An 8 song benefit EP for Japanese aid has been made available at Bandcamp. It features a new remix of "I Am A Watercolour," two previously unreleased songs, and 5 out-of-print tracks. All profits from the sale of this release will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross to support relief efforts in Japan in light of the recent earthquake and tsunami. There is a minimum payment of $5.00 CAD, but if you are able to donate more please pay what you can!
This is music for crisp autumn nights in foreign cities or a foreign part of one very familiar. This is music for smoking too many cigarettes. This is music for the beginning of an affair. This is music for the end of an affair. This is music for an affair which never happens.
I Hope You Die First collects music recorded by The Linger Effect between 2003 and 2006. The majority of these songs were recorded as part of Douglas Wolk's NaSoAlMo contest in 2005 and 2006. "Cedar" and "A Good Face For Memories" were recorded in 2003 with the former being previously released on the Plotter Group compilation Bulbous.
While few of these tracks were intended to be the final mixes, a hard drive crash ensured that this would be the case. We were able to rescue these demo mixes, but the individual tracks were lost to scrambled bits and bytes. That said, these songs are mostly presented as originally envisioned.
September 23, 2008
Mp3s from the archives have been added to the Multimedia page.
September 8, 2008
The Linger Effect's official site is now back online. Big thanks to Peter at ohioscream.com for hosting.
Artwork is being prepared for the upcoming free download release I Hope You Die First featuring songs recorded between 2003 and 2006. Most of the songs began while participating in Douglas Wolk's NaSoAlMo contest in 2005 and 2006. The album will be made available on the MyMeanMagpie netlabel in both lossy and lossless formats. (The Linger Effect highly recommends lossless FLACs for bachelor pad listening and lossy mp3s for the metrosexual on the go.)
Videos for three tracks from Charmer have been added to the multimedia page. They were edited from public domain footage courtesy of the folks at archive.org.
You can still download Charmer and Always Sick for free, as well as tracks from both TeenBeat Records tribute albums on MyMeanMagpie - see the discography for more information.
