It’s the Citizen Nowhere: Recessed cross-promo release!
I have many blogs and 13 tracks. What to do? I don’t want people to get bored while they are downloading my album!
Across my Tumblr Blog, Citizen Nowhere.com, my MP3 Blog, my Twitter account, my Facebook account and my Project Blog are 6 opportunities to download “Recessed” paired with 6 different promo tracks you can stream RIGHT NOW!

DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM HERE [ZIP - 98.3MB - MP3]

dontdownloadme “Loose Lips” by Citizen Nowhere off Recessed
The Recessed track you can listen to here on Listen Or Don’t is “Loose Lips.” It’s an electronica track, I guess, with a rip-off Timbaland beat. That’s what I hear, at least. The song is about feeling angry when I lost my job and getting angrier watching other people join me in a large pool of the unemployed all competing to pay rent. I basically had to leave my blogging job because of budget cuts, hence “It wasn’t our Loose Lips that sank these ships, but we shoulder all the shame.”

We’re winding down in the Citizen Nowhere project and I’m unsure that anyone besides me knows what a big deal this is…

…okay, that was a TAD of an overstatement, but it’s closing off a particular sound for me, a sound I’ve been embracing since 2003, when I grew out of acoustic instruments and.. BAHHH! None of this needs to go here.

Each of the back 4 albums of Citizen Nowhere has had something like a pre-launch single. “Recessed” will be no different.

May I present: Debris.

As I’m writing this, it’s the Saturday before Easter. Depending on how this weekend goes, this video might get cross-posted across my sites on Monday. Or I’ll let it languish here until CitzenNowhere.com is done, then release the whole album. Who knows?

I’m taking it day by day since there is little else to do with it besides mixing and promoting it while I’m mixing. But how much should I really promote something I do mostly for myself in my free time?

Jeez, life is complex.

On 6/25/2009 I made a “non canonical” cover that was so cool-looking to me that it basically justified the existence of a non canonical album.

In case you don’t know about the Citizen Nowhere project, it is going to end up being 8 albums. It started in 2003 and you can get six of the albums by CLICKING OVER TO THIS POST and the seventh at THIS POST.

That means there is one more to go and the post directly below this one (at least if you are reading this on the Listen Or Don’t section of my blog), you can hear “Loose Lips,” which will be on Citizen Nowhere 8.

But “Loose Lips” got me thinking about how I wanted 8 to sound, and I realized that the nearly-complete album I thought was #8 really wasn’t. It was a bunch of tracks that didn’t fit. Most of them were about the Recession, some were left over from previous albums, but it wasn’t fitting together and it wasn’t providing a listening experience.

So: there will be two additional “albums” of material before I close out Citizen Nowhere with the 8th album. This track, “Escape Sometime” will be on the disc called: non canonical, b-sides. There will also be a non canonical, instrumentals that will have - you guessed it - instrumentals only.

Despite the preview/”leak” track here, the B-Sides album will probably come out second.

non canonical, instrumentals will be the first release, and you will get that within the next two weeks. It’s really neat. I almost thought about making a cover that looked like it was an original motion picture soundtrack to a movie I’ll never make…

Hmmmm.

Maybe I’ll still do that.

If I find a way to escape sometime…

dontdownloadme “Escape Sometime” by Citizen Nowhere off Citizen Nowhere, non canonical, b-sides

It’s happened, I’ve finished The Solitary Vice. Well, in the sense that I was told I would be out of a job come this Friday and I figured I should be working on getting a new job and keeping my apartment rather than polishing the seventh Citizen Nowhere album.

You can access the download site HERE though BEWARE! There is music that plays automatically, so I’d MUTE your computer, look at it WHEN AT HOME or put on HEADPHONES.

Or, you can bypass all that and download the ZIP file by clicking HERE.