Alright, so my summer break is over and it's back to work. That sucks. But I'm happy I was able to get a lot of projects started/developed/etc. over the summer. I've got several videos I want to post, but they need a little editing. I'm doing some final mixing and clean-up of the new Eula Mae acoustic record, Centaur Songs. The entire album will be available as a Mediafire download on this blog as soon as it's finished.
Still rehearsing for some live gigs as The Paranoia Room. Takin' the ambient-noise-madness on the road!!! At least as far as Greensboro!!! Haha... Got a new PA that's loud as fuck, too. That's gonna help. Also, I have an album worth of weird lo-fi stuff that I recorded recently with my sampler and an ancient Casio keyboard. Using a timestretch function to stretch cheesy keyboard melodies into epic noise monstrosities! Or something like that... Ha... Those songs need a little editing as well, but as soon as they're ready, you'll be able to get them here.
I'm a little behind on getting full album downloads set up. Sorry. (Although you can download or stream all the songs from the 1st 2 Eula Mae records and the 1st 2 Paranoia Room records at their respective ReverbNation pages.) This is what happened: I recently discovered the original cassette master of a song called "Contempt" off of The Iris Sessions, the very 1st album I ever released. The version of that song on the album has a blank spot that is a couple of seconds long where the tape was damaged. I had assumed that the song would just be fucked forever. (If you have a physical copy of that record, you will note that "Contempt" is labeled as the "Compromised Audio Version" for that reason.) Now that I have an undamaged version of the original track, I want to redo the record and add the undamaged version. Because that album is technically the first one that I ever released, I want it to be the first one available on the website. So, I'm holding back the other albums until the new version of The Iris Sessions is ready. (Damn you, OCD!!!) If I released them out of numerical/chronological order, it would cause me all types of anxiety. Everything is coming, though. I promise! (And again, the 1st 4 Subvert From Within releases are all available over at ReverbNation.) Here's the page for The Paranoia Room. And this is where the 1st 2 Eula Mae records live. Go get 'em! You can hear all the old stuff there.
Even though I hate going back to work, I am excited about all the shows coming in the next month or so. I am uber-excited to see Guided By Voices in September. My second favorite band in the world!
Incredibly, only 2 days later, my #1 favorite band in the history of music and across the expanses of all time and space are coming. SWANS!!!
It promises to be epic. Anyway, thanks for checking in, for listening to my weird music, and for just being you. Don't ever change. You're perfect!!!
PS. In non-music related news, how awesome is it that the West Memphis 3 were finally released?!! About effin' time.
