Not Not Fun Bored Fortress singles Club Year 4!

Just got an email from NNF about new singles from Pocahaunted and Robedoor, probably Pocahaunted's last ever on the label....that would be exciting enough, and I was going to mention them today but just underneath was this announcement about Bored Fortress Year 4? Change of plans....I just was talking with Mike from Soundscreendesign about their 400 page 7" book, Touchable Sound...and guess what was in there...on practically a whole page? The Bored Fortress club year 2 singles...the ones silkscreened in different colors, with corresponding leaf glitter glued all over them...this is a chance to own a piece of history!!
It's like the franklin mint, only with awesome shit!
Why wasn't that in an email?

Looks like a great lineup this upcoming year...and another release from Robedoor? No Age? Ducktails? Not Not Fun has been curating the most interesting music and packaging forever....and this subscription will be no exception.
I'm rambling, but really I better get over there before it's gone.
I'm going to have to try to see what else is lying around the house I can put on ebay.
Get it.

But wait until I do.

Bored Fortress
Year Four
7" Club

NNF200-NNF205—6x7"

After a two-year hiatus NNF's split singles club is back in operation, with an all new roster of bands and visual artisans. All subscribers will receive two split 7 inches every other month – beginning August 15th and running until December – as well as club-exclusive gifts. Please select U.S. or INTERNATIONAL depending on your location (note: int'l orderers can pay using the paypal button, no need to email first unless you are ordering other items as well).

This year's bands include:
-Wet Hair
-Sex Worker
-Gnod
-Ducktails
-Infinite Body
-Taterbug
-Psychic Reality
-No Age
-High Wolf
-Robedoor
-Peaking Lights
-Rangers

This year's artists include:
-Carlos Gonzalez
-Zully Adler
-Robert Beatty
-Cody DeFranco
-Julien Langendorff
-Spencer Longo

POCAHAUNTED/ORPHAN FAIRYTALE

I first heard Pocahounted on a not not fun split, probably from the bored fortress singles club and really liked the subtle atmopheric drone. It wasn't just the grating new noise sludge fest I'm becoming immune to, it was kind of a nice relief to hear this minimal, haunting quiet death folk. Pocahaunted is really a perfect name, everything it conjures up, a tribal ghost, indian burial grounds...all fed through a possessed psyche-out. It's mystical, eerie and on the other end of the spectrum from the blasts of cacophony I've been into lately. Just plain good and I don't even know why.

Orphan fairytale seems to employ the same kinds of organic sounding primitive instruments, bells, chimes and glitched out electronics looped and reconfigured into instrumental hyptnotizing repetition. This is worth seeking out for both of these bands, and their idiosyncratic directions.

On release the bats, another label that I've never heard of. Sadly though it's based in sweeden and this split will set you back a crazy 55KR. Also from Norman records...getting closer...oh wait it's appropriately on Not Not Fun...Nice. $5

POCAHAUNTED/ORPHAN FAIRYTALE 7" (Release the Bats) split single on our favorite swedish home, RTB. the phaunt track was recorded what seems like a million years ago (aka summer 07), right around the "Tear For Every Grain of Sand" sessions. the OF track is the most overtly wacky thing in her discog, total tyfus bonkers goof-trooping. silkscreened art, full color labels.