Touring In Support of Acclaimed New Album, HANDS
“Their music joins buoyant call-and-response harmonies, rippling highlife-inspired guitar leads, !!!’s muscular funk-punk, and the spirited pulses of Steve Reich’s Clapping Music” –SPIN
Who:
SUPERHUMAN HAPPINESS
“Designed to drive an audience to dance, the music of Superhuman Happiness is a loose, spontaneous alternative to the rigidity of computer-generated electronic dance music.” –WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Superhuman Happiness taps into an energy that’s beyond the typical paradigm and one step beyond what we’ve come to expect from popular music.” –MAGNET
Watch Superhuman Happiness “Sentimental Pieces” here
Watch Superhuman Happiness “I Can Hear You Calling” here
Listen Superhuhman Happiness “See Me On My Way”/”Sentimental Pieces” here
What:
Movement becomes contagious listening to Superhuman Happiness whose joyful sound has been dubbed “physical cinematic dance rock.” The relentlessly creative band—who first became known for their ecstatic dance parties around their homebase in Brooklyn—make their first ever appearance in Pittsburgh on Friday, September 6 to headline Thunderbird Cafe in support of their full length debut album, Hands.
Prior to their current headline run, Superhuman Happiness have toured nationally with artists like Rubblebucket, Marco Benevento and Red Baraat. They wrote and performed the score to the Oscar-nominated documentary film, How To Survive A Plague. Other highlights include collaborating with Cults on the Red, Hot & Rio 2compilation. Signed to Brooklyn label The Royal Potato Family, Superhuman Happiness have also released an EP and a series of 7-inch singles along with Hands. The recording runs the gamut from celebratory syncopated handclaps (“Our Favorite Part”) to the coronation grandeur of church bells (“Second Heart”), from art-pop dance beats (“See Me On My Way”) to math rock angularity (“Half Step Grind”).
Superhuman Happiness members are all key NYC players with a collective resume that stretches across a dizzying array of talent, including Antibalas, Phenomenal Handclap Band, TV On The Radio, Iron & Wine, tUnE-yArDs and Cibo Matto. It’s together, however, where their individual voices coalesce into one shared vision. AsHands so eloquently expresses, this is music striving for Superhuman Happiness.
Where:
THUNDERBIRD CAFE
4023 Butler St
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
(412) 682-0177
When:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
9pm
Price:
$10 In Advance
$12 Day of Show
For more info: http://www.showclix.com/event/s20130906shha
Upcoming Tour Dates:
September 4 | Nietzsche’s | Buffalo, NY
September 5 | The Garrison | Toronto, ON
September 6 | Thunderbird Cafe | Pittsburgh, PA
September 7 | Cleveland Garlic Festival | Cleveland, OH
September 8 | Tonic Room | Chicago, IL
October 4 | The Press Room | Portsmouth, NH
October 5 | The Fall Down Festival | Durham, CT
October 18 | The Cutting Room | New York, NY
October 19 | Church | Boston, MA
February 14-15 | Aura Festival | Live Oak, FL
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