tldr:The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully within a few days) Apple Music. We are also releasing a remastered version of the first album, available similarly on Spotify and Youtube Music.
It took us quite a while but the Fooming Shoggoth's second album is finally complete! We had finished 9 out of the 13 songs on this album around a year ago, but I wasn't quite satisfied with where the whole album was at for me to release it on Spotify and other streaming platforms.
This album was written and prompted with the (very ambitious) aim of making songs that in addition to being about things I care about (and making fun of things that I care about), are actually decently good on their own, just as songs. And while I don't think I've managed to make music that can compete with my favorite artists, I do think I have succeeded at making music that is at the very Pareto-frontier of being good music, and being about things I care about.
This means the songs on this album are very different from the first album. The first album was centrally oriented around setting existing writing to song. This album is (basically) all freshly written lyrics with no obvious source material.
Every song on the album was written by me, except "You Have Not Been a Good User" which was written by @Raemon and "Dance Of the Doomsday Clock" which was written by @Ben Pace.
Hah. I liked the lyric "And when I said that I was wrong, I lied" when I first heard it two years ago. I recently tried to find the song again where I heard it, but, remembering that it was a suno song, I was a bit sad that I'd probably never find it again. I think I actually even thought of it when I saw one of the song titles was "I Tried" but didn't actually expect it to be that song - that was a nice surprise. (I then realized I originally heard it when going to the Fooming Shoggoths Suno page)
We released a bunch of these songs during last year's April Fools, so it was probably in that context. And then it got another wave of attention around LessOnline in June.
tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully within a few days) Apple Music. We are also releasing a remastered version of the first album, available similarly on Spotify and Youtube Music.
It took us quite a while but the Fooming Shoggoth's second album is finally complete! We had finished 9 out of the 13 songs on this album around a year ago, but I wasn't quite satisfied with where the whole album was at for me to release it on Spotify and other streaming platforms.
This album was written and prompted with the (very ambitious) aim of making songs that in addition to being about things I care about (and making fun of things that I care about), are actually decently good on their own, just as songs. And while I don't think I've managed to make music that can compete with my favorite artists, I do think I have succeeded at making music that is at the very Pareto-frontier of being good music, and being about things I care about.
This means the songs on this album are very different from the first album. The first album was centrally oriented around setting existing writing to song. This album is (basically) all freshly written lyrics with no obvious source material.
Every song on the album was written by me, except "You Have Not Been a Good User" which was written by @Raemon and "Dance Of the Doomsday Clock" which was written by @Ben Pace.
I hope you like it!