Haven't felt pure bliss in what seems like forever? Now you can, in a conveniently labeled package:
Our debut album is out now (read: DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW!), available to buy exclusively through Lazyline Media, so far ahead of its release date, that we can't even see far enough into the future to know when the release date IS! Now THAT's advance ordering!
You'll have to take it from us until you get your own copy, but the CD looks beautiful. You've seen the cover, no doubt, but on the sleek digipak, Eleanor Grosch's design is nothing short of stunning. And if that wasn't enough, she even made us some computer desktop images of the cover, so that when you go scurrying for that spreadsheet with the numbers from the Norman deal for your screaming battleaxe of a boss, you can take a second to soothe out on the beautiful artwork:
There just doesn't seem like a good way to really make this announcement out to be as big of a deal as it is to us. It's been two and a half years since we started recording it, and the fact that it's out and done and looks and sounds so great and all grownup professional causes no end of bliss in us. Which is one of the reasons that we called it "Bliss!"
But...along the way, beers were drank and jokes were made and the number of times that someone yelled out, "That should be our album title!" are too many to count. We wish we could remember them all, but the times were usually a little too hazy to think clearly enough to write most of them down. Some of them we remembered, though, along with some submissions by folks in our lives and on this email list. Take a look at a few of our favorites, as well as a couple of covers that didn't make the cut (including the TV-star-graced cover by Christian that should have been):
There is, of course, also a CD release show to be had, because we're suckers for tradition like that. We'll be playing on Saturday, August 20th at DC9 and we'll have CDs to sell and (fingers crossed that the UPS works fast) some Eleanor Grosch-designed t-shirts for you. It should not be missed. It's a big enough deal that we'll remind you of it before it happens.
Enjoy it all.
Long-windedly yours,
The Positions