TORCHE: ON LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS THIS WEDNESDAY LATE NIGHT TV

TORCHE ON LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS THIS WEDNESDAY

LATE NIGHT TV DEBUT FOLLOWS RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM, ADMISSION

 
 
 
 

MIAMI, Aug. 12, 2019 – Torche make their late night television debut this Wednesday, Aug. 14, performing “Admission” on Late Night with Seth Meyers (12:35 am eastern/11:35 pm central).

The appearance follows the July release of the band’s fifth album, Admission, via Relapse Records. The 11-song album has been met with widespread critical acclaim, Stereogumproclaimed “Admission, like every Torche album before it, kicks all kinds of ass,” Billboardremarked that, “Torche once again constructs layers of guitar riffs that are somehow as airy as they are dense” while Brooklyn Vegan said “Torche do everything on this album with exactly the kind of passion, power and precision you’d expect from a well-oiled machine like this one.”

Torche tour dates:

September 3 Tallahassee, FL The Wilbury

September 4 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge

September 5 Little Rock, AR Rev Room

September 6 Oklahoma City, OK 89th Street

September 7 Albuquerque, NM Sister

September 8 Phoenix, AZ 191 Toole

September 10 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom

September 11 Oakland, CA Starline Social Club

September 12 Sacramento, CA Harlows

September 13 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios

September 14 Vancouver, BC Venue

September 15 Seattle, WA Highline

September 16 Boise, ID The Olympic

September 17 Salt Lake City, UT Diabolical Records

September 18 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge

September 20 Louisville, KY Zanzabar

September 21 Asheville, NC Heavy Mountain

November 1-3 Gainesville, FL The Fest

November 9 Austin, TX Levitation

Admission is available via the Relapse Records webstore (https://store.relapse.com/b/torche) and all digital service providers. The band has released a video for “Admission”: https://youtu.be/9dc0n5UkMOI. Admission’s cover art was created by Richard Vergez, a Cuban-American visual artist, whose work has been shown at No Romance Galleries (TriBeCa), Urban Arts Society (Chicago) and Kids of Dada (London).

Torche have released five albums: Torche, (2005), Meanderthal (2008), Harmonicraft (2012), Restarter (2015) and Admission (2019). The Miami-born band are revered for their “gloriously fuzzy, sludgy, hard-hitting” music (Entertainment Weekly), earning praise from a wide range of outlets including Pitchfork (“sludgy ferocity”), Rolling Stone (“sunny sludge-pop”), Spin (“as toe-tapping as it is head-banging”), Stereogum (“they write huge and triumphant hooks”) and the Washington Post (“otherworldly”). Torche is Steve Brooks (guitar/vocals), Eric Hernandez (bass), Jon Nuñez (guitar) and Rick Smith (drums).

 
 

Photo credit: Dan Almasy