new album! Am I Right Or Am I Right mp3s and limited edition vinyl (300 copies) out now

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Andrew Spencer Goldman

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Aug 14, 2012, 1:41:32 PM8/14/12

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Hi all.

Very happy to announce that the new album, Am I Right or Am I Right, is now available! We pressed a limited run of 300 copies on vinyl that you can pre-order; they will ship as soon as they are ready but will give you an immediate mp3 download of the whole album. If you just want the mp3s, we got that for you, too. Give it a listen:

http://fultonlights.bandcamp.com/album/am-i-right-or-am-i-right

It's the first full-length from our corner in four years, and was recorded throughout 2011 in studios and homes in Baltimore, Arlington, Brooklyn, and Dallas. It was mixed down in Dallas by Stuart Sikes, who is, I think, the only person I've ever met who has a Grammy. Oddly enough there is a chance I could be wrong about that.

The music is all over the place, hopefully in a good way. In a Beck way, or a Tom Waits way, maybe. Not aesthetically, necessarily, but in the sense of musical adventure. I long ago stopped trying to fit music into any particular genre. It just has to flow, and however it flows, well, that's how it flows. Better to be incomprehensible to some than to be pinned down as potato-core or donkey-jazz or hopscotch-rock. Others may disagree, but IMHO the minute you start thinking "I make X kind of music," well, to me that seems like a pretty surefire way of closing yourself off to discovery and possibility. Creativity can take you to unexpected, surprising places. Me, I'm a traveler. And this album took me to some places. Hopefully it takes you, too.

Many of the talented usual suspects contributed: Peter Hess (Balkan Beat Box/Slavic Soul Party/Anti-Social Music/TVOTR/Hold Steady hornman) played sax and flute (!?); Karen Kanan Correa (Future Brite/x-Demander) dropped in to play viola and sang together with her tall fella Thom Moran; Rob Christiansen played wurlitzer and played bass on one song while I was on the DL for a sprained index finger (NOTE: bad idea to play basketball right before recording); John Davis (Title Tracks/x-Georgie James/etc.) played guitar on one song. TJ Lipple, who played drums on the whole thing and who I've known now for almost half of my life, told me afterward that it's either my best record, or the worst. (That's what we call an Altoona compliment.) He was indispensable to the recording of much of this album, and I owe him a great deal of gratitude. What a guy.

The art is by Beth Hoeckel (www.bethhoeckel.com), and it is beautiful. I asked her to create something that conveyed some of the inherent contrasts in the album, and I think she nailed it. I've attached the cover.

There ain't no record label funding this party, no PR machine. It is just me. It is the best record I've ever done, and I hope you'll help support it. Buy something, share the link good and hard, gimme them sweet tweets (JP I see you).

Am I Right Or Am I Right.

-ASG

p.s. One more thing: international shipping on vinyl is, unfortunately, expensive. Sad but true. If you live in Canada or the EU or Australia or wherever, consider pooling with your friends to buy multiple copies at one time! Teamwork!

Some press for the new one:

"Andrew Spencer Goldman, aka Fulton Lights, continues to amaze. ...'A Minor Happenstance as Things Go' takes us on a trip back to Byrne and Eno, strange rhythms and electronic interruptions spewing its contents all across the funk ballad--all the while maintaining the same understanding of pop in its many splendid forms." --SSG Music

"...nicked & razor-sharp. Fulton Lights continues to find new edges, like he is leaning his body into a diamond belt, throwing his gardens in the thresher. Am I Right or Am I Right has grit, funk, megaphone reverb..." -Said the Gramophone