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(click the link / rave dome wall to listen)

My Big Breakgo with momentum

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bringing you another fat stack of hot tracks today via my Vibes of Late playlist

before we get to that, though, just wanted to mention that I’ll be playing a bunch of shows in the Northeast and at least one in LA this month - - check the tour flyer:

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(click the link / neighbor’s cat departing to listen)

My Big Breakalways the getting grimiest

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(click the link / Montreal church to listen)

My Big Breaknude in the fluorescent light

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just a quick note to let you know that the Deluxe edition of my record Youth Pastoral is out today on Tiny Engines

“God is a wild dog running in its sleep”

The deluxe edition brings us a new LP pressing, meaning copies are available for the first time since 2020! We’ve also got a new vinyl master, a bunch of outtakes and b-sides up on streaming, and dazzling, brand new layout and artwork by Alex Tatusian.

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(click the link / monster trucks to listen)

My Big BreakI just wanted these beautiful beasts to run free

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(click the waterpark construction / link to listen)

My Big Breaka dusty songbook that you could pull out of a piano bench

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(click the link / pendulum mural to listen)

My Big Breaktriple beam coelostat

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(click the link / citrus towel to listen)

My Big Breakat some point in my life I need to try something like this

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(click the Climax view / link to listen)

My Big Breakloved it even more for its yoking

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(click the link / porch cat to listen)

My Big Breakbecome large and unruly

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Tomorrow will mark FIVE YEARS since the release of Youth Pastoral, an album of songs I put out about breaking, breaking up, and breaking up with God. It was the second to last day of a leap year February and within a week the entire world was about to change. But we didn’t know that at the time, so we all crammed into an over-capacity Union Pool and sang and cried within many overlapping six foot circles, the last big gig many of us went to that year.

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today I’m starting the first of what I hope are many experimentations with the regular format of this email project - - I truly love sending you new music and writing every week, but lately I’ve been feeling a really strong gravitational pull out of my own head and perspective. asking you my barrage of questions at the end of these emails isn’t enough - I want to spend more dedicated time focusing on other people’s work, I wanna zoom out.

with that in mind, I’m reviving my on-again off-again public playlist habit and dedicating this edition of MBB to broadening our efforts in collective listening

sharing two playlists with you here ~ ~

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(click the link / river ice to listen)

My Big Breakwill to go without

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today we’re very happy to release “astral projecting into flavortown,” a new compilation of the best tracks from this newsletter’s 2024 run. it’s up now on all the streamers and also for sale on Bandcamp, thanks to Sound as Language.

the resulting album is typically reflective and serene with vast expanses of calm, little pillows of piano and digital choirs on which you can rest the ring of your mind. but there are also a surprising number of drums and one notable techno-adjacent ripper, each track a pinhole portal into its own little hopeful world.

here’s a link:

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(click the link / oranges to listen)

My Big Breaksteam rose from the graspers

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(click the link / walking guy to listen)

My Big Breakmental toxicity and dance susceptibility

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just a quick note to let you know that “a rare primordial elation” - the second track from the My Big Break compilation coming out next week - is available now as a single.

Easily among the slowest recordings I’ve ever made, this one unfurls very slowly, a haunting melody made from a sampled wind chime undulating over a lo-res digital choir.

You can hear it on streaming:

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(click the link / brat sled to listen)

My Big Breaklove is a wonderful thing and comes with many benefits

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Friends Meeting - my band with m. geddes gengras - just put out some new music today in an effort to raise money for folks in Los Angeles

the track’s called “some fantastic proportion” taken from the infamous Major Briggs vision monologue from Twin Peaks. the music is easily the grooviest thing we’ve done together and sprawls out kraut-like over the course of 20 minutes:

Friends Meetingsome fantastic proportion