Clouds from both sides now

The new double-CD release by Future Clouds and Radar (Robert Harrison's post-Cotton Mather combo) was just added to emusic.

With 27 songs, this album is probably better to buy the old-fashioned way than via-download, but it's worth checking out in any format.

Cotton Mather's Kontiki is one of my favorite releases of the last decade, and their other two discs are also on my high-rotation list, so I've been looking forward to some new songs from Robert Harrison.
It takes some chutzpah (or stones) for a new band to put out a 27 song double disc as their debut, but nearly all the songs on the FC&R album are keepers. It's a bit more all over the map that Cotton Mather's straight Beatlesque pop, but it's more like Robert's vision expanded to double-length. And Game Theory's Lolita Nation had 27 tracks too!

The other two former Cotton Mather members (Dana Myzer and Whit Williams) have formed a band called Stockton with Ron Flynt of 20/20 fame. They have one song ("Dreamworld") on their myspace page and a new full-length due in "late 2006", which is myspacespeak for "sometime before Guns & Roses Chinese Democracy comes out".