Just the other day, I was sitting here with my abacus, thinking that it’s been 10,992 hours since I last heard from Pit Er Pat. So I says to myself, I says, “It’s High Time that they put out something new.”
Well, someone must’ve heard me. Fay Davis-Jeffers and Butchy Fuego, a.k.a. Pit Er Pat, a.k.a. one of O&B’s favorite bands of 2008, will release their next album, The Flexible Entertainer, on January 26, 2010. Continue reading
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Chicago’s super-awesome Pit Er Pat are hitting the road this fall in support of High Time, their new album due out on 10/21. This effort finds the band traveling down a dusty and dark path with guitars, sequencers, drum machines, and a slew of foreign percussions.
We think the album is awesome. Our vinyl is on order. Yours should be too.
Tourdates and MP3 after the jump. Check ’em out.
High Time, as it opens with tribal rhythms and arithmetic chanting, will likely prompt listeners to think “Oh, another release from Thrill Jockey,” or “This is really freakin’ cool.”