Over the past four years, Mikal Cronin has kept busy playing with Ty Segall and appearing on King Tuff’s latest LP The Other. But he's finally returning to the spotlight with the release of his fourth solo album, Seeker, out October 25th via Merge.
The album is the result of a month-long sabbatical to a cabin in Idyllwild, a small town in the California mountains. “It was so quiet and peaceful,” Cronin says in a press release. “I got weird looks at the store. I got bug bites that didn’t heal for months. I walked around a small lake a few times. I wrote. I took literally something that’s usually a hypothetical, something every artist thinks about doing. It worked.”
Our first listen of the new album comes from the single "Show Me." In a press release, Cronin states:
“‘Show Me’ is a song about feeling small in an overwhelming world. There’s a not-quite-subtle hint of the Heartbreakers in the instrumentation and arrangement, having asked many friends to play or sing. It’s one of my favorite songs from the album, I hope you like it too.”
TOUR DATES:
10/25 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
11/06 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/08 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
11/09 Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
11/10 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
11/11 Missoula, MT @ The Badlander
11/14 Saint Paul, MN @ Turf Club
11/15 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
11/16 Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx
11/17 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
11/18 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
11/19 Boston, MA @ Great Scott
11/20 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
11/22 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
11/23 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
11/24 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
11/25 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
11/26 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
11/27 Austin, TX @ Barracuda
11/30 Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole
12/01 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
02/10 Munich, DE @ Milla
02/11 Cologne, DE @ Bumann & SOHN
02/12 Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
02/13 Aarhus, DK @ TAPE
02/14 Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
02/15 Stockholm, SE @ Nalen
02/17 Oslo, NO @ Ingensteds
02/18 Gothenburg, SE @ Oceanen
02/19 Hamburg, DE @ Molotow (SkyBar)
02/20 Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
02/21 Brussels, NE @ Botanique
02/22 Paris, FR @ Petit Bain
02/24 Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana
02/25 London, UK @ Moth Club
02/26 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
02/27 Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint
02/28 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
02/29 Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
