The Dead Tongues’ 2xLP release of ‘Body of Light’ and ‘I Am A Cloud’ Out Now
August 9, 2024 - By Psychic Hotline
Across the last 15 years, Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues has emerged as one of modern folk’s most distinct voices. As idiosyncratic and spectral as the songs have sometimes been, Gustafson has always tied his visions and verses to the kinds of hooks you tuck away like talismans, pulled out in case of emergency. Dust, Unsung Passage, Desert: The Dead Tongues’ albums remain some of the more compelling and curious works in their field on this side of a century. The latest edition to The Dead Tongues’ catalog, the song-centric and magnetic Body of Light and the discursive and wonderfully elliptical I Am a Cloud, is 16 complete tunes split across interweaving and disparate albums.
Order The 2xLP Release Of Body of Light / I Am A Cloud Here
“The Dead Tongues’ albums remain some of the more compelling and curious works in their field.”
-Americana UK
“As the lead single suggests, the result is something intuitive and ever-shifting, mapped along the unseen currents of both our own interiors and the natural world.”
-Various Small Flames
“[an] eldritch ballad”
-Stereogum on “Body of Light”
TOUR DATES
9.17.24 – Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
9.18.24 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café
9.19.24 – Knoxville, TN @ Barley’s
9.24.24 – Washington, DC @ DC9
9.25.24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy
9.26.24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
9.28.24 – Boston, MA @ Red Room at Cafe 939
9.29.24 – Northampton, MA @ The Parlor Room
10.01.24 – Toronto, CA @ The Drake
10.02.24 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
10.04.24 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
10.05.24 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Back Room
10.08.24 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
10.09.24 – Minneapolis, MI @ 7th St Entry
10.10.24 – Eau Claire, WI @ The Pablo Center
10.11.24 – Madison, WI @ Bur Oak
10.12.24 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
10.17.24 – Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall
10.18.24 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
10.19.24 – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy
