There are few projects these days making music as spiritually captivating and emotionally consuming as Korine. The Philadelphia-based dark electronic-pop duo have constantly weathered expectations raised mightily with each release; first with their genre-defining 2018 synth-pop masterpiece New Arrangements, and then further bolstered by 2020’s emphatic The Night We Raise.
This month, Korine have unveiled third studio album Tear (pronounced through a cry but open to your more aggressive interpretation), via unfuckwithable label Born Losers Records, and it holds steady as their most intricate and elaborate album to date. It represents a subtle sonic shift for the duo of Trey Frey and Morgy Ramone, exploring more linear musical territory over its 10 no-skip tracks without ever losing the heart-on-sleeve emotion and blurred hypnotism that makes the band so magnetic.
Korine are now set to take Tear out to the masses with a 33-date spring North American tour. It gets started May 11 in Baltimore and wraps June 17 in Brooklyn, with a rare double shot of Massachusetts goodness towards the tail end — a June 14 live show at The Middle East in Cambridge, followed by a DJ set at the Central Square venue the next night. There’s also a June 16 show at Dusk in Providence, a city that always comes correct and get properly animated whenever Korine pay a visit.
Get into Tear below, allow the slow-burn record to wash over your properly through repeated listens, and scan through all the Korine live dates after the Spotify jump.
Korine 2023 North American Tour:
May 11: Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
May 12: Raleigh, NC – The Pour House
May 13: Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor
May 14: Nashville, TN – Cobra
May 15: Atlanta, GA – Boggs
May 16: Orlando, FL – The Conduit
May 17: Tampa, FL – Crowbar
May 19: Houston, TX – Black Magic
May 20: Austin, TX – The Lost Well
May 21: Dallas, TX – Club Dada
May 23: El Paso, TX – The Reagan
May 24: Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
May 25: San Diego, CA – Whistle Stop
May 26: Los Angeles, CA – Resident
May 27: San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
May 28: Sacramento, CA – Lowbrau
May 29: Eugene, OR – John Henry’s
May 31: Seattle, WA – Substation
June 1: Portland, OR – Holocene
June 2: Boise, ID – Neurolux
June 3: Salt Lake City, UT – Bar International
June 4: Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
June 6: Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar
June 7: Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry
June 8: Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
June 9: Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
June 10: Columbus, OH – Spacebar
June 12: Toronto, ON – The Garrison
June 13: Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB
June 14: Cambridge, MA – Middle East
June 15: Cambridge, MA – Middle East (DJ set)
June 16: Providence, RI – Dusk
June 17: Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
