Awesomely noisy Lexington, KY rockers Hair Police are planning a North American tour as well as a new album release on the heels of a short hiatus, according to their official website. The group, whose roughly five-releases-per-year agenda (including LPs, singles, splits, CD-Rs, and more) slowed in the last 18 months, is bouncing back from this relative hiatus with a new LP entitled Certainty of Swarms on No Fun Productions. Out August 11, the new LP features what the band calls "a heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured" as well as "a blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk." Hmm, sounds kinda like the "deluges of terror tones and an onslaught of untamed musical evil" hailed by the 5-star TMT review of the band’s 2005 LP Constantly Terrified.

Leading up to the album release, Hair Police have scheduled dates across North America, starting today at Chicago’s Empty Bottle. Their first U.S. outing in years, the two-week jaunt follows a canceled tour earlier this year (TMT News).

Certainty of Swarms tracklist:

1. Strict 2. Intrinsic to the Execution 3. Paralysis Simulacrum 4. Mangled Earth 5. On a Hinge 6. Freezing Alone

Hair Police tour:

07.25.08 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle* 07.26.08 - Cincinatti, OH - Art Damage Lodge^ 07.27.08 - Columbus, OH - Skylab % 07.28.08 - Cleveland, OH - Tusco Embassy # 07.29.08 - Pittsburgh, PA - Belvedere’s & 07.30.08 - Rochester, NY - Bug Jar ! 07.31.08 - Albany, NY - UAG Gallery $ 08.01.08 - Florence, MA - Florence American Legion Hall < 08.02.08 - New York, NY - Rehab > 08.03.08 - New Haven, CT - BAR { 08.04.08 - Providence, RI - TBA 08.05.08 - Boston, MA - Middle East } 08.06.08 - Montreal, QC - Zoobizarre 08.07.08 - Toronto, ON - Savage Garden ; 08.08.08 - Ypsilanti, MI - Pleasure Dome |

* Hive Mind, Oakeater, Bruce Lamont, Bloodyminded
^ Wretched Worst, Wasteland Jazz Unit
% Mike Shiflet, Envenomist, Lambsbread, Vodka Soap
# Aaron Dilloway, Emeralds, Tusco Terror
& Ryan Jewell, Cock Scene Investigator
! Pengo
$ Rise Set Twilight, Century Plants
< Sunburned, Thurson Moore/Kate Village duo, Paul Flaherty/Jeff Hartford Duo
> Carlos Giffoni, Sixes, FFH
Sickness
Heathen Shame (oh c’mon, Hair Police, I am seriously running out of symbols here)
; Disgues, Bottom Feeder, Flatline Construct
| Awkward Squad, Uneven Universe, Regression (Nate Young solo)

[Photo: Bill T Miller]