Pattern is Movement September 11, 2008

Show details:

Thursday Septmeber 11
Montreal, QC
Le Divan Orange
7:30pm / 18+

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Here they come: Pattern Is Movement Fall tour and dates with Shudder to Think!

Continuing critical acclaim, backed up by a rapidly-expanding and pleasingly-obsessive fan base, has paved the way for Pattern Is Movement to return to the road this September and October. The new vinyl LP version of their landmark album All Together will be in tow as they visit Canada and take on the the Heartland and the West --- all in time to meet up with Shudder to Think, who personally invited the Philadelphia duo to open their highly-anticipated reunion shows.

Following their first three records and the transition from five-to-four-to-three-to-two members, Pattern Is Movement turned themselves inside out and made the record that started this frenzy: All Together. Rising out of Andrew Thiboldeaux's and Chris Ward's left-behind evangelical childhoods (see Jesus Camp), best friendship (kindled as kids listening to The Chronic), and life in Philadelphia, All Together continues the mysterious narrative of the band, both documenting and foretelling the pounding energy of their near-legendary live show: Chris and Andrew side-by-side, hammering drums and keys (among other things), sweat flying, voices hollering. This is what resides in the ten exquisitely constructed tracks of All Together, the kind of stuff that compelled Stereogum to declare that "Pattern Is Movement deserve your worship."

"The show was unlike anything I’ve seen before—a strange sort of Baroque carnival featuring the vaudeville vocals and piping organ of frontman Andrew Thiboldeaux and enough fills and polyrhythms from drummer Chris Ward to knock down a skyscraper.

They had the audience hooked with songs like 'Trolley Friend' and 'Sound of Your Voice' and then, when Thiboldeaux coaxed the audience into a handclap that slowly built into a cover of Radiohead’s 'Everything in its Right Place,' the crowd went berserk. By the end of the show, the natives had turned on to PIM in a way I’d never seen—they created a human barricade to try to keep Ward and Thiboldeaux from leaving the stage."

- JASON BOW, SAN DIEGO CITY BEAT (SPRING 2008)

Pattern Is Movement is breaking music apart and putting it back together again - in their image. Don't miss the chance to see exactly what that sounds like - and looks like - this Fall.
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Pattern Is Movement Fall 2008 Tour
+ select dates with Shudder to Think

09/10/08 – Quebec City, QC @ Laval University – w/ We Are Wolves & Julie Dorion
09/11/08 – Montreal, QC @ Le Divan Orange
09/12/08 – Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo
09/13/08 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
09/14/08 – Oberlin, OH@ Oberlin College/Dionysis Club
09/15/08 – Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar
09/16/08 – Grand Rapids, MI @ DAAC
09/17/08 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
09/18/08 – St. Louis, MO @ Billiken Club – w/ PWRFL Power
09/19/08 – Urbana, IL @ Pygmalion Festival – w/ Black Mountain, Titus Andronicus, etc.
09/21/08 – Lincoln, NE @ Box Awesome
09/22/08 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
09/23/08 – Boulder, CO @ University of Colorado/Club 156
09/24/08 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
09/26/08 – Seattle, WA @ Healthy Times Fun Club
09/27/08 – Portland, OR @ Towne Lounge
09/28/08 – San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern – w/ Okay
09/29/08 – Sacramento, CA @ Club Pow! @ The Press Club
09/30/08 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah – w/ The Cave Singers
10/01/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
10/03/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts – w/ Shudder to Think
10/04/08 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall – w/ Shudder to Think
10/07/08 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk – w/ Balmorhea
10/08/08 – Dallas, TX @ House on Swiss
10/09/08 – Atlanta, GA @ Georgia Tech
10/11/08 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club – w/ Shudder to Think
10/14/08 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 – w/ Delta Spirit
10/15/08 – Harrisonburg, VA @ Clementine

LISTEN.

"Right Away" from Pattern is Movement's 2008 album "All Together":


"Bird" from Pattern is Movement's 2008 album "All Together":


CHATTER.

"Pattern Is Movement deserve your worship." - STEREOGUM

"It takes special musicians to make a sound like this work, but three LPs into their career, Thiboldeaux and Ward seem to have it figured out, creating an accessible album that nonetheless sounds unlike anything any other band is doing." [7.9] - PITCHFORK

Though the individual parts of All Together—the distinctive vocals, repetitive refrains, keyboard bleeps and jabs, laced with luscious strings and all held together by deconstructive beats—seem primed for a challenging listen, the end result is nothing of the sort....Each song is like a microcosmic journey, every one colourful and distinct..." [8/10] - POPMATTERS

"All Together is an early high mark to measure creativity against in 2008." - EXCLAIM

The fact that the opening "Bird" starts off sounding like a sample from some dreamscape 60s kids show but is in fact a full original is a wonderful treat; one gets the sense that the two man band actually wants to keep people guessing from the start. Throughout All Together that feeling of a soundtrack to a unsettled but still welcoming Technicolor world continues, part Joe Meek concept album and part funhouse ride. - ALL MUSIC

"Listening to Philadelphia duo Pattern is Movement for the first time can perhaps best be described as taking a ride through Disney's 'It's a Small World After All', with each country representing a different period of music. It's a lot to take in, as sounds of the past are layered upon each other to create modern arrangements unlike anything you've heard before, while somehow remaining distantly familiar." - GOTHAMIST

"...a record that breathes so deeply and vividly, you scarcely miss the guitars. Ward’s drums bristle and explode under Thiboldeaux’s daisy chains of melodies...There are also bouts of serious orchestration...a dizzying cloud of strings and other lush additions." - PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY

WATCH.

"Sound of Your Voice" video feature on Stereogum (a couple weeks ago):
http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-pattern-is-movement-live-video-sound-of-your-v_011323.html

Daytrotter session (from this Summer):
http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1339/pattern-is-movement

Take-Away Show:
http://crackle.com/c/Take_Away_Shows/Pattern_is_Movement_Right_Away/2320754#ml=o%3d12%26fpl%3d297691%26fx%3d

Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg @ the After The Jump Festival:
http://www.baeblemusic.com/Concerts/MusicHallofWilliamsburg/PatternisMovement.aspx

Covering "Everything in its Right Place" by Radiohead:


Funny Pattern is Movement interview at SXSW on VH1's Best Week Ever:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/03/20/best-night-ever-sxsw-at-the-stereogum-party-edition/

STARE LONGINGLY.

Link to image of Pattern is Movement:
http://www.home-tapes.com/pt004/PatternIsMovement.jpg

Link to the cover of their 2008 album "All Together" on Hometapes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2c9cd22be764dffedd8b33b5aa27078d

ONE SHEET AND BIO.

Get a PDF here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2c9cd22be764dffedd8b33b5aa27078d

MYSPACE.

http://www.myspace.com/patternismovement

SOME NOTABLE PRESS LINKS.

Quit Your Day Job feature on Stereogum:
http://stereogum.com/archives/quit-your-day-job/quit-your-day-job-pattern-is-movement_008502.html

Pitchfork live review of Pattern is Movement at SXSW:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49268-sxsw-wednesday-matt-lemay

Artist of the Day on SPIN.com:
http://www.spin.com/articles/pattern-movement

Pattern is Movement on Stereogum's "Enjoyed: A Tribute to Bjork's Post":
http://www.stereogum.com/bjork/
http://stereogum.com/bjork/track/5-pattern-is-movement-enjoy.html

Review of debut album "The (Im)possibility of Longing" on Pitchfork:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21130-pattern-is-movement-the-impossibility-of-longing

WTF IS HOMETAPES? a.k.a. Pattern Is Movement's label / fan club

Hometapes was founded by Arkansas natives Adam Heathcott and Sara Padgett, a couple/creative team since their long lost teenage years. After stays in Savannah, Miami, and Boulder, Hometapes now calls Portland, Oregon, home. What began as a modest CDr project seven years ago, following Adam and Sara's touring years in their own late hardcore band To Dream of Autumn, now quietly yet proudly holds high a catalog of nearly 25 releases. Each project bears the work of both a musical and visual artist - a combination that is earning Hometapes an increasing amount of praise from press and music fans alike. Hometapes has recently released critically acclaimed albums by Danish art-rock group Slaraffenland (whose album "Private Cinema" features custom packaging by world renowned visual artists Friends With You), Brooklyn's Stars Like Fleas, Brad Laner (of Medicine and Electric Company fame; his "Neighbor Singing" featured art by Josh Keyes), and Pattern is Movement. Hometapes says: "It began out of love for the experience of music, from that moment you hear a song in a friend's car or see a band play in front of you for the first time, to that next moment when you buy a record and rush to your turntable or CD player, holding the sleeve or case and listening and seeing and feeling it in every way. There's magic there, in the paper, in the plastic, in the sound, and in the memory. We were raised on it. We want nothing more than to be the reason that 'experience' lives on and to be instrumental in its evolution."

Learn more about Hometapes:
http://home-tapes.com

An informative PDF on Hometapes and its slew of releases:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2c9cd22be764dffedd8b33b5aa27078d