The hour-plus album catches the excellent SW lineup of me, Emily Lee, Lucas Oswald, Sadie Powers, and Josh Halpern smashing our way through extended, sometimes off-the-rails versions of most of Jet Plane, along with a spare, reworked “Radio Silence” for Austin’s KUTX, a demo of “Only Child” from my apartment, a cover of Bauhaus’ “Kick in the Eye” for the Onion’s AV Club, a wiry, reinvented “Rooks”, and “You As You Were” from Animal Joy.
Purchases of the complete album also include a live cover of David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” — which sounded like a new national anthem for the USA at the end of 2016.
The Sky is a Blank Screen is available for streaming and download in a variety of formats, including MP3 and lossless FLAC; it was mixed by Lucas Oswald and mastered by Max Lorenzen in Austin.
We’ve also put together a limited-time bundle of all the SW-approved live albums, including:
at a discounted price of $45 US.
In keeping with the themes of Jet Plane and Oxbow, a portion of the proceeds from both the record and the bundle will benefit the Equal Justice Initiative and Earthjustice.
(JM)