PRESS RELEASE April 12, 2021

PRESS RELEASE

April 12, 2021

Albuquerque indie rock stalwarts fuguers cove perform on the moon, release album about love in the post-apocalypse

Fresh off their one-off performance on the Earth’s lone lunar satellite, Albuquerque's fuguers cove release moon, a 14 track soft rock meditation on love & death.

fuguers cove is a one-man indie-garage-psych-punk project founded in 1995 by music weirdo & UNM professor Justin Bendell. Since 2015, fuguers cove has released 27 full length albums and E.Ps.

In Summer 2020, fuguers cove released its first live record, performs The Marshmen live on the fuckin' moon. This recording captures fuguers cove performing songs by doppelganger The Marshmen in an air-sealed bubble to several thousand moon people. To the uninitiated, The Marshmen are a Bendell rock project

that one writer referred to as “communist John Cougar Mellencamp.”

Moon, released on April 24, 2021, is a quieter affair. Written & recorded during the pandemic, this acoustic-centered record looks at love at mid-life and imagines what happens to love after death in the post-apocalypse.

If you would like to review either album, the links to the Bandcamp pages are below. I am happy to provide a free download link by request.

fuguers cove, performs The Marshmen live on the fuckin’ moon (2020)

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/performs-the-marshmen-live-on-the-fuckin-moon-lp

fuguers cove’s moon (2021)

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/moon-lp

Send all queries / interview requests to Justin at fuguers.cove@gmail.com

Figured out the end to a story

The woman shoots Bear in the gut when they’re down in the desert after they’ve run away and she says I’ll see you at that Burger King in the sky and it ends noir style with him looking out in the desert bleeding to death.

Moon will be released on 24 April 2021

New record comes out on 24 April 2021.

It's a soft, pretty, reflective record about love & death.

Here it is, including the final track listing:
https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/moon

Pre-order a digital copy for $5 (or u can stream it for free on spotify)

Track List

1. Soda Water Waltz
2. Anything You Want
3. The Cinnamon Trees
4. In Your Van, Clementine
5. Bluff Moon
6. In the Trees
7. Son of a Gun (Vaselines)
8. Trailer Waltz
9. No Luck At All
10. I Really Hope That
11. Organs
12. Moon Above
13. Waltz Interlude
14. Wooden Floors

Someday, maybe soon, I will write short stories again

 See note above. 

 This is a fun new song. Poppy as fuck (for me). Dig it. 

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/track/in-your-van-clementine

Shit, I forgot

 I forgot about this blog. 

Here I am, pajamaed & half lit on seltzer bubbles watching a Norwegian dude on PBS show me how to prep smoked lamb shanks. 

A day before school starts again, I remember the blog.

I'll forget about it soon.

After I forget, I'll need to remind myself to remember again.

Excerpt from novel-in-progress

Excerpt:

Maybe I can start writing again??

I sit in a chair in the dusted silence and watched how the sun casts a warm pale light in the room and I get on my knees like I did as a kid--though it hurts to do it now--and I talk to my God, telling him all the things I did wrong and I tell him how I did it, and I tell him that my pants don’t feel right, and how I miss my sister. I cry. I blubber. I speak in tongues.

Reading New Mexico virtual reading -- Wed, Oct 28 @ 7pm

The UNM-Valencia English Department & Manzano Mountain Review are hosting a virtual reading on Wed., Oct 28 and we'd like you to attend!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2766370296968252/

I get so god-damned excited about this thing

. . .but then a month of ceaseless work crushes me down and sucks out my juices. Happy early Halloween dorks. I'll be looking to steal your candy.