MP3: Wye Oak – “Civilian” from Civilian, due March 8 on Merge.

Listen to this one all the way through. It gets better. And then once you think it’s done getting better, it gets even better.

Wye Oak: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, eMusic, MOG, wiki

Track listing:

1. Two Small Deaths

2. The Alter

3. Holy Holy

4. Dogs Eyes

5. Civilian

6. Fish

7. Plains

8. Hot as Day

9. We Were Wealth

10. Doubt

Wye Oak on tour:

* = The Decemberists

# = Lower Dens

% = Callers

1/24 – 26 New York, NY Beacon Theatre *

1/28 – 29 Boston, MA House of Blues *

1/31 Montreal, QC Olympia de Montreal *

2/1 Toronto, ON The Sound Academy *

2/2 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre *

2/4 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre *

3/11 Washington, DC Black Cat #

3/12 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 #

3/13 Atlanta, GA The Earl #

3/15 Norman, OK The Opolis #

3/21 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture %

3/22 San Diego, CA Casbah %

3/24 Los Angeles, CA The Echo %

3/25 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill %

3/27 Vancouver, BC Media Club %

3/29 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios %

3/31 Nampa, ID Flying M Coffee %

4/1 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court %

4/2 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge %

4/3 Omaha, NE Slowdown Jr %

4/4 Iowa City, IA The Mill %

4/5 St. Paul, MN Turf Club %

4/6 Appleton, WI Lawrence University %

4/15 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s