“The Golden Hour has set the bar very high for electro-pop in 2012. This is essential listening for anyone with ears and a heartbeat.” - Voyage North (CBC Radio One)

The Golden Hour EP is now available. It is downloadable from http://oceancitydefender.bandcamp.com as pay-what-you-want-or-can. Physical copies are available on CD for $5 from shows. I am working on a limited run of 8-Track copies, because, why not?

Also, if anyone missed my interview on CBC, you can check it out here: http://www.cbc.ca/voyagenorth/episodes/2012/01/06/ocean-city-defender/

Here are some things that are happening:

The Golden Hour EP will be available online and at shows January 6, 2012

I am conveniently playing on January 6, 2012 at The Black Pirate’s Pub in sunny Thunder Bay.

I have two new videos available to look at. One is called Movement and can be found right here by clicking on these words; the other is called The Freddy Shelly Throat Punch and can be found over here by doing the same. Both videos should be look-at-able in the videos section of this website.

I will be on CBC’s Voyage North January 5, 2012 talking about the EP.

That right up there at the beginning of this post is a screencap from the documentary I am finishing editing called Ocean City Defender: The Making of The Golden Hour: A documentary made by Ocean City Defender during the making of The Golden Hour the title is subject to change. But the interesting part about that is the documentary is A) going to be available to look at online in January and B) going to be hilarious.

Friends,

I have finally completed The Golden Hour EP. If you haven’t guessed yet, that above is the artwork for the “jacket cover” (that was for you, Spinal Tap fans).

Anyone remember when albums had covers and not computer-compressed JPEGs on a 3 inch screen that no one really cares about and they only listen to one song and don’t know the artist or song name and when they tell their friends about it they forget the name and just transfer a file instead of making a big thing about it? Me too.

The Golden Hour will be released in the following formats: Physical (Compact Disc) and Metaphysical (Digital). Metaphysical in the sense that you will be able to download the album to a “computer” and play it on a “computer music playing device” commonly known as a Walkman. But you won’t actually get to hold it, and smell the ink on the artwork. That’s part of the process, right? 

All of this will go down January 6, 2012.

In the meantime, I will be uploading videos with songs and other incidental things.

Along with the EP release will be the ‘making of’ documentary which follows the process of making the EP.

Finally, I will be playing a few shows at the top of the year in town as well. January 6th at Thunder Bay’s Black Pirate’s Pub (which will act as an unofficial release party) and then a few times in February. Dates are coming on that one.

Keep checking back here for more information, shows details, and for videos, etc.