Hi friends, re: my last post, thanks for receiving a thing that I felt. I’m still feeling it and there is also a lot of love and humanity here that I don’t want to discount. I’m grateful for you all.
I love music so much. I’m working on some projects around rewilding it. There is so much depth that isn’t represented on these platforms. The algo selects for thirst traps while context is reduced to caption. Meanwhile Palantir scrapes your posts on behalf of DHS, Spotify profits fund AI military technology, & so on.
Before I step away for a bit - my record came out last week and I want to mention the wonderful people involved below. All my love to you & I’ll be back when I have something to show.
Music @luckyluckystrike__@tanukichanmusic@rabiesworldwide@mattytatteo@malickkoly@heathband@the3elements__
Master @alecness
Design @ryanbugden
Photography @eveeclem
this was going to be a post about releasing a new song today but i’m struggling to compartmentalize genocide, starvation, insanity. fuck hulk hogan. fuck the will to power that corrupts human compassion. the numbness is real but periodically the incoherence strikes you afresh and makes you wince at the incongruity of promoting pop music on a platform owned by a pathetic person who debased themself to curry the favor of an evil government that is directly facilitating the extermination of a people.
I’m working on a plan to leave ig later this year because, in addition to feeling like i’m fractionally helping to enrich a banally evil person, it makes me feel spiritually dead.
sorry to throw a grenade in your TL but the soul dissonance is real
Excited to announce three AETC shows this autumn. We will be playing heavily from each LP, including most of Mind Out Wandering, which has its 10th anniversary (!) this year. There might be a re-press and we might have the reunited the og MOW lineup. Stay tuned..
Joining us in SF & LA are @mare_music , whose cross genre approach & sincerity really resonate for me. Check out “i dont wanna talk”, “Angel Eyes” & “you’d rather die” for starters.
We’re also lucky to have @ravenifuwill DJing our LA show. Raven is a multi hyphenate artist and all around inspiring human being 💟
Ok - ticket links in bio & more info to come !
(Show poster by @ryanbugden 🖼️)
9/20 Big Sur @ 2 Days of Music
@folkyeahevents
10/3 LA @ Lodge Room
@lodgeroom
10/23 @ Bottom of the Hill
@bottomofthehillsf@throwinbossf
Professional Void, the first AETC LP in seven years, is a product of modern tensions. The internet eats the world as its denizens crave the real. Side A tilts toward cloud rock while side B reaches back for earth. The two sit together in reflection of the dissonant efforts to reconcile our embodied and projected selves.
Lead single “St. Terese” out today on all platforms. Vinyl preorders available on Bandcamp.
design @ryanbugden
master @alecness
