nnpoc
it's like if you took enough benadryl and salvia to kill half the population of papua new guinea and someone asked you to make an electronic album
Favorite track: bagelcommers.
coziwashere
this album is just absolute peak bagel, really feels like eating a bagel with cream cheese. All the chiptune just works so well paired with the drill and bass, along with all the silly little moments and samples, really just amazing. P.S. Brazil moment
Features the entire album plus "grimesthorpe fanclub" and "my favorite place to work" from the MFPTW single!
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be sure to also check out the prelude ep “my favorite place to work” at the bagel fanclub bandcamp! https://bagelfanclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-favorite-place-to-work
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Caybee and River found themselves in a musical rut after the release of "encore county ground". When you spend years of your life mixing audio in such a way that three dimensional technicolor cuboids start exploding out of your speakers, it's only natural to find yourself not knowing what to do next. In a highly explosive interview with NME, Caybee recounted "i mean, cuboids are boring. you make something with six sides over and over again and it feels great at first but eventually you feel unfulfilled. i want like, pyramids and shit. get a dodecahedron out of there. i hate you. stop talking to me." The interview concluded with Caybee pouncing on the interviewer's neck and gnawing at it in a frenzy because he thought the interviewer had swallowed his kaoss pad.
After bailing Caybee out of the local holding cell, the year 2024 was spent trialling different methods of rendering complicated geometry through audio to varying results, from undefined resolutions to near death shrapnel experiences. Disaster almost struck in the recording studio when a loose porcelain teapot jumped out of the speaker and began hunting River around Abbey Road Studios. Sources say the teapot was telekinetically delivered by Brian Wilson, who was jealous of their technique of layering 128 takes of Caybee breaking CDs with his thighs.
It's only natural to want to take a break after an attempted assassination, so 2024 became a packed holiday for Caybee and River. In their award winning autobiography, "Spoonful Makes The World Full: A River Everett Feast", River recounted: “first of all, i have to say that—all things considered—at the end of the day, when you really think about it, sound really is just a bunch of particles that when tickled in the right way produce mind boggling effects on the noggin… and the body! these very effects started getting to me. i started eating so much coleslaw. i was a slaw-filled husk of my former self, making music not because i loved how it sounded but how the funny effectoids of our music made me feel when that slaw was in my digestive tract. i’m having a panic attack right now just thinking about it.
“we both needed a break, and it needed to be a big one, so 'The Cayb' and I went over to Rio De Janero [sic], feeling enriched with newfound entrepreneurial spirit. we started working for a bit at a food truck on this nude beach. but then the food truck fired us, day one because i was the only customer. i had 11 hot dogs that day.”
The moment this side venture snowballed into a sisyphean bombshell came sooner than anyone would expect, thanks to a completely unforsseen accident. As Caybee and River were trying to smuggle as many hot dogs out of the stall as they could while their manager wasn't looking, Caybee realised something innovative, yet apocalyptic in the wrong hands. "if you put a hot dog in your ear, then your brain registers it as edible sound, which sounds a lot more filling than just regular sound waves made out of wiggling molecules and things of that nature."
The ball had dropped. K-Marts were raided. Caybee and River set about creating their crunchiest and most texturally fulfilling record yet. Burritos were blended and mixed into cereal. Corndogs were filled with mangled breakbeats. Dave Fridmann was sacrificed to the person allocating them free studio time at 3AM, known as 'Lysergic Bill'. 34 days of manipulation, sequencing and dicing audio into fine cubes culminated in a 34 minute long record, which both members were extremely proud of.
“our music is so fast on this album because we had fast food in the studio,” River says. “but we think the material comes from a really genuine place, with lots of innocent wonder and unbridled creativity. this is the record we’ve always wanted to make from the very beginning. all the way up to about 34 minutes ago. because we’ve made it now. also this whole thing is made up. why are you reading this.”
credits
released June 14, 2025
recorded 8th august 2024 - 1st march 2025 in m.c. escher deathbowl, derby and creepy bedroom, nashville by caybee calabash and river everett respectively.
album biography written by caybee calabash, featuring quotes from river everett.
track 2 features a "guest verse" from FUR-Q
track 5 features the bagel fanchoir, consisting of 5thwrld, petrol people, caybee calabash, river everett, and guinevere laurent, with lyrics written by river everett and guinevere laurent.
track 6 is an artist approved remix of "hardcore clawz 200iv" by lil kevo 303
track 7 features lyrics and vocals from caybee calabash
