Monday, May 22, 2017
BEGN Singles
BEGN Singles
Hey the comments section from last post was getting weird, so lets restart. Today (or thereabouts) if you dont live in Canada where there is still a postal strike, and if you ordered BEGN, and if you checked your mail, and if you have a record player, you will have received the 4 bonus 7"s that were part of the packaged. Were also selling them on tour right now. So there are still some options. Anyhow, the art on this set is pretty cool:
As Ive written on here before, this collection of records is meant to act as a prologue to David Comes to Life. We wrote these songs at the same time as the 18th that are on DCTL (other than the ones we wrote five years ago) and when we realized the record would be too long if it had 26 songs (and no, its not too long as is, in case you are gonna crack wise) so these became the prologue, meant to describe the characters and the setting in a bit more detail. Either way, your DCTL collection is incomplete without these records. The last one is "Octavio Made the Bomb" which effectively is the epilogue to DCTL. You can probably guess what its about from the title, but the lyrics kind of help explain the motivation for us writing this whole thing in the first place. Its a one-sided 7" (the first one of those weve done) and looks really cool. The missing piece is the "The Other Shoe/The Truest Road" 7" that we are also selling on tour, which tells the story of Nick Fenstle, who owns the Lightbulb Factory
Random Facts About The Artwork:
-David Eliade is Ian from the band $100
-Vivian Benson is our friend Kate who is also on the cover of "The Beat and the Pulse" by Austra
-Octavio St Laurant is a Beggars Banquet employee
-The town on th Byrdesdale 7" is where Bens real life mom was born
-Its the same lightbulb on each cover (and the back cover of DTCL, and the front)
-Nick Fenstle is Joshs Dad, and every member of Joshs family appears on the cover of DCTL
-The thing in the bottom right corner is the Fucked Up logo
Available link for download
