The Cliks - Dirty King

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The Cliks Announce DIRTY KING
Set To Hit June 23rd via Tommy Boy!



New York, March 20, 2009 – Toronto’s breakout musical sensation The Cliks have had a whirlwind past two years since the release of their critically acclaimed debut, Snakehouse and there’s no sign that they’ll be slowing down anytime soon. Holed up this past fall in Grammy Award winning producer-engineer Silvia Massy’s (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool) Radio Star Studios in Weed, California led the band to put their emotions, thoughts and talents together to create the brilliantly evocative, driving and exciting tracks on Dirty King, set to hit via Tommy Boy on June 23rd. Boasting music as textured and layered as the deeply varied emotional terrain it treads, it’s no surprise that the band has dredged the emotional mire of the hectic past two years to create this album. Feeling bad never sounded quite so good.

A band that is known best perhaps for their incendiary live shows is bound to attract all kinds of attention. Music legends Ian Astbury of The Cult and Cyndi Lauper found themselves smitten with The Cliks and hand-picked the band for their respective tours in 2007 and 2008. Late-night bookers were listening too, and soon The Cliks found themselves on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, not to mention a very special performance frontman Lucas Silveira did with Cyndi Lauper on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The band has quickly picked up momentum landing Logo’s NewNowNext Artist On the Brink Award, getting tattooed by Kat Von D on LA Ink and appearing on MTV’s teenybopper mecca TRL.

Dirty King’s namesake slides in on a surf guitar riff as Silveira alternates between a vamp and growl, teasing out the chorus in a voice that manages to sound both menacing and seductive at once. The band changes gears on the mournful and intoxicating “Not Your Boy,” while the waltzing, string-laden “Emily,” is the catchiest evidence of the band’s expansive new sound with a song that’s more dulcet than biting. The stunning vocals in “Career Suicide” ride a melodic wave of guitar, bass and drums so intense you’ll catch yourself wondering whether you should be listening intently to the lyrics, losing yourself in Lucas’ voice or bouncing along to the pure rock ‘n’ roll of the instrumentation.

Despite themselves, The Cliks couldn’t help but make a record that made order out of tumult and sense out of turbulence. With pop hooks lacing the rock spines The Cliks are known for, the songs inhabit the specificity of the circumstances under which they were written, all the while appealing to broader audiences.

Catch The Cliks Previewing Material From The New Album On Tour This Spring:
April 4 – Palm Springs GIRLBAR – Dinah Shore
April 9 - Chicago, IL – Subterranean
April 10 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
April 11 – Columbus, OH – CD101 Radio Show
April 13 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
April 14 - Cambridge, MA - T.T the Bear's
April 15 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall
April 16 - Albany, NY – Valentines
April 19 – Phoenix, AZ – Phoenix Pride