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Artwork by
Srogi Mroczek

No Fireball Show

Bleak Magician

May 2nd, 2025
20 tracks
27:41
Scheduled for release on May 2nd, 2025.
Prelude
0:00
1:22
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Prelude
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1:22
2
First Call
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1:27
3
Hell is Pop
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1:22
4
Gazelles and Gold
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1:31
5
Flatline Freaks
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1:25
6
Silver Dollar
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1:31
7
Behind the Scenes
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1:03
8
Couplets
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1:31
9
Comet Break
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1:22
10
Four and a Half
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0:54
11
Tapeside Down
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1:34
12
Boston Version
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1:34
13
Fanfare for Gravity
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1:20
14
Uncle Henry
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1:30
15
Acrobats Twirl
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0:50
16
Escaping the Ding Show
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1:21
17
Like Turtles
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1:34
18
Geeking the Chicken
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1:25
19
Primo Time
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1:17
20
No More Anonymous
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1:48

"For a few years when we were kids, Weirding and I lived on a construction site. We used to imagine that it was the site of a big carnival that came to town. As summer wore on, we developed crazier and crazier stories about what had happened to the carnival. Ultimately, we pretended that the bulldozers and earthmovers scattered around the site were carnival rides left behind after some great cataclysm had struck -- like a comet hitting the Earth or nuclear war breaking out. We spent the entirety of the summer of 1984 riding skateboards and bmx bikes and building ramps with scraps of wood and metal that we found on the site. Those were days that seemed to last forever. This album is an homage to that time in our lives." -- Srogi

“The last album had a lot of edge to it. Whereas this one sort of disintegrates in places – revealing something more like fragmented memories. We talked about this idea a lot during the recording sessions – what if you could capture what memory sounds like?” -- Weirding

Credits

Srogi Mroczek: Vocals, electric guitar (right channel), synth, bass, drum machine
Weirding Batweilder: Electric guitar (left channel), synth
Dirt Boucher: Drums, synth
Rick Morerick: Acoustic guitar, harp

All songs written by Srogi Mroczek, copyright 2025.
Produced by S.M. with assistance from R. Poole.
Cover art by S.M. Thank you to J.F.