Arthur Ashin, a.k.a. Autre Ne Veut, recently announced his new album, Age of Transparency, due for release October 2nd via Downtown Record, and shared lead single “World War Pt. 2” and its BANGS-directed video, which you can check out below. Today he announces October North American tour dates in support of Age of Transparency. Those dates are below.

Age of Transparency marks the second step in a trilogy exploring the difficulty of making personal connections in an impersonal time. “The title comes from marketing jargon,” Ashin explains.“It’s a term for the place we’re in now, where truth and transparency are just ways to sell things and honesty is its own kind of performance.”

Coming from an artist who pushes his voice and body to their breaking points, it might seem like a strange admission. But for Ashin, close is as close as you can get.“Transparency is an impossibility,” he says. “It’s more about trying to be transparent and falling on your face in the process.”

In an effort to explore the idea, Ashin started sessions for the album with a jazz combo at midtown Manhattan’s Avatar Studios. “I’ve been listening to jazz since I was a kid and wanted to experiment with it,” he says. “For me, it taps into this comforting and antiquated image of the truth.”

He later took the recordings to his home studio and tore them apart. “I kept flipping them and messing with them,” he says—a process you can hear on Transparency’s title track, which recalls the loose, incantatory vibe of late-60s Pharoah Sanders records before settling into Ashin’s tweaked take on R&B. “The players are there to give you an impression of transparency,” he says, “but they’re constantly being disrupted.”

Age of Transparency was self-produced in a small room overlooking a quiet street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and mixed by Tony Maserati, who has also worked with Beyoncé, Notorious B.I.G. and Lady Gaga.

US Tour Dates
Fri Oct 09 – Los Angeles – Troubadour
Sat Oct 10 – San Francisco – Social Hall SF
Mon Oct 12 – Portland – Star
Tue Oct 13 – Seattle – Barboza
Fri Oct 16 – Denver – Lost Lake
Sun Oct 18 – Chicago – Lincoln Hall
Tue Oct 20 – Toronto – Hoxton
Wed Oct 21 – Philadelphia – Boot & Saddle
Thu Oct 22 – Boston – Middle East Downstairs
Fri Oct 23 – Washington, DC – U Street
Mon Oct 26 – New York – Bowery Ballroom

Autre Ne Veut – Age of Transparency
(Downtown – October 2nd, 2015)
1. On and On (Reprise)
2. Panic Room
3. Cold Winds
4. Age of Transparency
5. Switch Hitter
6. Never Wanted
7. Word War Pt. 2
8. Over Now
9. Get Out