Thursday, October 04, 2007

Moving Units touring with VHS or Beta

Next Tuesday (the 9th) is the release date set for Moving Units' second full length album Hexes For Exes. If you haven't checked the group out yet, their sound offers a synth-laced post-punk album full of driving tracks that will make you wish you were part of a throbbing mass of bodies in some dark dance floor. Although most of the tracks push out a beat that's propelled by electronic drums and synthesizers, there is some tight guitar riffs here and here to keep the sounds from becoming completely inorganic. Besides releasing some new tunes, the band is also scheduled to tour with VHS or Beta in November. Dates are down below.

Check out the two tracks here to get a taste if you haven't listened to MU before. Pink Thoughts gives you a pretty good idea of their quasi-techno dance feel. Listen to the chorus of the second track, Wrong Again, and tell me it doesn't sound like an updated version of the chorus to the much older The Letter, by The Box Tops, also below.


Moving Units - Pink Thoughts : Hexes For Exes

Moving Units - Wrong Again : Hexes For Exes

One from their debut EP:

Moving Units - Between Us & Them : Moving Units EP

Visit their label Metropolis Records and become their friend on MySpace.

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The Box Tops - The Letter : Back To The 60's Vol 1

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MOVING UNITS / VHS or BETA TOUR DATES

MON 11/12 WASHINGTON, DC Black Cat
TUE 11/13 BALTIMORE, MD Ottobar
THU 11/15 PHILADELPHIA, PA First Unitarian Church
FRI 11/16 NEW YORK, NY Blender Theater @ Gramercy
SAT 11/17 ATLANTIC CITY, NJ House Of Blues Harlem Club
MON 11/19 BOSTON, MA Paradise Rock Club
TUE 11/20 MONTREAL, PQ Club Soda
WED 11/21 TORONTO, ON Lee's Palace
FRI 11/23 CHICAGO, IL Abbey
SAT 11/24 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7th Street Entry
TUE 11/27 SEATTLE, WA Chop Suey
WED 11/28 VANCOUVER BC Richard's on Richards
THU 11/29 PORTLAND, OR Doug Fir Lounge
FRI 11/30 SACRAMENTO, CA Harlow's

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