yeesh, some of you guys are pretty harsh. i'm not morally opposed to downloading (pretty much the opposite), but it's not like you just bought the album expecting something else...

If i thought it was just a "noise record" i wouldnt put it out. If your just passing judgment cause of what youve heard other people say you should atleast check out the record.

...and seeing that new david lynch movie, so if youre that bummed you can blame the weather and david lynch.

If there wasnt so much hype and so much of an expectation for us to put out this killer "experimental pop record" ...

by the way, i don't really like A MAN IN A ROOM... i guess you're talking about Gavin Bryars, right?
but the JESUS' BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET record is as beautiful and good as fuck.

everyone who likes the real version should buy the cd, and everyone one who likes the songs played forward should get the vinyl and spin it backwards themselves.

i am sitting in a room is lucier

keep in mind, ol tare tried to convince us that "my singing voice is gone" was noah. buttt, i am kind of curious if one of the kira vocal songs got on the album, naturally, i dont want to ruin the surprise until i can buy it, but its the one where's shes all like "woo-oo-wooo-oo wooo-ooo-wooo-ooo"
Anyone?

Its also clear that the bulk of our fanbase is able to put the thing on their computers and listen to it the other way so its not as if we didnt know that was gonna happen either. we dont think it should be heard that way cause songs are sped up, dont have vocals etc. but we know that wont stop you so do what you like, and in a way that is cool.

Prospect Hummer is a good one live from what Ive heard.

we dont think it should be heard that way cause songs are sped up, dont have vocals etc.

Its not really an issue of prefering the songs backwards. Its more of the fact that this is a release we wanted to put out. It has a foreign/other quality and as you said nice warm ambient quality that we like. I wouldnt really say its a noise record. Ive put tons and tons of work into songs noone will ever hear why should it stop me from doing what i want with them. its just because you guys know the songs and can even hear them reversed on your computers that makes you have all these confused thoughts. If you couldnt download bootlegs of the songs and couldnt hear them reversed then you would just say fuck this record sucks..or cool this record rules and youd let it grow on you or you wouldnt. Youd find a place where it works or you wouldnt. Its not hard to flip a reel around and hear it backwards or even decide that it sounds sweet and its not really that bizzare of a record either or that difficult if you can get over the fact that its backwards you dont even need a computer. If you just pass it off as backwards sure ofcourse its not revolutionary or "experimental" youve been able to flip tape for more or less almost 100 years now why would i think its experimental??? Ive heard "i am sitting in a room" okay, i know what experimental music is (hehehe joke).
Its also clear that the bulk of our fanbase is able to put the thing on their computers and listen to it the other way so its not as if we didnt know that was gonna happen either. we dont think it should be heard that way cause songs are sped up, dont have vocals etc. but we know that wont stop you so do what you like, and in a way that is cool.
If there wasnt so much hype and so much of an expectation for us to put out this killer "experimental pop record" then alot of you might never even hear about this record. But wed still be into it and would have faith that some people would too.
we offer this cause we think it is somthing special we made (as equally special as the songs forward) and different from what youve heard and songs that you can get else where. We like the textures and the melodies. And honestly somthing we think our fans can digest. If i thought it was just a "noise record" i wouldnt put it out. If your just passing judgment cause of what youve heard other people say you should atleast check out the record.

by the way it was the 21st of december when we decided this. I think it was a combination of of being stuck in nyc for christmas and seeing that new david lynch movie, so if youre that bummed you can blame the weather and david lynch.

http://webspace.utexas.edu/cs5676/chordata...paiamsstuff.mp3

We recorded this outside at midnight with a crap computer mic placed in between the two of us sitting on the ground recording into audacity.

So what do you think.

glad you think so.

(for some pleasing sounds also try listening in reverse.)

guys (girls and boys men and women), there are alot more interesting things to talk about. The cross and the swastika are probably derived from the same symbol and probably mean somthing close to the same thing. Human beings are quickly destroying the earths whale and fish populations as well as alot of its other natural recources. Its one thing to read into a record that touches you and try and figure it out but to to spend so much time arguing about a record that you claim isnt even worth listening to. I dont get it.

Ive put tons and tons of work into songs noone will ever

...
however I respect their wanting to release it as they choose. I mean it is their music and their album...
They are artists.
I wouldn't tell Picasso to keep painting paintings from the Blue period, would I?! even if I like them blue.
An artist has to move on, no matter what the audience thinks or wants.


the good thing is that you get a doublealbum for the price of one! : )
I am still waiting for it to be released so I can order it from Paw Tracks.
2 more months to kill...

just goes to show if you try something original or different, everyone is going to doubt its seriousness. kinda puts the future of creativity in jeopardy if people expect to get burned at the stake for doing something they feel passionate about. thankfully, avey doesn't care and can brush all these haters off.