Baths Announces Spring 2018 U.S./Canada Tour
By: Caryn Robbins Nov. 15, 2017
In late September Baths - aka Will Wiesenfeld - announced Romaplasm (his first new album in 4 years) and shared lead single "Yeoman." Today, he shares the details of his Spring 2018 US/Canada tour. Starting in Eugene, OR and ending in San Francisco, CA, the tour will stop in famed venues such as DC's U Street Music Hall and Atlanta's Terminal West. This marks Baths' first proper tour of North America in over 3 years. As such, it should make for a special run of shows. You can find tickets for the full run of dates here: : http://anticon.com/events. Baths' new album Romaplasmis due out this Friday, November 17th via Anticon.
Listen to/Watch the Lyric Video for "Extrasolar"
Watch the Music Video for "Out"
Listen to "Yeoman"
Baths will be also be throwing an album release party for Romaplasm on Friday, November 24 at Zebulon in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale here.
In his own singular style, Baths has created his own post-modern take on Romanticism. Romaplasm bears a similar emphasis on emotion and individualism. You can see the hallmarks of the movement's stress on awe-and like many of the great Romantic artists, he confronts the gnawing chaos of life with a focus on beauty and the sublime.
For as long as Will Wiesenfeld has been Baths, he's been trafficking in perfect-or, more often and more interestingly-near-perfect pieces of pop. The project first emerged in 2009, merging the glitchy, punishing gloom of L.A.'s beat scene with sunnier melodies and vocals that often drifted into falsetto. The music was an instant sensation. Publications like Pitchfork heaped praise on his debut album, 2010's Cerulean, which codified the sound; Obsidian, which followed three years later, in part chronicled Wiesenfeld's recovery from a ghastly illness, and was even more well-received.
Wiesenfeld is an artist who, through his work as Geotic, has carefully deconstructed songwriting into its basest parts; as Baths on Romaplasm, he reassembles the pieces of his musical and personal lives in the most piercing ways imaginable.
As always, Baths is unafraid to run counter to his surroundings: delicate when others are posturing, gripping and visceral where others drift into the digital morass. But this album is not about contrarianism, or about rejecting the status quo. It's about centering the things that are important to you, and doing so in the most honest way possible, even if that means fing things up a bit along the way.
Pre-order Romaplasm on vinyl: https://www.anticon.com/item/romaplasm
Baths 2018 US/CAN
HEADLINE DATES
3/28/18 Eugene, OR WOW Hall http://bit.ly/2zCJG1w
3/29/18 Portland, OR Holocene http://ticketf.ly/2hpaEmR
3/30/18 Vancouver, BC Fortune Sound Club
3/31/18 Seattle, WA Neumos http://ticketf.ly/2iNk2Ns
4/3/18 Boise, ID The Reef http://bit.ly/2zwJuAS
4/4/18 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Bar
4/5/18 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater http://bit.ly/2AugerS
4/6/18 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar http://bit.ly/2yMi37j
4/7/18 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Café http://bit.ly/2mleI9q
4/10/18 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre http://bit.ly/2zsgZVH
4/11/18 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall http://ticketf.ly/2jhuIYW
4/13/18 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern http://ticketf.ly/2zygDw0
4/14/18 Montreal, QC Theatre Fairmount
4/17/18 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Ballroom http://ticketf.ly/2mlSaFw
4/18/18 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair http://bit.ly/2jm1YxZ
4/19/18 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere http://bit.ly/2zxx6Bc
4/20/18 Philadelphia PA The Foundry at The Fillmore http://bit.ly/2hkWyze
4/21/18 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall
4/24/18 Atlanta, GA Terminal West http://ticketf.ly/2AAkNl4
4/26/18 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall Upstairs http://bit.ly/2zsAgpE
4/27/18 Dallas, TX Club Dada http://ticketf.ly/2zKgxCq
4/28/18 Austin, TX The Sidewinder http://bit.ly/2zzxnne
5/2/18 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom http://ticketf.ly/2yPXIOa
5/3/18 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up
5/5/18 San Francisco, CA The Independent http://ticketf.ly/2ztL7j7
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