Hey gamers. I'm a little hung over (Somnolians, let me know if you want a sauced 35 minute rambling Letters From Cammy dropped on your heads), but I've finally got a day off, I've announced it to the group already after it having been a secret for a few weeks off from two months now, I think it's time to announce this one publicly.

Coming December 8th, the first new music from me in four, almost five, years will be coming out: Last Summer, a defictionalized EP from the MP3.com success story mtlx. It's a sorta-downtempo sorta-ambient electronica six-track album that clocks in at 34 minutes long, full of strange sonic rabbit holes through vintage near-disaster space race coverage, bonkers consciousness seminars caught on cheap cassettes, agitated birds out in the rain forest, and one man whose doctors say has the constitution of a horse. It's about being fond of a time you shouldn't be fond of.

I first started working on Last Summer in January 2020, back when dcb and I were both fascinated by the MP3.com stuff. He made up a fake album and tracklisting and I set out to make it real, but I quit a few songs in because I still wasn't very good at all the songwriting stuff, I was trying to fit everything into the short runtimes he made up, and my heart still wasn't quite in the music thing after losing the projects to Isolated Together in 2019.

I started having the itch to do more music back in October and returned to it. I turned the songs I had done inside out, stretched 'em out, gave them lots of layers, made them sound like real music instead, and kept it all under wraps with only Caby, Savannah, and Connor (who contributed a really cool blanket of guitar to the title track!) getting to hear my WIP renders. I finally finished it up a few days ago and have just been playing with mixes and preparing metadata ever since.

I'm seriously proud of it, and I'm kind of in awe at what came out of it. Going into a new set of Cammy websites, I didn't really want my music output to be defined by some shit I made in high school before I really knew what I was doing, so I'm very glad to have something much newer and much stronger to show off instead. I'm also just glad to finally be able to talk about it? I mentioned I'd been working on some stuff in secret, and this was one of those things. Now, everyone gets to enjoy it.

So yeah, December 8th. Watch my Bandcamp, aphrodisiac.bandcamp.com. I'm gonna be scheduling and hosting a listening party on there for it the day it comes out, and anyone can show up and chat and listen with me and the other Somnolians. I'm also planning on doing a run of handmade CDs of it, complete with artwork and an expanded tracklist of demos at the end, both for the Somnolians and also maybe to have a few to sell to any interested parties online. I'll think of some other places to send this thing out and maybe see if anyone's into it.

And yes, dcb likes it a lot. I wanted him to get first dibs on the full thing.