Attention, rabid fanbase! Zed Narley has a new member. Her name is Skippy Wasslow, and her position is vocalist, along with Cthulhu (and myself, Zimmy, on occasion), which should be enough for the initiate to figure out who we’re talking about.

So let’s give a big hand for Skippy. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

The album is now available for free download.

But don’t do it.

Smauel labelled the songs with improper capitalization. Instead, download the songs from our PureVolume page, to which I’m currently uploading properly capitalized MP3s. Unless, of course, you don’t care at all. You should, though. Also, there appears to be some compatibility problems with the MP3s and Windows Media Player 11; the album art doesn’t show up and neither does the list of composers. The composers we can’t really fix, but if you’re a WMP 11 user and you want that album art, copy the image from the previous blog post and paste it into the album art box.

You may notice as well that we’ve renovated the site. It’s still under construction, so watch for updates. And if you’re an Internet Explorer user, you may notice that it looks terrible. Don’t worry, we are working on that, although you really should be using Firefox. 😀 In the meantime, we updated our “About” page on the blog, so go read that.

Enjoy the musicks.

–Zimmy

EDIT: Never mind, you are gonna have to download them from the main site… a couple of songs are too big to fit on PureVolume. Oh well, just edit the ID tags or somethin’. 😛

EDIT #2: Yeah, edit the ID tags. The titles for some of the songs get clipped in WMP apparently…

EDIT #3: Hey, has anyone heard the new Metallica and AC/DC singles?

Well, it’s done. We’ve finished Big Cardboard Robot. It’ll be available for download on the main site and PureVolume this Tuesday. Physical copies are on the radar screen, but won’t be available in the near future as far as we can tell. (And BTW, you people who downloaded “The System is Down” and “Back to the Abacus” from PureVolume will want to re-download anyway; significant changes have been made to both.)

What can I say? It’s been a lot of fun and a lot of… not fun. One track in particular was absolutely 100% (well, at least 98%) not fun. But we’re proud of this album, and while it may not be a great album, we all agree that it’s a decent album.

The recording process for this album has to be one of the most random, disjointed ones in history, and we have many entertaining and memorable stories concerning it (like recording “The System” outside Mar Smauel’s chicken coop, or Nevik improvising a bridge by saying, “Let’s try some bar chords,” or Cthulhu and me trying to figure out how Smauel wanted his lyrics sung). There’s too much to recount in one blog post. So, um, I guess I’ll stop trying and just shut up now.

Until Tuesday, here’s the album art for you to salivate over:

Thanks to all our friends, families, and groupies for their continual support. Especially the groupies. 😀 jk, jk…

This here’s the last single from Big Cardboard Robot: Back to the Abacus. That link redirects, once again, to our PureVolume page, where you can download the song and/or listen to a highly compressed version of it.

We’ve press-ganged, er, hired a new member. His name is Cthulhu, he was part of the original jamming session that spawned the band, and he’s gonna sing, because I’ve discovered that I really can’t sing most of our songs.

So everybody give a big hand to Cthulhu.

–Zimmy

There’s a link to our PureVolume page on the main site, where you can listen to and download our first single, “The System is Down”.

–Zimmy