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    Taking its title from a memorable evening in Norway, the album is available February 9th on Proper Records, and coincides with a UK tour. "The title refers to two long nights spent in Oslo in 1982 by Morris Windsor and myself with some friends ... The album, in part, celebrates the ghosts of the smoke age, and the various ways they were wrecked but still sailed on. That's the way it is with humans. You could call it the comfort of doom. Goodnight Oslo is a vortex that I am still leaving." Boasting ten new songs, Goodnight Oslo was recorded with friends and longtime cohorts The Venus 3 Peter Buck (guitar) and R.E.M. mainstays Scott McCaughey (bass, vocals) and Bill Rieflin (drums). Full Article at CD Times
    The title refers to two long nights spent in Oslo in 1982 by Morris Windsor and myself with some friends ... The album, in part, celebrates the ghosts of the smoke age, and the various ways they were wrecked but still sailed on. That's the way it is with humans. You could call it the comfort of doom. Goodnight Oslo is a vortex that I am still leaving.
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