Castanets’ new album is out today.

When we asked writer Will Boast to pen the liner notes for Decimation Blues, here’s what he wrote:

Decimation Blues [is] the music of a man who’s learned to live and build among the wreckage—twelve seemingly offhand, secretly meticulous tracks that we can hunker down in. “Still always good to be alone in someone else’s home,” Raposa sings. He’ll lend us his place, or teach us how to fix up our own. Come in out of the rain, put your shoes by the fire. The walls might shake, the wind might howl, but you’ll be safe here a while.

Fred Thomas reviewed the record at Allmusic:

Perhaps the complete lack of self-consciousness is at once the most impressive and strangest thing about the album. This is the sound of an artist open to a range of possibilities so vast they can’t help but contradict each other, and he just can’t be bothered by the confusion or annoyance those contradictions may cause his listenership.  In the end it doesn’t matter anyway, as Raposa is already on to one of the album’s many moments of brilliance by the time our heads have stopped spinning from one of its moments of unfettered oddness.

We have some limited edition marbled blue vinyl still left, which you can see and buy here.

And be sure to watch the new music video to “Tell Them Memphis” below

Thanks to Stereogum for premiering the video to “Tell Them Memphis,” the latest from Castanet’s impending full length Decimation Blues. The video, directed by Sam Hamilton, is a slow, revealing single shot of a forested street as two skateboarders come over the hill. Stereogum’s Chris DeVille describes the song as “eerie and alluring, like a stranger’s comforting hand on your shoulder.”

This is one of our favorite songs on the whole album.

On Sunday, Dave O’Grady of Ireland’s Sunday Business reviewed this new Castanets effort. “Spellbinding,” he wrote, “and the album of the year so far.”

Of “Tell Them Memphis,” he wrote, “simply beautiful, proof that the power of a song is all a true musician really needs.”

Decimation Blues is available next week. You can reserve your copy of the limited edition marbled blue LP here.

Lyrics to “Tell Them Memphis:”
Take the rest, (believe I’ve) had my fill
Take it down to where the boys are laying still

Can’t figure where to go
Can’t say just how much it shows

But I can say that surely if I stay
That you would only bear the worst
The awful brunt of what the others might say
And wouldn’t that bear quite a thirst

Can’t figure what’s to become
When it’s hard enough to say just what we done

So if I don’t see you before you see them
Do give my best to those giving friends
And tell them ‘Memphis’
Though I am down the road a little ways