DARSOMBRA: Baltimore Transapocalyptic Galaxy Rock Duo Launches Dumesday Book 2024 US/Mexico Tour This Week

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Following several other expansive tours throughout North America, Europe, and the UK in support of their Dumesday Book album – including performances at Roadburn Festival, Exile On Mainstream 25 Festival, Desertfest London – Baltimore, Maryland transapocalyptic galaxy rock duo DARSOMBRA embarks on the Dumesday Book 2024 US/Mexico Tour this week.

DARSOMBRA’s Dumesday Book 2024 US/Mexico Tour begins this Thursday, August 29th in Lexington, Kentucky, after which they’ll traverse across the country and into Baja Mexico for three shows, then touring back through the Southwest, Southeast, and East Coast, ending the tour 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:
8/29/2024 Green Lantern – Lexington, KY w/ Jeanne le Fou, Whomp That Sucker
8/30/2024 Platypus – St. Louis, MO w/ Graeme Ronald, Two Hands | One Engine, Eric Hall
8/31/2024 miniBar – Kansas City, MO w/ The Philistines, The Moose
9/01/2024 Replay – Lawrence, KS w/ Wyla, Sputnik
9/03/2024 Squirm Gallery – Denver, CO w/ Witch Baby, Graveyard People, Equine
9/04/2024 What’s Left Records – Colorado Springs, CO w/ Turismo Blu, OsZo
9/06/2024 Revolt Gallery – Taos, NM w/ Daily Winter Crow, DJ Bonehead
9/07/2024 Guild Cinema – Albuquerque, NM w/ Timefoolery, Fudosa
9/12/2024 The Eagle – San Francisco, CA w/ Sleepbomb, 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, Mx. Matias
9/19/2024 Tower Bar – San Diego, CA w/ Fadrait, Francis Roberts
9/20/2024 Moustache Bar – Tijuana, MX w/ Astral Azif, Radagast, Moondaze
9/21/2024 Black Dog Bar – Ensenada, MX w/ Astral Azif, Cuervo Petrushka, Radagast
9/22/2024 Malgro Cervecería – Mexicali, MX w/ Astral Azif, Radagast
9/24/2024 Groundworks – Tucson, AZ w/ ENTRTNMNT, Wizards of Odd, Cows, Mother of Thousands
9/26/2024 13th Floor – Austin, TX w/ Cortège, Slumbering Sun
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, King Turtle
10/02/2024 Whittier – Tulsa, OK w/ Cortège, Ivory Tusk
10/04/2024 White Water Tavern – Little Rock, AR w/ DOT, Lap
10/06/2024 Fred Hampton Free Store – New Orleans, LA w/ FatPlastik, Crush Diamond
10/07/2024 The Kelly – Wetumpka, AL
10/08/2024 Ciné Theater – Athens, GA w/ Rat Babies, Bad Straples, Karma Kat
10/09/2024 The Spaze – Columbia, SC w/ Burrito Wolf, Kimber
10/11/2024 The Odd – Asheville, NC w/ JD Pinkus, Bad Authors
10/12/2024 Monstercade – Winston-Salem, NC w/ Emceein Eye, Proxevita
10/24/2024 Mama Tried – Brooklyn, NY w/ Lumberob, 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