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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.
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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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  • Full Digital Discography

    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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"'Lovely in Akron,'off the group's 2010 full-length release Superpowerfragilis, is anything but simple. The track easily encapsulates influences from forty years of pop music, evoking anything from the Euro indie-pop bombast of Jens Lekman to the symphonic swells of The Ronnettes, and doing it multiple times in less than three minutes. The linchpin of the entire operation remains Kamin’s voice, a sultry expansion of Zooey Dechanel’s detached song: insouciant but playful, opulent yet controlled."

- Speed of Sound, Pittsburgh

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To see you yet again
And parade around like imbeciles
You always keep it hot
Like coffee refills
I know it’s been a while
Since I showed my mug around these parts
I think I’m gonna smile
And that’s like a good start
So tragic is this city
But I wouldn’t know
When I’m in it with you
So lovely, lovely, lovely
And lovely in Akron is out of the blue
We’ll go the extra mile
And we’ll tago mago in the park
So crank that little dial
And take pictures of the dark
The crickets and the breeze
Make the air go “hi-dee-ho”
We roll into a ball
And make San Francisco
So tragic is this city
But I’d never know
When I’m in it with you
So lovely, lovely, lovely
And lovely in Akron is out of the blue
How can I make myself less clear?
How can I not be so sincere?
That everything now is new!
And lovely in Akron is out of the blue

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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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