It looks like my last post was waaaaaaaay back in March and it was for another music release that's near and dear to my heart, my man Matthew Mercer's second full-length solo album, 'Supernatant,' an album of winter beauty, ambient, droney, and melancholic. It was an album for that season and a beauty you should check out here.
Winter gave way to spring gave way to the hottest summer on record in Portland, Ore. (so far; we did break the June record for heat.) Summer gives way to partying and dancing and fun and shaking off those rainy blues. We, as a band, welcomed the chance to bring out something shiny and new. It had been two years since our last album release, 2013's AggroPastels. We'd been making tracks since the Christmas holidays and perfecting a ten-song release that moves away from the more complex, lush, and sometimes downbeat, sometimes broken beats of the last album. Less pastel, more neon.
For this new album, '1,000,000 Neon Hz' we decided to make the songs more streamlined, less noisy and full, and more sleek, slick, and glossy. Hence the title's operative word: neon.
We wanted to make a ten-track (our shortest album since our debut) piece that really concentrates on the dancefloor. No ballads or midtempo songs. Even the haunting sounds of the closing track 'Unreliable Narrator' has a 4/4 beat underneath. The whole album has that cold, bright glow of neon. That was the goal. Mission accomplished.
You can buy the album on Bandcamp for $9; on iTunes for $9.99. If streaming is your thing, take a listen at Soundcloud.
We appreciate you listening and purchasing if you can. We're a DIY, word-of-mouth band and this is how we keep going. Please support if you can. Thanks! xo MK
