Oxbow release new single and music video, announce U.S. tour dates

Official press release:

Oxbow release "Dead Ahead," the third single, and its accompanying video, from their forthcoming Ipecac Recordings' debut album, Love's Holiday (July 21, Ipecac Recordings).

Guitarist/Pianist Niko Wenner shared the following:

'Dead Ahead' was made to order for starting our new album, Love's Holiday. It is one of the few songs without choral singing and the only in D Minor, my co-producer in crime Joe Chiccarelli calling for fast and abrasive, it was birthed playing for my kids on an acoustic guitar given to me at age 6 and handmade before 1957 in Umeå, Sweden by Göran Frii. The recording features both the tiny toy tine piano Dan [Adams] gave our children and my 1981 white Stratocaster, the chorus adds a Little Big Muff Pi fuzz pedal I bought in 1979 from Tom Stevenson, my friend from age 4, recently deceased, who taught me to play AC/DC, Judas Priest and Van Halen songs. RIP and rock on, Tommy.

On the Chris Purdie-directed video, who also created a pair of clips for the band's 2017 album, Thin Black Duke, vocalist Eugene Robinson shares:

This may be the only video wherein we appear just as actors/characters and while the gaming scene recalls nothing if not Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal,' the lyric is pure OXBOW: 'This god of love destroys and creates'…indubitably.

The concept for the mirrors used in 'Dead Ahead' were inspired by Orson Welles noir, 'The Lady From Shanghai,' a film partly based in and around San Francisco. The idea of mirrors and reflection were used to evoke themes of duality, and the idea that there are multiple perspectives, or that things aren't entirely as they seem.

The Bay Area quartet have simultaneously announced their first tour dates in support of the 10-song album, with both east and west coast swings slated for this Fall. Tickets for all shows are on-sale now, with ticketing links and additional details available here.

10/20 Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
10/21 Portland, ME @ SPACE
10/22 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
11/09 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
11/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theatre
11/11 Mesa, AZ @ Pub Rock