slowburn

The Slowburn album is up on iTunes, as well as Amazon, CD Baby, and a few other places.

This was all done automatically through CD Baby’s digital distribution. It is very easy to do, and these days it is very quick. The first two releases we did this way took on the order of months to show up in iTunes. This one took a week or two. The only thing you have to do to get it set up, beyond the normal CD Baby album setup, is fill out some forms. I’ll write more on that process in a later, more detailed post about distribution, but basically it’s very easy. Getting people to actually buy it is a little bit harder…

I’m currently trying to motivate myself to make a Youtube video for one of the songs. We will need to do some more promotional work at some point.

A couple new electronic albums from Lindstromm & Thomas and The Field, both are pretty good. The L&T one is less dancey and groovy than their last release together, and more like Lindstromm’s recent solo release. It has more of a tripped out 70’s prog-synth vibe (but in a good way…) rather than krautrock/balearic/whatever disco dance madness. The Field album sounds a lot like his last one, with some production tweaks/improvements, but no knock out songs. Still a very nice record.

Also looking forward to the new Wilco and Tortoise albums coming out later this month.

Sorry for the long stretch with no new posts. Shortly before we got back the finished slowburn CDs from the manufacturer, we received the tragic news that our friend and collaborator Bryan Campbell had passed on. Bryan created the album artwork for slowburn, did the design for all of our other CD releases, played and wrote music with us, designed our website, and even originally came up with the name “submodern”. Needless to say, the loss has hit us pretty hard, so I haven’t been writing anything here recently.

I still plan to finish up the blog with a few more posts about the manufacturing and distribution process, hopefully sometime soon.

RIP Bryan.