The Moondoggies “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

It’s a big week for The Moondoggies. Not only is the band preparing to embark on a national tour backing Blitzen Trapper, complete with a stop off at Bonnaroo, but the buzz around Tidelands, their follow-up to Don’t Be a Stranger, has begun four full months before its release. Clearly, it’s not just me who is anticipating the Moondoggies follow-up with more eagerness than any other 2010 release.

Lucky for us all, we got a sonic peek at Tidelands courtesy of Yours Truly who filmed The Moondoggies performing “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity” in the ladies’ restroom of The Independent.  For the clear acoustics and sweet harmonies you would think The Moondoggies were in a church rather than some cramped bathroom, a testament not only to the band, but the skillful filming of Yours Truly. When two of your favorite things come together and collaborate, it is a beautiful thing, and this video is proof.

But the video wasn’t all us Moondoggies fans were rewarded with this week, Hardly Art also announced that there would be a special limited edition EP of left-over tracks from Tidelands, scheduled to be released on June 8th. And these aren’t throw-away tunes, if you’ve seen the Moondoggies in the past year, some of the tracks from You’ll Find No Answers Here will be fond favorites.  Courtesy of Hardly Art we have one such track for you to download: “Fly Mamma Fly”.

And if a brand new video and song weren’t enough for you, The Moondoggies will also be playing all over Seattle in the coming days. Tonight the band is headlining Neumos, as well as opening the show as Grant Olsen’s backing band for their new side project “Magic Mountains.”  As if two gigs in a single day wasn’t enough, the band will be playing the next night as part of the “Bare” all a capella evening at the Fremont Abbey. It should come as no surprise, I’ll be at all three sets and I recommend you do the same.

Check back on Sound on the Sound for more from the Moondoggies soon, the band will be sending us postcards from their national tour in another installment of “Postcards from the Road.”

Follow the jump for the complete tracklists for Tidelands and You’ll Find No Answers Here.

You’ll Find No Answers Here (limited CD EP, June 8th)
1.     It’s Hard to Love Someone
2.     Just Makes Sense to Me
3.     Down the River
4.     Sad & Lonely
5.     Fly Mama Fly

Tidelands (new CD/LP, September 14th)
1.     It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity
2.     Tidelands
3.     What Took So Long
4.     Uncertain
5.     Empress of the North
6.     Lead Me On
7.     Down the Well
8.     Can’t be in the Middle
9.     We Can’t all be Blessed
10.  A Lot of People on my Mind