Golden Future Time (re-release)

The 8 1/2 Anniversary Celebration

In 2014 I released Golden Future Time. Now it's getting an official re-release as we switch distribution companies. Call it the 8 1/2 year anniversary celebration. 

Golden Future Time was split into an A and a B side, though we never got the chance to cut the lacquers. One day!

Side A was your art rock, and side B was your RnB. Each side had a different team for production, mixing, and mastering. 

Side B was made almost entirely in Andrew Peebles's (friend/producer/drummer) parents’ basement. And with a lot of love from the Prophet V—the classic ‘70s-era analog synthesizer. 

Side A was recorded at Monarch, the studio from where we broadcast Station 234. 

At the time of writing Golden Future Time, I was reading a lot about totalitarian states, dictatorial regimes, fear mongering, witch hunts, and “doublethink”—all the ways in which these forces work to warp and send a poison through hearts, minds, friends, families, and communities.

So it surprised me when, being interviewed in Montreal during the press campaign, that I was asked if this album was about entering my 30s! It caught me completely off guard. The theme of fear and the sense of loss that pervades had been filtered through the music journalist’s own struggle with turning over a new decade. Had I subconsciously written about that?! I’m still not sure.

I received a lot of great press for this album. It was surprising and exciting, and as the streak continued I started to think this might be the one that turns enough heads to make a career out of my music. But I was still playing to empty bars and somehow, whether it was not having enough feet on the ground to round out the campaign, or my lack of confidence with which to deliver it, or some other unknown variable, we weren’t able to transfer the press into something we could stand on.

A couple of favourite press quotes:

Anyone who melds the tenor of Stevie Wonder into the falsetto of Jeff Buckley and the yips of Michael Jackson...tethered to waves of psychedelia...is either genius or Gubu…
IRISH TIMES

I remember having to look up the word Gubu.

Most likely to: Be assured of a golden future.
THE GUARDIAN

This quote meant a lot as my dad always believed The Guardian was a "respectable paper." He read The Guardian in university and then when I was about the same age, he gifted me a subscription.

You can now stream Golden Future Time wherever you get your music.

New album coming real soon. I promise.