NEW RELEASE

ON

Badgerlore

We Are All Hopeful Farmers,

We Are All Scared Rabbits

FORMAT: CD
RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2007
FILE UNDER: Avant
CATALOG NO: XER-CD-114
UPC: 600401 114025

1 furbearer
2 goodnight, sweet rabbits
3 the crops that you tend
4 whichever
5 we are all hopeful farmers
6 mountain

wine

7 snowballs for reuven
8 grow your hair
9 duet
10 when i look at your face, i see timothy

TRACKS

Membership and horizons continue to expand for Badgerlore, now the great tribal council of the dubiously-dubbed "Freak Folk"
movement. Founders Rob Fisk (Deerhoof, 7-Year Rabbit Cycle) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire) released
their debut in 2002. Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans) joined in 2004; in 2006, Glen Donaldson (Blithe
Sons, Jeweled Antler) and Liz Harris (Grouper) added their voices. Now the clan extends its cadence of mantras, dirges, prayers and
curses with its third full-length release, We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits.

While the group enlarges, the form compresses, into a brambled nexus of sound, as quaverous organs and guitars, humid vocals,
and florid tape manipulations all intertwine. It's their most song-oriented recording to date, the tracks functioning as tightly-clasped
fetishes and buried amulets, exerting a phantasmic pull on the listener. Together the musicians proceed with masterful nuance and
inexorable tension. It is the sound of effigy mounds slowly rousing from prehistoric slumber.

Forget New Weird America; forget Old Weird America. In devotional murmurs and arboreal whispers, the denizens of the Badgerlore
lodge summon the dreadful, breathing shadow of the Old Weird Universe.

Features original artwork and tintypes by San Francisco artist Allison Watkins; graphic design by Grammy Award-winner Susan
Archie.

“Alternating heartrending drone and quietly affecting folk carved by taciturn hermits, [Badgerlore] speaks through
distant symbols, inky clouds, and thin pine-needle patterns on the floor. These pipers at the gates of dusk are holed up
against the the witching hour, creating beauty within a crumbling, musky night.”

— PITCHFORK

“Organic sure, but [Badgerlore's] touchstones are, in their intellectualism and breadth, surprisingly more art than folk,
recalling Eno's Ambient series, Laurie Anderson's warmer vocal narcissism, and even John Cale's early, occasional
organ visitations.”

— PITCHFORK

“Like some cave painting that starts to glow and move before your eyes as the torch sputters out . . . Inspired.”

— DUSTED

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