DENGUE FEVER ANNOUNCE FIRST ALBUM IN EIGHT YEARS WITH TING MONG COMING SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

First Single & Video for “Touch Me Not” Out Today Marks 20th Anniversary of the their Self-Titled Debut Album

Album is Now Available Domestically and Internationally for Pre-Order/Pre-Save on Vinyl, Compact Disc and Digital Formats from MRI/The Orchard in North America and Proper for Rest of World

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA (FRIDAY JANUARY 2, 2023) – Los Angeles-based Cambodian and American rock band Dengue Fever announced today the release of their latest album, Ting Mong, their first album of new material in more than eight years on September 15, 2023. Fans can pre-order the new album via their website and can pre-save the album here.

The first single and video from Ting Mong via their own Tuk Tuk Records, “Touch Me Not” is out today on DSPs. Three additional singles and videos will follow monthly prior to the release of the entire album. This new album also marks the 20^th anniversary of their 2003 debut self-titled album.

“We gave ourselves parameters recording Ting Mong, but we smashed the rules we created for ourselves on past albums,” said Dengue Fever bass player Senon Williams. “The songs’ sole purpose was to let our lead singer Chhom Nimol’s voice soar. It was our mood or perhaps the mood of the world that gave us focus on the sublime and the melancholy. We purposely left the frenetic energy and noise to yesterday.”

Ting Mong is the sixth full-length album of new material in the Dengue Fever discography. The album title refers to Khmer folklore, as a Ting Mong is a decoy or mannequin, almost like a scarecrow, but used to fight away evil spirits and plagues. Dengue Fever constructed Ting Mong after a self-imposed hiatus followed by a global pandemic allowing them to flesh out tracks on the new album. Tracks presented themselves as slower, more lengthy, psychedelic jams. Album artwork is from noted Japanese comic book and Anime/manga artist Imiri Sakabashira.

While Dengue Fever has been dormant from releasing new material since 2015’s The Deepest Lake, the band has remained active and have reissued their entire back catalog on vinyl – as well as CD – the past few years. They also worked closely with Minky Records for the first-ever vinyl release of the soundtrack to the band’s 2007 documentary Sleepwalking Through The Mekong in 2022. Additionally the band’s music has recently been licensed for commercials, films and television and was the inspiration for and also performed live theatrically as part of playwright Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band which is next coming to the Arena Stage in Washington DC July 19 – August 27.

This past January, the band performed at the world music festival GlobalFEST in New York and have played a series of Southern California dates over the last 12 months in anticipation of the new album. They will headline live shows both in and outside North America this year and well into 2024. Tour dates will be announced shortly.

Tuk Tuk Reccords is distributed via MRI/The Orchard in North America and Proper Music Group for the rest of the world.

ABOUT DENGUE FEVER

DENGUE FEVER is Cambodian songstress Chhom Nimol, Zac Holtzman (guitar/vocals), Ethan Holtzman (keyboards), Senon Williams (bass), Paul Smith (drums) and David Ralicke (horns). They have released prior albums, Dengue Fever, Escape From Dragon House, Venus On Earth, Cannibal Courtship, In The Ley Lines, the DVD/CD soundtrack to the band’s documentary, Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, a collection of lost Cambodian classics and Dengue Fever Presents: Electric Cambodia, The Deepest Lake. Their upcoming album Ting Mong is available on September 15, 2023. They are based in Los Angeles.

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