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Jan 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern Photography by Micah E Wood

Baltimore-based post-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice) have announced a new album, Nightclub Daydreaming, and shared its first two singles, “This Thirst” and “Berliner,” the former via a Gillian Waldo-directed video. Nightclub Daydreaming is due out March 25 via Carpark. Check out “This Thirst” and “Berliner” below, followed by the album’s cover art, as well as the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Nightclub Daydreaming is the band’s fourth album and the follow-up to 2018’s Dan Deacon-produced Riddles, which was their first album for Carpark. Schrader and Rice began writing the album in 2019 and started playing some of the songs live in February 2020 on tour with Deacon, where they were joined by drummer Kevin O’Meara before COVID-19 stopped all touring. Alas those would be their last shows with O’Meara, who died in October 2020. The album transformed from the upbeat disco record they initially intended it to be to something darker (and deeper), with O’Meara’s death weighing on them during its creation. Nightclub Daydreaming was recorded and mixed with Craig Bowen at Tempo House in Baltimore over a two-week period.

Schrader had this to say about the album in a press release: “The fun thing about this record is that it’s all at once informed by our more recent lush productions with Dan Deacon, yet spartan and boiled-down, exuding a coldness wrapped in ecstasy, following our time honored trend of never giving people what they expect, but hopefully what they want.”

Nightclub Daydreaming Tracklist:

1. Pony in the Night
2. This Thirst
3. Eutaw Strut
4. European Moons
5. Hamburg
6. Black Pearl
7. Echo Base
8. Skedaddle
9. Berliner
10. Kensignton Gore

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Tour Dates:

3/9/22 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel
3/10/22 - Raleigh, NC @ Ruby’s
3/11/22 Atlanta, GA @ Earl’s
3/12/22 Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
3/14/22 - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum
3/15/22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/16/22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/17/22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/18/22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/19/22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/22/22 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
3/23/22 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
3/25/22 - Boise ID @ Treefort Fest
3/29/22 - Portland, OR @ Holocene
4/1/22 - Seattle, WA @ Freakout Fest The Crocodile
4/3/22 San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
4/4/22 - Sacramento, CA @ Starlet Room
4/6/22 - Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer supporting Sean Nicholas Savage
4/7/22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
4/9/22 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
4/10/22 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
4/13/22 - OKC @ Opolis
4/14/22 - St. Louis @ The Sinkhole
4/16/22 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
4/18/22 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
4/20/22 - Columbus, OH @ Spacebar
4/21/22 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
4/22/22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Dave Kiss Presents / Kung Fu Necktie
4/23/22 - Brooklyn, NY @ AdHoc / Union Pool
4/30/22 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (RECORD RELEASE PARTY)

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