The Preatures Bring Blue Planet Eyes September 30th

The Preatures Release Jim Eno-Produced Debut Album, Blue Planet Eyes, September 30th
October Tour Dates * Stream New Single “Somebody’s Talking”

Sydney, Australia’s five-piece rock band The Preatures released EP Is This How You Feel? on Harvest Records in October 2013. The title song, “a mid-tempo, feel-good, groove-based confection that explodes into one of the year’s best choruses,” was named Best New Track by Pitchfork, and the band was declared a CMJ Artist To Watch by Fuse, Paste, and KCRW.

Their 2014 SXSW performances, including the festival-edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live, did exactly what SXSW performances are supposed to do: get people psyched on new bands. Critic Jim DeRogatis was converted:

Fronted by the captivating Izzy Manfredi, who exudes a leather-jacketed, retro/New Wave cool a la Debbie Harry or Chrissie Hynde, the band incorporates percolating electronic rhythms with strains of Motown soul and garage-rock guitar… their self-confidence, energy, and maturity onstage belie their relative inexperience, and it’s difficult not to get swept away.

With most of their new material already written and road-tested, The Preatures decided to stay put in Austin and record their first album at Public Hi-Fi with producer Jim Eno of Spoon. The band settled in for three-and-a-half weeks of Tecate and breakfast taco-fueled studio magic. Between festival dates at Coachella and Bonnaroo, guitarist Jack Moffitt finished production and mixed the album on the road and at the band’s Doldrums Studio in Sydney.

Blue Planet Eyes, their debut full-length album, is out September 30th. New single “Somebody’s Talking” delivers on the promise of their EP – it’s exhilarating, joyful pop with an undeniable rock swagger.

Blue Planet Eyes tracklisting:
1. BLUE PLANET EYES
2. SOMEBODY’S TALKING
3. IS THIS HOW YOU FEEL?
4. ORDINARY
5. TWO TONE MELODY
6. ROCK AND ROLL RAVE
7. WHATEVER YOU WANT
8. CRUEL
9. IT GETS BETTER
10. BUSINESS, YEAH

Their October tour dates in support of Blue Planet Eyes begin in Zilker Park at the Austin City Limits Festival.

10/03/14 Austin, TX: Austin City Limits Festival
10/03/14 Austin, TX: Holy Mountain w/ Young & Sick
10/04/14 Houston, TX: House of Blues – Bronze Peacock w/ Wild Party
10/06/14 San Antonio, TX: White Rabbit w/ Night Terrors
10/07/14 Dallas, TX: House of Blues – Cambridge Room w/ Night Terrors
10/14/14 Chicago, IL: Double Door
10/15/14 Minneapolis, MN: Triple Rock
10/16/14 Madison, WI: The Frequency
10/18/14 Denver, CO: Larimer Lounge
10/21/14 Seattle, WA: Tractor Tavern
10/22/14 Vancouver, BC: Electric Owl
10/23/14 Portland, OR: Lola’s Room
10/25/14 Las Vegas, NV: Life Is Beautiful Festival
10/26/14 Santa Ana, CA: Constellation Room
10/27/14 San Diego, CA: Casbah
10/29/14 San Francisco, CA: The Independent w/ Circa Waves
10/30/14 Santa Cruz, CA: Catalyst Atrium