SAT 015: America In Chocolate's Nine New Songs

It's finally here, the second America In Chocolate album.
This is probably the best thing I've ever done and I don't think I have to say anything else about it, but it comes with a 17 page pdf of lyrics, notes, and pictures and SAT 008, the "Cuddle City Rollers" video.

Download and stream the album here.

SAT 014: Love Songs About Monsters Single

This was supposed to be the April SAT release, but had to be remixed, so it is the first of two May releases. More Eternal Hiss outtakes, though it should be evident that they were never considered for the album.

 

"Dee El Ess" means DLS, which means Demon Love Song. "Geryon Spring" is about the mythological monster at the center of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. 

Download the single here.

SAT 013: Sad Cutie Song Single

Released in March, this is the second wide-release single from America In Chocolate's Nine New Songs. The version of "Sad Cutie Song" featured here is over twice as long as the album version. It also includes a cover of Cat Power's cover of "Sea Of Love".
You can listen or download here.

SAT 012: The Humble Ambitions Single

Three short and very different Eternal Hiss outtakes (to add to the four released on Margin Doodles).
Download it here.

SAT 011: Margin Doodles Compilation

Released in January, Margin Doodles is a nearly hour long album of unreleased songs from 2006 to 2012.

Download it here.

Airplane Mix

made in the last thirty minutes of a plane ride
download here
tracklist
"In My Lonely Room" The Larks
"Leave Everywhere" Toro Y Moi
"My Baby Wants Me Dead" Vivian Girls
"I've Lost You" Beat Happening
"I Am Controlled By Your Love" Helene Smith
"Brand - New - Life" Young Marble Giants
"L.O.V.E. Love" Orange Juice
"Israelites" Desmond Dekker
"Double-O-Seven" The Detergents
"Coffee Cold" Galt MacDermot

Valentine's 2014

this is, what, the tenth annual bad valentine's day mix i've made?
this one is all women and i tried some more dj-ish stuff on this one.

possibly the last valentine's mix i'll make.

download here and here

tracklist
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (Read by James Merrill because I couldn't find a recording of Bishop)
"Lovers In the Parking Lot" by Solange
"You're Not the One" by Sky Ferreira
"Too Hurt To Cry" by Candi Staton
"Kid" by The Pretenders
"Small Town Girl" by Ejecta
"I Used To Love Him" by Lauryn Hill
"The End" by Sibylle Baier
"Sweaters" by Laurie Anderson
"Cloud Aura" (Interlude) by Brooke Candy
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift
"I'm Out" by Ciara featuring Nicki Minaj
"Aaliyah" by Katy B featuring Jessie Ware
"I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" by the Ronettes

Eternal Hiss Is Finally Mixed

SAT 010: America In Chocolate's cassette EP in an edition of one

a couple of days ago, i posted a video of a snippet of a new america in chocolate song. this is the second single for nine more songs.

unlike other singles, it will only be available on a single cassette tape until the release of the album. the scarce single seems like a decent gimmick.

also on the tape are four previously unreleased songs (including the "rare" piano demo for never go outside again's "toplesspic.png") and the only planned physical release of the two versions of "cnme" from the digital 12".
i'm not sure what i'm going to do with this tape. i may just leave it somewhere.

ten, i suppose is one of those nice, round numbers people like to use to commemorate things, so maybe it's "fitting" or something that the tenth release from streets ahead tapes is the first actual tape release.

SAT 009: Matchbook Poem

This is a poem called "Book of Idea."
There is one word for each match.
It comes in an edition of five.
This is the second non-music related release from Streets Ahead.

SAT 008: America In Chocolate's "Cuddle City Rollers" Video

here is a video i shot one day in august for the first song on the forthcoming america in chocolate album

SAT 007: CNME Extended Mix Single

I really like extended dance remixes of songs, so I made one for "CNME", the single from America In Chocolate's Nine More Songs.

It also includes a short pdf booklet.

Download the "virtual 12"" here.

A Pre-SAT Album (Another Archival Release)

This is the first album I made.
Tin Nurse was a band I was in in high school with a friend of mine.
The album was finished while I was also working on the first gleams album, which is something of a companion to this album.
We never did anything with the album aside from burning some cd-rs because we thought it was really terrible. It is not terrible.
On the bandcamp there is also a song we recorded in 2009 (while I was worked on Endless Teen and we recorded a live gleams ep together) and we might put up another short release from the same time soon.
For a few years we would played an annual New Year's show since that was one of the few times we and the people we knew would all be together.
We haven't recorded any new material since 2009, but I think we both consider it an ongoing project.

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
stream here
download here

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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