Subtle Will Reveal Their ExitingARM

Oakland, Calif. genre-hoppers Subtle will release their self-produced third album, ExitingARM, on May 13 through Lex Records.

Subtle launched a website featuring a graphic novel in advance of ExitingARM's release. It has more than 20,000 words and Subtle call it a digital CD booklet of sorts. A hard copy version will be available at the band's shows.

Subtle formed in 2001 when Dax Pierson (vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, melodica) met Adam "Doseone" Drucker (vocals, synthesizers) at Berkeley, Calif.'s Amoeba Records. The two began making music together and invited Alexander Kort (cello, bass) to their jam sessions. Pierson later attended an open mic night where he met Marton Dowers (woodwinds, synthesizers) and Jordan Dalrymple (drums, guitar, synthesizers, vocals). The two multi-instrumentalists later joined Subtle with Jeffrey "Jel" Logan (drum machine), who also works with Doseone in hip-hop duo Themselves. Doseone is one of the founders of the Anticon label and music collective, which includes Why?, Odd Nosdam, 13 & God and others. Doseone is also a member of underground hip-hop act cLOUDDEAD.

Subtle released three EPs before dropping their A New White full-length debut in 2004. For Hero: For Fool was released by Astralwerks in 2006.

Pierson was left quadriplegic after Subtle's tour van hit a patch of black ice and skidded off a highway in 2005. He still records with Subtle, but doesn't tour.

Subtle will play Toronto's Sneaky Dee's on May 19 and Montreal's La Sala Rossa the next night.

Here's what's on ExitingARM:

"ExitingARM"
"Day Dangerous"
"The No"
"Sick Soft Perfection"
"Hollow Hollered"
"The Crow"
"Unlikely Rock Shock"
"Take To Take"
"Gonebones"
"Wanted Found"
"Providence"