A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

ach. slight delay on the LP due to unforseen issues with tech - digital release will be available by the end of July 2008, and the vinyl shortly thereafter.

But it’s going to be good. It’s some very exciting music -different from what you’re probably expecting. As you know, we’ve rearranged our membership and hey, 2006 (Flames) was a long time ago - global food crisis, subprime mortgages, google android. Lots to articulate, lots to murmur to you.

Happily, we’re now open for submissions for our participatory video project. Send us an email indicating your interest. Explain why you think you can make a video for one of our songs, and we’ll bring you into our hug club. You then get to make a video for one of our songs, and we will distribute that-azz everywhere. No money involved, and you sign away all your rights (except attribution, which is guaranteed) in this “let’s go krazy” mixed up copyleft world.

check back soon…!

Jean gives a tour of the Simulacre studio/baby clothing room and plays part of one of the new tracks off Embers…

We are close enough to the end of this long journey of Embers to announce a firm release date: July 15, 2008. One song in particular has proved to be a particularly sticky wicket and has unfairly held up the rest. We will punish it accordingly this weekend.

We’re securing a permanent practice space again within the next month and will be redesigning our live show from the ground up, based on this very cybernetic palette we’ve set up for ourselves this time around.

Welcome to the end of music as we’ve known it and the beginning of something maybe remarkable, or, depending on your stake in the matter, quaintly derivative. Welcome to music hewn in barns and basements, rough-hewn themselves, and riddled with self-referential lore. And welcome to where a new aesthetic can spring from the ashes of blandery. Their wasted efforts are our fertilizer. And a world of high fidelity sound awaits. Tantalizing?

We have nothing to lose but our chains.