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The long overdue record is available now through the Pretty Purgatory PledgeMusic campaign. Check it out at www.pledgemusic.com/prettypurgatory.

Test pressings of The Golden Room LP. Coming soon, y'all...

Originally recorded in winter of 2009 at Bowdoin College for 'Roads In.' Rerecorded in spring of 2012 in Cambridge, MA for Bedroom Singles. Released to you now. credits released 08 October 2013 Henry Jamison - guitar, vocals Peter McLaughlin - drums, omnichord, keyboards & electronics Jeff Beam - Moog bass Scott Nebel - guitar Keith Nelson - bass clarinet recorded by Keith Nelson & James Krivchenia mixed & mastered by James Krivchenia artwork by Jakob Battick

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Yep. Check http://themilkmansunion.com/tourblog for updates.

Summer's over and it was good, for the most part. Despite numerous car problems, we played our circuit faithfully. We also managed to finish a six-song "record", which is now in the hands of our mastering engineer and is scheduled for an October release. Making the record was a bit like building a house out of twigs, but we're confident now that each one is in place, that its structure is sound, that there's even wainscoting and a doorbell.

We will be breaking out of our northeast touring circuit in October and heading into the heart of the country for 3+ weeks of shows. More details will be provided as everything falls into place. In the meantime, we'll be playing around Maine, including two shows this Saturday, September 8th, at the Aurora Music Festival and at our Bar Harbor haunt, Lompoc Cafe. Then Poland St. in Portland on Wednesday with the inimitable Philly band, Hop Along, and Old Town the next day with Quilt and a full Jeff Beam band.

Also expect some collaborations to surface. Our current (?) roommate Wes Hartley and I have written two songs together and will bring them to the band within the month. We may also be in about four other bands with Wes. Peter is engineering and playing drums for Maine's poet-laureate, Billy Carr. A split with Jacob Augustine has been discussed for about a year now and we will appear as Lady Lamb's rhythm section on her debut studio album, which will come out sometime, I'm sure. I'll be doing some crunk tracks with Jakob Battick and Beam will continue to conjure spirits from a psychedelic past.

H.

May these delights we dread to lose, This privacy, need no excuse But to that strength belong, As through a child's rash happy cries The drowned parental voices rise In unlamenting song.

RUOT REMMUS

We are going on our first real tour since December or so. It's with Tallahassee and it should be DOPE. We're hitting the big markets in our circuit (that's jargon):

Thursday 7/12 in Montreal @ Casa Del Popolo / Sala Rossa w/ Folly & The Hunter and Bent By Elephants Friday 7/13 in Burlington @ The Monkey House Saturday 7/14 in Boston @ Great Scott w/ The Days Weight Sunday 7/15 in Portland @ One Longfellow Square w/Jacob Augustine Monday 7/16 in Portsmouth @ The Red Door

Tallahassee does yoga before shows. And then they drink beer. I wanted to get a leather jacket before we went back to Montreal, but it'll be 87 degrees anyway, so I'll have to find other ways of looking European. Or I'll just brutally mispronounce everything and wear my sambas and a Sox hat. My main hope for this tour is that my car survives and that I somehow am able to spend no money at all. They feed you at Casa Del Popolo and then my mom will make something in VT and then I'll probably have to get pizza in Boston and wow this is boring klweklwlkqmkmd11

tu me manques

We're still here, biding our time, finishing up some tracks, re-working some others, writing, collaborating, sleeping. I've been tracking viola, feeling my way towards full string arrangements. Four tracks will be done soon, as soon as Scott lays down his guitar lines and atmospheres. Then it's back to drums briefly, figuring out how to get the energy up in the more driving songs and then building them up. Hopefully my guitar playing will improve.

We're opening for Bowerbirds at SPACE in Portland on June 20th, though Beam won't be with us. He'll be on a tour of his own, with Soft Bullets, including a stop at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, opening for our bros Wintersleep. We'll work out a special set for this one.

Expect some announcements mid-summer, still being sussed-out. Swag surfin'.

H.

4

HE jester walked in the garden:

The garden had fallen still;

He bade his soul rise upward

And stand on her window-sill.

March

March winds bring April showers

and sometimes society women dress up as goddesses.

It's the first day of March and there are like ten inches of snow outside. February is the worst month of the year and everyone knows it. So our hopes are high for a happy and productive March. We have a lot going on between recording, booking and touring. Here's what the touring looks like:

3.3 AS220 :: Providence, RI :: w/ Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps 3.8 The Liberal Cup :: Hallowell, ME w/ Jeff Beam 3.9 Paddy Murphy's :: Bangor, ME :: w/ Jeff Beam 3.10 Lompoc Cafe :: Bar Harbor, ME :: w/ Coke Weed 3.11 Olin College :: Needham, MA 3.15 ZEN :: Bangor, ME :: KahBang Arts Show 3.22 Empire Dine and Dance :: Portland, ME :: w/ Cuddle Magic 3.27 Live on WMBR Pipeline show (Boston) 3.28 Great Scott :: Allston, MA :: w/ You Won't 3.29 Sierra Grille :: Northampton, MA 3.30 The Arts Block :: Greenfield, MA :: w/ Cuddle Magic 3.31 Fury's Publick House :: Dover, NH :: w/ Tan Vampires

We're recording in the breaks and hoping to finish by the beginning of April. S'gonna be good. Then it's mixing/mastering/cover art/duplication/waiting/preparing.

Also, my birthday is March 30th. I will be 24. Have a good day.

H.

February begins with a momentary return to the road. We've been recording drums this month, but will give Peter a break after this mini-tour with Boy Without God:

2/2 :: Portland Museum of Art :: Portland, ME :: w/ DJ Ponyfarm :: 8pm

2/3 :: Firehouse :: Worcester, MA :: w/ Guerilla Toss, Friendship & Happy Jawbone Family Band :: 9pm

2/4 :: The Montague Bookmill :: Montague, MA :: w/ Sorry, Nay

2/6 :: The Red Door :: Portsmouth, NH :: 8:30pm

Then we'll move onto guitars/bass/keyboards on this first batch of songs and get them into a pre-mix/master state, before we tackle the heavier, singly-er next group of songs (including "The Golden Room"). And thennnn another mini-tour which brings us back to our alma mater, Bowdoin College, on 2/9. WHO KNOWS WHAT WE'LL DO? NO ONE. Then Cafe 939 in Boston on the 10th with our boys Chamberlin and thennn St. Michael's College on the 11th, where my mom teaches and thennnnn we go to NYC to work at The Tibet House Annual Benefit Concert, which is SO baller. Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, ANTONY and then that bro James Blake, who really isn't that cool and some other people I don't know. Well, I know Das Racist and they're aiight, but Laurie Anderson and Antony will be there, so...eh. But we get to go to the after-party and breathe the same air as these people which, as Jeff Beam would say, is UNREAL. And we have Beam to thank for this opportunity, so...thanks Beam FOR HAVING AN AMAZING GIRLFRIEND WHO IS ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MIRACULOUS EVENT.

H.

stoodz

Divers

It's a new year and we're taking this perhaps arbitrary designation very seriously. The past few months have been a ridiculous flurry of activity: touring most of November, recording with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, touring with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and now, finally settling down in Portland again, before we embark on the next great venture, which is...recording. By late Spring, we will have a record of some sort, glossy, shrink-wrapped and in your hands. Bryan Bruchman of HillyTown.com taped this video of me, Henry, performing a new song during a break in sessions with Lady Lamb. We also have a tour documentary in the works, featuring our tour mates Cuddle Magic and many other bands we met and enjoyed along the way. We play at Frontier in Brunswick on January 7th, but we won't have a Portland show till February 24th, when we open The Toughcats CD Release show at SPACE Gallery. Though we'll be holed-up in the studio, expect our online presence to be just this side of cloying...

H.

12

We're back in Portland for a bit, which is sweet. You'll notice the details of our next tour displayed above, over a calm cosmic scene of lesbian romance. One might call the whole tour a sort of elopement, except that there will be no sex and no sense of being chased by a mustachioed father with a shotgun. But we will stop at a Sonic if we see one, which could also conceivably happen in an elopement scenario.

Christmas is coming and I sure hope my grandmother loves me. Gonna set up my toy train and build a tiny village out of blocks and put little flashlights in the houses so it looks like a twinkly aerial view of a beautiful little town, where nothing bad happens ever. And the next day I hope to receive two nips of Jameson in my stocking, just like I did last year. And I hope I get a nice brown sweater.

H.

A>>>>>>B

The Best Tour Ever ends tonight at Zuzu in Cambridge, with Boy Without God. Then a short break for Thanksgiving etc. and back in the saddle. Peter and I will be playing tonight as a duo and then bussing around between MA and NYC for the following week or so, for undisclosed reasons. We miss Portland a lot, but we'll spend a good chunk of December here (kinda), so that's good. Expect a number of unveilings in the coming months, as we keep rolling from here to wherever we're going.

11

November will be an onslaught of everything. Band-related tasks have crowded every moment of our time, so it's nice to leave the nebulous world of online-promoting and get on the road. Check this for the details. And the vague synopsis is: shows of every kind with friends of all walks of music-making, from Higher Ground with Chamberlin, to a house show with Cuddle Magic, to art galleries in New York, to a frat house at Wesleyan. We're couch-surfing, driving my parents' Prius and taking names (on our email list). Does this post belie the somber nature of the picture above? Yes. But death will come to each of us. We are all dust in the wind. GONGGGGGG.

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