In Abstraction - The A Hope For Home Podcast

WE'RE BACK AND READY FOR YOUR EARS! To prep you for our release of Years of Silicon on September 2nd I am joined by Jonathan Crary, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University to discuss his new book Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (Verso Books). And at the end of the episode we debut a clip from a new song...

Intro music is "Mayday" by Ozimov (find them on bandcamp here)
Buy Scorched Earth at Verso Books here

Yo fools. WW3 is on the march but we're pretending its not happening--Tanner and I talk about some updates for the new album, the title of which we spoil in this episode so GIVE ER A LISTEN!

This time Matt is joined by James McGaha and Sam Appelbaum of Portland's own Luna Vista. Luna Vista has a great new record coming out on Feb 11th called "Somerset," and the music you here here is taken from the title track.

Check out Luna Vista on Bandcamp here for music, merch, and Somerset preorders.

Matt is joined by Devin Daniels, who releases music under the name "Stale Cooper" and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. We talk about his upcoming tape release and then do a deep dive on Peter Jackson's Beatles doc, Get Back.

Listen to his music here.
Listen to his podcast here.

Hey everyone. So sorry it's been so long. As you will hear in this episode, there have been some events! BUT! Alas some exciting news:

1. What Nathan and I (Matt) have been up to
2. Recent records we've been into (ETID, Grouper, etc)
3. DUNE DUNE DUNE DUNE!!!
4. A new demo of a new song!?!?! A NEW SONG?!?!?!!

Matt checks in with long time AHFH friend Nate Jurgensen from Portland's Amos Val. Nate has a new record out, "Crow Doesn't Arrive Doesn't Crow" available on Spotify and Bandcamp.

Amos Val Bandcamp

Matt is joined by the great Andy Atkins from A Plea For Purging. We see what he's been up to--which includes his new YouTube page Party On Forever--and, you guessed it, complain about the Christian music industry. 

Also please forgive the audio discrepancy between each voice as my zoom fucked up and didn't record two separate audio tracks.

Matt, Tanner, Dan, Nathan, and later Eric talk about our previous record, Facedown's 2011 release, In Abstraction.

Matt is joined by David Hollingshead, Assistant Professor of English at MacEwan University (and one of these mysterious "Canadians" you hear about) to talk about his article on Emo for Hyped on Melancholy, reminisce about the early 2000s, and rank our favorite records from the era.

Check out David's piece in Hyped on Melancholy here.
Follow David on twitter here.

Matt is joined by Daniel Moraine of JHS Pedals. We nerd out about gear for a while, so be warned.

Check out Daniel's band Cobra Doug here. As well as his YouTube page here.