KEN MODE are Recording their New Album with Steve Albini

by | Sep 29, 2014

The time has come! KEN mode will be heading into the studio this fall to begin recording their next album, a follow-up to 2013’s Entrench. They’ll be tracking with producer Steve Albini (Shellac), who you may already know produced Nirvana’s final studio album In Utero.

Titled Success, the band will hole themselves up at Empire Recording in Winnipeg, MB beginning November 23rd. Word on the street is that Eugene Robinson of Oxbow and members of Full of Hell will make guest appearances on the record.

Right now the band is currently overseas touring with Hark. They’ll do doing that through mid-October.

KEN mode tour dates w/ Hark (Europe):

Sep 30 Brussels, BEL @ Magasin4
Oct 01 Orleans, FRA @ L’Astrolabe
Oct 02 Nantes, FRA @ Ferrailleur
Oct 03 Barcelona, ESP @ Razzmatazz
Oct 06 Toulouse, FRA @ Saint des Seins
Oct 07 Montpellier, FRA @ Black Sheep
Oct 08 Milan, ITA @ LoFi
Oct 09 Innsbruck, AUT @ PMK
Oct 10 Chemnitz, GER @ AC17
Oct 12 Liege, BEL @ La Zona
Oct 14 London, UK @ Our Black Heart
Oct 17 Glasgow, UK @ Audio
Oct 19 Swansea, UK @ Garage

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