the 3rd pressing of Ontario Gothic is avaiable for pre-order now right here.
very excited about this edition! each order comes with:
• Aqua 12" vinyl
• Home-printed 11"x17" poster (digital redux version of the posters that came with 1st and 2nd press)
• Printed 12" innersleeve with lyrics & credits
• Woven iron-on Ontario Gothic patch
• 2" x 3" vinyl laminate Foxes in Fiction sticker
• One-of-a-kind Instax instant photo
• Cassette-only Ontario Gothic-era rarities tape (first 100 orders only)
• Thank-you note + Orchid Tapes sticker in a stamped envelope
• Logo-stamped tea bag
• Guava candy
thanks so much for listening to this weird little album for this long it means so much to me <3
My friend Zachariah Webb is a very talented writer who works for the Baffler and I asked him if he could write something for the Ontario Gothic repress / reissue, this is what he wrote:
“Seven years ago, I reviewed Foxes in Fiction’s second album, Ontario Gothic, for my college newspaper and was justifiably effusive in my praise. Here was, in the year of our lord twenty-fourteen, the apogee of what pop taxonomists called “dream” or “bedroom” pop—the new altar at which devotees of the genre might worship. The record’s relative brevity—seven tracks; thirty-two minutes—belied the expansiveness, and the durability, of its sound. Meticulously built of lilting guitar loops, whorling synths, collages of field recordings and ethereal vocals that could have been beamed in from another place, it was a record that could only be fully appreciated through its repetition. Indeed, it seemed to offer something new with every listen. That is no less true now, on the eve of its overdue reissue, than it was upon its release: seven years have not dulled the accuracy of my initial assessment.
To name an album Ontario Gothic is to invite comparison to the ruined cathedrals and pewter twilight of a windswept moor (more Brontë than Bush)—and it seems apt because I have always imagined the music of Foxes in Fiction to exist in that liminal space between day and night, when the sunken feelings of the past rise up and their shadows grow long. This is music haunted by loss and burning with nostalgia; in lyric and sonic architecture, it mimics the press of human memory turning over and over. In the title track, Warren Hildebrand sings of being trapped in the past’s shadow, which reminds me of a line attributed to some Athenian general, though who said it doesn’t really matter, only that he said it, and what he said is this: “I remember even what I do not want to remember but am unable to forget what I want to forget.” To truly forget is, of course, impossible, and often undesirable, because even an erasure leaves a smudge, indicates a presence, even when it references an absence—in this case, the absence of the loved one to whom Hildebrand dedicated the album. Intimations of catharsis, of release, do come—specifically, at the two minute, six second mark of the third song, “Glow (V079) and, later, at the one minute, twelve second mark of the final song, “Altars”—as a holy rush of verdant sound. In those moments, peaks to which the entire record bend, Ontario Gothic exceeds the baroque taxonomies of pop to become something stranger, akin to a religious experience.”
the 3rd pressing of Ontario Gothic is avaiable for pre-order now right here.
very excited about this edition! each order comes with:
• Aqua 12" vinyl
• Home-printed 11"x17" poster (digital redux version of the posters that came with 1st and 2nd press)
• Printed 12" innersleeve with lyrics & credits
• Woven iron-on Ontario Gothic patch
• 2" x 3" vinyl laminate Foxes in Fiction sticker
• One-of-a-kind Instax instant photo
• Cassette-only Ontario Gothic-era rarities tape (first 100 orders only)
• Thank-you note + Orchid Tapes sticker in a stamped envelope
• Logo-stamped tea bag
• Guava candy
thanks so much for listening to this weird little album for this long it means so much to me <3
Fog Lake’s new album “Tragedy Reel” is out today. Click thru to listen whenever you get your music or to order a copy of the vinyl record or cassette tape. Hope you enjoy <3
the Fog Lake record that I mixed and contributed some production and vocals to is out today, hope you like it as much as I feel proud of it!
say yes to violence (original unreleased version)
I mixed & mastered and did some additional vocals and production on the two new Devon Welsh songs coming out on Friday :B
just added a batch of 8 more of the ontario gothic posters to the orchid tapes shop for anyone who wants one :~)
the last posters i made sold out really quickly so for the next 24 hours i’m doing pre-orders for both the swung from the branches & ontario gothic posters 🎉 you can find them here in the orchid tapes webstore
both are 36” x 24” and are printed on high quality heavy matte paper stock and will be embossed with the orchid tapes and trillium logo 🌸
thanks for the support xo
It’s Bandcamp Friday so here’s my rework of my song “Antibody” from the forthcoming Trillium Killer remix album, hope you enjoy <3 All the $ that comes in from this will be donated to Bed-Stuy Strong, a mutual aid org in my neighborhood https://bedstuystrong.com/