PREORDER Fulton Lights' Am I Right or Am I Right on vinyl and mp3's!

[Andrew Spencer Goldman]

Hi everyone,

The vinyl test pressings for the new Fulton Lights album, Am I Right or Am I Right, are in!!  Super duper excited.  This was mastered twice -- once for digital and once specifically for vinyl-- by the always excellent Jen Munson, and it is TASTY.  The album is, as I said in my last message, the first full-length album from Fulton Lights since 2008.  

You can listen to the entire album and preorder the vinyl and/or get instant mp3 downloads right here: http://fultonlights.bandcamp.com/album/am-i-right-or-am-i-right  

Vinyl orders should ship in late October.  

The early reviews:

"Gorgeous, furious, and funky..." - Said the Gramophone

"Endless Moments of Heart." - HeroHill

"So Right."  -- Urbanite

"...Essential folk-tinged blues-rock with a big band bent, now layered with spacey atmospherics, emboldened by psychedelic tweaks, and accented with avant-garde touches.  ...Manages to drift around the modern pop-rock spectrum with remarkable ease and agility.  ...It's easy to see how well the whole lot hangs together, making consecutive listens all the more inviting and rewarding."  - Beatbots

Preorder now, tell some folks about it (LITERALLY--tell some folks!), and let's get it going like whoa.  

Best,

ASG

p.s. Just a parting thought re: streaming music/spotify/etc, a DIY musician's perspective to consider for those who may not keep up with some of the more divisive music/tech issues of our strange days.  Streaming music is and has been for a while the future of music, for better (ease) or worse (sound quality, fairness to musicians) but here is the cold truth: streaming puts a heck of a lot more money into the coffers of opaque corporations with questionable ties to the Big Record Labels than it does into helping little guys like Fulton Lights continue to record music.  Making music is more often than not costly stuff -- Am I Right or Am I Right cost several thousands of dollars to make, and that was trying as best as possible to keep costs down.  Truth.  Musicians get paid, engineers/studios get paid, the vinyl manufacturers get paid.  It adds up.  You may or may not know that Spotify pays out a fraction of a penny when you listen -- it is literally like 3/1000ths of a penny.  [pause for gasps.]  Stop for a second and consider how many plays on spotify or rhapsody I would need in order to even make back a fraction of what was invested into the music!  I'm no math major, but it's a lot, perhaps a practical impossibility.  Here's a pretty excellent visual representation of this problem that made the rounds a while back: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/comment-page-1/

Streaming can be a great way to make up your mind if you're on the fence about an album, including Am I Right Or Am I Right, or if you're just feeling too lazy to actually put on a record that you own.  (It happens!)  And ultimately if streaming is just your "thing" I'll be happy that at least you're choosing to listen to Fulton Lights, and maybe sometime you'll come out to a show and buy a t-shirt or something.  That's cool.  But if you actually like Fulton Lights and find yourself enjoying Am I Right or Am I Right, please consider buying a copy.  Not only will it sound better than spotify/etc, but you'll actually be supporting Fulton Lights, a DIY operation through and through, rather than supporting us in spirit while supporting somebody else in practice.  Not to mention that the vinyl is something tangible, with fantastic art by Baltimore's very excellent Beth Hoeckel (www.bethhoeckel.com).  Tangible!  Remember when that was a thing? And at the end of the day, here's what it boils down to: you'll be helping to make it a little easier for Fulton Lights to keep writing and recording.  WIN WIN. 

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