by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Last year saw the formation of Austin’s Porcelain, a new post-hardcore band comprised of more than a few familiar faces. The quartet of Ryan Fitzgibbon (US Weekly), Eli Deitz (Dregs, Votive), Steve Pike (Exhalants, CSSS), and Jordan Emmert (Super Thief, Pleasure Venom) bring a great deal of experience together from different pockets of the city’s noise rock and punk scene, the pieces coming together to create something better than the sum of it’s parts. With plenty of live shows on the books, the band released (demo) back in September, capturing the band at their earliest stage. They’ve been tearing it up around Austin ever since, quickly emerging as a must-see band.
They’re bringing that show out on the road this summer (all dates below), with a fresh batch of dates that’ll take Porcelain through the Midwest. In celebration of their upcoming run, the band have re-recorded one of their demos, the agitated and artistic “C.O.A.” A violent burst of tremendously crafted post-hardcore, Porcelain seem to draw from the well of Unwound, pairing intelligent structures with muscular dissonance, weaving the song back and forth between chaos and ease. Recorded with Chico Jones and mastered by Greg Obis, the new studio version fine tunes the original, bringing a clarity to each tense progression, highlighting the song’s harmonies amid wandering bass, shifting tempos, and the kind of impeccably dense distortion often reserved for veteran bands like Drive Like Jehu.
Tour Dates:
6/21 - Tulsa, OK @ The Whittier Bar
6/22 - Kansas City, MO @ Farewell
6/24 - Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Arts Fest
6/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Mortimers Bar
6/25 - Milwaukee, WI @ Promises
6/26 - Omaha, NB @ The Sydney
6/27 - Denver, CO @ The Hi-Dive
6/28 - Wichita, KS @ The Annex
6/29 - Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
6/30 - Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas