After 12 years, the Dismemberment Plan are back with a brand new album. But is this the D-Plan we fell in love with all those years ago?

Want to win two tickets to see The Dismemberment Plan on 10/20? Of course you do.

The band’s first album in 12 years is loose and laid back, but still sports the band’s trademark jittery funk-inspired brand of alternative rock.

On “Daddy Was a Real Good Dancer,” the Dismemberment Plan get twangy and sentimental.

Check out the new single and video from The Burlies, featuring members of The Dismemberment Plan, Poor But Sexy, and Railsplitter

Tickets are on sale now for the Oct. 19 and Oct. 20 shows.

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You may have doubts that D.C. United can pull off a decisive win in Sunday’s game against the Houston Dynamo, but the Dismemberment Plan’s Eric Axelson has faith that the red and the black will pull it off.

Here at DCist, we’ve fostered a reputation as the definitive source of all things Dismemberment Plan fandom. Combine that with our affinity for the blip-bloop of an NES score, and we’re unable to resist.

As you may have noticed, the Dismemberment Plan reunion shows generated the sort of energy and electricity usually reserved for Category 5 hurricanes. You’ve already seen us write at length in anticipation of them (and after this review, we’ll stop, we promise!). Now, here’s a timeline of tweets, quotes and additional staff commentary of the shows we’d been anticipating since September.