Replete with classic epics and timely reprises, Mick Turner’s forthcoming release, Don’t Tell the Driver, is an inspired and focused collection of music that reaches for new borders without sacrificing the dizzy wandering and painterly stillness that has typified this artist’s best work of the past. Fifteen years in, it’s the big rock record we always knew Mick had in him, different to all the other Mick Turner records and the various work he’s done with the Dirty Three, Venom P. Stinger, Bonny Billy, Cat Power and Fungus Brains. It’s a consolidation and development of everything he’s done up until now, streamlined and presented under the sophisticated umbrella known as the rock opera/concept album! “Heavily textured and dreamy,” as described by Esquirewith indecipherable themes of wonder and disenchantment, Don’t Tell the Driver is inarguably the first post-rock rock opera of our times – by an artist running out of time. Get a glimpse into Don’t Tell the Drivervia “Sometimes,” one of the album’s many entrancing vocal tracks, featuring Caroline Kennedy-McCracken.

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Don’t Tell the Driver is available on Drag City Records on November 19th.

Mick Turner tour dates:

Fri. Nov. 8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool

Tue. Nov. 12 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room w/ Bill Callahan

Wed. Nov. 13 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriets Pioneertown Palace w/ Bill Callahan

Thu. Nov. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Japan American Theater w/ Bill Callahan

Fri. Nov. 15 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Soho Restaurant & Music Club w/ Bill Callahan

Sat. Nov. 16 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall w/ Bill Callahan

Sun. Nov. 17 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel w/ Bill Callahan

Tue. Nov. 19 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater w/ Bill Callahan

Wed. Nov. 20 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s w/ Bill Callahan

Thu. Nov. 21 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom w/ Mono

Fri. Nov. 22 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge w/ Mono

Sat. Nov. 23 – Detroit, MI @ The Loving Touch w/ Mono

Sun. Dec. 1 – Pontins, Camber Sands, UK @ ATP Festival (End of An Era Pt. 2)

 

Mick Turner online:

www.mickturner.com

www.dragcity.com/artists/mick-turner

www.pitchperfectpr.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Mick-Turner/116735025006489

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