Slavs Against Warcraft - Slaves Of The New Enlightenment (2022)

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1. New Jubilee
2. Lucian Wintrich And The Beginning Of Sorrows
3. Covering The Jade
4. 600 Chariots
5. Drones Of Belial
6. How To Resurrect A Tiger
7. Blower On The Knots
8. Light Keeper Zora
9. Owl Gods Burning
10. Secrets Of Ulysses
11. You're A Mirror Now

The 15th installment in the album series, and the first LP under the S.A.W. moniker - SOTNE is both a primal scream and defiant whimper for the initiated few.

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded May 2022 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Cover photograph: Circa late 1970s, Bethlehem, PA

Album Series: No. 15

Songs For Sam (2022)

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1. Take Some Time (The Spiders Love You)
2. Age Of Opposites
3. I Go Scarlet
4. Shadow And Void
5. Magic Face
6. Night At The Zomba
7. Rocking Horse Fields
8. Proof For Daylight (Vampire Teatime)
9. Examine The Clover
10. Nela's Dream (Arch)
11. Seasons Glean (It's All So Subjective)
12. Paisly Ghost
13. Fighting The Painters
14. Nighttime Has Broken
15. Pythagoras The Thief

The 14th installment in the album series, Songs For Sam is the follow-up to Bear Park Memorial.

Cover Photograph by Dan Gutierrez

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded late April 2022 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 14

Bear Park Memorial (2022)

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1. King Of Thursday (For Gilbert)
2. The Camouflaged Supper
3. Stories Of The Sun
4. Who Should Know
5. My Golden Horn
6. (Gonna Need) Another Cleo
7. Curiosity Kills The Heart
8. Tears For A Sandman
9. Cyrus Oracle
10. Movie Sets On Fire
11. Euclid's Astrolabe
12. Fake Pangea
13. Cab To Crystal Doctor
14. Fire Club Hell Night
15. Pluto Enforcer
16. Astrid On Patrol
17. (Wish I Was A) Zulu Shaman
18. The Open Chamber

The 13th installment in the album series, Bear Park Memorial is the follow-up to Hater Deluxe.

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded late March through early April 2022 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 13

Hater Deluxe (2022)

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1. Can't Be the Keeper
2. Beanstalk '94
3. My Purple Weapon
4. Fall Dance Night Que
5. Laser Mate
6. Days With D.W.
7. Buzz
8. Minerva In Limbo
9. Lime Girl (Bring The Ghost)
10. Five More Saturdays
11. Hex And Ivory
12. Sabrina's Door
13. Bright New Wishes
14. Oath To Katie Gray
15. Moon Streaker
16. Snowboy's Revenge
17. That's For Real

The 12th installment in the album series, Hater Deluxe is the follow-up to Viceroy Goes to Fantasy Camp. Hater echoes and waves happily - a celebration of all inspirations.

Front cover polaroid: circa 1995, Allentown, PA

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded March 2022 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 12

Viceroy Goes To Fantasy Camp (2022)

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1. Another Orange Day
2. That's Why I Love The Sun
3. Foil-Bird Girl Claire
4. She Likes Fractals
5. Evergreen Joke Man
6. I'll Fly A Starship
7. Five Red Signs (For Jeneba)
8. Time To Split the Moon In Two
9. Slaying The Duke
10. Lifeblood Fort
11. Witchy Knows Best
12. Mad About Girls
13. Fate Of The Sandhills
14. The Cloud That Shaded Me
15. Shelley Monster Craft Show
16. Blacklight Codex

The 11th installment in the album series, Viceroy Goes to Fantasy Camp is the follow-up to Electric Field Day. If EFD was the daytime musical outing, VGTFC is the sleeping bag-included album that wants to stay over for the evening. Fuzz-laden riffs and fond harmonies reveal themselves and bunker down for the night. This camp rocks. This camp rolls. Are you going?

Cover Photograph by Dan Gutierrez

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded late January and early February 2022 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 11

Electric Field Day (2022)

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1. Marzy Lamb
2. Destroy All Clocks
3. Mystic Ruler Vs. Eternal Princess
4. Cruel To Face Summer
5. Be Your Booster Too
6. After The Attic
7. Sandman's Crush
8. Hall Mountain Monitor
9. This Palace Shines For You
10. God For The Brights
11. Cassandra Situation
12. Blonde Equals Blue
13. Sullen Edge Lord
14. Life In A Glass Dome
15. Hope The Future I Know
16. Icarus Shining

Electric Field Day is the 10th installment in the album series, and the first release of 2022.

Cover Photograph by Dan Gutierrez

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded December 2021 through January 2022 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 10

New Harvest Hits (2021)


1. Firebomb
2. Scarecrows In The Garden
3. By Your Liberty
4. Passion Plays For The Unenthused
5. Hollow Eve's Night Campaign
6. Another Day In The Dawn
7. Pick Your Switch
8. What You Are
9. Sister Pan
10. Fine Other
11. Weaver (You Don't Have To Cry)
12. Sing Me Today
13. Moon In Your Lap
14. Sun Gothic Decoration
15. In The Witch House (Far Again)
16. Stars For My Sun Sign
17. Whatever You Say

The 9th installment in the album series, New Harvest Hits is a potpourri of musical morsels recorded between 2019 and 2021. It serves as a bridge between the pre-Fever Dream era and the proceedings albums that followed. These working song ideas find a home on this release.

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded 2019-2021 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 9

Plum Raider (2021)

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1. Sleeping Juggernaut
2. Minah's Blue Inferno
3. Away From Your Charms
4. Backwards Day For Princess Cuckoo
5. Deny Me The Garden
6. Earth To Clarissa
7. I Can Hear The Harvester
8. Witch Board For Girls
9. Many Kings Of Lydia
10. Burn Like Juniper
11. No Planes
12. Go-See Days
13. My Dream Powers
14. War In Heaven Of 1879
15. Cinnamon Terminal Market Girl
16. Baskets For Ishtar
17. I'll Have A Wicked Dream

Plum Raider is the 8th installment in the album series, and the winter season LP - play louder.

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

'Sleeping Juggernaut' recorded May 2019
All other songs recorded December 2021 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 8

March Of Tides (2021)

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1. Ghost King Spectrum
2. Book Fair In Your Mind
3. When I Rode Emerald City
4. High In The Graveyard
5. Eliza's Pillow Bash
6. My Yellow Fantasia
7. Good Day At Underscore Land
8. History Of Thorn
9. Cheshire Cat Dream Song
10. Dear Casper
11. Poppets For Poppy
12. Mercy You're There
13. Lost At Vanity Fair
14. Bedtime For Boppo
15. Releasing Abigail
16. Wall Of Tricks

March Of Tides is the 7th installment in the album series, and the follow-up to Spells For Sleep. Nostalgia juice for the auditory crowd.

Voice (track 13): Chase Yenser

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

'Ghost King Spectrum' harmonica intro recorded on 4 track in 2004
All other songs recorded late Fall 2021 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 7

Spells For Sleep (2021)

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1. Pink Daily Routine
2. Romper Room Or Daisy Chain
3. A Saber Adorned
4. Henbane Chugger
5. Why Endora
6. Blue Meyers (Pan In Retrograde)
7. Psychic Scar Girl
8. Sage For Samara
9. Buy Me A River
10. (For Bella) My Beautiful Dog
11. Waiting For Something
12. Candy Calls
13. Spell Of Song

The 6th installment in the album series, and the fall season LP, Spells For Sleep is the follow-up to Back To The Coloring House. This is the first album recorded in a short time span, a pattern and practice that would follow for all subsequent LPs. SFS is autumnal in sound and spirit.

Cover Photograph by Victoria London

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

'Pink Daily Routine' recorded 2018
All other songs recorded summer through fall 2021 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 6

Back To The Coloring House (2021)

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1. Turgid Explorer
2. Wild Water King
3. Earth Day 2000
4. Radar (Dancing Warlock)
5. Paper Mache Skyhouse
6. Destroy The Beehive
7. High Rose On Me
8. Root Of Tannis (Bake Oven Knob)
9. (Now That We Are) On The Vine
10. Parasol
11. Elated (When You Go)
12. Door Of Infinity
13. Green (Where Are You?)
14. Zinc Fink Plotter
15. Poison Outpost
16. Marchers All In Gold
17. Shaded Shadow Moon
18. Rapture Of Pillows
19. Flying Buttress Showboat

This ain't the Book Of Longing... Back To The Coloring House is the follow-up and semi-companion piece to Fever Dream Flyout Machine Zone. The first album released in 2021, it begins the steady streak of songs that follows.

Artwork (foil bird on cover) designed by Claire Kimock

Voice (track 19): Johno Martin

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

'Turgid Explorer' Recorded 2004 at 312-F den, Effort, PA
All other songs recorded 2020 through Summer 2021 in the ice box, Bethlehem, PA

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 5

Fever Dream Flyout Machine Zone (2020)

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1. Fine Cold Queen (Southern Tundra)
2. Willow Don't Weep
3. Her Superpowers
4. Tiffany Alone
5. Won't See May (Fall Again)
6. Crimson And Jade
7. Dream Castle
8. Night For The Rangers
9. Happy Birthday, Captain Daddy
10. Idle Wild
11. Terror Pumpkin Parade
12. Emerald Gold Summers
13. Puck In Mid-Dress
14. Hemlock Fountains
15. Jade Circuit
16. Flutesy Sings
17. Big One, Elizabeth

Fever Dream Flyout Machine Zone is the 4th installment in the album series, and the first to be recorded following a short break after Jezebel In Heirs (2018). Recordings for the album started in 2019 and concluded in 2020. More than a change in direction of style - this is a declaration and reclamation of sound.

Cover Photograph: Cover A - Taken at Pearl Theatre Jazz Mural, Philadelphia, PA by Victoria London

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded spring 2019 through spring 2020 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 4

Jezebel In Heirs (2018)

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1. Scarlet Pit (Prelude)
2. Bounty Of Jade
3. Sky Is Falling
4. Stories Of The Sun (Animal Worship Song)
5. Days Go By
6. (Don't You) Know The Way
7. Felicity Comes
8. Find Is Fleeting
9. Mahogany Moon
10. Lost Upon The Sea
11. Ain't No Doubt About It
12. Bullwhip Mane (Minstrel Song)
13. Thelema (Won't You Come)
14. Into The Night
15. Bring The Ghost (Inside)
16. Long Past November
17. Seven Miles Wide
18. Aeroplane
19. Rind
20. Brings On Many Changes
21. All Fall Away
22. Heart Is Like A Stone
23. None The Wise
24. Silver Sea Song
25. What Was I
26. Flatters Your Kind
27. Nighttime Has Broken
28. Idle Of The Night
29. Love Your Sign
30. Basket Of Fire
31. When The Rain Is Gone
32. New Crystal
33. You Blacken The Night
34. Such A Fool As I
35. Bobbysoxer
36. You Are

Last Poem Ad infinitum
Disillusioned youth turns formative men astray
Clinging toward displaced desire in hope
Of fire rekindled and orange on rock, cobbled
Tracing each new step
Yet confined to past's illuminated remorse

So onward, congealed in cerebral elegy
Burning the self for crucified lovers nailed to hope
Yet anxious, and piercing nestled thorn
For change comes
Too late to redeem jaded men

- 2015, from 'joy is not a monster - poems collected 2008-2015'

The 3rd installment in the album series, Jezebel In Heirs was the first album completed in seven years, following the hiatus after Easter Island / Cavalcade and the DSM recording sessions of 2011-2016. Songs for Jezebel took shape between 2016 and 2018, before the change in sound and electric reclamation of the proceeding albums. Folk songs played in the direction of pop and indie rock, revealing the transition of what's to come.

Vocals and Guitar: Matt Burden

Recorded 2016-2018 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 3

Easter Island, Cavalcade (2011)

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1. Army Song (Where's A Place?)
2. No One's Hand
3. An Angry Fix
4. How To Fall
5. Dynasty Last
6. Look Away
7. Into The Dark
8. Get Lost
9. Colors Are Endless
10. Broken Piss / Hex
11. Most Of All
12. The Mountain Song
13. Forever Blue

The 2nd installment in the album series, and the only 'Easter era' LP. This is the last release to incorporate the use of harmonica, and the first to feature drums on the song 'How To Fall'. A seven year hiatus followed, with only spontaneous acoustic demos being recorded that later appeared on The Laminated Sandclock and The Circle Years. DSM formed and concluded their time as a group during the seven years that followed between Easter Island, Cavalcade and the third release in the album series, Jezebel In Heirs.

Cover Photograph by Dan Gutierrez

Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded late 2010 through 2011 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 2

Pink Sleeves (2009)

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1. Places You'll Go
2. Some Things Never Change
3. Pick Up Your Buttons (Time To Go)
4. If I Find You
5. Vulgar To The Point
6. Heart's In Japan
7. Sometimes I Do
8. Boots Right Back On

The 1st release in the album series - and an attempt to record songs written as early as 2006. Pink Sleeves was the original moniker used in the early days of Myspace, with a few demos recorded under the name. Early recordings of these songs were made available on 'Songs For Sasha (The Alternate Pink Sleeves)', the fourth installment in The Grammer Years (Revisited) box set. Pink Sleeves, the album, presents eight of the foremost songs written as a teenager. Leonard Cohen, Daniel Johnston and several Bright Eyes covers were leftover tracks from these sessions that later appeared on 'Haymaker Hideaway (Covers 2004-2023)', the fifth installment in The Grammer Years (Revisited) box set.

Cover Photograph by Dan Gutierrez

Vocals, Guitar and Harmonica: Matt Burden

Recorded summer through fall 2009 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Album Series: No. 1

Single Series Collection: 2020-2023 (2023)

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Disc 1:
1. Her Superpowers
2. Willow Don't Weep
3. Earth Day 2000
4. Now That We Are on the Vine
5. Spell of Song
6. Sage for Samara/My Halloween Shop
7. (For Bella) My Beautiful Dog
8. Eliza's Pillow Bash
9. My Yellow Fantasia
10. Minah's Blue Inferno
11. Cinnamon Terminal Market Girl
12. That's Why I Love the Sun
13. That's Why I Hate the Sun
14. She Likes Fractals
15. Foil-Bird Girl Claire
16. Sabrina's Door
17. Earth to Clarissa
18. Buzz
19. Beanstalk '94
20. Snowboy's Revenge
21. That's for Real
22. Covering the Jade
23. 500 Chariots
24. Stuttering Incubus
25. Witch and the Apple Box
26. Harlequin Twist
27. Sonya, Dee & Me
28. Sun Valley Sunday
29. Crashing the Gap
30. Valo Locker
31. Waiting for Fate
32. Color Me Pink
33. Blow Like Hydrants
34. Brittany May
35. Marigold's Saving Care

Disc 2:
1. Cavalcade
2. Pick Up Your Buttons
3. Sweet Autumn Blood
4. Big Red Apple (Become Real)
5. Waiting for the Chain
6. Anybody Else Anymore
7. This Craven Age
8. Where's the Art?
9. The Fabulous Defeat
10. How I Devoured Rome
11. Knew I Was a Snake
12. Magic Apostle (Chariots Alight)
13. I'm So Happy
14. Three Wishes (Amulet)
15. Kendra's Celestial Trip
16. King of Heat
17. Dream of Lilac
18. Lavender Pull
19. Jinks
20. High Trees
21. Blizzard '96
22. Zia's World
23. Brainwave
24. S'kool (Remix)
25. Seven Sleepers
26. I'll Call You the Ocean
27. Silver Star
28. Jump into the Mirror
29. Make No Disguise
30. So Bright
31. Marblehouse

The 22nd installment in the special release series, the Single Series Collection (2020-2023) collects all the main singles released between the three year interval of recording. A new summary of current sound stylings.

Cover Photograph by Victoria London

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Recorded in the ice box

Special Edition Series: No. 22

Ramification Presents... Build-A-Box! • 5 Album Set (2022)

Ramification Presents... Build-A-Box!
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Party At Tim's Place (2022)
1. Echoes Of Yesterday
2. Bang My Colors Red
3. Sun Valley Sunday
4. Valo Locker
5. Mr. Pekurny
6. Forgotten (Monroe County Cousin)
7. West End Fair
8. I Thought You Should Hear
9. Making Heat (Corridor Swell)
10. Black Faith / Rubber Wall
11. Waiting For Fate
12. Two Thousand And Five

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Quick Summary Of Saturn (2022)
1. Color Me Pink
2. Blow Like Hydrants
3. Gray Star
4. Love Your Sign
5. Mantis
6. Day In The Sun
7. Steal Your Halo
8. Bears Of Track And Valley
9. Master Lied
10. Strangled Up In May
11. Wormwood And Glue
12. Stale Cigarettes

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In The Blue Brambles (2022)
1. Ghost Of Many Sighs
2. Belle Gem
3. Who Created The Bop?
4. Brittany May
5. Marigold's Saving Care
6. Frazzle Switch
7. Gold King Locust
8. Wicked At The Fair
9. Pine Vogue Daze
10. Riddle Queen
11. Salem In Jest
12. Ninety-One / Channel 9

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Goodbye Laurel Lane (2022)
1. Sweet Autumn Blood
2. Cavalcade
3. Sad and Boughten
4. Wanting Kind
5. Let the World Go Round
6. Pick Up Your Buttons
7. Waiting For The 21st Century
8. Shamrock Trinity
9. Become Real
10. 5th Street
11. Your Season My Scene
12. Effort Treehouse

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Ramification Volume V (2023)
1. Wild Thorn
2. I'll Call You The Ocean
3. Gentle Bliss
4. Silver Star
5. Bittersweet
6. Fallen Angels
7. Spirit Month
8. Open Sky Song
9. Fancy Your Halls
10. Velcro Soul
11. Scarecrow With A Gun
12. Déjà / Fade
13. Chastity Burning
14. Ocean (Prelude)
15. Branch

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Ramification originally formed in 2004 in the Poconos, recording several demos on Scum Valley Fun Day and Haymaker Hideaway (Covers 2004-2023). 18 years later the band is resurrected with four albums consecutively recorded June-July 2022, and the final one in 2023.
Build-A-Box! presents the pentalogy - all five 'Ramification Presents' albums, packed with variant artwork, lyric sheets and an era specific poster.

Vocals, Guitar and Drum-typing: Matt Burden

Recorded June-July 2022 and June 2023 in the ice box

Written, Recorded and Mixed by Matt Burden

Special Edition Series: No. 13
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