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"'A Different Ship' is an album of fragile beauty" - Q
"At times full of nervous vigour, at others letting itself fall blindly backwards into honeyed daydream, A Different Ship has a life and character all of its own." DROWNED IN SOUND
"...in the heady pulse of standouts like 'How Do I Know' or 'Hard to Be Close,' you can get a much clearer understanding for why a Here We Go Magic live experience was and is potent enough to send guys like Yorke and Godrich into early morning spasms. Their many gifts are on full display here, in their finest light." - SPIN
"A Different Ship is another exciting chapter in the story of a band who continue to improve with every release." THE QUIETUS
"...a beautiful, expansive step forward...what will surely be one of 2012’s loveliest records." -STEREOGUM
"Sharp, disciplined, and seriously compelling stuff from the Brooklyn band." BBC MUSIC
"...makes you want to jump out and start dancing."- FILTER

Here We Go Magic have announced their biggest London headline show to date at Dingwalls, Camden on 30th October. Tickets for the Eat Your Own Ears show are on sale as of today from See Tickets and Gigs and Tours.

The New York quartet's latest album 'A Different Ship', the sunny and spacious Nigel Godrich-produced record, has been creating waves of critical applause from MOJO to SPIN, Rolling Stone to BBC Music since it's release in May. Have a listen to a couple of tracks recorded live in session for 6Music's Marc Riley last week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jl5b9

Here We Go Magic also recorded a three-track Bandstand Busking session on Hampstead Heath back in May. Watch the session here, complete with pedigree dogs and mini Vox amps: http://bandstandbusking.com/here-we-go-magic/2012/05/15/

'A Different Ship' is out now on Secretly Canadian on vinyl, cd and mp3, order it here.
Watch the video to recent single 'How Do I Know'. Directed by Sean Pecknold (Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Grizzly Bear) the video stars Janet Pants as a happy-go-lucky dancing robot who is being returned to the factory by her owner.

HWGM are currently touring the US with indie-pop outfit Hospitality before heading back to Europe over summer. The full run of shows include stops at T In The Park, La Route du Rock, Oya, Reading and Leeds Festival. The list of European dates are below, US shows are here.

Album background info:

The seeds for 'A Different Ship' were planted at Glastonbury’s Park Stage in June 2010. Here We Go Magic had been on the road since spring, wowing audiences at Bonnaroo, Coachella and elsewhere with their uncanny live chemistry, turning album tracks into intricately groovy sonic explorations. Live shows had been their sweet spot since their earliest rehearsals together, when singer/songwriter Luke Temple, bassist Jennifer Turner, guitarist Michael Bloch and drummer Peter Hale bonded over a shared belief in musical spontaneity and improvisation.

Glastonbury, though, had started out rough for the band. Onstage before noon and in scorching sun, they struggled at the start of their set to feel connected to the crowd. “We were playing horribly hungover and groggy, in front of hungover and groggy people,” says Bloch. “The crowd wasn't giving us much to work with, except for these two guys standing in front,” Temple continues. “One of them was dancing around like a maniac and I was like, ‘I’m just gonna play for those two guys. Then I realized, ‘That’s fucking Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich!’”

Godrich, for his part, says, "I am a big fan of this band. They work VERY hard. They are very talented individually and collectively. I was turned on to them by Thom Yorke while we were sharing a tipi at Glastonbury and was awoken by their opening set at the park stage. He dragged me along to see them, bleary eyed and hung over. They gave an amazing performance for breakfast."
The band met Yorke and Godrich briefly after their set, and over the next few weeks, Godrich popped up at their shows in London and Paris, eventually proposing to Here We Go Magic that he might lend a hand with their next recording. In particular, the producer said he thought he could help them better communicate their live sound on tape, something he calls "very powerful and unusual."

And this he did. 'A Different Ship' is Here We Go Magic’s most remarkable and captivating album yet, with an emotional and musical arc that is alternately calming and anxiety-inducing, and often both at once. 'I Believe In Action' and 'Make Up Your Mind' sound like they’re being beamed in from outer space, while more earthbound tracks such as 'Miracle of Mary', 'Over The Ocean' and 'Alone But Moving' amble in a somnolent haze, with Temple’s cool timbre cutting through the fog.

TOUR DATES:

07/07/12 - Kinross, UK - T in The Park
07/08/12 - Ireland, Oxegen Festival
07/05/12 - Liège, BE - Les Ardentes Festival
07/10/12 - Paris, FR - La Route du Rock, Le Tabendo

07/13/12 - Bilbao, ES - BBK Live Festival
07/14/12 - Oeiras, PT - Optimus Live
08/09/12 - Oslo, NO - Oya
08/10/12 - Gothenburg, SE - Way Out West Festival

08/13/12 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso

08/15/12 - Berlin, DE - Roter Salon

08/24/12 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival
08/25/12 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Festival
10/30/12 - London, UK - Dingwalls - headline show