The Joshua Tree band’s latest record digs into Gnostic myth and family trauma, and a June run of independent venues will bring it from the drylands to the coast.
This June, Cooper Gillespie and Greg Gordon take their project Landroid on the road for a West Coast tour supporting the new album Constellation. The run launches with a hometown release show at Art Queen in Joshua Tree on June 13, then moves through Oregon and Washington with stops at clubs like John Henry’s in Eugene, Bombs Away Cafe in Corvallis, and San Francisco’s Hotel Utah Saloon.
The duo’s relocation from years of rootless touring to a small house in Landers, California—a High Desert town of fewer than 3,000 people—reshaped their songwriting. The open space and slower pace gave the music its atmospheric weight, a sound that doesn’t try to smooth over the arid landscape’s inherent oddness.
Constellation opens with the Gnostic myth of Yaldabaoth, the figure behind the material world’s flawed creation, then telescopes into personal terrain: the ripple effects of trauma, family patterns, and generational history. Joshua Tree-based songwriter Nigel Roman trades vocals with Gillespie on several tracks, broadening the album’s emotional range.
The tour covers familiar independent rooms, venues where the music’s stillness and tension can hold a room without competing. Tickets for the June shows are on sale now.
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