It's Got A Good Beat and You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT Dance To It!

Well folks, it's been a long, never-a-dull-moment journey but it's nearly over now!

As things stand, the new Owl Watches album, "Guaranteed To Be 100% Free Of Hit Singles" will be coming out of the mastering studio today, getting printed up and will be released officially on December 15, 2007! In the meantime, there are mp3 streaming audio samples of some of the new album HERE for you to check out (just keep in mind these are the UNMASTERED versions).

So far, it will be available on CD Baby, but in the ensuing weeks and months, it will also become available on iTunes and other digital outlets as well. For local Atlanta folks, you'll be able to find it at Earthshaking Music come December 15.

In its final form, it will be 10 tracks instead of the original 11, this only due to some technical issues with one track, but with the appropriate software, it can be remedied and put on the NEXT Owl Watches disc, which is already starting to form, this will be "The Complete Radio Free Antarctica Tapes".

Special thanks are in order for Dave Strohauer and Scott Trihn at Earthshaking Music for doing an AMAZING mastering job and making the songs really jump off the disc. They were able to bring out more details than I thought possible, give the music a vivid 3-dimensional spatial image and a crisp clarity that darn near reminds me of recordings on the famed ECM label (most notably on the 3 acoustic tracks "Sign With Disappearing Ink", "Hydrogen and Stupidity" and "Don't Do The Mime If You Can't Do The Time").

If you like instrumental music along the lines of, say King Crimson, Frank Zappa or other oddities, and if fyou like your instrumental music dripping with more than a little sarcasm directed at the music biz star-making machinery and peppered with gratuitous gong usage and even more gratuitous voiceovers, I think you'll find this a very enjoyable listening experience. Will be available in CD, mp3 and 8-Track Tapes (well, just kidding about the 8-track tapes).