Tepid Peppermint Wonderland

This sound unbelievably good.

photograph by Neal Casal; Noel, Ryan, Liam 12 19 08

Pre-order’s available on Wednesday.Necessary deets and tour dates are all on our website - http://theblackdeltamovement.co.uk

[UNKLE - NATURAL SELECTION (FEAT. THE BLACK ANGELS)]

Found her.

We’re super buzzed to finally announce that we’ll be heading out on tour next month across the UK and Europe! Dates are as follows! 10/03 - The Record Factory, Glasgow (UK) 11/03 - Bannermans Bar, Edinburgh (UK) 12/03 - Buskers, Dundee (UK) 15/03 - The Brewhouse, London (UK) 16/03 - The Cellar [Oxford], Oxford (UK) 17/03 - Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton (UK) 18/03 - The Joiners, Southampton (UK) 21/03 - Supersonic, Paris (France) 22/03 - Le Solapard, Biel (Switzerland) 23/03 - Coq d'Or, Olten (Switzerland) 24/03 - Horst Klub, Kreuzlingen (Switzerland) 25/03 - Deliri Cafè Bistrot, Sora (Italy) 26/03 - TBA (Italy) 28/03 - GOB - Ganz of Bicchio - Circolo ARCI, Viareggio (Italy) 29/03 - L'Arsenale, Trento (Italy) 30/03 - Boa Sorte - Tarquinia Lido, Tarquinia (Italy) 31/03 - ISOLA CLUB, Chiarravale (Italy) 01/04 - Casotto Lugano, Locarno (Switzerland) 13/04 - FRüIT, Hull (UK) 15/04 - Stockton Calling, (UK) Ticket and show details will all be on www.theblackdeltamovement.co.uk. We can’t wait to see yo faces.

From the archives || Point Break

Sadness, apathy, preoccupation. These traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet, forthcoming research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology provides evidence that depression has a positive side-effect. According to a new study, depressed individuals perform better than their non-depressed peers in sequential decision tasks. In their study, participants — who were healthy, clinically depressed, or recovering from depression — played a computer game in which they could earn money by hiring an applicant in a simulated job search. The game assigned each applicant a monetary value and presented applicants one-at-a-time in random order. Experiment participants faced the challenge of determining when to halt search and select the current applicant. In addition to resembling everyday decision problems, such as house shopping and dating, the task has a known optimal strategy. As reported, depressed patients approximated this optimal strategy more closely than non-depressed participants did. While healthy participants searched through relatively few candidates before selecting an applicant, depressed participants searched more thoroughly and made choices that resulted in higher payoffs. This discovery provides the first evidence that clinical depression may carry some benefits. For decades, psychologists have debated whether depression has positive side-effects. While researchers have recognized that most symptoms of depression impede cognitive functioning, scholars such as Paul Andrews of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and Andy Thomson of the University of Virginia have proposed that depression may promote analytical reasoning and persistence — that is, qualities useful in complex tasks.