Today we listen to Plaid‘s new AA side single, “Bet”/”Nat”. The UK duo will kick off their first North American tour in three years tonight at the U Street Music Hall in Washington DC, and in anticipation of the upcoming live dates Andy Turner and Ed Handley have made the two tracks available for FREE download–in exchange for an email address.
Picking up where they left off with their 2016 LP The Digging Remedy, out now on Warp, Turner and Handley deliver two tracks of tightly wound and gleaming electronics. “Bet” follows a terse melodic line as it percolates thru bubbling low-end and shuffling percussive elements, while “Nat” heads out for even deeper and chillier waters on the back of darkly resonating bass lines.
You can catch Plaid live this winter. Check out a full list of the duo’s upcoming dates below…
1.18 – U Street Music Hall – DC
1.19 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
1.20 – Fairmount Theater – Montreal, QC
1.22 – Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA
1.25 – Velvet Underground – Toronto, ON
1.26 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
1.27 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
1.28 – Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO
1.31 – Teragram Ballroom – LA, CA
2.2 – Holoscene – Portland, OR
2.3 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
2.4 – Empire Garage – Austin, TX
