Mike Donovan’s debut solo record, Wot, sees the light of day this week on Drag City. The Sic Alps singer will be taking his new offering on the road across the US this month before aiming for Europe (no UK dates yet announced).
To get the ball rolling Mike unveiled his new video for Do Do Ya? today which you can watch below:
What Drag City say:
This bolt from weed-ridden left field is the most hands-down, top-up debut album rolling ’round in 2013. Rife with riffing TUNES! Of course, Donovan’s debut comes following a distinguished run of tune-smithing for noise-popster poster ladz Sic Alps, so he’s well prepared to go the solo route with a sweet sac fulla songs. Lyrically, Mike’s sharpened the lead to draw a somewhat less random line in the sand – but worry you not Sicsters, he’s still alit on allusive trips, lost in crystal canyons, turning phrases with an acid flick of the wrist-watch. In this new life of Mike’s, there is a brooding pregnance as he intones over some front-porch 21st-century j’accuse-tic blues with a blur of half-plugged, elegiac slo-mo rocknroll rubbed in for good measure. Guitars intersecting in the manner of the old loom the Stones once used, weaving in blue. Where rubric becomes fabric becomes freecidelic. Confronting the empty in acrostic (inner) space, Wot is Plastic Ono dyspeptic arrhythmia, with Mike’s soul shoutouts at the five-and-dime buried in the symmetry. The dream is over, so he’s starting a new dream.
MIKE DONOVAN TOUR DATES
10/16/13 Austin, TX, US
10/17/13 Houston, TX, US
10/18/13 New Orleans, LA, US
10/19/13 Atlanta, GA, US
10/20/13 Nashville, TN, US
10/21/13 Knoxville, TN, US
10/22/13 Winston-Salem, NC, US
10/23/13 Washington, DC, US
10/24/13 Philadelphia, PA, US
10/25/13 Brooklyn, NY, US
10/26/13 Montreal, Canada
10/28/13 Toronto, Canada
10/29/13 Detroit, MI, US
10/30/13 Chicago, IL, US
10/31/13 Indianapolis, IN, US
11/01/13 Kansas City, KS, US
11/02/13 Denver, CO, US
11/05/13 Reno, NV, US
11/22/13 Cologne, Germany
11/29/13 Utrecht, Netherlands
Italy TBC
Wot is released 14 Oct 2013 on Drag City