Strange Ranger Announce US Tour in Support of New Album 'Pure Music'

“One of the most underrated bands in all of indie.” — Uproxx

NYC-via-Philly quartet Strange Ranger are amidst “their metamorphosis from indie rock to experimental electronic pop, keeping one foot in each genre with stirring, fascinating results” (Stereogum). Next month, the indie veterans will release their new album, Pure Music, out July 21st on Fire Talk, and today the band announce a US tour which kicks off in New York City at DROM with support from Nourished by Time and continues into the Fall.

• Friday August 4th - New York, NY @ DROM
• Saturday August 5th - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
• Thursday August 31st - Richmond, VA @ The Camel
• Friday September 1st - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
• Saturday September 2nd - Atlanta, GA @ 529
• Tuesday September 5th - Denton, TX @ Andy's
• Wednesday September 6th - Austin, TX @ Mohawk
• Friday September 8th - Phoenix, AZ @ Linger Longer Lounge
• Sunday September 10th - Los Angeles, CA @ The Resident
• Monday September 11th - San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
• Tuesday September 12th - Reno, NV @ The Holland Project
• Thursday September 14th - Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
• Sunday September 17th - Missoula, MT @ The Showroom
• Monday September 18th - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
• Tuesday September 19th - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
• Thursday September 21st - Milwaukee, WI @ X Ray Arcade
• Friday September 22nd - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
• Saturday September 23rd - St. Louis, MO @ The Sinkhole

Ever since Stranger Ranger hit the house show circuit many years ago, Eiger has returned to a Burial quote from one of his few recorded interviews: “Being on your own listening to headphones is not a million miles away from being in a club surrounded by people. Sometimes you get that feeling like a ghost touched your heart, like someone walks with you.” Though that Burial quote resonates, the songs that make up Pure Music have a pulse so strong they’re practically breathing; not touching your heart, but gripping it. Pure Music is easily the band’s most exciting and ambitious work to date.

Eiger, Tucker, Woodman and Fred Nixon recorded Pure Music at a cabin in upstate New York as a blizzard raged outside. The album elucidates the promise of No Light in Heaven, their 2020 mixtape that hinted the band was cocooned in a state of near total transformation. Pure Music emerged from the same sessions, and while No Light in Heaven resembles, in places, bygone iterations of Strange Ranger’s sound, Pure Music was made with so little concern for what anyone might expect of them, as if they were a band without history. It's an album that feels out of this time, one that lives in a dimension running parallel to ours.

Pure Music embodies that manic state through interstitial interludes laced with YouTube samples that connect each track to the next so as to submerge the listener in its world, one that rewards catharsis. “Music makes us transcend the feeling of being alienated from or trapped by the world,” Woodman says. “I want the experience of listening to Pure Music to be euphoric.”