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Proud, loyal Iowans The Poison Control Center released their second full-length Sad Sour Future in May 2010 and spent the next five and a half months solidly touring behind the album. It was in this, the first leg of what was eventually to become a 200+ date tour that their third LP Stranger Ballet was born. The band found the kernels of inspiration in both the near-nightly high of playing shows and the sort of quiet isolation only to be found whilst driving open stretches of highway the next day.
Though born on the road, Stranger Ballet is no road record. It is not mere documentary. This album is the joyous, fist-pumping camaraderie of four guys against the world. It is also the realization that, indeed…they are four guys against the world…and the discovery of all that it entails. It is a commemoration of new friends. It is a deep longing for long-distance loves. It is a disdainful lament for a love long-gone. It is about dreams, sometimes big and sometimes bizarre. It is about confronting ugly reality with courage, conviction and a passionate, unfailing self-belief.
Stranger Ballet is a wide-angle snapshot from a band living each day and playing each note as though life depended upon it.
The Poison Control Center’s 200+ date odyssey for Sad Sour Future has covered 3.5 laps around North America and included a co-bill with Park The Van greats Brass Bed as well as a dream come true support slot for the legendary Pavement in Kansas City.
The band also played a number of great festivals including SXSW, CMJ, 80/35, Denver UMS, Mission Creek Music Festival, and Pygmalion. The Poison Control Center will continue touring throughout Summer 2011 in support of Stranger Ballet.
Stranger Ballet will be released on Afternoon Records on June 7, 2011. The band has recorded an EP of Covers (Guided By Voices, Thin Lizzy, The Kinks, and more) to be given away for free with any pre-order of the record before June 7th. The band will tour the whole U.S. starting June 3rd.
