On the heels of their packed Los Angeles record release show at the Regent, Automatic — consisting off Izzy Glaudini, Lola Dompé, and Halle Saxon — have just announced their first headlining North American tour. The tour is, of course, in support of their recently released and critically acclaimed new album, Excess.
Automatic will cross the states for a NYC performance at Rough Trade’s Indieplaza Festival, before heading back to Los Angeles to open for Bauhaus at the iconic The Greek Theatre. From there they hit Desert Daze and carry on to headline Brooklyn’s Market Hotel, Chicago’s Empty Bottle followed by Toronto, Montreal, Nashville and Levitation festival in Austin.
Today, they have also shared a new video for Excess’ immediate track, “Automaton.” Of the track, Automatic explains “Automaton is about having to deprogram yourself from capitalist ways of thinking, but, of course, we framed the song in our sci-fi theme – with an actual automaton as protagonist.” The band’s accompanied video, created by Yana Pan and Jenny Nirgends, uses paper cut animations to illustrate one automaton’s journey to break from the pack and create something new.
Watch the “Automation” video below, followed by all of their upcoming tour dates, with tickets going on sale this Wednesday at 10am local time.
Tour dates:
Sept 2nd – Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
Sept 3rd – Tucson, AZ @ HOCO Festival
Sept 5th – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
Sept 6th – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
Sept 7th – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
Sept 9th – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater*
Sept 10th – Seattle, WA @ Neumos*
Sept 11th – Seattle, WA @ Neumos*
Sept 17th – New York, NY @ Rough Trade Indieplaza
Sept 23rd – Garden City, ID @ Flipside Fest
Sept 24th – Sacramento, CA @ Red Museum
Sept 29th – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre ~
Oct 1st – Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Oct 2nd – Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Oct 8th – Cuauhtémoc, Mexico @ Rabbit Hutch Festival
Oct 11th – Atlanta, GA @ 529
Oct 12th – Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
Oct 13th – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
Oct 14th – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel
Oct 15th – Philadelphia, PA @ The Dolphin
Oct 18th – Cambridge, MA @ The Lilypad
Oct 19th – Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Foufounes
Oct 20th – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Oct 21st – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
Oct 22nd – Detroit, MI @ MOCAD
Oct 23rd – Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
Oct 24th – Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room at Third Man Records
Oct 27th – Austin, TX @ Levitation
Oct 28th – Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s
Oct 29th – Birmingham, AL @ Moonstone Music Festival
Oct 30th – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Nov 11th – Seattle, WA @ Freakout Festival
* w/ Osees
~ w/ Bauhaus