Amanda Palmer has announced details of her new as yet untitled album. Her first since splitting from Roadrunner Records. Promotion is to be fan funded and the album comes with all kinds of potential additions should you wish to get more than just the usual songs...

 

 

 

'hi folks, it's AFP. this is my first BIG, LEGIT studio album undertaking since breaking from a major label. i've spent four years writing the songs for this record, and more recently, putting together the perfect band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, comprised of genius musicians/arrangers/programmers MICHAEL MCQUILKEN, CHAD RAINES, and JHEREK BISCHOFF. in march, we locked ourselves up in a studio in Australia and, with the help of producer/engineer John Congleton (who's worked with a zillion amazing people including St. Vincent, Modest Mouse, and Xiu Xiu), we made what I believe is my best f***ing album to date. it sounds...BEYOND EPIC. we laid down "The Bed Song", "Massachusetts Avenue", "The Killing Type", "Trout Heart Replica" and a slew of other tracks...some solo piano, but many featuring HORNS (locally sourced in Melbourne, Australia!), SYNTHESIZERS, GUITAAAARRRRR, and BIG BAD-ASS ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS that will blow your domepiece. we're working on finalizing the arrangements and mastering as i write this text. i expect great, big, giant things to happen when this record comes out in september. the band & i will be touring it across the globe ALL YEAR.

 

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amanda...t-book-and-tour

 

 

 

I so wish I could afford the Grand Theft Orchestra makeover. How this woman isn't huge I'll never understand

I just wish Dresden Dolls would get back together as I have not liked her solo stuff anywhere near as much

Yeah Dresden Dolls were great. And Evelyn Evelyn too. If the snippets in the video are anything to go by though this album will be better than Who Killed...

Was absolutely obsessed with Dresden Dolls for a while. I have 'The Dresden Dolls', 'Yes, Virginia' and 'No, Virginia'. :wub: Evelyn Evelyn were great too. I liked Amanda's solo stuff, mostly 'Guitar Hero' and 'Have To Drive'.