Trampled by Turtles' Wild Animals due July 15 + single premieres!

Wild Animals, the highly anticipated album from critically acclaimed Trampled by Turtles, will be released worldwide July 15 on Thirty Tigers.

The first single, “Are You Behind the Shining Star?,” and the Wild Animals vignette is streaming now at “The Current” (Minnesota Public Radio): http://bit.ly/PURv8D. ;

Furthermore, Trampled by Turtles is excited to reveal their first annual Festival Palomino launching September 20 at Canterbury Park just outside of Minneapolis, in addition to nationwide headlining dates. See below for more info!

 “Impressive!”—David Letterman

 

“The set is so exciting…”—NPR Music

 

“Trampled by Turtles mixes rhythmic banjos and guitars with lovelorn fiddles, creating a sound that seeps deeply into our pores and permeates our core until their riffs merge with our pulse.”—Washington Post

Wild Animals, the highly anticipated album from critically acclaimed Trampled by Turtles, will be released worldwide July 15 on Thirty Tigers. The new record was produced by the lead singer-songwriter of Low, Alan Sparhawk, and recorded in the legendary Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN (Nirvana, Andrew Bird, The Jayhawks).

 

Of the new music Dave Simonett (guitar, vocals) notes, “We all tried to come into this thing extremely open-minded. How can we sound new to ourselves? I feel like the sound has changed and is changing, especially from Palomino to now. A lot of our reputation from even just a couple years ago was that we were this fast band, which we can do, and we do that. But this record focused a little bit more on other aspects of our playing together.”

 

The first single, “Are You Behind the Shining Star?,” and the Wild Animals vignette is streaming now at NPR’s “The Current” (Minnesota Public Radio): http://bit.ly/PURv8D. See below for full track listing.

 

Wild Animals follows 2012’s Stars and Satellites which garnered widespread praise—the album debuted Top 30 on the Billboard chart and the band performed on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Conan,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and “A Prairie Home Companion.” Trampled by Turtles’ massive touring schedule have kept them busy since then with various sold out runs and prime slots at festivals including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits Festival, Outside Lands, Sasquatch! Music Festival, Firefly Festival, Newport Folk Festival and many more.

 

Furthermore, Trampled by Turtles is excited to reveal their first annual Festival Palomino launching September 20 at Canterbury Parkjust outside of Minneapolis. Each act was selected by the band—the confirmed performers include The Head and the Heart, Low, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Field Report, Apache Relay, Erik Koskinen, plus more to come. The band has also confirmed nationwide headline dates to support the new release including a nearly sold out Red Rock Amphitheater appearance. See below for full routing details and visit the band’s website for more information on Festival Palomino: http://trampledbyturtles.com/.

 

Formed in Duluth, MN in 2003, Trampled by Turtles is Simonett, Tim Saxhaug (bass, vocals), Dave Carroll (banjo, vocals), Erik Berry and Ryan Young (fiddle).  Within the contained music scene of Duluth, the members of the band did their own time in punk and rock bands brandishing their electricity proudly before switching to acoustic instruments. While they never set out to be a bluegrass band, Trampled by Turtles employs many of the same traditional techniques of the genre, but their differences in influences and attack make for their unique sound. After spending years refining their live show and building fans via word of mouth, they released their debutPalomino to little fanfare out of the gates. The story quickly built and eventually the record spent over a year straight on the Billboard Heatseakers Chart.

 

WILD ANIMALS TRACKLIST

1. Wild Animals

2. Hollow

3. Repetition

4. Are You Behind the Shining Star?

5. Silver Light

6. Come Back Home

7. Ghosts

8. Lucy

9. Western

10. Nobody Knows

11. Winners

 

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES TOUR DATES

April 22                                                     Fayetteville, AR                            George’s Majestic Lounge
April 24                                                   Albuquerque, NM                                         Sunshine Theater
April 25                                                        Tempe, AZ                                               Marquee Theatre
April 26                                                         Indio, CA                                            Stagecoach Festival
April 27                                                   Solana Beach, CA                                          Belly Up Tavern
April 28                                                        Tucson, AZ                                                   Rialto Theatre
April 30                                                         Austin, TX                 Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
May 1                                                           Dallas, TX                                      South Side Music Hall
May 2                                                          Houston, TX                                                     Fitzgerald’s
May 3                                                      New Orleans, LA                                                      Tipitina’s
May 11                                                         Atlanta, GA                                                    Shaky Knees
June 6                                                   Hunter Mountain, NY                                           Mountain Jam
June 8                                                        Pittsburgh, PA                              Three Rivers Arts Festival
June 27                                                     Moorhead, MN                         Bluestem Center for the Arts
July 3-6                                                        Quincy, CA                               High Sierra Music Festival
July 11                                                    Mount Solon, VA                             Red Wing Roots Festival
July 12                                                     Sterling Hill, MI                                         MO POP Festival

July 13                                                      Greenfield, MA                                      Green River Festival
July 18-20                                                  Louisville, KY                                              Forecastle 2014
July 19                                                  Black Mountain, NC                         Pisgah Brewing Company
July 24-27                                                   Calgary, AB                            Calgary Folk Music Festival
July 25                                                       Edmonton, AB                                           Interstellar Rodeo
July 27                                                         Newport, RI                                      Newport Folk Festival
August 7                                                      Haldern, DE                                        Haldern Pop Festival

August 8                                       Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE                            Taubertal Open Air
August 9                                                    Eschwege, DE                                         Open Flair Festival
August 16                                                   Morrison, CO                                Red Rocks Amphitheatre

August 19                                                   Park City, UT                                          Deer Valley Resort

September 20                                             Shakopee, MN                                           Festival Palomino

September 26-28                                       Columbia, MO                     Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival