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Hello everybody. Here is a Friday treat for you – a brand new acoustic rendition of “In the Meadow” from the Simple Shapes + Patterns album. It is a quick, rough take. Enjoy!

In other news, Asa Milbankx’s brand-new single “Angry Sun” will be available for download this coming Monday, February 20th, 2012, right here on Mount Valley for the low low price of free. See you then!

UPDATE: “Angry Sun” will be released later in the day on Monday, February 20, 2012 (late afternoon Eastern Standard Time) here on Mount Valley.

As we prepare for the onslaught of new Asa Milbankx material, lets take a trip back to a more innocent time… October in the Year of Our Lord 2008.

It was a time when we had George W Bush in the White House, a time when we the economy was just beginning its rickety collapse… a collapse that many believe was exacerbated by Simple Shapes + Patterns.

Under the band name The Latters, and the pseudonyms Jon Domino and JM Ward, Asa Milbankx recorded and produced the entire album himself. Unfortunately, he also drew the childlike and off-putting cover artwork, but you cant win em all. After the release of this album, some of you may have seen the Latters play live; it was quite a spectacle. The group blossomed into something more than the solo album that preceded it.

Now we present, for the first time in a year or so, the entire album, for your freeloading pleasure. In 320KBPS MP3:

Download here: http://www.mountvalley.net/thelatters/ssp/simpleshapes.zip