An Instructional Guide​.​.​.

by The Deadfly Ensemble

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Wild-Eyed Hounds 06:34
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Thirsty Girl, or, the Tale of the Storm Crow 04:41
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Hammer, Anvil and Stirrups 04:27
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The Early Years of Dr. Lindsay 07:03
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Lizard Tree On Fire 04:11
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The Glorious Immolation of the Holy Order of the Sun 06:03
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Dog vs. Postman, in B 08:00
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St. Nick's Sugar Hill Sanitorium (What Do You Reckon, Julia?) 01:52
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Concerning Two Lunatic Vagabonds of the Middle Ages 04:10
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Commercial Success 03:23
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Marvelous Murderes 06:16

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An Instructional Guide For Aspiring Arsonists

The Deadfly Ensemble returns with their third album, An Instructional Guide For Aspiring Arsonists, a kid-gloved punch-up between artsy post-punk and off-kilter chamber-folk and their most frenetic offering to date, replete with cinematic arias, tomahawk-wielding war-marches and dreamy, synth-laden vignettes.

Deadfly vocalist and songwriter Lucas Lanthier has already proven himself to be a renaissance man. Every album from his previous band Cinema Strange, as well as the first two Deadfly Ensemble albums, came well equipped with writings, videos, and artwork courtesy of Mr. Lanthier himself. An Instructional Guide... keeps up the tradition, furnishing fans with a richly textured album package that includes a fold-out poster with pages of the weirdly fantastic lyrics that have made Lanthier's projects famous AND a limited edition insert signed by the entire band!

The music on An Instructional Guide... recalls some of the bombast and energy of his earlier Cinema Strange works, moving The Deadfly Ensemble into a new phase of snarling literary art-rock mischief. They can still include themselves amongst a lineage of Weimar-era nightlife and even vaudevillian jazz performers, but the artistic developments are Dada chaos and sardonic brain teasers. Imagine that David Tibet took the Current 93 crew into a tunnel of love boat ride maintained, decorated and administered by the Virgin Prunes, and when they emerged they holed up in a New England lighthouse until an album was born from their quivering loins. And what the hell, the lighthouse was haunted...

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released January 10, 2013

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Projekt is America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music in the ambient, electronic, ethereal & darkwave genres.

“Rosenthal’s own group, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, was an early exponent of darkwave’s hallmark mournful cabaret.” —Craig Hayes, Popmatters, 2013

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