Will Cullen Hart is making everybody really happy this week. The E6 principal has been doing interviews with EW.com and Pitchfork in support of Circulatory System's long-awaited second proper album, which is good news made even better by the promise of new Olivia Tremor Control music. (So many exclamation points on this page.) Regarding the two completed OTC songs and the band's ongoing sessions, he told P4K:
But it's exciting because it feels just like it was before, I swear to God. There's no fucking difference. Really. No fucking difference. I like that. [laughs] I like that! Of course, I would like that, you know? It's real. People, hopefully, will like that. Of course they'll fucking like that. I mean, if people like our stuff, they'll like that.
Whenever that is released, it will be the first Olivia material since 1999's Black Foliage. And on the Circulatory front, the forthcoming Signal Morning is the band's first album since 2001. Aside from Olivia Tremor Control's 2005 reunion tour, Will's been quiet for the better part of this decade, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and spending too much time dealing with it by drinking. But apparently that's been stemmed, and now there's much music to be had. Starting with Signal Morning's first MP3, the elegantly fuzzed and clamoring, psychedelic-pop beauty "Overjoyed."
Circulatory System - "Overjoyed" (MP3)
Will says he's "really proud" of the album, which features one song started all the way back in '93 ("Woodpecker Greeting Worker Ant," featuring fellow Olivia Tremor Controller Bill Doss), one boasting Jeff Mangum on drums (from a session put to tape in 2001 on the song "The Spinning Continuous"), along with the original CS lineup. Signal Morning is out 9/8 via Cloud Recordings. New Olivia Tremor Control songs can't come soon enough.
UPDATE: Here's another and this has Jeff on drums too.
