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Colour Revolt is staging a coup.

The much-anticipated first full-length album from the Oxford, Miss. wailers of Colour Revolt is set to officially overthrow your musical government on April 1. Keeping it local so as to stay under the radar and take authority-types by surprise, the band recorded Plunder, Beg, and Curse at Sweet Tea Recording Studio with producer Clay Jones (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello), and will release it on Fat Possum Records. According to the band's bio, Oxford, the site of all this underground action, is "a city famous for its many dignified dead." Where better to start a revolution?

The band turned quite a few heads in 2006 (including ours) with its only record to date, a self-titled EP which was released on both the Esperanza Plantation and Tiny Evil (Interscope) imprints.

Because every good revolt takes planning, the Mississippians have released a track list for the upcoming record and a free download of the first song, "Naked and Red," through Fat Possum.

After touring with the likes of Menomena, Manchester Orchestra, Black Lips, Brand New, Dinosaur Jr., Okkervil River and Explosions In The Sky, the band is stopping by SXSW before heading back on the road. Colour Revolt seems, as ever, ready for battle. "To be bludgeoned to death by sound, by music, says Colour Revolt. We have you and are not afraid."

Dates:

January
18 - Hattiesburg, Miss. @ Thirsty Hippo
19 - Cleveland, Miss. @ House Party
31 - Oxford, Miss. @ Proud Larrys

February
1 - Athens, Ga. @ 40 Watt
2 - Columbia, S.C. @ New Brookland Tavern

March
13 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW
14 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW

April
5 - Jackson, Miss. @ Smith-Wills

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