OK...short and sweet. Sidewalks Melt is now available for free. You can download the whole record in one big (51.9 MB) chunk for free for your own personal use. For you geeks out there, the mp3's are VBR encoded using lame 3.97.

Now we realize that this is nothing new these days, but when you're throwing a pebble in an ocean, you might as well make it a shiny pebble. We're also covering our bases and putting this up on iTunes, etc because we realize that there are other ways that people will find this record, including paying ones.

For those of you getting the free record, we are putting out the paypal hat for donations if you are so inclined.

We're proud of this record and hope that you enjoy it.

Love,
Albumen

Added bonus: We're have the whole album streaming via iMeem if you want to try before you download it.

Sidewalks Melt is done done done. And it's now quietly available from our page or from CDBaby. (HINT: Our page is cheaper when you factor in shipping charges) (Second HINT: Both of our CDs are "on sale" in CDBaby's sale store, so if you buy both, plus some other band's CD they're $5 each....).

OK enough hints. We're pretty proud of this record, and we hope it shows. Anyhow, we'll be trying to set up some shows around the Northeast in the coming months to promote this beauty.

Also, on a more important note, this record will be available digitally as CDBaby starts sending it out. They also have their own DRM free downloads that will appear on our CDBaby page. These are priced at less than the physical media. So if you could care less about the packaging, it's probably the way to go.