Mikal Cronin is added to this years' Bruise Cruise, announces even more tour dates supporting self-titled debut LP!

Mikal Cronin has been added to the three day tropical rock & roll vacation known as the Bruise Cruise.

In its second year, Mikal will be joined on stage by long time friend and collaborator Ty Segall for a full band set, playing tracks from his self-titled debut LP, out now via Trouble In Mind.

Check out the Bruise Cruise promo video with host Neil Hamburger.

With Ty Segall producing, Eric Bauer [Ty Segall, Royal Baths] running the tape machine and guests like Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer, Mikal Cronin emerged with a fully realized, cohesive and beautiful debut self-titled LP full of California fuzz and gorgeously unexpected psych garage pop,  praised by Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan, NME, Impose, L Magazine and many more.

 

For a preview of what to expect from Mikal live, give a listen to NPR Song of the Day-featured "Apathy," "the hilly psychedelics and unshakable hooks" of "Get Along" and check out this raucous live video of "Situation" from this years' Gonerfest!

Tour dates and more info below!

 

Mikal Cronin Tour Dates

Dec 1 - The Smell - Los Angeles, CA ^

Dec 2 - Sontag Greek Theater, Pomona College - Claremont, CA 
Dec 3 - El Rio - San Francisco, CA *^
Dec 4 - Luigi's Fun Garden - Sacramento, CA  
Dec 6 - New Frontier Lounge - Tacoma, WA %
Dec 7 - Cabin Tavern - Bellingham, WA %
Dec 8 - Black Lodge - Seattle, WA %
Dec 9 - East End - Portland, OR & 
Dec 11 - 105 Pioneer St - Santa Cruz, CA 

Feb 10 - 13 - Bruise Cruise Festival - Miami, FL $

Mar 2- Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA &
Mar 3 - Troubadour - LA, CA &
Mar 4 - The Casbah - San Diego, CA &

* w/ Shannon and the Clams

^ w/ Pangea

% w/ The Bermudas

& w/ Ty Segall

$ w/ Fucked Up, King Khan & the Shrines, Thee Oh Sees, Soft Pack, Neil Hamburger

Praise for Mikal Cronin

Cronin stretches his legs to record a clean, ridiculously catchy song with tons of layers. It's the full scale of things that makes 'Apathy' so great-- the harmonies, the song structuring, the piles of instruments, but mostly, the anxious feeling that's strung throughout the song. It's a song with a lot to grab onto, and it's a killer introduction to Cronin as a solo artist.

Pitchfork - 8.1

If you can empathize with the inchoate angst of confused young adults in transition — or love no-frills rock in any form — he belongs on your radar...Cronin even finds a way to fit a free-jazz sax solo into "Apathy" without breaking a sweat or compromising its punky dishabille. Although Cronin likely hasn't yet figured it out himself, it'll be exciting to see where he heads next.

NPR

The record packs a huge whollop in its three-minute garage-pop punches. Scraping its way through fuzz, jangle, slow burn motions and even a few psychedelic breakdowns, the record is nothing if not infectious; opening itself up wider with each play. In the truest sense of the word this is just a good record, one that's quickly jumping up our best of 2011 list and one that's not likely to leave the turntable soon.

Raven Sings the Blues 

Mikal's self-titled LP on Trouble in Mind (produced by Ty) is far and away the best thing he's ever done, is one of my albums of the year…The album has great song after great song, killer hooks and harmonies -- SoCal garagey surf-pop at it's finest.

Brooklyn Vegan

Cronin is one of those artists that barely appear to be trying, yet every element is executed so naturally that you can tell this is really the result of a lifetime studying what rock 'n' roll is all about.

RCRD LBL

Mikal Cronin provides answers to such questions as, “Would it sound ok if this flute solo were to sit atop the crunchiest of guitars? How about if someone started whistling out of nowhere? Can another hook be squeezed in here somehow?” The answers, in the hands of Cronin, would seem to be yes.

L Magazine

Cronin steps into his own with a stunning collection of songs that offers a heady mix of lushly harmonized vocals, earworm melodies, raw fuzz guitar, and fractured kitchen-sink arrangements.

SF Weekly

If you toss in a little more melody on Segall’s formula for psych-rock, perhaps remove a bit of hazy tones, and this is pretty much what you’re going to get.  I know, right! Sounds pretty awesome, so jump on the wagon now

Austin Town Hall

He has a knack for writing a song that grips your inner brain with its juicy melody all while covering the track with enough grime to rope in even the most jaded listener.

Reviler

There's still plenty of the rocking fuzz, jangle, and garage sounds in this effort that have made this song sound better each time I listen to it. 

Chromewaves

His new solo album is all kinds of aceness

NME

On his solo debut, Cronin comes at the garage revival with a catchier tack using vintage musicality and emotions, creating something that is both supremely cool and supremely honest… an album that contains a fleshed-out, noisy, hooky-as-all-hell world that’s both immediately welcoming for virgin ears and extensively rewarding for the practiced garage junkie.

Consequence of Sound

A modern-day Del Shannon or something.

Nashville Scene

More on Mikal Cronin

Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to life post-college, an

insuing break-up and geographic isolation Mikal Cronin steps momentarily away from the rhythm section of Orange County surf-punk bashers The Moonhearts with his debut solo LP. Fans can take heart, this isn’t a “vanity project” or half-baked endeavor - Mikal’s solo debut is fully realized, cohesive and beautiful, with themes that are as personal as they are universal; questioning your future, accepting your past and living in the moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del Shannon and The Everly Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz, Mikal deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at moments feels like a punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet melodies & chords with chunky, psychedelic guitar freak-outs.  Don’t let the opening Beach Boys-ian harmonies of “Is It Alright?” fool you into thinking this record can be easily pinned down.  Once those guitars kick in, and you hit that first transcendent chorus, you’ll be hooked and anxiously awaiting what comes next