Case Oats Announces US Tour Dates, New Single “In a Bungalow”

Case Oats—a Chicago-based outfit led by Casey Gomez Walker (lead vocals, acoustic guitar)—release a new single, “In a Bungalow,” from their debut album Last Missouri Exit, out August 22nd via Merge Records. On the heels of lead single “Bitter Root Lake,” which was described by The New York Times as a “fiddle-topped, folk-rock ballad about a caper gone fatally wrong,” “In a Bungalow” is a pop-leaning ’60s-style track. Spencer Tweedy (drums), Max Subar (guitar, pedal steel), Scott Daniel (fiddle), and Jason Ashworth (bass) form this remarkably assured band with Gomez Walker.

A hinge between childhood and adulthood, Last Missouri Exit’s pangs of homesickness overlap with the thrill of breaking for the horizon. “In a Bungalow” regards that overlap in golden-hour light, a song whose keen longing for home—its sweet springs, slow days, troubled friends and all—is only possible because Gomez Walker left it in the first place. In her words, “This song is kind of a taunt set to a sweet melody. An indignant taunt. I’m wondering why people I grew up with haven’t moved on from childhood drama. I’m asking why they haven’t gotten past that stuff. But in the end, I’m no better. I want to be back in a bar with them, regressing, indulging in the sweet pain of being left behind and wronged.”

Last Missouri Exit is an album that longs to be listened to while one watches the sun set from their porch swing, but its wistful, idyllic take on the Midwest isn’t nostalgia for the past—it’s what Case Oats conjured in the basement that one summer on an ad-hoc rig, a document of a band that grew together around these songs at a newfound peak of their collaborative powers. What they’ve made is warm and inviting, an album that reveals itself on first spin and grows deeper with each listen.

Case Oats will play a number of album release shows in New York, Toronto, and Chicago this summer in addition to two festivals: Out of Space in Evanston and Americana Music Festival in Nashville. In October, the band will support Superchunk on their North American Tour. A full list of dates is available below.

Tour Dates:

Thu. July 24 - Sun. July 27 - Evanston, IL @ Out of Space

Tue. Aug. 19 - New York, NY @ Nightclub 101 %

Wed. Aug. 20 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake %

Fri. Aug. 22 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout %

Wed. Sept. 17 - Wed. Sept. 24 - Nashville, TN @ Americana Music Festival

Mon. Oct. 13 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre $

Tue. Oct. 14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge $

Wed. Oct. 15 - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club Ballroom $

Fri. Oct. 17 - Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern $

Sat. Oct. 18 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios $

Sun. Oct.19 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios $