MBO: Hidden Masters Under Dead Suns

It's here! The first of 5 E.P's in what we are calling the "Eris E.P Cycle". The first is "Hidden Masters Under Dead Suns" and is available for upload for free by clicking one of the images to the right of this posting.

We will post lyrics for this album as well as a final posting of all the Recording Diary entries later in the week. Honest.

Enjoy!

Double Dog Dare

If you say this to someone today then you rule:

You: Did you hear??

Person: What?

You: Michael jackson is DEAD!

Person: ...

You: Did you know that he wrote Thriller?

Person: ...

You: He wrote Thriller

Courtesy of Gomes

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Atlas Obscura

Delightful web site.

"The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist."

Link

A Visual Study

Im deep into album art thoughts these days, what makes good ones, what makes bad ones. It's funny but I don't like many of the album covers from artists I adore (Tom Waits, The Beatles) and love some stuff from artists who I find forgettable at best (Spirtualized).

I guess the main rule for me is the imagery has to be evocative of something. I tend to love the other worldly and the high concept. The two often don't meet..but they share the same shelf in my aesthetic record collection.

So here's some imagery that I love. Of course the works of Hipgnosis, (Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell) make repeated showings as well as some of 4AD's (Vaughan Oliver) stuff.

Enoch Light

Michael Jackson Dead?

Just heard...

RIP

How To Get The Girl Back.

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Laugh Ah Monkey Boy. Laugh

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