Deer Tick have announced their ninth album, Coin-O-Matic, which will be out June 5 via ATO. The album title is a reference to a a cigarette-vending-machine company that doubled as the HQ for infamous mobster Raymond Patriarca, and the record explores “the hidden histories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island, where the everyday dramas of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia underworld.”
“If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago, you’d see all these mobsters on the news and then run into them at a restaurant on Federal Hill,” says John McCauley, referring to Providence’s version of Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colorful characters, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness.”
The first single from Coin-O-Matic is the jangly “Mary Singletary.” Says McCauley, “Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ generation and the generation before that, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous. With that song in particular, I liked the idea of writing about Catholic guilt and premarital sex and adding in a little bit of Looney Tunes-style violence—sometimes as a young Catholic boy, I did imagine a vengeful God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”
You can watch the “Mary Singletary” video below.
Deer Tick have also announced an extensive North American tour that kicks of in Brooklyn on June 9 at Warsaw. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, March 13 at 10 AM local time. Check out their full tour schedule below.
Coin-O-Matic
1. Dog Years
2. Mary Singletary
3. Endless Loop
4. Sweetest Things
5. ACI
6. Everything Born
7. Eyelid
8. I Am an Island
9. 507 Smith
10. Exit Door
11. Candy Cigarettes
Deer Tick tour dates
3/11 – Iron Horse Music Hall – Northampton, MA
3/12 – Iron Horse Music Hall – Northampton, MA
3/13 – Uptown – Providence, RI
6/9 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY
6/10 – Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA
6/12 – The Atlantis – Washington, DC
6/13 – Thunderbird Music Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
6/14 – Ludlow Garage – Cincinnati, OH
6/16 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
6/17 – Fine Line – Minneapolis, MN
6/19 – Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI
6/20 – El Club – Detroit, MI
6/21 – The Opera House – Toronto, ON
6/23 – Bearsville Theater – Woodstock, NY
6/25 – State Theatre – Portland, ME
6/26 – Royale – Boston, MA
6/27 – Higher Ground – Burlington, VT
9/24 – The Waiting Room Lounge – Omaha, NE
9/25 – recordBar – Kansas City, MO
9/26 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
9/27 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
9/29 – The Elm – Bozeman, MT
9/30 – Shrine Social Club – Boise, ID
10/2 – Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR
10/3 – Neumos – Seattle, WA
10/4 – Hollywood Theatre – Vancouver, BC
10/6 – Harlow’s – Sacramento, CA
10/7 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
10/9 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
10/10 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
10/13 – Belly Up Tavern – Solana Beach, CA
10/14 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
10/16 – Scoot Inn – Austin, TX
10/17 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX
10/18 – The Kessler Theater – Dallas, TX
11/5 – The Basement East – Nashville, TN
11/6 – Eulogy – Asheville, NC
11/7 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA
11/8 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC
11/9 – Neighborhood Theatre – Charlotte, NC
11/11 – Revolution Live – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
11/13 – Bayboro Brewing Co. – St. Petersburg, FL
11/14 – The Social – Orlando, FL
11/15 – The Pour House – Charleston, SC
11/17 – The Broadberry – Richmond, VA
11/19 – House of Independents – Asbury Park, NJ
11/20 – Arrow at Archer Music Hall – Allentown, PA
11/21 – District Music Hall – Norwalk, CT