BODY PARTS Premieres 'Helpless Child' on Stereogum, Playing CMJ

Los Angeles-based experimental pop group Body Parts will release their highly-anticipated debut album Fire Dream on October 29th via Father/Daughter Records. Pre-order the album here.

Two weeks ago the band gave us the high-energy dance track "Be A God." Today the band shares the R&B-tinged "Helpless Child." Listen to the track over at Stereogum.

Body Parts are set to bring their unique brand of dance music to this year's CMJ Music Marathon in New York. The band's complete CMJ schedule can be found below.

The band is also proud to announce their November residency at The Satellite in Los Angeles, which includes their record release show on November 4th. Full tour dates listed below.

Body Parts mobilizes a singularly elegant experimental pop idiom to explore the contours of modern devotion and doctrines of self-improvement alongside the immoderate reverberations of remembrance. Weaving together influences as varied as the rationalist prescriptions of the self-made seeker-healer- Scientology mastermind L. Ron Hubbard, the sensual guitar-scapes of Prince, and the haunting vocals and surrealist melodrama ofKate Bush, Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono form the group's core. Less life coaches and more exquisite shamans, Bach and Cutrono announce attentively written modern mantras in strikingly rich and complex vocal harmony. Bach's lyrics pit the therapeutic logic of contemporary self-help narratives against the persistence of the more ancient and uncontrollable imperative of fate.

In addition to nimble guitar work and impeccable vocals, Bach and Cutrono bring years of experience in theater, dance, and performance to the front flank of Body Parts' robust live show and captivating music videos. The vital rhythmic infrastructure and frankly infectious groove found both live and on the album comes thanks to the formidable duo of Raymond Proudfoot, bass and Taylor Dexter, drums. Newcomer Derek Coburn on keys and synthesizer completes their superlative live sound.

The late modern drama of their debut album, Fire Dream, out October 29th viaFather/Daughter Records, has its genesis in an enduringly powerful nightmare in which Bach witnessed the murder of his parents at the hands of a close friend. Dealing less with the dream itself than with the inescapable influence of the fabricated memory over lived reality, the album moves the listener carefully through the terrain of the misremembered, forgotten, and unforeseen. Fire Dream delivers a delightful mix of brightly ominous and sensitively textured, biomechanical dance tracks and more earthly, emotive ballads. The sonic depth and diversity of Bach's composition, arrangement, and production of this consummate suite of music emerges by virtue of Proudfoot's engineering prowess and the expert mixing of Eric Palmquist. Trying to resist the tidal pull of Fire Dream's peculiarly beautiful world would be like trying to beat fate.

Tour Dates:

CMJ Shows:

10/15 Ran Tea House (Force Field PR Showcase) 9:10pm
10/16 Muchmore's ( Father/Daughter RecordsShowcase) 11pm
10/16 The Living Room (Beats Per Minute/We All Want Someone To Shout For Showcase)1:45am
10/17 PIANOS (Holy Underground Showcase) 7:45pm
10/18 The Living Room ( BuzzChips and MyFreeConcert Showcase) 4pm

More Tour Dates:

10/21 Santa Ana, CA - The Constellation Room *
11/04 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite (Record Release Show)
11/11 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite
11/18 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite
11/25 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite

* = w/ Kitten and Dear Boy

1. Desperation
2. Past is Coming
3. Be A God
4. Interlude a
5. Unavoidable Things
6. Helpless Child
7. People
8. Interlude b
9. You Inside My Head
10. Reprise, Prelude
11. Wash Over Me

Official: www.bodypartsband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bodypartsband
Twitter: www.twitter.com/bodypartsband
Label: www.fatherdaughterrecords.com

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