Au (that’s pronounced “ay you”) plays the first show of their tour tonight in Seattle, and they’ll be hitting the road, including a show tomorrow night at Backspace here in Portland. (We’ve got the complete list of tour dates after the jump.)

In the meantime, here’s a new track from their forthcoming, amazing album, Verbs, which will be released on June 26th. Au’s Luke Wyland says it’s “an ode to the community of people here,” which isn’t hard to believe as members from Yellow Swans, Parenthetical Girls, A Weather, Gulls, Evolutionary Jass Band, and Ah Holly Fam’ly chime in to take part in the 21-person chorus.

MP3:
Au - Are Animals

Complete tour dates after the jump.

May 23rd: Seattle, WA @ Happy Times Fun Club *
May 24th: Portland, OR @ Backspace *
May 25th: Davis, CA @ The Firehouse *
May 26th: Irvine, CA @ UC Irvine *
May 27th: San Diego, CA @ The Che *
May 28th: Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell *%
May 29th: San Luis Obispo, CA @ Retrospect *
May 30th: San Francisco, CA @ The Cushionworks *

* = w/ Parenthetical Girls and PWRFL Power
% = w/ Abe Vigoda