Yellow Green Red - new Daughn Gibson LP
I’d apologize if I felt like this spam email was truly egregious, but please, understand that I’m quite heartfelt when I ask you to check it out: I just released a new LP by Daughn Gibson, entitled The Burgundy Daughns! I’m only gonna send an email once, I promise, because even though I realize it’s The World We Live In, any sort of blatant self-promotion online, especially through a presence dedicated to celebrating the music and art of mostly strangers, still skeeves me out a little. Anyway, here’s the cover!
Being thoughtful of your time, I’ll try to quickly address the work of Daughn Gibson to anyone reading this previously unaware of who or what Daughn Gibson is. It’s a guy, a close friend of mine actually (we went to high school together, he kicked me out of his band before I turned 21, we tell each other stuff we wouldn’t tell anybody else, etc.), and I released his debut album All Hell back in 2012 to a wild, completely unexpected wave of praise and adoration. Rightfully so, if you ask me - it was a game-changer, like if Burial produced outlaw-country performed by Fleetwood Mac with Scott Walker behind the glistening golden microphone. Phew! Lou Reed even came calling, and who can blame him?
Lots of things happened since then, including two stellar albums on Sub Pop, before Daughn receded from the public eye, choosing to live his life in other fascinating ways. I swear I'm not lying when I say he won a damn Emmy for LeBron James's all-time high-score game (Daughn's a professional A/V production guy now), and he scored the soundtrack for a Nicolas Cage movie earlier this year too - Arcadian if you wanna go yank it out of a powered-down Redbox near you. Since like 2016, he's been privately recording new songs, and would occasionally release them in little EPs online, then scrub them from the internet a few weeks later. Maddening for us fans, but you have to respect it - did he pioneer a new form of "limited edition" music, restricted not in quantity but time??
I don’t intend to put out any other records anytime soon, but I had to memorialize these incredible sessions on vinyl since somehow, no one else had come asking. We pressed up 200 copies, and they sound and look fantastic. If you’d like to order a copy in the United States, it’s $27 total sent via PayPal to whitedenim@gmail.com, and an extra twenty bucks if you want two copies. That’s it; no Bandcamp or BigCartel or Toast or UberVinylRoxx services otherwise. We’re too old and stubborn to try to figure that stuff out. PayPal still feels like the cutting-edge vanguard of digital financial transactions to me, but if you want to pay me via Venmo or even CashApp instead, just shoot me an email (same address) and I can make it happen. The records are in my living room and ready to ship immediately.
In addition to this handsome vinyl package, I believe The Burgundy Daughns is streaming on all the usual suspects right now as well - he’s in charge of squaring that away, not me - so if you want to hear the whole thing without paying a red cent, there’s also that. I uploaded a full MP3, the old fashioned way, for the track “White On White”, which should be clickable right there, right now. The whole record is this good, I swear! Here’s a recent picture of Daughn, since I’m in full-on promotional mode and photos of the artists can really go a long way.
More reviews in a couple weeks as always, and possibly some other features, none of which will be asking for your money, I swear to it. Stay cool!