Your Voice is Not Enough shares their tribute Low, a project born out of a conversation with Planning For Burial’s Thom Wasluck and The Flenser. Inspired by Low’s discography, what began as a discussion on ranking favorite albums blossomed into a collaborative effort that brought together our close-knit group of Flenser artists and friends. Regrettably, the compilation took shape before the tragic passing of Mimi Parker, and in honoring her legacy, they dedicate this album to her memory. The tribute features eight cover songs by Flenser artists and friends: Cremation Lily, Holy Water, Midwife and Amulets, Allison Lorenzen, Kathryn Mohr, Planning for Burial, Drowse featuring Lula Asplund.

Tim Macuga of the band comments, “I joined an America Online mixtape exchange as a teenager when my mom first got us internet. The older gentleman I was paired with sent a tape I still have with mostly tunes by Low, Swans, and Godspeed. I sent him 40 youth crew hardcore tracks and I think he bummed.”

Have A Nice Life is the project of Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga that was forged in the name of sonic exploration and emotional exorcism. Formed in the year 2000, the Middletown, CT-based pair would, throughout the 00s, self-release and share a number of demos and home recordings via early social media channels as well as establish its in-house label ENEMIES LIST HOME RECORDINGS. These first steps set in motion Have A Nice Life’s rise to renown as an icon of underground music in the internet age, culminating with the release of its pivotal 2008 debut album, Deathconsciousness. Through word of mouth and online discussion, Deathconsciousness became subject to viral praise thanks to its synthesis of bleak post-punk, lo-fi shoegaze, and carpets of hypnotic drone music.

In an effort to thank and continue to engage with Have A Nice Life’s internet cult following, Barrett and Macuga would regularly share links to old demos, works in progress, and outtakes from the recording of Deathconsciousness. Over time, a group of fans would compile these demos into an unofficial release. Dubbed Voids, the fan-made compilation several alternate takes of tracks from Deathconsciousness, as well as a handful of early versions of songs that would appear on Have A Nice Life’s two following albums, The Unnatural World and Sea of Worry. Over a decade since its initial, unofficial release in 2011, The Flenser will reissue Voids for the first time ever in an official capacity in physical form on May 17th.

Your Voice Is Not Enough
track listing:
The Flenser

Weight of Water by Cremation Lily
Sunflower by Holy Water
Do You Know How to Waltz by Midwife and Amulets
Hey Chicago by Drowse ft Lula Asplund
Cut by Kathryn Mohr
Words by Allison Lorenzen
Murderer by Planning for Burial
When I Go Deaf by Have a Nice Life

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