Kelly Ruberto has announced at the Townhall a new compilation of Athens experimental works featuring contributions by W. Cullen Hart, Heather McIntosh, Korena Pang, Chronicle Ape, Hannah Jones, the Noisettes, and much more. It's priced at $30, twice the amount you'd expect, but if you consider that quantities are limited to 200 and each is hand-printed "using archival materials" by graduate students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and that each, as you can see in the picture, is really amazingly cool, it seems a bit more understandable. Now, these are experimental recordings, so if you've heard such other Elephant 6-related experimental compilations, such as Sounds to Soothe a Nervous Robot or U.S. Pop Life Vol. 10: Athens Experimental, you probably have a good idea of what to expect. Some people just hate this stuff. I have a very vivid memory of seeing the Olivia Tremor Control in Seattle on their first farewell tour, and when they started making some avant-garde sounds between songs, some frat boy in the back screamed, "Play songs!" Scott Spillane said, "Okay" with raised eyebrows, and they quickly went into a song. So frat boys won't like this, is what I'm saying.

AUX: Experimental Sound from Athens, GA is available now.

Tracklist

1. Paul Thomas - Hope
2. Chronicle Ape and the New Sound - Antique #1
3. Javier - somewhere in the someone is the something
4. Sarah Black - Music Box
5. Korena Pang - excerpt from Dogbirthed Brother in Eggsack Delicious
6. W. Cullen Hart - Dimensional Snail and Friend
7. Noisettes - The October Situation
8. Heather McIntosh - Next it Becomes Winter
9. Make Out Music for Insects - First Things First
10. Blake Helton and Colin Bragg - Cars on Fire
11. Desk Pussy - Pi for Psychotics
12. Mark Fisher - Saros
13. Hannah Jones - Bells for Electronic Owl
14. Matt Williams - Newchile
15. The QRM - Boetheus
16. The Leapyear - Waiting for the Dawn to Break
17. Pelican City - Weston Street Rose
18. Manipulated Sound Source - The Breathing Table