Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Cities Aviv shares full album stream + Announces release show + LP due 1/28/13

CITIES AVIV STREAMS ALBUM IN FULL VIA PITCHFORK ADVANCE

ANNOUNCES RELEASE SHOW AND NEW TOUR DATES

COME TO LIFE LP DUE 1/28/14 VIA YOUNG ONE RECORDS

Credit: Sadaf H. Nava
  
After sharing the video for album closer, "Don't Ever Look Back", Cities Aviv is now sharing a full album stream via Pitchfork Advance. Additionally, Cities Aviv is proud to announce new tour dates including a vinyl release show at Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn, a headlining Los Angeles date, and a slot at Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. His short East Coast run will feature Mind Dynamics, album collaborator Abdu Ali (in Baltimore), and other support. Come To Life is due digitally on January 28th and vinyl will be available in February. Check out the album stream below along with full tour details. 

STREAM:  
Come To Life -

Tour Dates:

2/4/14 - Washington D.C. - DC9 !
2/5/14 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery @
2/6/14 - Philadelphia, PA - The Barbary #
2/7/14 - Cambridge, MA - The Middle East (upstairs) !
2/18/14 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade NYC ^
2/27/14 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's (Noise Pop Festival) *
2/28/14 - Los Angeles, CA - The Church on York

! w/ Mind Dynamics
@ w/ Mind Dynamics and Abdu Ali
# w/ Mind Dynamics and Suzi Analogue
^ Vinyl Release Show
* w/ Shabazz Palaces


Previously:

Watch: "Don't Ever Look Back" -

Cities Aviv first garnered attention in 2011 with his debut release Digital Lows, in which he created a lush soundscape by casting an array of musical influences, along with the rich heritage of Memphis rap, into the alchemical cauldron and set it to boil. Digital Lows attempted to shine light into the murky depths of interconnected living in the material plane, and explore the detritus of a technological life, while also lyrically conveying the growing pains of the new self. 2012's Black Pleasure, sonically challenged listeners, as the rich tones of Digital Lows began to deconstruct into a blown-out and gritty resonance, transporting listeners to a separate reality where the lines of pleasure and pain are entangled and debauch is the natural order. Amid this chaos, Aviv pummeled listeners with an appeal to assess their own realities, habits, and processes, and asserts that "Life is Real," a seemingly simple statement, yet a fact that is often taken for granted. His third album Come to Life sees Aviv come full circle- finding a balance amid the turbulence of burgeoning adulthood in the URL and IRL, and arising from the transformative flames as a harbinger of the new paradigm. Aviv's street gospel stylings affix themselves in union with the eternal essence, and exist outside of the confines of trend, genre, or time-signature, flowing organically within the digital corridor. While his work will forever remain personal, Come to Life is also universal, and petitions listeners to reclaim their individualities, their dreams, and their true desires. Cities Aviv is Wilbert Gavin. Life is real. Come to Life.


Cities Aviv
Come To Life
(1/28/14, Young One Records)

1. INTRO
2. FOOL
3. HEAD
4. URL IRL
5. DISSOLVE
6. CTL1 feat. Abdu Ali
7. PERPETUATE THE REAL
8. REALMS
9. (SELF 100) KNOW WHO YOU ARE
10. INTERLUDE
11. VISIONS
12. (VIEW 180) PICTURE ME GONE
13. STILL feat. BIZZARH
14. WORLDS OV PRESSURE
15. DON'T EVER LOOK BACK

*TRACKS 2,5,11,14 PROD. BY RPLD GHSTS
TRACKS 12 & 13 PROD. BY ALEXANDER O'DELL
TRACK 9 PROD. BY B_L_A_C_K_I_E_
ALL OTHER TRACKS PROD. BY CITIES AVIV

~ COMMON ASCENSION IN THEE MODERN ERA ~

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