“Oh, To Be Weightless in the Sky“, our 5th record, is now available to preorder on Bandcamp! The full release date is October 21, and it you preorder now you’ll have instant access when it’s released. Additionally, we’ll be mailing out all prerelease CD’s a couple of days in advance.

Preorder today and get an instant download of the track from this video:

Next month (October) we’ll be releasing our fifth EP “Oh, To Be Weightless in the Sky”. Five songs, available to buy as a CD or digital download on Bandcamp (and streaming at the usual places). We’ll also have copies before the release day at our next show.

We spent some time this spring and early summer recording a small batch of songs with Seattle’s legendary Jack Endino, for release this fall. Related – we’ve got a cool show coming up with (also Seattle and also legendary) Love Battery, to celebrate the vinyl re-release of their “Dayglo” record. Also on the bill are Purple Strange, which Jack Endino plays in, which kind of ties this post all together. In addition, that’s the week we’ll be releasing this new 5-song EP, so you can grab a copy at the show!

The show is Saturday, October 15, at the recently-redesigned Sunset Tavern, and it might be a good one to get your tickets in advance for.

We’ve teased this a bit on social media without the release date, so you’re hearing it here first: we’re releasing a new single on Friday, August 6th!

The lead track “Treading Water” will be available on Bandcamp, of course, as well as via all the usual digital distribution and streaming sites. But we have a special gift for those who buy the song directly from us on Bandcamp – a second track that’s a really cool remix of our song When It’s All from our Connected Heavens EP, created by the drone/ambient master Obscure Colors.

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We’re finishing up the final touches on our new 4-song EP “Connected Heavens”. Recorded and mixed by us, in our homes. Making the most of quarantine. Release date TBD.

Wow, last post was September. The pandemic really put the hammer down and smashed a lot of plans. The LP is partially recorded, and on hold at the moment. But we’ve been doing a lot of home recording, and we’re hoping we’ll be able to finish up the LP in the safety of our little bubbles. In the meantime, we’ve been practicing with some other songs that were cool little things that we’ve noodled around with, but were never things we’d play live so we never tried to develop them before. We’re currently finishing up mixing an eclectic 4-song EP, which should be out in March. This will be followed by a single with a remix b-side. And then hopefully our full LP this fall. Fortunately all the drums for the LP were done, so we should be able to record the vocals and few remaining guitar tracks at home.

The pandemic has definitely shaken things up, but we’re grateful that we’ve all been able to stay healthy. We hope you have been able to stay healthy too.

What a long, strange year it’s been – live music has been hit really hard due to the necessary distancing restrictions. We already miss playing shows SO MUCH, but we’re trying to make the best of a bad situation by focusing on getting a large batch of songs recorded for what will be our first “LP” release. These songs run the gamut from a couple of our earliest compositions that didn’t fit with the previous EPs, some things we’ve been playing live for a while, to our first quarantine-based track (which takes our sound in a slightly different direction).

We actually had time scheduled to record this spring, but when the pandemic hit it seemed safest to cancel until more was known. Since then, we’ve all been isolating pretty well to the point where we felt safe to get together for practice sessions in one of our basements. This lead to a honing of the songs, and made the recording of our basic tracks go really smoothly.

We still have the usual way-too-many guitar overdubs to do, and all the singing, plus mixing in some crafty auxiliary percussion tracks – so don’t expect to see this record until next year. In the meantime, here are some photos from the first studio sessions.