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After five years (and counting) of making instrumental music as Boarding School I've returned to the land of lyrics with Lovers of the Arctic Circle and a proper solo debut album Lonely Sometimes
Thirteen Songs about former lovers, former bandmates, former cities, and even former versions of myself. It's an eclectic mix of singer-songwriter indie folk, shoegaze and art noise, occasion lapses into electroclash and lofi industrial pop. It's a collection that worked a s a whole but was recorded in multiple sessions (Carborro/Chapel Hill, Seattle, Portland, Reykjavik, & Honolulu) and mixed recently here in Hawaii. some songs are new born, mere months old and some would be old enough to vote.

Lonely Sometimes is out Friday December 13 from Le Garçon Sale Records. Pre-order now!

The third pre-release single/ep from my Honolulu-based shoegaze project Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Featuring the single "Basic" out NOW from Le Garçon Sale Records

LP "Lonely Sometimes" out 12-13-19

Here's a quick little visualizer to hold you over until the official videos are released
and get the ep pay-what-you here now via Bandcamp and Le Garçon Sale Records .

xoxo

Survivor's Guilt the debut single/ep from Lovers of the Arctic Circle will first be available exclusively pay-what-you-will via Bandcamp 
It's a fairly dramatic departure from Boarding School stylistically, sonically dissonant and melodic LOTAC is a mix of lofi folk, shoegaze, bedroom singer-songwriter, and art noise. The debut album Lonely Sometimes will be released on December 13th via Le Garçon Sale Records

Check out the B-sides Nova Vox and a cover of Marianne Faithfull's The Mystery of Love after the jump.

While Boarding School is on a brief hiatus I found myself writing more traditional singer-songwriter fare and exploring new sonic pallets and suddenly I had a whole record. Actually I had a whole record and an ep/single. Lovers of the Arctic Circle's debut ep Survivor's Guilt drops on September 13th followed by the full album Lonely Sometimes on December 13. Celebrating being stuck on an island for a few years with some gloomy emotional shoegaze.


more soon
xoxo

someone politely said my Boarding School work sounds like classy stoner music so with that "compliment" in mind I give you the album version of Try and it's chill out, hypnotic, kaleidoscopic new video. Enjoy! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄   

Try remix ep is out now everywhere so GET IT!  Featuring the single Try (from  A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue)  and remixes by DJTX, E. Chuthers, Reykjavík Haze and     Saint Caedmon along with a radically reworked new recording of In The Cities Where Our Lovers Dream recorded this past winter in Iceland.


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Behold! the brand spanking new video for  Wrong by Boarding School !!! 
A surreal slow motion cascade of candy colored animals offer the viewer a hypnotic break from the doldrums of their everyday lives. Wrong is the opening track to A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue available now from Le Garçon Sale Records.

with the release of my new album A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue I've given in to streaming services and released select records from my back catalog . Enjoy

A brand new video debut!  A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue is a witchy, grimy, hypnotic throwback to 90's  era music videos you'd obsess over late night on MTV's 120 Minutes program. Shot on location in southern Iceland, it is teh title track from Boarding School's brand new album.

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW !!! Get it HERE

A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Nest" is the sophomore album and yet third full length release from Boarding School following Mute Songs Vols 1 & 2. Inspired by the work of controversial author Dennis Cooper as well being the first Boarding School written and recorded domestically in the United States in Klaus-Vineyard's newly adopted home town of Seattle Washington.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS ALBUM WILL GO TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

Electric Sheep is the ambient/artnoise composition that will provide the score to a new video installation work later this year.  it was recorded and remixed during the same sessions as the upcoming    "A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue" (out 01-13-2017 on Le Garçon Sale Records). The 48 min sound-design piece runs the gamut from anxiety-inducing dissonance to hypnotic late night trip-hop and back again.

It's available to stream now and for download on February 03

 M/JOHN/W  is the latest release from Boarding School on Le Garçon Sale Records . M/JOHN/W originally appeared as part of the score for Defunkt Theatre's multiple award nominated production of Cock by Mike Bartlett . The ambient sound design composition appears here in a slightly reworked form.   You can grab a copy here, it's pay what you will as always!

As if I haven't been busy enough between producing theatre and my art career I'm actually hard at work in my fleeting off time on a new Boarding School record tentatively titled Automatic Hiawatha. It'll be out sometime before the end of 2016 but I decided to drop a teaser of a few tracks (still in demo form) in the meantime.
Enjoy. 

while I'm working on a new full length album I enjoy randomly releasing these ambient singles.  It's a nice break from editing on the Bedroom Series book which is coming this fall and all my work at defunkt theatre. xo enjoy the brand new track after the jump.

I've taken a step back into less ambient waters as of late, musically. My art career is so diverse that at times I have to step away from one medium that I love to have an affair with another.  Making films  has patiently waited while my work as a theatre director has taken off and being co-artistic director of a company is quite time consuming and was one of the many reasons I chose to dissolve my last musical project/band Mattachine Social. I try to squeeze in photo shoots when I can. The other day, missing my bass guitar and my art-damaged improvised noise punk roots I recorded this quick composition. with  a simple set of rules: 1 drum loop, 1 bass guitar.  It's two takes (1 overdub) and zero fucks given, mistakes and all thrown in. Here's to shaking off the rust.

After ending Mattachine Social and having now released a double album and an ep of instrumental electronic world music and film score as Boarding School  I thought i was time to start wring towards an eventual solo album (as AKV) . I'm lining up a great batch of accomplished and game session players and I'll be in and out of the studio all year but in the meantime I have this lo-fi dance pop single Tired Old Queen  and  the Townie remix that came from a recent session. Enjoy.