The Dear Hunter On Tour with Thursday, Thrice
Band Heads Out in Support of Latest Album, Act III: Life and Death
Sep 16, 2009
The Dear Hunter's frontman Casey Crescenzo appeared via the internet this week to talk about the band's plans to tour this Fall. The three minute video appears on the band's Myspace page, as well as Facebook and Youtube. In it, Crescenzo lays out the band's tour plans which will include dates beginning October 5h in Seattle with The Fall of Troy and Thursday. That stint will last through the month before The Dear Hunter begins several weeks of headlining shows (Oct 25th in Vienna, Va is the first gig) with the band Annuals.
Dance partners will shift yet again when The Dear Hunter will join Thrice on November 15th in Pittsburgh. Thrice is currently on tour in support of their seventh studio album, Beggars (Vagrant Records). Crescenzo and company will tour with Thrice until December 4th when their stint ends in San Diego. The whirlwind pace is in the spirit of striking while the barrel is at its hottest and for The Dear Hunter, with the release of Act III: Life and Death, their seems to be no greater temperature than the here and now.
Reactions to Act III: Life and Death
Life and Death has inspired varying opinions to its sweeping melodies and period epic style arraignments. Anthony Green of Circa Survive spoke to the media about his reactions to The Dear Hunter's latest offering. "When I first heard Act III...I had the feeling of being proud of my friend, being proud to hear him outdoing himself once again...it was incredibly inspiring. One moment you're drunk at a dangerous gypsy wedding ('The Poison Woman'), the next you're hearing some Freddie Mercury and Janis Joplin lovechild, making you rock and bob your head incessantly."
Even with all the Dear Hunter's success and three albums into their career, there appears to be some confusion, still, between The Dear Hunter and The Receiving End of Sirens, a band now broken up, which housed two current Dear Hunter members Casey and Nate Patterson (bass). Interpunk.com, in their description of Act III (on sale at the website), states that the band's first record is Between the Heart and the Synapse, which is in reality TREOS's first record. This has to be a continual frustration and one that would make any fan grab the nearest torch and/or pitchfork.
The Dear Hunter will continue to tour into the new year having built their momentum and street cred' supporting and playing with such acts as Coheed and Cambria, Mewithoutyou, and Scary Kids Scaring Kids. One show to check out will be a somewhat Boston homecoming on November 1st where the band will headline the Paradise Rock Club.
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