Blog: Condemned to Rock 'N Roll

The packaging has a homemade, dossier feel to it with its courier font and textured card stock. A rambling, nearly stream of conscious lyric sheet is stuffed in one of its pockets like a frantically-typed, yellowed note to self. The inside cover has red type that reads: "One said the elliptical sleep sound unwound in the throat of her abed exhaling dreams that you find at the back part of your mind and she can't sleep for it." It is secretive and raw. This is Montreal musician, Ben McCarthy's project Archivist, including members of The Dears, Sunset Rubdown, Pony Up [...]