track list and cover art for america in chocolate's nine more songs

i've finished the final mix of the new america in chocolate album. i've been working on the album sporadically since october, but started concentrated work in may. the last couple of weeks have been devoted to testing out mixes on different audio set ups to get a more consistent sound than either previous release.
the cover art's above, the track list is below.
the album will also come with a twelve page pdf that included annotated lyrics, which i finished last night.
listen to earlier mixes of three songs from the album here.

HISS Volume Six

the final volume of the hiss series
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"Simon Smith And the Amazing Dancing Bear" by Harry Nilsson
"You'll Never Change" by Betty LaVette
"Sophie" by Victoire Scott
"Lung Dee Kee Mao (Uncle Dee Is a Drunk)" by P. Promdan
"L'idole des Jaunes" by Stella
"Algo Mais" by Os Mutantes
"Forget It" by the Sandpebbles
"Don't Pity Me" by Darrell Cotton
"I'll Be On My Way" by Bob & Fred

gleams's eternal hiss is forthcoming

Covers Digital 7"

over spring break i covered beach house and tim & eric
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CNME

Here is a new song from America In Chocolate called "CNME." Hopefully it won't be called that for long.
It will be on the new album whenever that comes out.
Download it here.

gleams reissues

As part of the run up to Eternal Hiss, I have been kind of quietly reissuing old recordings at the gleams bandcamp for free download. This includes old CD-r and tape releases that were available at shows and limited to twenty-something copies as well as recordings that were only circulated among friends or posted as low quality mp3s on the internet. These recordings stretch from 2006-2010 (I spent 2011 on America In Chocolate and 2012 recording, but not releasing anything). This reissue series began with the Endless Teen revision posted last year and includes three albums, three eps, two mini albums, and a single.
I'm working on a two volume mixtape of unreleased or uncollected material. These tapes will include covers, outtakes, experiments, live tracks, and good songs to which I lost the master files. I will release these tapes around the time I release the final archival project--Uncollected: 2006-2012. This release will see a very limited (10 copies) tape release with the tape releases of Endless Teen and Young Neil, hopefully within the next couple of months (I have the undubbed tapes sitting in my bedroom). It will be released digitally sometime after Eternal Hiss.
Here is the track list for the compilation in chronological order to this final archival release.

HISS VOLUME FIVE

Well, here's volume five as well. This mixtape series is, I guess, to promote that the name of the new gleams record is Eternal Hiss. Things that were recorded on tape and that sound that way––just like the album.
"Miserere Nobis" by Gilberto Gil
"See You Tonight" by The Wizards
"One Hundred Years From Now" by the Gosdin Brothers
"Go To Hell" by Nina Simone
"Perfume Bottles" by Galt MacDermot
"Singing a Song In the Morning" (Single Version) by Kevin Ayers
"A Girl Among Girls" by Lashio Thein
"Please Hurt Me" by the Crystals
"Just To Satisfy You" by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
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HISS VOLUMES THREE AND FOUR

Yikes. Sorry. I posted put these out back in May. Here they are. 

"Honky Tonky Cha Cha" by Esquivel
"Who Shot the La La" by Oliver Morgan
"4th Dimension" by Victoire Scott
"And I Will Love You" by the Kinks
"Gincho Wataridori" by Meiko Kaji
"Work Is a Four Letter Word" by Cilla Black
"BL Movement" by Blacklites
"I’m Gonna Gitcha" by Chip Willis and Double Exposure
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"Me and My Arrow" by Harry Nilsson
"Honey Boy" by Ruth Brown
"Kwuan Tai Duew Luk Puen" by Chailai Chaiyata and Sawanee Patana
"Democustico" by Marcos Valle
"White Lightning" by George Jones
"Teenie Weenie" by Sir Lattimore Brown
"I’ll Call You Mine" by The Zombies
"You Got What You Got" by Lashio Thein Aung
"The One To Cry" by The Escorts

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SAT 006: Manikin+6 EP

An ep centered around the back half of "Owls/Manikin" from last year's America In Chocolate album is now available.
Download here.
A new AIC album is forthcoming.