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Torche
is streaming their forthcoming album, Restarter (Feb. 24,
Relapse Records), via Noisey (http://noisey.vice.com/blog/torche-restarter-stream).
The
album stream follows a week of premieres as the band rolled out new songs via
Alternative Press, Stereogum, Paste and Metal Sucks. Noisey’s album
stream debuts two previously unheard tracks: “Believe It” and “No Servants.”
Torche’s
Relapse Records’ debut has received widespread praise from Rolling Stone
(“bass-booming”), Revolver (“The album finds them further honing their ‘heavy
pop’ approach, infusing sludgy, bass-heavy slabs of sound with bright and
buoyant melodies”), Decibel (“a clamorous slab of riff-driven sludge-pop”),
Spin (“thundering”), Stereogum (“They are masters of melody and songwriting”)
and Outburn (“ridiculously catchy”).
Fans
of the band can try their skills at Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair (www.torchevsrobots.com), a
single-player game featuring each of the Torche band members as characters
trying to save the city of Miami from destruction bend robots. Fans who play
the game are eligible to win a prize pack that includes Restarter on
vinyl, a t-shirt, two tickets to see Torche on tour and stickers. To
enter, contestants must upload a video to YouTube which shows them beating the
game with the hash tag #torchevsrobots. One prize pack per band
member/character will be awarded with winners picked on Feb. 23.
Upcoming
headlining shows from Torche:
March
4 Miami, FL Churchill’s Pub #
March
6 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
March
7 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree
March
8 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
March
9 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
Downstairs
March
10 Austin, TX Red 7
March
11 Dallas, TX Club Dada #
March
12 Memphis, TN The Hi-Tone
March
13 St. Louis, MO The Firebird
March
14 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
March
15 Milwaukee, WI The Cactus
Club
March
16 Columbus, OH Skully’s Music
Diner
March
17 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop
March
18 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid
Scheme
March
20 Detroit, MI The Pike Room
March
21 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
March
22 Montreal, QC Bar Le Ritz
March
23 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place
March
25 Boston, MA Great Scott
March
26 Brooklyn, NY St. Vitus
March
27 Philadelphia, PA Underground
Arts
March
28 Richmond, VA Strange Matters
#
March
29 Washington, DC DC 9 #
May
2 Leipzig, DE Taubchental
May
3 Wroclaw, PL Asymmetry
Festival
May
4 Prague, CZ 007
May
5 Munich, DE Ampere
May
6 Milan, IT Lo Fi Club
May
8 Barcelona, SP Rocksound
May
9 Madrid, SP Boute Live!
May
10 Lisbon, PT Musicbox
May
11 Bilbao, SP Kafe Antzokia
May
13 Zurich, SZ Dynamo
May
14 Wiesbaden, DE Schlachthoff
May
15 Cologne, DE Underground
May
16 Berlin, DE Hafenklang
May
18 Nijmegen, NL Merelyn
May
19 Haarlem, NL Patronaat
May
20 Paris, FR Glazart
May
21 Antwerp, BE Kavka
May
22 London, UK Underworld *
May
23 Leeds, UK Belgrave Social
Club *
May
24 Galway, IR Roisin Dubh
May
25 Cork, IR Craine Lane
May
26 Dublin, IR Grand Social
May
27 Belfast, IR The Limelight
May
28 Glasgow, UK CCA **
May
29 Manchester, UK Sound Control
**
May
30 Bristol, UK Temples Festival
May
31 Nimes, FR This is Not a Love
Song
June
1 Nantes, FR Le Ferrailleur
All
U.S. dates w/Wrong; Nothing appears on all dates except when noted with a #
Restarter will
be released on CD/LP/Deluxe 2xLP/Cassette/Digital, with pre-orders available
now with songs “Harmonslaught” and “Rock ‘N’ Roll Mantasy,” will be included on
deluxe editions. Digital pre-orders offer an instant download of
“Annihilation Affair” and “Minions” (http://geni.us/RestarterDLX),
Bandcamp (www.torche.bandcamp.com) and
physically via Relapse (http://www.relapse.com/torche-restarter).
Source: Speak
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