Anti- announced the signing of The Book of Knots. Check the resumes of the NYC quartet:
Matthias Bossi (Skeleton Key, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), Joel Hamilton (Sparklehorse, Elvis Costello, Unsane), Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants) and Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat Trio, Tom Waits, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and 2 Foot Yard)
The group's album Traineater is ''"a tribute to the American Rust Belt''" and will see a release in March 2007. The album also features big name guests including Tom Waits, Mike Watt, David Thomas, Jon Langford and Carla Bozulich taking on the roles of foremen, assembly linemen and pensioners and giving telling accounts of the neglected mining and steel towns they'''re linked to.