Curtis Eller's American Circus have launched a Kickstarter campaign to cover the costs of recording their new album No Bones:
Fans of past recordings have been swept up in a sepia-toned world of tightrope walkers, two-bit prize fighters, Hollywood scream queens, presidential assassins, and frequent, inexplicable visits from Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. The latest batch of songs finds the American landscape strangely silent. An unsettling calm has befallen the sweatshops, circus tents, burlesque houses, and punk rock dives. The once riot-torn streets of the New World have grown eerily calm. Something doesn’t feel right.
America used to be weird. A weird place full of weird ghosts. Everything was haunted. Everyone had a chain to rattle: coal miners, Cadillacs, cavemen, crooked cops, banjo players, and booze-doomed poets. The echoes from the old days were deafening. They kept us up all night, but at least we weren't alone. Things are different now. The old house has gone quiet. Where did everybody go? These days the dead simply vanish like they were never here at all. With the future rusting in the shadows, we’ve decided to get the band back together to set things right. We’re convening a musical séance in the hope of luring these strange spirits out of their shadows, and you are cordially invited to join us in the ceremony. Maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t. Maybe we’ll just have to make our own ghost. Seriously, somebody’s got to do something!
They aim to raise $11,000 ($1,067 pledged so far, with 31 days to go). The album will be released in March 2027 (vinyl, CD, digital).
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