Author & Punisher announces new album, Nocturnal Birding

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Author & Punisher has announced a new album. On Oct. 3, Tristan Shone will release Nocturnal Birding via Relapse. Today he’s shared the first single, “Titanis,” featuring Kuntari, which you can check out below.

“When I sat down to start writing this album, I knew I wanted to make songs based on birdsong,” Tristan Shone said in a statement. “The actual first guitar riff is one of the meadowlark’s songs. When you listen to ‘Rook,’ that melody is the rook’s sound. That track is us mimicking one of the rooks’ many songs. I wrote all my tracks around the rhythms and melodies of birds I researched or heard in the wild.”

Shone also said that the album is “dedicated to those who have lost their lives travelling across the border from Mexico to the USA through a cruel policy of prevention by deterrence.”

Nocturnal Birding follows 2022’s Krüller.

Author & Punisher Nocturnal Birding tracklist:

1. Meadowlark
2. Titanis (ft. Kuntari)
3. Mute Swan (ft. Megan Oztrosits of Couch Slut)
4. Black Storm Petrel (ft. Fange)
5. Titmouse
6. Titmice
7. Rook
8. Thrush

Author & Punisher tour dates:

Oct 18 – Lisboa, PT @ Music Station ^
Oct 20 – Madrid, SP @ Sala Mon ^
Oct 21 – Barcelona, SP @ Sala Wolf
Oct 22 – Marseille, FR @ Le Molotov
Oct 23 – Montpellier, FR @ In Tenebris Lux
Oct 24 – Nilvange, FR @ Gueulard Plus **
Oct 27 – Maastricht, NL @ Samhain Fest
Oct 26 – Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz *
Oct 27 – Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall *
Oct 28 – Oslo, NO @ Goldie *
Oct 29 – Goteborg, SW @ Monument *
Oct 30 – Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade *
Oct 31 – Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain *
Nov 1 – Gdansk, PL @ Drizzly Grizzly *
Nov 2 – Warsaw, PL @ Voodoo *
Nov 3 – Poznan, PL @ 2Progi *
Nov 4 – Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz *
Nov 5 – Frankfurt, DE @ Darmstadt *
Nov 6 – Paris, FR @ Backstage *
Nov 7 – Bruxelles, BE @ Magasin 4 *
Nov 8 – Lille, FR @ La Bulle *
Nov 9 – Manchester, UK @ Damnation Festival