Sky Eats Airplane: Announce Summer Co-Headliner

Fort Worth, TX natives, Sky Eats Airplane, and Equal Vision Records have set a July 22, 2008 release date for their self-titled full length album. The 11-track set was recorded at the beginning of the year with producer, Brian McTernan (Circa Survive, Hot Water Music) at his studio in Baltimore.

“Brian helped us out with a lot of great vocal ideas and definitely opened up new pathways we can take,” says guitarist, Lee Duck, of the experience. “We are still a very new band - our first show as a full band was March 2007. It was amazing to work with someone who could help us find our sound without trying to make us someone we weren't.”

The band also had some assistance in designing artwork for the self-titled release: Evan Leake of Palebird Studios (The Academy Is Almost Here, Classic Case Losing At Life). “He specializes in incorporating real pictures with complex artwork,” explains Duck on the decision to have Leake design the artwork for the forthcoming full-length. “We were having a hard time thinking of what album art would fit for an album self titled as ''Sky Eats Airplane''. And of course, the obvious imagery comes to mind of a cheesy sky eating an airplane, or something that makes this album seem more of a square children’s book than an actual record,” Duck adds. “We have always been talking about a concept idea for our album with essentially something organic evolving into something mechanical, but we didn't realize how much that fits for this release.”

The band will on the road in the month surrounding the album release. As previously announced, the band will join the final three weeks of the 2008 Vans Warped Tour and has now also added a co-headliner to their schedule with A Skylit Drive (Tragic Hero) kicking off June 26 in Las Vegas, NC. The tour will keep the band on the road through the end of July and features Breathe Carolina (Rise) and Memphis May Fire (Trustkill) for support.

This past March marked the one year anniversary of the band as a five-piece. In discussing the band’s progression over the past year Duck states, “Music wise, we were a band who came from heavily mechanical roots, and to come from that to now, it is almost as if something born one thing has turned into a totally different animal. Most bands will say they have matured, but we have been born.”

Track List:

01. Introduction
02. Long Walks on Short Bridges
03. Transparent
04. Numbers
05. World Between Us
06. Photographic Memory
07. In Retrospect
08. The Artificial
09. Disconnected
10. Machines
11. Alias

Tour dates are below:

06/26 - Las Vegas, NV - Jillian's / Neonopolis
06/28 - St. George, UT - Electric Theater
06/29 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Ritz
06/30 - Grand Junction, CO - VFW Hall
07/01 - Colorado Springs, CO - Black Sheep
07/02 - Wichita, KS - Eagles Lodge
07/03 - Tulsa, OK - The Crush Lounge
07/05 - Austin, TX - Emo's
07/06 - McAllen, TX - South Texas College
07/08 - Mobile, AL - The Sound Room
07/09 - Pensacola, FL - American Legion Post 33
07/10 - Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
07/11 - Douglasville, GA - The Venue 7
07/12 - Wilmington, NC - Soapbox Laundrolounge
07/13 - Raleigh, NC - Brewery
07/15 - South Hackensack, NJ - School of Rock
07/16 - Danbury, CT - Bill Baloney's
07/17 - Buffalo, NY - Xtreme Wheelz
07/18 - Syracuse, NY - Lost Horizon
07/19 - Pontiac, MI - Eagle Theater @ The Crofoot Ballroom
07/20 - Highland, IN - Bean Counters
07/22 - Evansville, IN - Boney Junes
07/23 - Joplin, MO - Foundry Music Theatre
07/27 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion at Montage MTN
07/28 - Englishtown, NJ - Old Bridge Township Raceway Park
07/29 - Burgettstown, PA - Post Gazette Pavilion
07/30 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
07/31 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
08/01 - Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater
08/02 - Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
08/03 - Shakopee, MN - Canterbury Park
08/05 - Saskatoon, SK - Saskatoon Credit Union Centre
08/06 - Calgary, AB - Race City Speedway
08/08 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheatre
08/09 - George, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre
08/10 - St. Helens, OR - Columbia Meadows
08/13 - Fresno, CA - Savemart Center
08/14 - Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
08/15 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
08/16 - Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre Lot
08/17 - Carson, CA - Home Depot Center

Comments

[Murderintheink]

Hell yeah!!Those dudes are sweet!First!