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  • Limited Edition Blackbird Flashdrive

    USB enabled Flashdive with 4 GB storage capacity includes:

    Meal Ticket To Purgatory (LP)
    Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug (LP)
    Vancouver And All The Reasons Why (EP)
    Songs (EP)
    Heaven On A Branch (LP)
    Let It Goddam Be (LP)

    Audio files come in high quality .aiff compression with all album artwork, bonus images, lyrics,
    also includes flac and mp3 format files.

    Shipping is listed at the flat Priority Rate with insurance. If you would like to use a different shipping option, please contact us first and we can calculate based on your location.     ... more

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  • Our original demo for "Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Leaning To Love The Drug" looked a lot like this pie - a handmade, very low-yield resin casting with 23 sculpted blackbirds arranged inside. 1 4GB blackbird flash drive with music from the album, album artwork by Pete Luckner, an unreleased cover, bonus images, lyrics, and .mp4 format videos for "Lovely In Akron" and "Out To Lunch". Also includes 11 recipe cards with handwritten lyrics.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heaven On A Branch via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Digipack - Compact Disc
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    4 panel digipack - 10 songs in stereo friendly .wav format. Original paintings by Peter Luckner.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Full Digital Discography

    7
    releases

    Get all 7 The Van Allen Belt releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Let It Goddam Be, Heaven On A Branch, Songs, Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug, Vancouver And All The Reasons Why, Solar Crosses Stolen From The Cemetery, and Meal Ticket To Purgatory. , and , .

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about

"I guess they’re too wacky, too cerebral, too funny or too damn talented to have wide appeal but it constantly hurts my head when I think what might be for Pittsburgh’s the Van Allen Belt. They are quite unlike anything else, a smorgasbord of electric ideas swilling around lavish arrangements and a singer who has the personality and looks to steal the show all on her own. We’ve dallied with their releases via Indiecater but there is lots more to take in, namely their latest opus ‘Superpowerfragilis’ which takes off from where ‘Meal Ticket To Purgatory’ left off. Namely an hallucinogenic take on Motown with words that hilariously poke the eye out of this ridiculous world we live in. ‘The Way You Look’ is just ravishing, a tour de force of invention. Take them to your bosom, breastfeed if the mood takes you." - KD (mp3hugger)

lyrics

Farewell thought
Gone to pot
More and more
More and more
We’ve made a sandwich of things
So this brings civil war
I hate to say it
But today it isn’t gonna be fine
Yes, you have bullets that will
Change our fucking water to wine
You’ll reward the meek
With a knife in the cheek
And every way that you look is down…
I thought that we could make
Like reasonable peas in a pod
But then you think that there’s
Only room in the world for one god
So you keep sex out of
Your precious little princess’ class
Then virgins everywhere
Are ending up with cocks in their ass
Ain’t it good to know
There’s a fiery place below
The only way that you look is down…

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from Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug, released January 20, 2010

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The Van Allen Belt is impossible to categorize, luscious to listen to. This isn't your typical trippy, psychedelic music ― this is unique.

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