New Abrasions (Dust Version)

When the New Abrasions EP was released in 2024, the cassette version used quite a lot of tape, due to the fact that the entire EP was dubbed onto each side of the tape. The sticker on the shell read, "PROGRAM REPEATS ON SIDE B."

However, listeners who flipped the tape over would notice that the B side sounds nothing like the A side. What they would hear was forty seven minutes of blown out footprints of sound – clicks, pops, wind shadows, humid expanses of blank space.

Still, listeners who paid close attention may have noticed that the tracks on the B side each contain traces of their A side counterparts – a melody here, a bird call there – as though the songs had become a remote transition, otherworldly, screaming faintly through the veil.

What was heard on the B side was known internally to the band as the Dust Version of the album - each song smeared, deteriorated, made strange. These versions use the same audio as their A side counterparts, but have undergone various processes of degradation and distillation.

The result is like a book left out in the weather, rained on and sunbleached a hundred times over. These are still the same songs from New Abrasions, but quite destroyed, faded, unraveled into scraps.