Following the pretty but relatively pared down electro-acoustic tunes of their debut The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, seven-member BTW Le Loup are taking their album title and sounds in different directions: a pithier LP name (Family), and according to the press release trumpeting its arrival, a slightly expanded, more band-oriented sound. Lead MP3 “Beach Town” certainly sounds more organic, full with a humid jungle groove and bassline, polyrhythmic hand drums, with electronics, faraway vocal hollers, and ascending guitar lines giving it all a sense of ambiance, lilt, and lift. Musky.

• Le Loup – “Beach Town”Download

Family is out 9/22 via Hardly Art. (That up there is its album cover.) Le Loup will be supporting it with a tour, which you can catch at these dates:

10/09 – Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar ^
10/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kungfu Necktie ^
10/11 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge ^
10/13 – Cambridge, MA @ TT the Bear’s ^
10/14 – Montreal, QC @ Il Motore ^
10/15 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel ^
10/16 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas ^
10/17 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry ^
10/18 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr. ^
10/19 – Denver, CO @ Hi Dive ^
10/20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court ^
10/22 – Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret ^
10/23 – Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey ^
10/25 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge ^
10/27 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill ^
10/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo ^
10/29 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar ^
10/30 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah ^
10/31 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush ^
11/02 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk ^
11/03 – Dallas, TX @ Cavern Ale House ^
11/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn ^
11/06 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 ^
11/07 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat ^