Empty Victories by Curious Quail
It's wild to be saying this but we started per-production on this record months after the release of After The Lights Failed in 2014. We tracked a bunch of it over the intervening years, and despite band member lineup shuffling, geographical relocation of several members, a few unrelated musical projects, two hard drives full of audio and their backups being lost, and then a global pandemic to top it all off - we did it.
We're proud to present the sequel to After The Lights Failed;
“Empty Victories”.
May it bring you joy, sorrow, solidarity, closure - whatever you'd like it to mean to you. It means the world to us.
Tracklist
| 1. | Promises | 4:26 |
| 2. | Empty Victories | 4:08 |
| 3. | Dismantled | 3:14 |
| 4. | Home | 4:41 |
| 5. | Hospital Ghosts | 3:50 |
| 6. | At Least We're Still Breathing (Time Loops) | 6:56 |
Credits
Production Notes:
Mike Shirley-Donnelly - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Gameboys, Clarinet
Erin Keely - Vocals
Josh Hotlosz - Bass
Joey Guthrie - Drums, Timpani, Shakers, Tambourine
Abe Myers - Guitars
Dr. Alan Chen - Violin, Concertmaster
Joyce Kuöhlander - Face-melting guitar solo in track 2
Additional Group Vocals on tracks 1,4 by Erin Keely, Josh Hotlosz, Joey Guthrie, Abe Myers, Dr. Alan Chen, and Michael “Gunther” Chiang
All songs written by Mike Shirley-Donnelly and arranged by Curious Quail
Produced by Mike Shirley-Donnelly
Engineers: Michael “Gunther” Chiang, Abe Myers, Joey Guthrie
Recorded at: The Rhythm Academy (San José, CA) The Desert Art Colony (Palm Springs, CA), The Quailcave (San José, CA) An Undisclosed Recording Studio in Vancouver, WA and The Fae House (Meriden, CT)
Album art by Joey Guthrie (www.instagram.com/frazzlerockart/)
License
All rights reserved.
We're an orchestral + chiptune indie collective with members in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest and New England that mix fuzzy guitar rock, orchestral instrumentation and music made with Nintendo Gameboys.