Japanese Alice debut release: Pacific Blush's "Skeletal Gardens"

One of my online friends, Joseph Marcure, has recently started up a virtual label known as "Japanese Alice" with his younger brother, Matt. Their first release is "Skeletal Gardens", by Matt's band Pacific Blush (he does all the guitar, lead vocals, organ, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation). It can be downloaded from the Japanese Alice blog here:

http://japanesealice.blogspot.com/2009/06/pacific-blush-skeletal-gardens-lp.html

From the website:

Japanese Alice is proud to present the debut album by Pacific Blush, Skeletal Gardens. Recorded between May and late June 2009. Pacific Blush has also released two EPs under the name of International Broadcasting Bureau. Of these two EPs Thomas Moore wrote, "Seriously, this stuff is special. It creeps in this often really unsettling way, it evokes memories I’ve never even had. It makes me think of David Lynch, and a more sombre Animal Collective - both good things, duh." And Dennis Cooper said, "I adore his music."

This album sees Fresno, California native Matt Marcure going further into his own world that somehow is both lush and bleak. Incorporating more instruments and new techniques this is his most accomplished recording yet and definitely something, as has been pointed out, special.

Tracklisting:

1. maples
2. plastic snowman
3. skeletal gardens
4. light diving
5. through lavender
6. can't write
7. skulk trains
8. winters
9. dream collective
10. speak softly
11. listening to mountains
12. fields of alice

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(Thomas Moore might be better known to some of you as Thomas Moronic, another good online friend of mine, and a very talented musician in his own right).

Anyway, give the album a listen, it's really very good!