System Exclusive, the California shoegaze/garage/synthpop duo of Ari Blaisdell (Lower Self, The Beat Offs) and Matt Jones (Male Gaze, Castle Face Records), have announced their second album, Click, which will be out May 24 via Mt.St.Mtn. (Their 2021 self-titled debut was released on Castle Face.) They wrote the songs on tour, recorded the initial sessions on the Portuguese island of Saõ Miguel, and then turned it over to producer K. Dylan Edrich (OSEES, Ty Segall) who took “those island-cursed stems and cultivated them into the sculpture garden of tunes that now lay before you.”
The first single from Click is its title track, a sultry mid-fi banger that surrounds Blaisdell’s smoky vocals in bleeps, bloops, beats and guitar haze. You can watch the video below.
System Exclusive will spend the next two months touring all over North America, hitting 40 cities along the way, including legs with Crush Diamond and Carallee. The NYC stop is at Berlin Under A on March 14 with Pleaser. All dates are listed below.
CLICK:
1. 2 Little 2 Late 04:06
2. Carry On 03:31
3. Fashion Island 03:31
4. Song With A Hangover 04:34
5. Tower 23 03:48
6. Click 04:11
7. Can’t Stand 4 It 04:30
8. Pasadena 04:07
9. Make Me 03:29
10. Lose Control 04:05
SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE – 2024 TOUR DATES
Fri 2/23 – Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA
Thu 2/29 – Holy Diver, New Orleans, LA #
Fri 3/1 – Intracoastal Club, Houma, LA #
Sat 3/2 – Urban Foxes, Jackson, MS #
Sun 3/3 – Little Theatre, St Louis, MS #
Tue 3/5 – The 529, Atlanta, GA
Wed 3/6 – Monstercade, Winston Salem, NC
Fri 3/8 – Fuzzy Catcus, Richmond, VA
Sat 3/9 – Visible Records, Charlottesville, VA
Sun 3/10 – Squeezebox Records, Wilmington, DE
Thu 3/14 – Berlin Under A, New York, NY
Fri 3/15 – The Lilypad, Boston, MA
Sat 3/16 – The Foundry, West Stockbridge, MA
Sun 3/17 – Timeless Babez, Buffalo, NY
Wed 3/20 – Recreation Collective, Kalamazoo, MI
Thu 3/21 – Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit, MI
Fri 3/22 – State Street Pub, Indianapolis, IN
Sat 3/23 – Half Baked, Columbus, OH
Wed 3/27 – Northside Tavern, Cincinnati, OH
Thu 3/28 – DKDC, Memphis, TN
Fri 3/29 – The Sinkhole, St Louis, MO
Sat 3/30 – Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
Wed 4/3 – Mickey’s, Madison, WI %
Thu 4/4 – Mortimers, Minneapolis, MN %
Fri 4/5 – The Sydney, Omaha, NE %
Sat 4/6 – The Replay Lounge, Lawrence, KS %
Sun 4/7 – Minibar, Kansas City, MO %
Wed 4/10 – Rubber Gloves, Denton, TX
Thu 4/11 – 1810 Ojeman, Houston, TX
Sat 4/13 – The Starlighter, San Antonio, TX
Sun 4/14 – 13th Floor, Austin, TX
Wed 4/17 – Planet Marfa, Marfa, TX
Thu 4/18 – Rosewood, El Paso, TX
Fri 4/19 – Che’s, Tuscon, AZ
Sun 4/21 – Good Times at Davey Waynes, Los Angeles, CA
Thu 4/25 – The Knockout, San Francisco, CA
Sat 4/27 – Elephant In The Room, Healdsburg, CA
Thu 5/2 – Bolinas Hardware, Bolinas, CA
Fri 5/3 – Duffy’s, Chico, CA
# with Crush Diamond
% with Carellee