"Fan,
The subject line basically says it all. After almost 3 years of work "Anarchitecture" is finally finished and ready. This is our third album and the first to be recorded in our own studio and the first to be professionally mixed and mastered. Not to say that 'Weapon of the Future' and 'Liberty' weren't awesome, but "Anarchitecture" sounds so much better. I can't really even tell you how excited we are to have it ready to go.
That's the good news. The even better news is that from now until the album releases on August 31 we're offering 2 tracks we recorded in our first sessions for Anarchitecture - way back in 2009 with our old lineup - as free bonus tracks for people who pre-order. These songs were just too good to leave unreleased but we didn't want to put them out earlier because we weren't sure whether we'd be re-recording them or not. As it turned out, it's damn hard to improve on something that's already perfect so we didn't re-do them. Grab the album now and they're yours.
The album is radio friendly (no curse words), partly because we know a lot of ya'll prefer it that way and partly because we figured it wasn't worth the expense to create 2 versions.
"Anarchitecture" is name-your-own-price with a $5 minimum. Call it sliding scale, throw what you can in the hat and enjoy the music. We're counting on ya'll to support us - we had to front a pretty heft chunk of change for mixdowns and mastering to get this album sounding right. We think it was worth it, we hope you'll agree.
In other news:
If you haven't already seen it, we posted the complete unedited video of our set at the Laurel solstice festival on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsEysQDM1yE#
The music actually starts at 1:20 in, feel free to skip ahead. Tracks are:
Left Coast (1:20)
Speed & Adrenalin (5:31)
Supersized (8:37)
Quit my Job (13:50)
Loose, loud, low (18:52)
Bard, Poet, Rapper, Scribe (25:08)
Crime & Punishment (30:00)
I'm an Anarchist (34:03)
Most of those are from the new album.
Lastly, I'd like to take a second and say "fuck the police" real quick. And that includes the police in San Francisco who shot and killed a man for evading bus fare a few weeks back (http://www.ktvu.com/news/28573517/detail.html) and the Met police in London who blew a mans head off last week and sparked the riots that are currently burning England down. I can't claim any kind of inside knowledge about either shooting but I can say that the world would be a much better and freeer place if the governments of the world were scared of the people instead of the people being scared of the police. Looting doesn't make revolutions. But I don't think there's ever been a revolution that didn't include at least a bit of looting.
All the 'buy our album!' sales talk aside, the real point of this music is to help build a vision of a better more free and more just world. I've done the best I can with these lyrics - not just on this album but on every album I've released in the last decade - to help lay a blueprint for what that better world might look like. I hope you'll will support that vision and that effort and even more I hope you'll enjoy the songs.
Thanks for listening and reading,
Lynx
for Beltaine's Fire"
http://beltainesfire.com
http://beltainesfire.bandcamp.com
http://emceelynx.com
http://emceelynx.beltainesfire.com
.
That's the good news. The even better news is that from now until the album releases on August 31 we're offering 2 tracks we recorded in our first sessions for Anarchitecture - way back in 2009 with our old lineup - as free bonus tracks for people who pre-order. These songs were just too good to leave unreleased but we didn't want to put them out earlier because we weren't sure whether we'd be re-recording them or not. As it turned out, it's damn hard to improve on something that's already perfect so we didn't re-do them. Grab the album now and they're yours.
The album is radio friendly (no curse words), partly because we know a lot of ya'll prefer it that way and partly because we figured it wasn't worth the expense to create 2 versions.
"Anarchitecture" is name-your-own-price with a $5 minimum. Call it sliding scale, throw what you can in the hat and enjoy the music. We're counting on ya'll to support us - we had to front a pretty heft chunk of change for mixdowns and mastering to get this album sounding right. We think it was worth it, we hope you'll agree.
In other news:
If you haven't already seen it, we posted the complete unedited video of our set at the Laurel solstice festival on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsEysQDM1yE#
The music actually starts at 1:20 in, feel free to skip ahead. Tracks are:
Left Coast (1:20)
Speed & Adrenalin (5:31)
Supersized (8:37)
Quit my Job (13:50)
Loose, loud, low (18:52)
Bard, Poet, Rapper, Scribe (25:08)
Crime & Punishment (30:00)
I'm an Anarchist (34:03)
Most of those are from the new album.
Lastly, I'd like to take a second and say "fuck the police" real quick. And that includes the police in San Francisco who shot and killed a man for evading bus fare a few weeks back (http://www.ktvu.com/news/28573517/detail.html) and the Met police in London who blew a mans head off last week and sparked the riots that are currently burning England down. I can't claim any kind of inside knowledge about either shooting but I can say that the world would be a much better and freeer place if the governments of the world were scared of the people instead of the people being scared of the police. Looting doesn't make revolutions. But I don't think there's ever been a revolution that didn't include at least a bit of looting.
All the 'buy our album!' sales talk aside, the real point of this music is to help build a vision of a better more free and more just world. I've done the best I can with these lyrics - not just on this album but on every album I've released in the last decade - to help lay a blueprint for what that better world might look like. I hope you'll will support that vision and that effort and even more I hope you'll enjoy the songs.
Thanks for listening and reading,
Lynx
for Beltaine's Fire"
http://beltainesfire.com
http://beltainesfire.bandcamp.com
http://emceelynx.com
http://emceelynx.beltainesfire.com
.
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