Alt-rockers Built to Spill [ tickets ] will hit the road this summer for a run of shows ahead of their forthcoming studio album, which is expected to surface in October.

The band kicks off the outing July 17 at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival. After a next-day appearance at Brooklyn's Village Voice Siren Music Festival, the group launches the headlining portion of its schedule July 19 in Hoboken, NJ. In August, the outfit will head to the opposite coast for a slate of West Coast dates. Details are included below.

The group's seventh studio album, "There Is No Enemy," is due in stores in October. "On the last record, a lot of the material was built on jamming," guitarist/bandleader Doug Martsch recently told Pitchfork.com. "But, for this one, I wrote most of the songs and brought them to the band.

"Still, we're trying to make it sound like a continuation of what the last record was, as far as sounding like a live band with little sounds coming in and out. Most of the songs are five or six minutes long--maybe a couple of seven, eight minute-ers. And a couple two, three minute ones."

The band's previous album, 2006's "You in Reverse," came five years after the release of 2001's "Ancient Melodies of the Future" and introduced guitarist Jim Roth and multi-instrumentalist Brett Nelson as full-fledged members of the group.