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The Caribbean’s Discontinued Perfume : The Best Indie Pop Record of 2011, or how we learned to stop worrying and listen to records that came out a year ago.

“This music is timeless. So you worry about time less.”
I keep returning to this quote. It hits hard. It kind of says it all.
And I said it. 

Over the course of 2011, we had a hand in the making of almost twenty records with our friends. We dug in. We built new roads — complete with sidewalks and trees and benches where you can stop, sit, and think. We live in the City of Hometapes and we build it to last. As the calendar turns, as we plan for the next phase, we must look back to look forward.

This time last year, we were putting the finishing touches on Discontinued Perfume, The Caribbean’s fourth record on Hometapes. Quickly, All Music said, “Discontinued Perfume is something else, an uneasy eye on past, present, and future, waiting to see what’s next.” A year of listening led fans and critics to a remarkable outpouring of love, including Popmatters’ declaration of Discontinued Perfume as the Best Indie Pop Record of 2011. “Their music has the power to sneak up on you and take you firmly by the hand.”

We’d like to invite you to be surprised by The Caribbean. Check out the list of accolades below and have a listen to songs from Discontinued Perfume, as well as their entire catalog.

• MP3: The Caribbean “Outskirts” (feat. Brad Laner)
• MP3: The Caribbean “Mr. Let’s Find Out”

And, for a limited time, order Discontinued Perfume from Hometapes, and we’ll send you another title from The Caribbean for free. Take your pick from William of Orange, Plastic Explosives, or Populations, note it in the Comments section of your order, and we’ll ship it to you. Old is new is old is new.

Year-end love for The Caribbean’s Discontinued Perfume:

• PopMatters named Discontinued Perfume the Best Indie Pop Record of 2011.
• The Washington Post called Discontinued Perfume a “subtle masterpiece” in naming it to one of their “Best of 2011” lists.
• Washington City Paper Arts Editor Jonathan Fischer names the title track from Discontinued Perfume to his “10 Best DC Tracks of 2011” list.
• Washington City Paper’s Ryan Little names “Mr. Let’s Find Out” from Discontinued Perfume to his “10 Best DC Tracks of 2011” list.
• The Denver Post’s John Wenzel names Discontinued Perfume to his “Best of 2011” list.
• DCist’s Benjamin Freed names Discontinued Perfume to his “Best of 2011” list.
• KCRW DJ Eric J. Lawrence puts Discontinued Perfume in the “Honorable Mention” section of his “Best of 2011” list.

The Caribbean = Dave Jones, Matthew Byars, and Michael Kentoff.

AU + BOTH LIGHTS
Cover art and track listing revealed for AU’s new album, Both Lights, out April 3 on Hometapes. Tour dates announced, including SXSW & shows with The Dodos, Deerhoof, & more.

 MP3: AU “Solid Gold” (from Both Lights & the Solid Gold 7”)

AU Both Lights

1. Epic
2. Get Alive
3. Crazy Idol
4. OJ
5. The Veil
6. Solid Gold
7. Today/Tonight
8. Why I Must
9. Go Slow
10. Old Friend
11. Don’t Lie Down

Both Lights hit me like a wave. I walked right into it, eyes open.

The music writer Bob Palmer once described “a fusion of music and poetry accomplished at a very high emotional temperature.” He called it “a gigantic field of feeling…something enduring, something that could be limitless.” 

Palmer was talking about the Blues. But all I can think about is AU.

Like all waves, it keeps on coming. AU’s third album, Both Lights, is a recurring dream. Eleven songs made by the Portland, Oregon-based duo Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka, it’s a story of Time. Three years to be exact: since their critically-acclaimed 2008 album Verbs and its 2009  EP evolution Versions, there’s been a long exhale. A little defiance of the double-speed countdown of the indie hype clock. And a hell of a lot of living. Turn it on. More than a mere accompaniment, it’s a gleaming mirror. It’s an exaltation, an exhalation, a monument of extreme composition, the child of collaboration and isolation, a preamble to a wild live show, a statue intact in the violent wind of art and commerce, and, simply, a record about love. It’s for itself, and, in being that, it’s an album that can be understood like a person. “It’s the topography of me,” says Wyland. So you follow the coordinates.

The record begins with “Epic” — count it among the world’s greatest lead tracks. Complete with earth-cracking saxophones by man-machine Colin Stetson, “Epic” defines ascension — from the slow motion of an Oregon sunrise to a ‘67 Barracuda barreling off a bridge. It’s a thesis statement for an album that began as a series of improvisations in Wyland’s attic, a one-man tug of war with love, loss, pain, anger, and desire. Wyland calls “Epic” a “real re-introduction to the band”  and it encompasses that extreme confidence. It sets the tone for Both Lights, illuminating the frantic energy that drives AU, on and off stage. 

Titled like a directive, second track “Get Alive” marks the first reveal of Wyland’s soaring vocals. Multi-tentacled, he’s playing banjo and keys as Valatka turns his drum kit into a veritable mode of transportation. He’s crossing over. You can hear the cymbals bending mid-air. Nick Sweet and Alex Milsted, who make appearances throughout the album on brass, keep step up the mountainside. Portland’s Holland Andrews is waiting at the top for a climactic last-verse duet: “I’ve been alive for so long, you’ve been dead all these years, if love is what we wait for, I’ve made you wait.” “Crazy Idol” hovers at the peak, a hymn in classic AU style, the deep breath before the dive into the machine-like, breakout-dance-jam “OJ”. “Coded language, hidden thoughts, a shroud of technological wonder…almost a subliminal expression of my insect state.” Wyland’s description of “OJ” extends into a laid-bare definition of AU. Both Lights is a homemade album. It’s about breaking up. It’s about finding oneself, again and again. It’s about the struggle to make what you make and give it to the world. It’s the glowing spectrum of carnival lights and it’s the pitch-black wooded walk home. It’s your heart racing.

By “The Veil”, the last song on side A, you are breathing at just the right pace to accompany the piano, a first-take improvisation from beginning to end, recorded on a long summer day. Flip the record. “Solid Gold”, unveiled this past December on a limited edition 7”, ushers in side B and marks Colin Stetson’s second appearance on the album. You can feel it. Like the fight song for an imaginary sport, this single defines AU’s transcendent freneticism and abundant tenderness. It permeates everything they touch. It sets the stage for the supreme freak-out ecstasy of “Why I Must” and the continuous three-song suite that closes out the album by opening it up even further. You can hear guest vocalist Sarah Winchester’s voice tremble on “Old Friend,” an ode to a singer who’s been on every AU album: her. 

In its eleven songs, Both Lights constructs new sonic and psychological terrain for the listener. It unfolds like a story, both in its hyper-attentive, graceful, and often fierce instrumentation — the language of Wyland and Valatka — and in its heated and naked emotion. “This is all inner struggle, inner growth, inner seeking,” said Wyland. Set to music, life sounds like AU.

-Sara Padgett Heathcott, Hometapes

AU Both Lights will be released on LP, CD, and digitally by Hometapes on April 3, 2012, including an exclusive license to The Leaf Label for release in Europe on April 2.

AU TOUR DATES

02/25/12 - Sacramento, CA @ Bows and Arrows - w/ Appetite
02/26/12 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall - w/ The Dodos
03/03/12 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir - w/ Parenthetical Girls + Tu Fawning
03/08/12 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place
03/13/12 - Santa Fe, NM @ SOL @ Santa Fe Brewing - w/ Deerhoof
03/14/12 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/15/12 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/16/12 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/17/12 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/20/12 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
03/21/12 - Boulder, CO @ The Shack
03/22/12 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
03/24/12 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Fest 

Photo: Seppi Ramos

Bear In Heaven :: The Reflection of You
I Love You, It’s Cool single, track list, and cover art revealed today

LISTEN: Bear In Heaven “The Reflection of You”
STARE INTO THE MIDDLE: I Love You It’s Cool cover art (above)

It premiered on Pitchfork this morning, and now it belongs to you: Bear In Heaven’s “The Reflection of You” dials in your coordinates. Alone in the middle of an empty street at sunrise or half-floating in a dancing crowd of bodies, you won’t forget your first time. “The Reflection of You” is the first single from I Love You It’s Cool, out April 3 on Hometapes in partnership with Dead Oceans. The complete track list:

Idle Heart
The Reflection Of You
Noon Moon
Sinful Nature
Cool Light
Kiss Me Crazy
World Of Freakout
Warm Water
Space Remains
Sweetness & Sickness

Commence your daydreaming.

Stream the entire album (at 400,000% speed) and see all Bear In Heaven’s upcoming tour dates at bearinheaven.com

More about Bear In Heaven and I Love You, It’s Cool: 

Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preemptively settled—the work stops. It’s as if all the hours spent writing and rehearsing, tacking flyers to utility poles or maintaining forever-multiplying social media platforms suddenly switch off as some vaunted rock-star lifestyle switches on. And in some cases, maybe it does; then again, Bear in Heaven’s never been about easy expectations of normalcy. 

After the release of their second album, 2010’s Beast Rest Forth Mouth, big things began to happen for the Brooklyn trio of Jon Philpot, Joe Stickney and Adam Wills, from the aforementioned accolades to an electrifying collection of remixes featuring some of electronic music’s heaviest hitters, like The Field and Studio. As if in a transatlantic dream, they even split a single with Norway’s Lindstrøm and Christabelle, who covered their calling card, “Lovesick Teenagers.” But Bear in Heaven didn’t settle for the new well of notoriety they’d opened. Rather, they played some 200 shows in support of Beast Rest Forth Mouth—touring the world, playing progressively bigger rooms, building an intricate stage show that turned an album of songs into a synesthetic experience. When it was over, they retrenched in Brooklyn and, during the dead of summer, retreated to a chilly practice space to work harder than they’d ever worked on any other project. They wrote, re-wrote, arranged, re-arranged, spending days or weeks building one song at a time. After months of testing their limits and trusting their instincts, Bear in Heaven emerged with I Love You, It’s Cool, an album so vivid and visionary that it meets and even exceeds the confidence and calm its title suggests. 

For years, Bear in Heaven existed as a nights-and-weekends band, the sort of project that was more of a casual hobby than a career path for a few Southern natives who’d been living in the city for years. As such, they associated more with New York’s experimental vanguards, whether playing at the late, great Tonic or touring as a backbone for composer Rhys Chatham. But in 2010, Beast Rest Forth Mouth delighted listeners with the unexpected—futuristic rock music that didn’t sound alien or bound to ostracize. Taking these songs from coast to coast and continent to continent, they learned that having fun with this music was copacetic, that they could delight a crowd while defying musical binaries. I Love You, It’s Cool turns that realization into a peerless set of instant anthems.

“You come off of a tour, and you have ideas of what you found yourself enjoy playing over the last years,” says Wills. “It felt good when people would dance. We tried to turn that into a record, to emphasize that. But there’s still an absolute need to take the pop song and ruin it.”

Indeed, some of these songs are ready for the floor. On “Sinful Nature,” a perfect, tiny guitar theme spirals through colossal drums and slabs of synthesizers, suggesting perpetual motion. “Cool Light” booms with bliss, icy keyboards reflecting off of a relentless throb. It’s inescapable. 

But the intricacy and edge of Bear in Heaven’s music is not only here but sharper and more sophisticated than ever before. Philpot’s programming is both complex and compelling, whether in the refracted rainbows he warps on “Kiss Me Crazy” or the noisy matrix he weaves across “Space Remains.” Certainly, “The Reflection of You” feels like a hit, with a hook that instantly catches and a bridge that curls its finger—lyrically, stylistically, temptingly—toward the dance floor. Philpot’s mix of nostalgia and need is immediately relatable, too, bringing the band’s exploratory sounds a little closer back to home. But the song exits in a moment space-rock ascendance, a readymade rock-club banger that erupts into a bold new direction. 

I Love You, It’s Cool is the first time Bear in Heaven has sounded so unapologetic and so evolved, so risky and so redeeming, so focused and so finessed. After years of restless exploration, this feels like a definitive arrival. I Love You, It’s Cool is music written in the present tense but ready to speak to the future. The work is its own rarified reward.

“We are a functioning band. We can work full-time on a record. We’re all focused on this one thing that we’re going to make, with no sidestepping,” says Philpot. “Making this record has been one of the best times of my life.”    

David Wrench engineered and mixed I Love You, It’s Cool during two months at New York’s DNA. Roberto Lange, Rhys Chatham, James Elliott and Agathe Max contributed to the sounds. Dead Oceans and Hometapes will partner to co-release I Love You, It’s Cool on April 3, 2012.

- Grayson Currin

Bear In Heaven by Shawn Brackbill

Megafaun Announce US & EU Tours!
On the road February through April in continued support of Megafaun

The thing about Megafaun’s self-titled album, released on Hometapes last September: it keeps getting better. The double LP’s crisp corners have softened, and you’ve listened to “Get Right” so many times that it plays in your head when the room is quiet. The album that Phil Cook, Joe Westerlund, and Brad Cook were making this time last year, under the blanket of snow of their native Wisconsin, is about to see its first Spring.

Megafaun is headed to Europe in February, and will return to the United States for their first complete nationwide tour in support of Megafaun in March and April. Dates below. More US dates and additional support to be announced in the coming weeks. 

Megafaun EU Tour:

02/01/12 – Groningen, Netherlands @ Vera
02/02/12 – Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique Club
02/03/12 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Doornroosje
02/04/12 – Charloi, Belgium @ L’ Eden
02/05/12 – Gent, Belgium @ Kunstencentrum Vooruit
02/06/12 – Luxembourg @ Rock Hall Cafe
02/07/12 – Schorndorf, Germany @ Club Manufaktur
02/08/12 – Munich, Germany @ Das Provisum
02/09/12 – Madonna, Italy @ Bronson
02/11/12 – Senigalliano, Italy @ Gratis
02/12/12 – Roma, Italy @ Angelo Mai
02/14/12 – Zurich, Switzerland @ El Lokal
02/15/12 – Paris, France @ Cafe de la Danse
02/16/12 – Nantes, France @ Maison de l’Entudiantes
02/17/12 – Rennes, France @ Ubu
02/18/12 – Bordeaux, France @ Le Rocher de Palmer
02/19/12 – Santander, Spain @ Cafe de las Artasz
02/20/12 – Zaragoza, Spain @ Lata de Bombilla
02/21/12 – Barcelona, Spain @ Sidecar
02/22/12 – Valencia, Spain @Sala Loco
02/23/12 – Madrid, Spain @ Club Moby Dick
02/24/12 – Lisbon, Portugal @ Music Box

Megafaun US Tour:

03/15/12 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat #
03/16/12 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s #
03/17/12 – New York City, NY @ Highline Ballroom #
03/18/12 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott #
03/21/12 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas
03/22/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
03/23/12 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
03/24/12 – Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
03/27/12 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
03/28/12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
03/30/12 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
03/31/12 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
04/03/12 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
04/04/12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
04/05/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater
04/06/12 – Tempe, AZ @ The Sail Inn
04/07/12 – Santa Fe, AZ @ Sol Santa Fe
04/10/12 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
04/13/12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
04/14/12 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom

# - w/ William Tyler

Photo by D.L. Anderson 

FEELS GOOD MAN :: Four new Collections of Colonies of Bees songs revealed in their Daytrotter Session, available today!

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD: Collections of Colonies of Bees Daytrotter Session

They create the audio illusion of the northern lights barreling at you as if they were in 3D and coming for you like spirits just paroled from the underworld. They don’t necessarily mean you any harm, but the feeling is that of needing to be on your toes nonetheless. The humming of these parts, these chemicals mixing and sloshing around with one another builds until there are those magical moments of unshakable catharsis, when the bonfire has reached its maximum height and its hottest heat. It’s only then that the gardeners stop stomping up and down on the soil, demanding that the trees get leafier, that the winding roads get bendier and that the skies get bluer, faster.  - Sean Moeller, Daytrotter

the never ending beginning: a hometapes holiday album

Hometapes will be at Portland’s GIFTED: A Maker’s Marketplace tomorrow, Sat. Dec. 17, from 11am til 5pm!

Come visit our booth and us! We’ll be showcasing and selling the entire Hometapes catalog, t-shirts, posters, art prints, tote bags, and more.

Click here to learn more about the event and who else will be there (among them our friends Stumptown Printers and badasses OMFGCo.).

Bear In Heaven : I Love You, It’s Cool 

“More groove, less doom.” Jon Philpot, Adam Wills, and Joe Stickney push their own evolution into a new album and a new sonic era for Bear In Heaven. 

The story. Check out SPIN Magazine today for a window into the creation of the album, including photos in the studio (by Shawn Brackbill). Look for sneak peeks of producer David Wrench (Caribou / Bat For Lashes) and contributor/legend Rhys Chatham.

Stream it now. Bear In Heaven slowed the album down by 400,000% to play exactly once — starting today and ending on release day, April 3, 2012. Vibe farming. 2710 hours to go.

We love them, it’s cool. We’re partnering with our friends at Dead Oceans to co-release I Love You, It’s Cool. Read more about us going steady on Billboard.com.

The road. Bear In Heaven announced their spring tour dates today. Get in line.

the never ending beginning :: a hometapes holiday album

We made you something.

1. Collections of Colonies of Bees “Jolly Olde St. Nicholas”
2. Doug Paisley “Winter Days”
3. Matt White “Mary Had A Baby”
4. Zorch “Last Christmas”
5. Ormonde “Angels We Have Heard On High”
6. Ape School “Cold, Cold Christmas”
7. Andrew Fitzpatrick “Toyland”
8. CYNE “Boxing Day”
9. Breathe Owl Breathe “Snow Blow”
10. Roberto C. Lange “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
11. Jon Mueller “Hallelujah”
12. Slaraffenland “Feliz Navidad”
13. The Caribbean “What Child Is This”
14. Brad Laner & Lauren Kinney “Numen Lumen”
15. Sunless “Here Come Those Bells”
16. Oh! Pears “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”
17. Jon Minor & Jim Schoenecker “Happy Xmas (War Is Not Over)”
18. Leverage Models “Celebrant”
19. All Tiny Creatures “Deck The Halls (Mannheim Steamroller Cover)”
20. Shedding “There’s Always Tomorrow”
21. Keith Sunset “Star Shepherds”

Featuring cover art by FRIENDS WITH YOU.

FREE DOWNLOAD
Click Buy Now and feel ok about entering $0. That said, we set this up so you have the option to make a charitable donation this holiday season: 100% of proceeds collected will go to benefit Heifer Project International, an Arkansas-based organization that’s near and dear to our heart.

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How do you see the calendar in your head?
Is it a string of days or a series of boxes? Does it loop, one year into the next? Is it a wide, flat expanse? Or a mountain range of peaks and scattered canyons? Is it tethered to your memories of a paper datebook, something you fill up and file on a shelf? Do the months live in clusters of seasons, talking to each other in the shape of suns and falling leaves and the way it sounds when you can’t hear a thing but the wind?

Something about the month of December seems to make us all stand at attention. Everyone is feeling something. Everyone gets a little more honest, if not to each other then, maybe, to ourselves. Sitting in the dark by the light of a tree strung with bulbs, we can think. Or drink. Look our friends in the eye. Gather our memories in a box, worn down puzzle pieces that fit together to form a picture of our lives. Every time we pour it out onto the floor, the puzzle changes. You can put it together however you want, and, every year, you try. There’s no image on the box to mimic, just the ever-shifting landscape of what you want life to look like for yourself and the ones you love.

This year, we asked Hometapes’ family and friends to make a song for the holidays — whatever that meant to them. This is our third year doing this, and, undoubtedly, the most remarkable one yet. Over the past couple weeks, Adam and I have opened over twenty gifts: songs that push what it means to feel, and to feel Right Now. Not just those December vibes, but the experience of where we all are right this second: a world that’s somehow more infinite than it’s ever been. Maybe this has to do with our age (we’re getting older) or the nebulous nature of our geographic borders (thanks to the machine you are reading this on). Adjacent to the tools that enable us is the perspective we carry — and our lens is polished, daily, by these artists. And it has been for a decade. And before that, it was the music on the radio, the LPs in our parents’ record bin, the shows in that belvedere by the river that changed our lives, the views out the tour van window. And after this, as we swim through that dark pool between December 31 and January 1 (yeah, I see a dark pool), we’ll dry off, take a deep breath, and keep running.

Happy holidays. We hope you get exactly what you want. This can be your soundtrack.

- Sara Padgett Heathcott, Hometapes

Bear In Heaven: yes, there’s a new album.
Stereogum visits the band in the studio for a Progress Report.

Here’s an excerpt. Read the full interview with Joe, Jon, and Adam right here.

STEREOGUM: In comparison to the last record, what can you say about the vibe of this one? Does it sound a lot different?

PHILPOT: Shit, what is it? It’s a bit more up-tempo. It’s a bit faster.

WILLS: I think it’s a lot bigger than the last record, but it’s a little less masculine. It’s a little less “testosteroney.” Though, who knows if anyone else would listen to it and think that.

STICKNEY: I think there’s a little less “moody-broody” on this record.

PHILPOT: Yes, we sound way more comfortable on this record. We went in thinking that we were gonna mix Motown and Acid House. I’m not sure if that actually happened or not, but there are moments … there are some very soulful things and some very dancey moments.

STICKNEY: It definitely sounds like us. It doesn’t sound like any other band. People who have heard it have said the same thing.

WILLS: That was a concern. I was afraid that we’d be wearing our influences on our sleeves too obviously, but in the end is just comes out sounding like us.

PHILPOT: As much as I’d love sometimes to sound like some of our friend’s bands a little bit, it always just sounds like us. It’s good.

STICKNEY: It’s like, “Fuck, I guess we made another Bear In Heaven record, guys.”

STEREOGUM: When will the record be out?

WILLS: Spring. April-ish.

AU Joins the Hometapes Family // New Single Out Today // New Album Coming Spring 2012

MP3: AU “Solid Gold”

Check out the premiere on Pitchfork.

What are you hearing when you hear AU?
What are you seeing when you see AU?

These are the questions I’ve been asking myself over the past few months of getting to know Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka. Stroll down the street with them or  see them side-by-side on stage: this Portland, Oregon-based duo embodies remarkable, frantic energy. It permeates everything they touch. More than any band I’ve ever known, AU brings into question the moment and where you are in it.

AU is on the verge of the release of their third album, Both Lights, due out on Hometapes (and The Leaf Label in Europe) this coming Spring. A bona fide long-time-coming following 2008’s acclaimed LP Verbs (and still-memorable tours with Why? and Deerhoof), AU is boldly throwing open the curtains of time with their first single: “Solid Gold” is out today on a limited-edition 7” record. Fortifying Valatka’s adrenalized percussion and Wyland’s soaring vocals and multi-tentacled performance on keys and guitar, is man-machine Colin Stetson on alto and whopping bass saxophone (most recently seen on stage with Bon Iver). The B-side, a song woven by Wyland himself from a reinterpretation of the album’s lead track, takes Stetson’s wild wind a notch higher and into the brightly lit stratosphere.

AU reflects that light. “Solid Gold” is the first taste of a sweeping aural experience that captures not only the journey of Wyland and Valatka through the past three years of love, loss, and levity, but the voyage music can take us all on if we click play and just listen. “The back and forth, the tug of war for love,” writes Wyland, getting at the root of “Solid Gold”, in essence a love song, “exhausting, exhilarating, and so totally not sustainable.” Like the best songs, in some way or another, we can all sing along to that.

The AU Solid Gold 7” is limited to 500 copies. The transparent yellow-orange 45 RPM vinyl is packaged with full-color transparent cover art in a heavy PVC jacket. Digital download included.

AU Solid Gold 7”
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Side A: Solid Gold (4:31)
Side B: under/Epic (feat. Colin Stetson) (4:41)

BUY NOW:
Limited edition 7” now available from Hometapes.
Digital download now available via Bandcamp from Hometapes.
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Digital download in Europe now available from The Leaf Label.
Limited edition 7” available in Europe on January 9, 2012 from The Leaf Label.

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Photo by Sara Padgett. 

OUT TODAY :: CYNE Wasteland Vol. 1
Get the exclusive pre-order package today until 12AM PST!

The Hometapes house is alive with boxes of bright yellow tapes, piles of exquisitely printed t-shirts, and stacks of luscious art prints. This is CYNE’s new project, multiplied by the art of Justin Lovato and the support of all the fans who pre-ordered Wasteland Vol. 1 over this past month. It’s amazing — and today it’s official. 

Buy CYNE Wasteland Vol. 1…
ANALOG & DIGITAL: Hometapes (pre-order packages still available through 11:59 PM PST today, 12/6/11)

DIGITAL: iTunes, Amazon, or your favorite digital retailer.

Pictured above: the building blocks of the Wasteland Vol. 1 experience. We’ll continue to offer the cassette and t-shirt once the pre-order exclusive ends tonight.

Let us convince you…

MP3: CYNE “Enter Killmore”
MPS: CYNE “An Introspection”