Artists / loretta’s museum

Loretta’s Museum
Riddletown

Catalog Numbers: FH-86 / FC-010
Release Date:
September 29, 2021
Genre: Folk Rock / Free Folk / New Weird America
Radio Friendly: Yes*
Type: Album
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info | Spotify

pressing information

Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Frillimcaster Records Unlimited & Furious Hooves

  • 1st Press (2023): 100
    Solid “Taxi-Cab” Yellow cassette with black imprint A/B sides, full-color 4-Panel J-Card (two-sided), in clear plastic Norelco case. Hand-numbered.


Tracklisting

1. Pond Builder's Love Song – 04:32
2. You Can't Even – 03:51
3. Angel Path in the Fun House – 04:27
4. Lost in Baghdad – 03:54
5. Riddletown – 04:01
6. Psycho Synthesized Magnified Sunbeam – 02:57
7. Gus O'Malley – 02:50
8. Late Summer New Little Whip Cruise – 03:08
9. Candy and Coke and a Buzzing Basket Full of Desires – 03:52
10. In a Dungeon Deep & Dark – 06:39

Total Run Time: 40:11
Side Split: A 1-5, B 6-10

Lyrics: Clean, except for Track 5.

Credits

Written, recorded and produced by Loretta Blue.
All songs created in Washington & Oregon between May of 2022 and March of 2023.

Contributions from:
Dan Kruse: Vocals on tracks 5, 7.
Kiki Kruse: Vocals on tracks 1, 2.
Kathryn Nock: Vocals on tracks 1, 2, 6.
Andrew Pack: Percussion on tracks 1, 2, 6.
Rachael Perisho: Vocals on tracks 1, 2, 7-9.

Intro sample on track 10 used from a Rin Ersing "Pollination Population" tape.

Mastered by Harris Newman.

Cover Art, Lettering by Loretta Blue.
Cover photo model is Sky Bot.
Layout by Ryan McCardle.
Polaroid of Loretta by Kathryn Nock.

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"In the basement again
tracking a welcome wonder
under soft planted plans
of our illusive coming

what I see I so tenderly
lend to you within a sonic spiral
a lifetime's collection of riddles
filtered through the last living slice
of a night rider's paradise
and planted on my last good tape

fire-headed and absolutely obsessed
taking the endless unknowing
of my only form and folding it
into a pathway that trenches
code into rhythm through a slew
of curled wires in a pit with
gifted figurines and things that
tingle to the touch

for goodness, for better
to be better

layer after layer
dwindling my myth
with a mischievous grin
in a lovestruck tailspin

all to say
I know I didn't get it right
even in trying through
the holiest of light

to let you see and feel
my hard shared delusion go
ring ring ring
on the spinning wheel"

– Loretta Blue.


Release Biography

On March 23rd 2021, Loretta Blue released their second album of 2021. ‘Little Dry Creek’ was released digitally via Furious Hooves and their newly self-founded Frillimcaster Records Unlimited. On April 15th 2022, the two labels re-released the album on tape for the first time.


Press & Accolades

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Audio/Video

Official video for “Riddletown” from ‘Riddletown.’ Filmed & Edited by Loretta Blue.