Toil is streaming in its entirety in a playlist on Paper + Plastick’s YouTube channel. Stream it here and you can embed the stream to share with your readers!
Reviews have begun flowing in for the new album, with Alternative Press Magazine giving the record a favorable score and AbsolutePunk.net heaping praise on the band: “It’s not every day you come across a Christian group that’s unabashedly liberal politically. On Toil, it’s much less a gimmick and much more a reflection of the band’s genuity – their working class roots and the ability they have to combine faith, culture and song to stand up for them. That, to me, deserves a respect that runs deeper than the freshness, or lack thereof, of a melody.”
Flatfoot 56 is currently on the Tonight We Unite tour supporting its new album with The Casualties, Nekromantix, Lower Class Brats and The Sheds. The tour runs until August 5, and the remaining dates can be seen below. Show review passes are available for all dates.
Please share the stream of the album and the preorders in the webstore with your readers. If you would like a review copy of Flatfoot 56’s new record, we have them available immediately. The band is also ready to take on any interview or feature pitches, so please email Thomas Nassiff at exit384media@gmail.com with any press requests!
Flatfoot 56 - Toil
July 24, 2012
Paper + Plastick Records
1. Brother, Brother
2. The Rich, The Strong and The Poor
3. I Believe It
4. Take Hold Again
5. Toil
6. Live Or Die Trying
7. Work For Them
8. Terrorizing Truth
9. Strongman
10. 6’10”
11. This Time
12. Winter In Chicago
13. I’ll Fly Away
“”It’s not every day you come across a Christian group that’s unabashedly liberal politically. On Toil, it’s much less a gimmick and much more a reflection of the band’s genuity – their working class roots and the ability they have to combine faith, culture and song to stand up for them. That, to me, deserves a respect that runs deeper than the freshness, or lack thereof, of a melody.” - AbsolutePunk.net
“Ignore the message boards that say you could save your money by just listening to every other celt/punk band out there. Ignore the ridiculous negative stigma people throw around because Flatfoot stands up for their religion and beliefs. Go out there, pick up Toil and listen to some damn good music.” - Infectious Magazine
Tour Dates:07/24 Reading, PA @ Reverb
07/25 Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street Club
07/26 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
07/27 Miami, FL @ Grand Central
07/28 Tampa, FL @ CrowBar
07/29 Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
07/31 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
08/01 Austin, TX @ Emo’s East
08/02 El Paso, TX @ House Of Rock
08/03 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
08/04 Tempe, AZ @ Rocky Point
08/05 Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory
More about Flatfoot 56:
Playing a positive-natured brand of hardcore-tinged Celtic punk, Flatfoot 56 has been unleashing itself upon America and the rest of the world for over a decade now. Forming in 2000, the Chicago natives achieved nationwide attention with their first two label-backed records, 2006’s Knuckles Up and 2007’s Jungle of the Midwest Sea. These releases built on a heavy dose of previously established regional notoriety, helping the band gain steam early on.
While each album received its fair share of critical acclaim and fan reception, the quintet exploded onto a new level with 2010’s Black Thorn. Landing the band on a total of nine Billboard Charts, Flatfoot 56 proved it could consistently reach an expanding audience while playing a genre not often associated with widespread success.
Frontman Tobin Bawinkel (vocals/guitar) is now set to lead Flatfoot 56 on in their furious march forward. Armed with brothers Justin (drums) and Kyle (bass), along with Eric McMahon (bagpipes/guitar) and Brandon Good (mandolin/guitar), Flatfoot 56 will release its fourth label-backed studio album, Toil, on Paper + Plastick Records on July 24, 2012.
Like the band’s last release, Toil was produced by the Street Dogs’ Johnny Rioux. “We decided that since the last experience with Johnny was so beneficial, we wanted to repeat it,” Bawinkel said. “We have been friends with Johnny for years our mutual respect fosters a good creative environment for putting together a record. He knows how to challenge us and push us the next level, which is what any band hopes for.”
The band recorded Toil in Matt Allison’s Chicago-based Atlas Studios in January and February. “We have always respected Paper + Plastick’s independent approach to putting out records because they always seem to promote the creative side of the album,” Bawinkel said of the band’s choice of label. “As a band we all really value that creative vision, and Paper + Plastick is the place to be for that.”
While the record is set to be more rootsy and folk-oriented, it promises to pack the same relentless knock-down punch that fans have grown to expect from Flatfoot 56. More than a decade into its career, Flatfoot 56 isn’t slowing down, but maintaining a blistering pace of touring and musical output. “The next record’s sound is taking on a much more mature, heartfelt tone,” Bawinkel said. “We’re writing these songs as life gets thrown at us, and as we all get a bit older and start to interpret life in different ways, we want to express ourselves to reflect the victories and defeats that we all go through. We still love whipping the crowd into a frenzy and making everybody dance but we want to write some tunes that people can relate to, and that they can sing along to.”
Toil will be released in 2012 by Paper + Plastick in the United States, Stomp Records in Canada, and People Like You Records in Europe.
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