Skulls In The Closet Music Video
Future Creatures EP Out Now
November Update
Posted above, you'll see our upscaled rerelease for our Skulls In The Closet music video. It is a fan favorite and a band favorite. It will be featured for another week or two, as we complete our video for Pass The Baton (filmed in Namibia). Currently, I am working with Rob (Change! Pop drummer) on a new song for Glial Cell (Napa Valley Holiday Supergroup.) For years, I have written a new song for Glial Cell each winter holiday season and we will perform together for our annual performance in late December. A Spotify playlist for my Glial Cell contributions can be found here. Other than that, we hope that you have listened to our Future Creatures record and considered purchasing our limited vinyl release. I'm staying busy working on the 2027 releases, which are described below. Please enjoy the colours of Fall and I hope that you get a chance to chill out from time to time to the sound of gentle rain.
Future Creatures (our new record)
Future Creatures, our new record, is currently available on all streaming platforms. This is a record about resilience and optimism, even in dark and scary times. In an era where humans are giving up control to auto correct, we decided to make essentially a live record. Stories on this record vary from loneliness to love songs and from bears kissing in the woods to a good old fashioned drinking song. The style of music shifts from song to song, so this is a hard record to put into a simple genre (just the way we like it!)
Artwork was created by our dear friend, Rae Bastoni. A limited edition picture disc vinyl is available at Folklore (Napa), Deadly Wax (Grenada Hills), or you can email us for mail order at mentalmonkeyrecords@gmail.com.
2027 Release Schedule:
Change! Pop: Ancient Places, Ancient Songs is the working title for the next Change! Pop release. There are a handful of older tracks that have lived on an old hard drive for far too long. I've been giving these unreleased recordings some love and breathing new life into them. We plan to batch them together with a few new tracks featuring our current lineup and have a full album's worth of material ready for you in 2027. In the meantime, Aaron is also working on some collaborative releases listed below.
Aaron McEvoy and Anthony Salvini: To Stray From The Blueprint was meant to be a solo endeavor by singer Aaron McEvoy (just a way to keep busy while Future Creatures goes through mixing and production.) After reaching out to former Change! member, Anthony Salvini, the duo has reunited to write and record a whole new batch of songs. This record is about halfway to completion.
Aaron McEvoy and Radagast The Brown: An ambient record is in the works by these two sound manipulators. Radagast The Brown has an illustrious career, making dense and seemless ambient masterpieces. Each of his records clock in at around 75 minutes and he's made dozens of them. This collaboration will set itself apart, as Aaron brings his toolbox of sounds (from wood hammered dulcimer, keyboards, field recordings and any other toys that are laying around his house.) No vocals on this one, just a journey through sound. We are still negotiating the album name.
