As promised last month when they announced details of their Last Blowout Ever – which kicks off Saturday at the Turf Club – Doomtree's new all-crew album will drop Jan. 27 ahead of a late-winter tour.
Details of the full-length record were revealed today along with a second track from it. Titled "All Hands," the record is now available for pre-order, including a "deluxe" package that comes with a T-shirt, poster, bonus downloads and other do-dads. That's the album cover to the right.
The newly debuted song, "Gray Duck," is posted below and features verses from all five of the Doomtree rappers. Producer/beatmaker Lazerbeak said of the new album, "It has some of our catchiest hooks ever juxtaposed with some of the wildest, densest stuff we've done." It's the first effort by the entire group since 2011's locally revered collection "No Kings."
The crew will hit the road right after the album release, starting Feb. 4 in Columbia, Mo., and including runs to both coasts. A Feb. 21 stop at the Majestic Theater in Madison is the nearest they'll get to home on the six-week run.
All seven of the publicly advertised shows in the Blowout X run are sold out, including the three-night finale at First Avenue next week. The one open-ended part of the schedule is Sunday's bar crawl to promote the new Surly Doomtree beer, including a "private release party" at the end of the night. Details of the bar-hopping trek can be had on the group's site.
