Brooklyn chamber-rock outfit Rasputina are set to release their sixth full-length album, Oh Perilous World!, June 26 via Filthy Bonnet. Following the release of her 2006 solo album, Perplexions, singer/lead celloist Melora Creager spent the last two years scouring over daily world events and adapting them into songs. "I wrote the songs featured on Oh Perilous World! over the last two years when I realized that current world events were more bizarre than anything I could scrounge up from the distant past," she says. "I obsessively read daily news on the Internet and copied words, phrases and whole stories that especially intrigued me and compiled a vast notebook of this material." Original from Kansas, Creager moved to New York at 18, where she began playing her cello in rock bands. She joined local band Ultra Vivid Scene, who recorded three albums for cult British label 4AD and went on to open for the Pixies and Throwing Muses. But it was after touring with Nirvana as a cellist on their In Utero tour that she decided it was time to branch out on her own, thus creating Raspuntina. Oh Perlious World! is performed by Creager, alongside drummer Jonathon TeBeest with second chair Sarah Bowman. Tracklist For Oh Perilous World!: 01. 1816, The Year Without A Summer 02. Choose Me For A Champion 03. Cage In A Cave 04. Incident In A Medical Clinic 05. Draconian Crackdown 06. Child Soldier Rebellion 07. Oh Bring Back The Egg Unbroken 08. Old Yellowcake Breaking News 09. In Old Yellowcake 10. A Retinue Of Moons/The Infidel Is Me 11. The Pruning www.rasputina.com
