We thought it would be nice to put together a Year In Review. If we missed anything let us know!

June 2011
The first video from the new CD is released. Filmed in California by Rukshan Thenuwara and friends, its noir black and white appeal makes it a quick hit.

August 2011
A track from the new CD is featured in the US indie magazine Under The Radar’s digital sampler!

September 2011
Troy gets his first Australian interview with Evan Kanarakis of the online zine The Cud.

October 2011
The first international tour by There Is No Sin hits France. A great kick-off to the tour too with an initial meeting by the photographer of the CD, Christophe Garnier and Troy.

October 2011
The first round of CDs are gone the same week they go on sale. In a scramble, we order the next round and find that overnight shipping for thousands of CDs just ain’t cost effective.

October 2011
Hometown paper The Portland Phoenix surprises with a beautiful write-up on We Are Revealed. Writer Sam Pfeifle captures the ideas behind the book too.

December 2011
The Portland Phoenix just kept our jaws dropped this year! We Are Revealed was named the Top Album of 2011. Troy was beside himself. We got our thinking caps on and started planning a show in Portland.

The following link is for an interview that we did a month ago. Do I spill on it? A smidge. But only a smidge.

You can read it here.

1. Our music videos, live shows and some fan made videos. Even an animation.
2. Sermons, homophobic diatribes, Christian songs and a few indecipherable films from what appear to be the 70s.

This is where the topic of regret comes in. I’m an atheist. The band name has nothing to do with Western religion and, when I see the confusion, I vaguelly regret picking the band name.

So to be clear: it was a quote from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. A translated and illustrated text that I pored over as a kid. You can read the text of it here but it’s pretty boring stuff without the hieroglyphs.

And this brings me to this update…in bullet format.

• The video contest from Clip Records ends on November 12th. The response has been great. If you’re entering, thank you. Can’t wait to see. I’m crazy impatient about this event.
• The next show is at the Big Easy in Portland with Benjamin Burgess and other guests. It’s a Friday night at 8PM. October 29th.
• The French photographer Christophe Garnier did the album art for the upcoming CD. He deserves a lot of praise. The images are perfect. Take a look at his site.
• I’ll be recording several YouTube videos of cover songs. I’m focusing on songs that I always wanted to hear stripped down. So far, Depeche Mode and Pink Floyd are under consideration. If you have any great ideas, send me a tweet.
• The first CD has officially sold out and Clip Records is currently ordering another pressing. The Limited Edition versions have been long gone, but I’m calling this new batch the Constrained Edition.
• Thanks to everyone who has been listening. I genuinely am humbled.

I’m going to be setting a new recording space this month…slowly.

In the meantime, there are other tracks to post. Newer ones. Older ones.

Thanks to all of those radio stations out there playing the CD.