Sunday, February 14, 2010

DOUBLE RELEASE: JUST LAUGH and CAUSE IT DON'T HAVE HELP YOU

i have not been as diligent as usual in updating the site as of late, but that doesn't mean i have been any less productive. what with the flurry of recent day sleeper activity it's been a little difficult to keep up with TMM; i know i've been promising an endless ocean of stars for nearly half a year now but i'm being a perfectionist about it and am finalizing some of the tracks. until then i present you with two brand new releases:

cause it don't half help you

a mid-winter snack. this was briefly titled music not therapy, because it's really not; to create is certainly a vital outlet for, you know, feelings and other such nonsense, but if there is something to say it will still always need to be said, until it's... said. these sounds are manifest frustration.

download aestatis - cause it don't half help you



tracklist:

1. the soldier boys
2. this what?
3. ?!
4. i make you sick do i
5. turn turn turn

sample credits: explosions in the sky, men & volts, anne briggs, beat happening, robert blumenfeld, junichi masuda, lu chunling, broken social scene, gang of four, bikini kill, the album leaf, flying saucer attack

cover photo by christy romanick

just laugh

before the new year was a low period. i came back to montreal after new year a new person. these songs are a mixture of my self-loathing from the down winter and my renewed optimism from the new year. other than "i promise you," which dates from the history of the moon period, and "banking education," which is another cover of my extraordinarily talented friend shai erlichman, these songs are symptoms of those feelings. some of them are high-minded, others nonsense, and still others both; specific people are invoked in some of them too, and they know who they are.

download cas kaplan - just laugh



tracklist:

1. just laugh
2. no you're right
3. weeping willow in ilion weeping
4. o iva
5. banking education you won't suck the sweet life out of me
6. nothing
7. by jove
8. i promise you

all songs by cas kaplan, except track 5 by shai erlichman. additional vocals on track 5 by lara oundjian.

cover photo by maggie may(bury)