Hope you’re managing life okay despite the silly rich corrupt people doing their silly rich corrupt things to make it as uncomfortable and dangerous as possible for you.
Bloodsport and Porn aren’t just humanity’s two most noble and favourite pursuits, they are also the words that make up the name of our new album which sinks into the Lethe waters of the great stream today.
If you missed out or weren’t down with the old tech of the initial physical release it is now on you to retrieve our tiny soul and for a brief moment wrest it from all forgetting. Of course we’d prefer you buy the digital album and have it as the intended whole but you can obviously access tracks from the various charitable services and ensure that Harry Styles and Lil Nas can finally build their Diamond Submarine for the End Times, and that Ed Sheeran can get his tattoo flayed off.
It won’t make much of a difference but we do like to push the old ‘body of work’ anachronism because it irritates a guy called Drew.
Listen to The Derangement below:
Thanks to The Guardian who featured Clay within their Best New Music for January.
Glenn Richards weaves the most delicate melodies on which to drop his weighty lyrical concepts: on love, life, loss and all the other big Ls that have concerned poets for millennia. Augie March has never betrayed a sense of their own time, with ornate arrangements, antiquated language and songs that slowly unfurl as if being pedalled out through a dusty pianola roll. The result is a masterful next chapter for one of Australia’s true treasures.
In other news, the wonderful Sally Seltmann will be joining us in Sydney and Melbourne for our forthcoming Sunset Studies Live dates. The shows will definitely be going ahead because how could you put on a massive tennis tournament in the middle of a super infectious wave but then cancel a couple of little theatre shows after it’s killed a lot of people and spent itself? I mean, how could that ever be fair?
See you in Autumn.
- The Good Gardener
