{"id":2571,"date":"2023-04-03T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:05:52","slug":"new-album-electrical-gremlin-releasing-april-7th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/new-album-electrical-gremlin-releasing-april-7th-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New Album, Electrical Gremlin, Releasing April 7th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2572 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Electrical-Gremlin-Cover-Draft-V2-4000px-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This coming Friday\u2014April 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u2014I will be releasing a new album of music, entitled <em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em>.\u00a0 The new album is up <a href=\"https:\/\/alexlafollett.bandcamp.com\/album\/electrical-gremlin\">on my Bandcamp page<\/a>, where you can also preview (and buy with pre-order) the third track on the album, &#8220;Poltergeist Activity&#8221;.\u00a0 (And yes, I did the cover art myself.)\u00a0 If you buy on release day, it happens to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/features\/bandcamp-fridays-update\">Bandcamp Friday<\/a>, during which Bandcamp waives their fees.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=73513043\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=2ebd35\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>It will also be up on the streaming services, too&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/alexlafollett\/electrical-gremlin?utm_source=SendGrid&amp;utm_medium=Email+&amp;utm_campaign=website\">here is a pre-save page for\u00a0<em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em> on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em> is, in some ways, a major departure for me\u2014in fact, I\u2019d probably class it as my own personal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kid_A\"><em>Kid A<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Suffice to say, it is a wild ride&#8211;eight tracks of instrumental music for strings and electronics, ranging from Neu!-style krautrock, to quasi-ambient synth-hymns, to modal viola freakouts, to Rihanna-meets-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larks%27_Tongues_in_Aspic\"><em>Larks&#8217; Tongues<\/em><\/a>-era King Crimson absurdity.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s a cello tuned down a fifth.\u00a0 (Also, for those of you who follow my theoretical heresy, aside from a brief incursion on the fourth track, &#8220;Sapphire Requiem&#8221;, there&#8217;s not any Locrian Liberation going on&#8211;but there&#8217;s plenty of Corinthian, Leucadian, Thasian, and Cyrenean to go around, among others.)<\/p>\n<p>The music on <em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em> is a type I\u2019ve wanted to make for a very long while\u2014at least since discovering the aforementioned <em>Kid A<\/em> and <em>Larks\u2019 Tongues in Aspic<\/em> back in 2006, and even moreso after <a href=\"https:\/\/beak.bandcamp.com\/\">Beak&gt;<\/a> burst onto the scene.\u00a0 The impetus for finally going for it came after a lot of reflection in the wake of what has been a long and especially trying period of time\u2014I went through some rather rough personal stuff right before the pandemic lockdowns happened in March 2020, which made an already bad time much, much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being flooded with the sensation of (as Darius Milhaud once put it) &#8220;a thousand simultaneous musics rushing towards me from all directions\u201d, and filling my manuscript book with all kinds of sketches in the time since, while also making considerable progress <a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderlafollett.com\/site\/i-almost-have-a-book-introducing-a-unified-theory-of-heptatonic-modal-harmony\/\">on the theoretical end<\/a>, my tried-and-true way of creating music felt increasingly counterproductive.\u00a0 In fact, I haven&#8217;t completed a &#8220;piece&#8221; in the classical-academic sense in almost four years\u2014<em>Cyan Egg Music, <\/em>Op. 59 remains my most recent.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time I had felt that\u2014indeed, I went through a similar sort of ennui in the early-middle period of my doctoral program, though this was more intense.\u00a0 However, in this case, rather than waiting and wading around in the mire, hoping I get an excuse to write <em>Gray Egg Music<\/em> again (the piece that let me climb out of it the last time), I decided to finally and truly embrace the leftfield &#8220;popular music&#8221; (if you can really call it that) weirdo that had been percolating under the surface for over a decade-and-a-half.<\/p>\n<p>Very little on <em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em> was notated out beforehand, aside from little sketches.\u00a0 Instead, the process for making this new music was based more on a feedback loop of improvising, recording, and adjusting, working primarily out of Pro Tools.\u00a0 The immediacy of this approach has felt very, very refreshing, and\u00a0 effective at clearing that creative logjam that had been stymieing me for the past three years.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019m already working on a sequel\u2014an &#8220;<em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em> Boogaloo&#8221;, if you will.<\/p>\n<p><em>Electrical Gremlin<\/em> will be available in just a few more days, and I hope you all check it out and enjoy it, in all its weirdness.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the full tracklisting:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Evergreen Parkway (10:15)<\/li>\n<li>Viridescence (4:50)<\/li>\n<li>Poltergeist Activity (3:48)<\/li>\n<li>Sapphire Requiem (5:40)<\/li>\n<li>Electrical Gremlin (4:24)<\/li>\n<li>Gilgamesh (5:43)<\/li>\n<li>424242424 (5:39)<\/li>\n<li>Kyrene Road (8:12)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Friday\u2014April 7th\u2014I will be releasing a new album of music, entitled Electrical Gremlin.\u00a0 The new album is up on my Bandcamp page, where you can also preview (and buy with pre-order) the third track on the album, &#8220;Poltergeist Activity&#8221;.\u00a0 (And yes, I did the cover art myself.)\u00a0 If you buy on release day, &hellip; 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