[atsonicpark]

Originally Posted by nicfit

Sasha Grey suggested him to listen to Robe.!

This is funny. You know, she never did wear that Scissor Shock shirt she had me mail her.

As for Thurston, he has a great taste in music. I don't agree with all his musical opinions, but who can I agree with, completely? You know. The dude's heard a lot of shit, and he knows what he's talking about. I question certain bands he likes, I'm not going to name any names, but I am definitely honored that he likes Robe.

As for the new album TIME DILATION, al shabbaray, the version I uploaded actually was a bit incomplete. We finished it a couple days later. Anyway, Blackest Rainbow is releasing that and a new Aidan Baker disc the same day. Another honor, to be working with a label that has released so many great bands. Anyway, it's limited to 200 copies, and personally I think if you're going to get a Robe. album, this is the one to get. It's the darkest, filthiest, and nastiest. It's probably not the best, but whatever. It's very Messiaen-influenced drone.

As for Scissor Shock, I'm working on the final Scissor Shock album, A Shrine to Salvaged Junk, which will be released by Placenta Records when it's done. It's very backwoodsy, kinda like Caroliner or Sun City Girls' "Jack's Creek", lots of finger picking guitars, banjos, and such. There's still some drum machine, but it's not crazy freak out drum machine shit from before.. most of the percussion is home made. Um, I keep telling people it'll be the final album, it probably won't be the LAST EVER but certainly for a while. I've been working on that project for 6 years and quite frankly I've taken it as far as it could go. The whole point was to keep completely reinventing the band with every album. I sorta did that but I dunno. I feel like... Robe. is more important to me, I'm more interested in creating these soundscape droney worlds rather than writing "songs". Don't get me wrong, we still plan out Robe. songs, but Scissor Shock songs are WAY more difficult to write.

Basically, I'm doing a surf band called THE DEATH POWDERS, just some small thing, only two members probably (overdubbed bass), will have samples of that up eventually. But my main gig is Robe., and I'm glad people here are digging it. It's a dream band for me to be in. It's like.. the stuff I've always wanted to make but never had the courage TO make. Because drone, doom, ambient, whatever is so played out. I always felt like.. fuck, I gotta do something really INSANE or no one's going to give a shit. But lately I've felt like, 'Okay, I can let feedback .. uh .. feed back for a few minutes and it might be compelling." So, Robe. is my main musical project.

But I'm also going to start devoting my time to making experimental films. More on that later.

Sorry for typing so much, but I just feel overwhelmed by everyone's love and support.