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To celebrate the release of our record last week, I got to be a guest on The Story To Tell Podcast with Ben and Jacob! We chatted a long time, lots about local music from the past and the new record as well! This was really fun, if your down with podcast check it out.. here..
https://thestorytotell.podbean.com/e/tstt-138-patrick-tape-fleming-gloom-balloon/
Christopher the Conquered- You're Gonna Glow in the Dark
You're Gonna Glow in the Dark, like a lot of good music, exists in a vacuum where it feels like it could have been recorded 30 years ago or last Thursday. With shades ranging from Randy Newman smirk to Queen grandiosity, the album feels like songwriter Chris Ford drew upon the entire pallet of pop-rock history in order to make the album.
What makes this album different from hundreds of other singer/songwriter albums that come out every year is the sense of earnestness that Mr. Ford is able to convey on record. At even it's most sarcastic, the music feels so nakedly honest that it forces you into a paranoid wonder if it's all a put on after all, or maybe you just haven't felt anything so totally in your entire life.
Really amazing coverage of Gloom Balloon's performance at Lincoln Calling Festival by Hear Nebraska!
http://hearnebraska.org/feature/lincoln-calling-2014-thursday-coverage/
Really amazing feature/interview with Patrick from Gloom Balloon on Hear Nebraska by Jacob Zlomke
http://hearnebraska.org/feature/gloom-balloons-patrick-fleming-make-stranger-feature-interview/
Album release week continues with a behind the scenes look at us recording the strings on the new Gloom Balloon record. Dan Welk captured it all, mr. H.D. Harmsenconducting his amazing arrangements, Christopher the Conquered recording on the tape machines, and me singing in a whisper as to not bleed with the strings.. Thanks Dan for this beautiful shot document of us recording the record!
saw christopher the conquered and gloom balloon tonight at the aquadome, and it was easily one of the best shows i've ever been a part of. so passionate, so fucking rad. this song they dedicated to "all da college girls", pulled us into the middle one by one and sang it to us and danced all up and personal, it was hilarious. so much heart and passion in this show, i can't get over it. i love the aquadome, i love local music, i love des moines, i love kirksville. AGH. :)
http://bit.ly/19o7c9Z
Exciting day on the PCC front. Devin releases the final chapter of Dracula's Casket and Patrick's Gloom Balloon's Debut 7inch Single is released on Maximum Ames Records.
Devin has started a bandcamp page where you can hear the final in the epic saga of Dracula.. It's pretty amazing and glad he has finally released it.. check it out here..
http://devinfrank.bandcamp.com/
Also today is the release date for, "She was the One that Got Away," 7inch single by GLOOM BALLOON on Maximum Ames Records. You can pick it up on Band Camp, Itunes, Amazon, or FROM THE BAND ON TOUR starting this week.. or hop over to
www.maximumamesrecords.com
and grab one!
