The Garden of Ruin: Miscellaneous and Amalgamated Recordings (2005 - 2023)

by Novus spero

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1.	Ishtar I 02:55	buy track
2.	Out of Bounds 02:00	buy track
3.	Asphalt Dream 02:35	buy track
4.	The Arizona Sound 02:21	buy track
5.	Quarks 03:46	buy track
6.	Hurkey Creek 02:58	buy track
7.	Stray Thoughts Spilling From the Mind of God 02:34	buy track
8.	Stop Before You Start (remastered) 04:34	buy track
9.	Off-White Asteroid 03:08	buy track
10.	Ivy Bed 03:39	buy track
11.	Ten 01:05	buy track
12.	Gold and Green 04:55	buy track
13.	Everything You Love Will Be Eaten Alive (acoustic) 06:52	buy track
14.	Light Without Heat 03:27	buy track
15.	Warm Body 04:05	buy track
16.	Secret Telephone 00:41	buy track
17.	On Top of a Mountain, Inside of a Cloud 02:08	buy track
18.	Punishment (solo) 05:11	buy track
19.	Heat Death of the Universe 05:08	buy track
20.	Being a Scientist Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry (acoustic) 02:18	buy track
21.	Puncture Wounds in a Werewolf Moon 04:26	buy track
22.	Nothing Is Beautiful 05:32	buy track
23.	Polar Night 09:56	buy track

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A collection of recordings--musical and otherwise--from 2005 to 2023. Some old songs were included with only minor touch-ups, while others were chopped up, blended, and stitched together with assorted field recordings, samples, or parts of other songs.

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released December 19, 2023

Jesse McMahon - most instruments, lyrics, production
Jessica Sands - production (Light Without Heat)
Sean Burdeaux - spoken word poem (Polar Night)

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Novus spero San Diego, California

Gospel of the final human century.
San Diego, CA / Hemet, CA / Flagstaff, AZ

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