Greetings and happy spring to you all!
We’d like to announce the long-overdue re-release of our 2021 album LEAVING CALIFORNIA, offering up a new, EXPANDED EDITION on this, its 5-year anniversary. The new version is available via bandcamp and now through all the usual streaming sites.
When the band reformed in Vermont back in 2022, we adapted two songs from this album for our live sets, changing the instrumentation and adding new material. Although recorded in the studio, these new versions contain minimal overdubs and production, to better represent the immediacy of the live band.
Leaving California may be our sunniest, most heartfelt album to date, and we’re happy to finally be able to bring it back out into the light. We’d like to invite you to give it a fresh listen.
https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-california-expanded
Also, in case you missed it, we released a single back in March, re-imagining of a song from our very first album called HALF LIFE.
Half Life started back in 2004 when our housemate used a fork to pry seafood from dry ice. Who knew such crazy sounds would occur when dry ice meets stainless steel? We messed around with this minor miracle for as long as the ice lasted, recording our improvisations onto minidisc, and a little while later I assembled the samples into a beat. This matched the tempo of a kind of spikily melancholic song I’d been working on, and Half Life was born.
I’m not sure I completely endorse the fundamental cynicism of this song two decades later, but the dread entombed in these images and melodies still haunts me such that I felt it deserved a second thrashing. A song about the impossibility of ever truly outrunning the past, to be listened to at dusk.
https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/track/half-life-2026-version
Take care, and happy listening!
JOTC