STREAM: Beaus$Eros LP via AOL Music
STREAM: "Superhand's Mantra (F**k Us All) feat. Aesop Rock" via Soundcloud / via Self-Titled
WATCH: "Kiss Me Back To Life" video / via Pitchfork
DOWNLOAD: "No Blacks No Jews No Asians" mp3 / via FADER

Beaus$Eros, the seventh full-length Busdriver, is out this week in North America on Fake Four Inc on CD & LP, with a digital release to follow next week.  The album is streaming in it's entirety via AOL Music this week, and ALARM recently sat down with him as well for an in-depth Q&A on the new record.  Busdriver will be hitting the road this Spring pretty agressively too, with an additional March tour just announced with Astronautalis, along with upcoming February shows with the likes of Buck 65, The Coup, Immortal Technique, and more. Killer Mike has also been added to the upcoming Los Angeles record release show on February 21st at the Echoplex as well. See below for the complete list of dates. The pre-order package is still available as well, including the cd or double vinyl edition of the album along with Shirt, a book of original poetry by Busdriver, as well as a limited edition 7" that features "Superhand's Mantra (F**k Us All)," his collaboration with Aesop Rock.

On the new record, Busdriver forgoes the lightening-speed rhyming that defined his style in favor of a diverse, off-kilter brand of pop and post-hip-hop. Keeping things technically challenging on the new record, Busdriver has made his most personal and avant-garde work yet with Beaus$Eros. Focusing on a devastating break-up and personal failure, the album is buttered in stirring melodies and complex vocals and are on full display with "Bon Bon Fire," as well as in the ultra-surreal video for  "Kiss Me Back To Life,".  In step with Busdriver's recent work with forward-thinking producers Flying Lotus, Modeselektor, Nosaj Thing and others, the production on Beaus$Eros takes root in beat music, lush IDM, and sythpop.
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Busdriver - Upcoming Tour Dates
Feb 16 – Portland – The Wonder Ballroom  w/ Buck 65 and The Coup
Feb 17 – Seattle – Tractor Tavern w/ Buck 65
Feb 18 – Bend, OR – Winterfest w/ Buck 65 and The Coup
Feb 19 – SF, CA – Slims w/ Buck 65
Feb 21 -  LA, CA - Echoplex w/ Killer Mike, Nocando & Open Mike Eagle
March 1 – SD, CA – The Soda Bar w/ Nocando & Open Mic Eagle
March 2 – OC, CA – The Constellation Room w/ Immortal Tech
March 3 – SB, CA – Casa De Raza w/ Immortal Tech
March 4 – Las Vegas, NV – The Beauty Bar
March 5 – SLC, UT – Urban Lounge
March 7 – Co Springs, CO – The Black Sheet
March 9 – Milwaukee, WI – The Cactus Café  w/ Astronautalis
March 10 – Detroit, MI – The Hard Rock w/ Astronautalis
March 11 – Chicago, IL – Schubas w/ Astronautalis
March 12 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room w/ Astronautalis
March 14 -  Austin, TX - SXSW @ 512 Rooftop
March 19 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves w/ Astronautalis
March 20 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves w/ Astronautalis
March 21 – OK City, OK – The Blue Note w/ Astronautalis
March 22 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird w/ Astronautalis
March 23 – KC, MO – The Riot Room - w/ Mac Lethal & Astronautalis

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Click Here for The Making of Beaus$Eros
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More Busdriver Beaus$Eros Info:
Inarguably one of the premiere risk takers in modern indie rap, Busdriver has been a fixture in the scene for ten years, releasing compelling left-field rap albums on taste-maker labels like Mush, Big Dada, Alphapup, Polyvinyl and Anti-. Performing and collaborating regularly with acts likes The Roots, CocoRosie, Aesop Rock, The Glitch Mob, Deerhoof, the beatmakers of Low End Theory and more, his place in the network of left-leaning musicians is as unique as it’s ever been.

Up-and-coming Belgian production wiz Loden doctors every moment on Beaus$Eros as the album’s only producer. Without ever physically meeting or speaking live, the two manage an electric synergy that usually comes from years of working together. Loden’s Hindenburg-sized beats push Busdriver’s croons and spat thoughts into head-turning territory. Think Bjork’s Post filtered through the sensibility of Outkast’s The Love Below with outsider artist goals hidden in every measure. Beaus$Eros is the colorful sum of his wildly adaptive voice in music and proof that he still reigns over entire undiscovered worlds to which his loyal following is now invited.
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Busdriver - Beaus$Eros
Out Today on CD & LP, 2/21/12 digitally on Fake Four Inc.
Tracklist:
Utilitarian Uses of Love
Bon Bon Fire
Kiss Me Back to Life
You Ain't OG
No Blacks No Jews No Asians
Picking Band Names
Beaus & Eros
Feelings
Ass to Mouth
Electric Blue (feat. Sierra Cassidy of CocoRosie, Mike Ladd & Joelle Phuong Minh Le)
Here's To Us
Colour Wheel
Swandive Into a Drinking Glass
Scattered Ashes

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