Fuzzweed is from an edition of approximately 900 copies (worldwide) and is pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry.
The album is housed within a handsome multi-color silk- screened jacket bearing new artwork from John Moloney. (As an added bonus, be sure to pop your LP cover under a blacklight to see some super-reactive HOT pink ink.)
The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free digital files. Fuzzweed was tenderly mastered by Patrick Klem.
Initial orders include an exclusive bonus CD.
This bonus disc is titled Fantasy Set (TLR098) and is a new full-length MV&EE release assembled from live recordings made during the duo’s january 2012 month-long residency at Brooklyn’s Zebulon. Fantasy Set presents a sort of “dream set” and features guest turns from Pat “PG Six” Gubler, Jeremy Earl, Willie Lane, Jarvis Taveniere, Matt “Herbcraft” Lajoie, Carson “Smokehound” Arnold and Ron Schneiderman. Similar to prior Three Lobed bonus discs, this one will be a glass- mastered CD (not CDR) and feature artwork. It is only available in pre-order/initial retail copies and then only while supplies last. Don’t miss out!
“Fuzzweed. I don’t know that strain. Maybe it’s a secret within Vermont state borders. I have a nice image in my mind suggested by the name where lurid purple flecks forming a halo around the sticky, sticky good stuff - one look, one sniff assures you of a fine trip ahead. That generous promise of a grand journey flows from the conceptual strain to this album sharing that same name. With each successive release, MV & EE strive to map new territory and to travel more distant orbits. It makes sense that this mission is their furthest reaching yet. While they’ve long been comfortable navigating the same planes as such cosmic explorers as Sun Ra and Alan Silva, Fuzzweed sees them planting their freak flag in the sorts of different galaxies where the atmospheres counterpoint the music of the spheres with the more earthbound plaints of the blues. Please remember that The Golden Record that NASA sent up with Voyager back in more optimistic times included “Dark Was The Night.” That concept – listening to Blind Willie Johnson in space – strikes me as an apt analogy for what this Fuzzweed accomplishes on every spin.
--Pete Coward, noted MVEE head--
TRACK LISTING
1. Environs
2. Turbine
3. Trailer Trash
4. Jacked Up
5. Poor Boy Excursions
