DARSOMBRA: Baltimore Transapocalyptic Galaxy Rock Duo Announces Dumesday Book 2024 US/Mexico Tour Running From August Through October

photo by JJ Koczan

Following several other expansive tours throughout North America, Europe, and the UK – including performances at Roadburn Festival, Exile On Mainstream 25 Festival, Desertfest London – in support of their Dumeseday Book album, Baltimore, Maryland-based transapocalyptic galaxy rock duo DARSOMBRA will embark on another massive tour this year.

The Dumesday Book 2024 US/Mexico Tour will be led by a performance at Subscape Festival in the band’s hometown on August 3rd, and the full tour will kick off on August 29th in Lexington, Kentucky. They’ll traverse Southwesterly across the country and into Baja Mexico for three shows, after which they’ll wind back up through the Southwest, Southeast, and up the East Coast, ending the tour on in Littleton, New Hampshire on October 26th. See the confirmed routing below, and, as always, stand by for additional updates to post.

DARSOMBRA – Dumesday Book 2024 US/Mexico Tour:
8/03/2024 Subscape Festival – Baltimore, MD
8/29/2024 Green Lantern – Lexington, KY w/ Jeanne le Fou, Whomp That Sucker
8/30/2024 Platypus – St. Louis, MO w/ Graeme Ronald, Radiator Greys, Eric Hall
8/31/2024 miniBar – Kansas City, MO w/ The Philistines, The Moose
9/01/2024 Replay – Lawrence, KS
9/03/2024 Squirm Gallery – Denver, CO w/ Witch Baby, Graveyard People, Equine
9/04/2024 What’s Left Records – Colorado Springs, CO
9/06/2024 Revolt Gallery – Taos, NM w/ Daily Winter Crow, DJ Bonehead
9/07/2024 Guild Cinema – Albuquerque, NM w/ Train Conductor
9/12/2024 The Eagle – San Francisco, CA w/ Veils
9/13/2024 Satellite Of Love – San Luis Obispo, CA w/ Frequent Weaver
9/14/2024 [DM for address] – Joshua Tree, CA
9/15/2024 The Redwood – Los Angeles, CA w/ Alma Sangre
9/19/2024 Tower Bar – San Diego, CA
9/20/2024 Moustache Bar – Tijuana, BN w/ Astral Azif
9/21/2024 Black Dog Bar – Ensenada, BN w/ Astral Azif
9/22/2024 Malgro Cervecería – Mexicali, BN w/ Astral Azif
9/24/2024 Groundworks – Tucson, AZ
9/26/2024 13th Floor – Austin, TX w/ Cortège
9/27/2024 Paper Tiger – San Antonio, TX w/ Cortège, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
9/28/2024 The 101 – Bryan, TX w/ Cortège, Mutant Love
9/29/2024 Black Magic Social Club – Houston, TX w/ Cortège, Unified Space
10/01/2024 Rubber Gloves – Denton, TX w/ Cortège
10/02/2024 Whittier – Tulsa, OK w/ Cortège
10/04/2024 White Water Tavern – Little Rock, AR w/ DOT
10/06/2024 Fred Hampton Free Store – New Orleans, LA w/ FatPlastik
10/07/2024 The Kelly – Wetumpka, AL
10/08/2024 Ciné Theater – Athens, GA w/ Rat Babies
10/09/2024 The Spaze – Columbia, SC w/ Burrito Wolf
10/11/2024 The Odd – Asheville, NC w/ JD Pinkus, Bad Authors
10/12/2024 Monstercade – Winston-Salem, NC w/ Emceein Eye
10/24/2024 Mama Tried @ Mama Tried – Brooklyn, NY w/ Polly Vinylchloryd
10/25/2024 Myrtle – Providence, RI w/ Dyr Faser, Wooll, Small Pond
10/26/2024 Loading Dock – Littleton, NH w/ Wave Generators, Haunting Titans

Originally conceived as a surreal take on a pop album to contrast with their ominously prescient monolithic 2019 release, Transmission, DARSOMBRA’s Dumesday Book is a ten-song survey of sentiment and human experience in the pandemic, from initial lockdown to vaccinated re-emergence and beyond – which, in the DARSOMBRA microcosm, means from cancelled tours to returning to the road. Dumesday Book delivers seventy-five minutes of sonic revelry recorded and mixed by Brian Daniloski at the band’s Whale Manor and mastered by Jon Smulyan. Ann Everton handled the cover art, photography, and videography.

**Stream DARSOMBRA’s Dumesday Book everywhere including Bandcamp HERE, and watch multiple videos from the album at YouTube HERE**.

Dumesday Book is available on CD, 2xLP, and digitally on DARSOMBRA’s Pnictogen Records. Physical formats include a 12-page booklet, a sticker, and a download code with access to bonus material. Place orders at the band’s webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. Crucial Blast released the record in a limited double-cassette box set, available HERE.

“Dumesday Book swings from dependency to exhilaration, exhaustion to hope, surveying landscapes as internal, external, and cosmic. Theirs has always been an expansive music; here it covers more ground than ever and with considerable confidence … a kaleidoscopic reflection on the weirdness of the pandemic.” – The Wire Magazine

“Throughout the album’s 75-minute-long psychedelic journey, the music rises higher and higher, becoming almost transcendental, all the while reflecting a very down-to-earth story of pandemic isolation. It might take a specific state of mind for this music to properly click, but once it does, it becomes nigh transformative. – PopMatters

“…the visual fluidity of movement of wind through the dark fabric that becomes ghostly, cosmic, colorized, and so on, is somewhat ironic given the title’s inherent stillness…” – The Obelisk

“They take lengthy songs and turn them into full-blown adventures for the listener. It’s so easy to get lost in their music and just feel good about the passage of time, to where you don’t even realize how much time is passing as you listen.” – Everything Is Noise

“With Dumesday Book, DARSOMBRA creates a psychedelic-oriented reality that revolves around a synergy of musical styles… Listening to this prodigious album makes you feel like entering a sonic illusion where you feel comfortably numb and don’t want to leave.” – Echoes And Dust

“DARSOMBRA are nothing if not ambitious, following a forty-one-minute single track album (2019’s Transmission) with a seventy-five-minute record does not suggest a band who do things by half. Therefore, Dumesday Book is a remarkable piece of work and a testament to the band’s creative vision which you need to check out ASAP.” – The Sleeping Shaman