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In this month's Comedy Minus One dispatch: A new Bottomless Pit full-length! Updates on the Silkworm "Libertine" re-issue! Eleventh Dream Day!



cmo026 Bottomless Pit "Shade Perennial" Lp+Cd/Digital Download

Coming October 29, 2013!

Comedy Minus One is putting out the new Bottomless Pit record.

This unto itself is exciting news, but what if we told you the album (the cover of which is pictured above) was going to be released on Lp + Cd before the close of next month and that preorders should start shipping in the consequent three weeks?

"Shade Perennial" (cmo026) will be available globally on October 29, 2013 - an Lp with a compact disc included in the packaging for convenience. It will also be available on all digital platforms.

300 copies of the record pressed on "coke bottle green" translucent vinyl can be exclusively ordered now through the CMO web site. You can secure a copy here.

At a loss with how to describe "Shade Perennial," we asked our friend Sohrab Habibion from Obits/Edsel to listen to it and share his thoughts. Find them below, along with a link to stream the album's opening song.



The first ten seconds of "Fleece," the opening track on Shade Perennial, Bottomless Pit's mesmerizing third long player, sets the tone for the rest of the album. A carefully considered series of notes are picked on baritone guitar, deliberately unfolding the melody, only to be interrupted by a staccato burst. The guitars wrap around one another over a propulsive and elegantly understated rhythm section. Space opens in the music for a voice to emerge. It is enveloping and hypnotic, and you may play it over from the beginning a few times before moving on.

What do we know about Bottomless Pit? Perhaps you're already familiar with Tim Midyett and Andy Cohen from Silkworm, a band that put out nine albums between 1987 and 2005. Maybe you're a fan of Seam, with whom Chris Manfrin drummed, or .22, one of bassist Brian Orchard's other groups.

None of that matters. What matters are these songs. What matters is hearing Midyett phrase the lyrics to "Full of Life." What matters is hearing Cohen's magnificent guitar solo cut into "Null Set" and then disappear. What matters is the way Orchard and Manfrin exercise restraint throughout, allowing the guitars to rise and fall and the arrangements to unfold effortlessly.

By the time the feedback begins and the band fades out on "Felt a Little Left," Shade Perennial's final and possibly most widescreen tune, thirty-two minutes will have passed under Bottomless Pit's spell. This music is an incantation. It's post-punk perspiration and the well-worn warmth of Crazy Horse. It's inspired and assertive and won't make you ashamed to call it the blues.



Bottomless Pit will be playing three Midwestern shows to celebrate the release of Shade Perennial. They are:

Sat. 10/5 - Minneapolis, MN at Kitty Cat with STNNNG and Wereworm
Fri. 11/8 - Milwaukee, WI at Frank's Power Plant with Light Coma and Wereworm
Sat. 11/16 - Chicago, IL at Township with Light Coma and The Rutabega

More dates will follow in 2014.



Stream the album opener "Fleece" here.

For more on "Shade Perennial" and band interview requests please contact Daniel at Force Field PR.



cmo019 Silkworm "Libertine" 2x12" + Cd

Coming soon!

If you pre-ordered a copy of our definitive re-issue of Silkworm's "Libertine," you have our thanks. All parts for this project (jackets, inserts, stickers, shirts, photos, etc) are all complete with one significant exception that has delayed completion and in turn shipment...

Unfortunately the first run of test pressings could not be approved due to noises consistent through multiple sets of tests. The record-making process needed to start again from scratch as lacquers had to be re-cut for all six sides. New test pressings are due to arrive today and hopefully they will be approvable and this long-delayed effort can cross the finish line.

More frequent production updates continue to be posted on Comedy Minus One's Facebook page.

Preview the remastered "Couldn't You Wait?" here.

You can still pre-order a copy here.

For more on the "Libertine" reissue please contact Daniel at Force Field PR.



cmo025 Eleventh Dream Day "New Moodio" Lp/Digital Download

Out now!

Less than 100 copies of our pressing of Eleventh Dream Day's lost record "New Moodio" are in-house.

You can order a physical copy here.

Here are links to find the record electronically via iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon.

Head here for the full story of how "New Moodio" was 22 years in the making.

You can listen to the song "Thinking Out Loud" here.

The Chicago Reader has "Sunflower" streaming here.

For more on "New Moodio" please contact Joan at Riot Act Media.



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Thank you.

Jon Solomon
Comedy Minus One
comedyminusone.com

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