Hi Lo Lounge w/Gold-Bears & Deep State
09/13 Savannah, GA – The Bomb Shelter w/Gold-Bears
09/14 Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor (early show)
09/15 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts w/The Drums & Beverly
09/16 New Brunswick, NJ – Paradise Lost
09/17 Brooklyn, NY – Death by Audio w/Expert Alterations, Gingerlys, Kissing Is A Crime
09/18 New York, NY – Cake Shop w/Grand Resort, Crazy Pills, Big Quiet
09/20 NYC, NY – Bowery Ballroom w/The Drums & Beverly
09/21 Albany, NY – Low Beat w/Neighborhood of Make Believe, Drgn King
09/22 Cleveland, OH – Happy Dog w/Cheap Clone
09/24 Grand Rapids, MI – Mulligan’s Pub
09/25 Chicago, IL – Quenchers
09/26 Milwaukee, WI – Quarters w/ROM, Soul Low, Lost Spirit
09/28 Omaha, NE – Sweatshop Gallery w/Nathan Ma & The Rosettes
09/30 Boise, ID – The Crux
10/01 Spokane, WA – The Bartlett w/Sebadoh
10/02 Portland, OR – Foggy Notion
10/03 Sacramento, CA – Witch Room w/Soft Science
10/04 San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern
10/05 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo w/ The Shivas
10/06 San Diego, CA – The Hideout