Christophe Garnier is the French photographer who created the amazing photographs for our last record, We Are Revealed. It was a joy to visit with him when we toured there.

You can see Christophe's work here. He's incredibly talented.

But he's also a ukelele player! He sent us this video yesterday. It's a cover of "Untitled," which was also from that record. The video was shot near Christophe's home in Yffiniac, which is near the coast in Brittany.

We love this!

And if you didn't see it, here is the original song and video (though personally we prefer Christophe's version). 🙂

The other day, one of our most enduring friends, Geoff Itz, sent me a video via Twitter. He had covered a song from our last album.

I showed it to a few of my band mates and, universally, the first question was: how did he figure out the words? I wanted to feign insult at the idea Geoff cribbing my Tool-like melody but I was too shocked. "Uh. Remember, the CD came with a book? A literal book...with all of the words...and a story?"

Needless to say, Geoff killed it on this one.

Here's Geoff's "El Cid" (and the original in video form, in case you missed it).

A short film by Ruwan starring actress Marla Simone. A brilliant little piece.

As promised, we're offering a free download from the new CD.

"Misled" was recently featured on Maine Public Radio MPBN's In Tune By Ten with Sara Willis.

Thanks for listening.

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Last year, I talked to Rukshan Thenuwara (the director of our "El Cid" video) and pitched to him an idea for "Practice Crawling."

He asked maybe four or five questions. There were a few quick drafts but that was it. In a few months, he'd put down the monkey's corporate life in black & white. He and his actors were perfect. I didn't want to change a thing.

Of course, the humor is all Rukshan's idea.

The last year proved to be a pretty amazing one for There Is No Sin. The new CD came out, they toured France and garnered some great press to boot.

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.

Yesterday, the new CD was released. We'd promised digital first, so there you go. It's been a manic 24 hours.

Here are the links that I know of so far:

Clip Records Online Store
iTunes
Amazon

I'll some more info soon. The release will be on Spotify and MOG despite earlier statements to the contrary. Also, the record stores get copies in the next few weeks. Bull Moose already has it.

I just received a still from the video for "Practice Crawling." It was filmed in LA by Rukshan Thenuwara, the same director who created the noir video for "El Cid," and it's amazing.

The video will be released in early December.

I recorded a live song today. If I go the way of Icarus, I wanted to leave with a smile. "ER" from the new CD.

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.