Philadelphia indie-pop outfit Literature are set to release their sophomore album ‘Chorus ‘on August 19 via Slumberland Records. Today the band shares album track “New Jacket.” 

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 indie pop 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, and Brown Recluse. They also appeared on Terre T’s Cherry Blossom Clinic.

In 2013 they released a follow-up 7″, “Tie Dye” and contributed a track to Esopus Magazine alongside artists like Jens Lekman and The Shins. They also played at that year’s NYC Popfest, which helped cement the buzz that was steadily growing amongst savvy pop fans. Arab Spring was treated to a re-mastered re-press, which followed the first pressing and quickly sold out.

Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, Chorus, with 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

Street Date: August 19, 2014

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:

09/06 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
09/10 Dayton, OH – South Park Tavern
09/11 Nashville, TN – Betty’s
09/13 Savannah, GA – The Bomb Shelter
09/14 Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor
09/15 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
09/17 Brooklyn, NY – Death by Audio
09/18 New York, NY – Cake Shop

More dates TBA

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