28/08/20 - Immortal clips online

Gaz has shared a five minute video featuring clips of all the various MPB reworkings of Immortal on Facebook. Despite each track being labelled, the clips all segue into each other, to the extent that it's slightly difficult to tell some of them apart. We're sure it'll all make sense once it's released. Which is, of course, tomorrow. At 6PM, once all the COVID-riddled high street stores have closed, various online retailers will have the green light to sell their copies. It's not yet known whether FSOLDigital will be among these, or if both the Immortal single and the 12" edition of Cascade 2020 will come online next week. Digitals of both and the extended CD version of Cascade are expected to debut at the same time.

25/08/20 - Amorphous Cascade CD advertised everywhere

It wouldn't be a FSOL release without some sort of bizarre miscommunication somewhere, and this time, September's CD edition of Cascade 2020 seems to have been listed by the distributor as an Amorphous Androgynous release, as we've so far found it for sale under that alias on sites including Resident Music, Juno, Banquet Records, Craft & Vinyl and Merchbar. Good luck to them trying to sell a record under the completely wrong artist name. Admittedly, this kind of thing will undoubtedly be just copy-pasted over, but one does wonder how little attention the staff must be paying to not notice that the front cover states it's a FSOL release. On the plus side, Boomkat, Rough Trade and Amazon seem to have managed to get it right.

03/08/20 - Cascade 2020 CD release date and tracklist

The awaited Cascade 2020 CD will be available as general release on 11th September (a slightly earlier FSOLDigital release is most likely, as usual). The tracklist, then:

1. Cascade Part 1 Recreated
2. Flood Of Reflection
3. Amid The Overwhelm
4. Cascade Part 6
5. Cascade Part 4 Recreated
6. Dark Hours Of Your Being
7. Sluice
8. Multiple Falling Objects
9. Deep Sea Of Clouds
10. What Falls Away Is Always
11. Brief Silence In The Distance
12. Things That Mattered
13. Cascade Part 7

Thus the CD includes three tracks not on the RSD LP ('What Falls Away is Always', 'Things that Mattered' and 'Cascade Part 7') compared to two extras from the past few years; 'Brief Silence in the Distance' moves from track 5 to track 11 compared to the vinyl, which will almost certainly be to do with segue and flow. As ever, these three bonus tracks will only be on CD and digital purchases and will not come as a download code if you buy the vinyl from a store. If you're buying the vinyl on Record Store Day itself, you'll have to make a separate purchase to get these three tracks. This is the first full FSOL record since last April, so we're all very excited to hear it!