The Journal of Popular Noise will be releasing in December Foscil's Residential, the long-awaited full-length follow-up to 2005's Foscil. Six select cuts from album will appear on three 7-inches packaged with Byron Kalet's sporadically published periodical JPN (ltd. ed. of 300). The album will also be available as a digital download. Pre-orders can be made here now.

Featuring all three members of Truckasauras plus versatile hornman Anthony Moore, Foscil tend to get overshadowed by Truck, but, as I wrote about a year ago in Data Breaker:

Foscil deserve at least as much attention as their flashier, kitschier counterparts receive. They bring the funk with slightly more nuance and cerebral intensity, emphasizing impressive instrumental prowess over Truck's Game Boy bleepage, WWE footage, and American-flag capes (not that there's anything wrong with those things). Think of Foscil as Truck's more responsible alter ego.

I'm hoping to get a copy of the new release tomorrow and will give my impressions after some quality time with it.

Foscil play the Crocodile Sat. Nov. 21 with Head Like A Kite and Animals At Night.

Press release after the cut.

THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR NOISE
FA L L / W I N T E R ’ 0 9 / 1 0 I S S U E S 1 6 - 1 8
Pre-orders on sale now (shipping Dec, 2009)

Brooklyn, New York, Nov 3, 2009 — The Journal of Popular Noise is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. Produced in limited editions of hand-folded, letter-press printed copies.

The Journal of Popular Noise is proud to announce our latest offering: a special edition featuring selections from Foscil’s Residential. In 2008 Foscil participated in an artist residency at the now defunct BLVD gallery in Seattle, WA. These recordings are the end result of the experiments and performances that took place between January and June of last year. JPN faithfuls will remember Foscil as one of our first contributors, as well as featuring members of Truckasauras, Linda & Ron’s Dad, and Flexions.

This edition marks a departure from the regular guidelines artists are asked to submit to. But due to the repetition, variation, and restrictions Foscil placed upon themselves throughout the 6 month series of live performances that led up to and informed the recordings, we feel that the spirit of the JPN is properly
represented.

Produced in an edition of 300 letterpress printed, hand folded copies. The full length record ‘Residential’ will also be available as a digital download.

“Seattle-based Foscil’s ‘Part 001 — Part 005’ (JPN issue 2, S/S ‘07) is a fantastic suite of languid, jazzy and occasionally Far East-inflected electro-acoustic tracks featuring haunting layers of woodwind.” - Dan Fox, Frieze

more info from http://www.facebook.com/l/3ab0f;theStranger.com:
http://www.facebook.com/l/3ab0f; www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=606155

more info from the band:
http://www.facebook.com/l/3ab0f; www.myspace.com/foscilonline
http://www.facebook.com/l/3ab0f; www.fourthcity.net/artists/?a=8