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plastic death demos

hey here's the big release of demos for plastic death. lots of stuff in here, maybe some of it you will think is interesting. :) sry bout the holdup on getting this out, had a lot to sort through & the new album has still been the main priority

will be posting some demos for the new WIP stuff soon too. it's coming along well. making s...

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plastic death vinyl art

related to the last post, here's some hi-res pdfs of the full vinyl art for plastic death, made by daxe and I :)
if the colors seem a little dull maybe try opening it in a different program, it's CMYK colors for printing so can appear a bit off in some software

more content to come soon! some demos from this record as well as brand new ...

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plastic death vinyl master

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W-Z-KPB93wKZBLrshQYkHaWtqh1XUdoV?usp=sharing

when plastic death was mastered, two different versions were made, one for digital, one for vinyl. the vinyl master has more dynami...

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WIP song - candyglass

hey!!! I promised I'll be putting out works in progress for the new album I'm currently working on so here's one of those. I have a number of songs that are pretty far along but this one is especially in a decently shareable state.

My new solo record is somewhat different from where glass beach has left off, in many ways a return to soun...

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plastic death stems :)

plastic death stems :)

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hi

hi

hey everyone! this is j. been a whole lot of silence from us on this front, so i'd like to come out first and apologize for the lack of updates. those of you who have continued to support us despite that have seriously helped us keep things afloat. you...

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we're still here

i'm not going to get further into details about our personal lives, but we're pretty much done with the album now. just need to do final mixing and then sending it off for mastering.

at a certain point doing any work that doesn't directly relate to the immediacy of getting the album done starts feeling not great. so keeping up with socials...

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the first glass beach blog

we have pretty much gotten through the writing process entirely and are back into the recording zone again today. if you listen to our podcast we mentioned a while back that we were wanting the album out this year, but we got hit with a pretty big set-back having covid run through our house for almost a full two months and then taking a minute f...

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 8

back to just the main crew here. this one definitely goes off the rails and we talk about living at the bottom of the ocean. every episode we answer patron questions, though. these are the questions we answered in this episode:

-how do you create such great and interesting basslines such as in bedroom community?
-what is you guys' favo...

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podcast 8 questions

hey! we're recording our 8th episode of our low-stakes podcast today in a couple hours. patrons get to ask us questions that we answer on the pod so ask away. just be sure to give us your name if you want us to say who the question is from or we'll just default to not saying a name at all!

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 7

joined by guests: jhariah and cole, we discuss their visit to los angeles, troubles we've been having with covid, camping, and more!

we also answered these patron questions:

-what do y'all like to do at the beach?
-on a scale from 10 to 10 how would you rate bartees strange's new record farm to table streaming now?

if you...

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podcast 7 questions

hey! quickly recording a podcast episode! if you're new here we answer patron questions for it. type them as replies here and if you want us to refer to you by name make sure you tell us what to call you! we're going to start recording in about 15 minutes so quick turnaround on this if you have something to ask.
also! jhariah and cole of jhar...

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update/no podcast

no podcast this month. we're headlining utah youth pride so we've been busy preparing for that, but I wanted to do another little update to fill y'all in on what we're up to and how you've been helping with your support!

the obvious one you know is we were able to restock beanies thanks to y'all voting and with your support here. merch is...

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merch restock early access

merch restock early access

today's the last day before we inform the public of the beanie restock. make sure you get it if you want it.

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patron voted merch

patron voted merch

posting a couple days early for y'all before letting the greater public know!

you voted for the calico beanies to go back in stock on our website and they just restocked!

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 6

we have a guest: our austin! together, we talked about bands with 2 drummers, seeing bartees strange and car seat headrest, and answered these patron questions:

-why are the orchids blue?
-is everyone in the band big game grumps fans?
-what's being sampled at the start of boneskull? who's saying "I'm so miserable!"?
-if a studio ...

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podcast 6 questions

recording another podcast episode! if you're new here, we answer patron questions during them so ask away in the comments below. we'll be recording in a couple hours so get em in quick. also, if you'd like us to refer to you somehow you'll have to put the name you want us to say in your reply here or we just won't say a name at all, which is als...

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last vote day for merch restock

about 150 of you still haven't voted, which is fine, just wanted to make sure you do if you want to. today's the last full day to vote. seems like it's gonna be rat hats.

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don't forget to vote for merch!

just reminding you to get your vote in on the merch restock if you haven't already. only 50ish votes so far so a lot of you still can! 

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the 1st merch restock vote

it's time for the first patron-voted merch restock!
you only get 1 vote and this poll will be going through to the end of the month.
excited to see how this goes. 

couple guidelines we're putting in place:
-if something is chosen t...

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merch goal reached!

we just reached the goal for restocks of old merch designs voted on by patrons! we're gonna put something together in the next couple days to start getting this going! keep on the lookout for that. we're also trying to figure out a good way to get y'all early access to the merch that does drop just to make sure you have first dibs on what you vo...

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thank you, as always, and updates

just wanted to take a minute to thank all of you patrons who've been here for a while, the one's who've joined more recently, and y'all who've just showed up to support us for as long as you can.

we're well aware of how fortunate we are to have all of you. we hope we can get things moving here a bit more. maybe even interacting with y'all ...

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 5

we talked about getting new rats, how cars are anime protagonists, and answered these patron questions:

-i'd like to know about the backstory behind bedroom community. what's the song about? what do the lyrics mean to you all? and  why is it such a banger?
-i would like to know all about your writing process- how do you create suc...

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podcast 5 questions

finally recording another episode of our podcast. if you have some questions for us put them below! we won't read your name out loud unless you tell us to in your comment and what to call you. we're recording in 4ish hours so get em in!

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patreon revamp

hey, just wanted to let you all know we're going to be adjusting some goals and adding another incentive for being our patrons. we want to maintain the model we built this patreon with by having absolutely no exclusive content, but instead, coming to all of you for help in making certain decisions.

like how y'all had been picking the cove...

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 4 (spoilers for the first 5 minutes of elden ring)

we talked about the new pokemon starters, elden ring, the move "yesterday" and answered these patron questions:

-what’s the best of the new pokémon starters?
-favorite wes anderson film?
-what would a glass beach candle smell like?
if each of the four of you were a glass beach patreon tier, what would you be?
-favourite bea...

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podcast 4 questions

ok! recording another episode of our podcast. if you have some questions for us put them below! we won't read your name out loud unless you tell to in your comment and what to call you.

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 3

this one's long! we tried to speed round questions, but y'all just ask too good of questions. also, our buddy bachmann is on and we just love talking to him. enjoy!

questions we answered in this one:
-who are we and why are we here?
-coolest/weirdest/best things you’ve ever been asked to sign by fans?
-if you could pull a cliff...

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podcast 3 questions

we're recording another episode of the podcast today! put your questions below!
we also have a special guest: mike bachmann, from the greetings, adventurers podcast who's here working with us on our little d&d music based side project "roll for streetwise" so if you have any questions for him throw them in too!

oh! and if you want ...

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the first glass beach podcast: ep 2

the second episode of our very low-stakes podcast is up!
our drummer (william)'s twin sister, whitney is visiting and is on this podcast as a special guest.

questions we answered:
-between origami angels somewhere city & gami gang which is everyone’s favorite between the two?
-I wanna make brownies today, what mix-ins shoul...

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