Merrill Garbus returns with a third album of power-lunged anti-pop.

tUnE-yArDs has celebrated her birthday today with the announcement that her new album, Nikki Nack, will be released on 4AD on May 6.

Previously given the working title of ‘Sink-o’, Nikki Nack is the follow-up to 2011’s ridiculously impressive and utterly unique WHOKILL, a patchwork of adventurous production and half-feral, half-angelic vocals that topped the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop poll.

Ahead of the album’s Garbus has uploaded a tasty ‘Megamix’ album sampler hinting at an even bolder variation of sounds, with added electronic touches and stomping bass, plus she’s announced a string of tour dates in Europe and North America, starting in Los Angeles on May 5.

Hear the ‘Nikki Nack Megamix’ and see tour dates below:
 

Tour dates:

May
5th – Masonic Lodge @ Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, CA, US
7th – Rough Trade, Brooklyn, NY, US
12th – Village Underground, London, UK
14th – Berghain, Berlin, Germany
15th – Nochtspeicher, Hamburg, Germany
16th – Les Nuits-Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
18th – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, Holland
19th – Café de La Danse, Paris, France
23rd – Les Schwab Ampitheater, Bend, OR, US (w/ The National)
23rd – 25th – Sasquatch Festival, George, WA, US
31st – June 1st – Free Press Summerfest, Houston, TX, US

June
18th – 22nd – NXNE, Massey Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
19th – 22nd – Firefly Festival, Dover, DE, US

July
19th – Pitchfork Festival, Chicago, IL, US