Brooks -- _Red Tape_ -- your thoughts?

Love love LOVE his album from 2002 as well (less chopped-up, almost as perverse, no connection to DI whatsoever). I'm pretty sure it was one of my lone wolf Pazz & Jop picks (ditto the "Dripping in Gold" single).

It has a permanent spot reserved in my year-end list (probably #2).

I'm actually thinking it might get in my own ballot! It really won me over very quickly.

I love the vocals on Red Tape because they creep me the fuck out (in other words, what Drew said... "Tell Somebody About Us" is my favorite, part of it sounds like a playground singalong taunt sung by a loner). Each track on the album gets better as it goes on.

I really wish he had wider distribution/press.

edit: shit, just realised it's Rhythm Plate that i love on Manits. Pink Cigarettes is classic though.

but the label have yet to deliver the cd to the bbc.

could be indicative as to why no-one has this album yet.

insanity. I need to check this.

and,

oh yeah,

I love this album.

and voila - a revived thread reminding me to do just that !

tis indeed rather special stuff.

Any idea what's happening with Republic of Desire - a great start, with fantastic artwork, and then nothing, and it's not like they don't have the music to release as promos have been floating around for a while.

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And bump again cause why not. Had the mp3s all this time as mentioned but when I saw Red Tape on CD for a buck at Amoeba in SF I had to spring for it.

Since I believe in always assisting with a bump.

One of the saddest music fan things I've ever done was buy 30 copies of "You, Me & Us" for a buck each. After having already paid full price for the album. Ended up giving most them away at a house-warming party I held a week or so later.

The question is: What royalties does an artist get of albums sold at that price?

Sad, perhaps, but noble. (I still need to get that album!) As for royalties, surely you jest.

Hey, I'm not expecting the artist to get much from an album sold at a dollar. But I am curious how sale/mark down prices affect royalties?

Meantime, as was brought to my attention elsewhere, he's on Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/andrewjamesbrooks

He never did much of anything after that - a single here and there, but his stuff is my favorite music of the first decade of this century. But going through my itunes and seeing his albums made me seek out if he has done anything, and he has a bandcamp page with two songs on it from 2017. Shame he hasn't done much, he is just brilliant.

But check it out, totally danceable with the usual soulful and bitchin' dark grooves as usual.

https://brooks23.bandcamp.com/releases

Hey, thanks for the update!

I couldn't resist writing to him and telling him how much his albums meant to me, and I read he's doing some projects related to sound and its use in architecture, and I said I wished him luck in his endeavors. But I wish he'd come back, or at least that all his stuff would be on Spotify.