We hope you’re well, and that your life has been full of shared meals and windows rattling with music.

We’re emailing to announce the release of our second full length album, Garden of Earthly Delights. This album has been almost a decade in the making. Many musical trends have risen and faded. We have pursued our own sound, a blend of medieval music, rap, and alt-pop, and the only constant has been our friendship. GoED roughly follows the contours of Dante’s Commedia, including harsh katabasis and airy anabasis, but prior knowledge is unnecessary. You only need ears and an appetite for strangeness. We hope you enjoy.

The album is out now on Bandcamp. The album will release on Spotify and other streaming platforms next year.

Finally, if you’re in the Midwest, we will have a release party on Wednesday, June 17th in Hillsdale, MI. Please send us a message on this platform or email Joel at joel@calvert.design if you’re interested in attending. You are more than welcome.

Thank you for reading, and have a glorious summer.

Sine musica, vita irrita.

Sincerely,

QC

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Dear Friends,

Let me begin with a poem by E. A. Robinson called “Dear Friends:”

Dear friends, reproach me not for what I do,
Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say
That I am wearing half my life away
For bubble-work that only fools pursue.
And if my bubbles be too small for you,
Blow bigger then your own: the games we play
To fill the frittered minutes of a day,
Good glasses are to read the spirit through.

And whoso reads may get him some shrewd skill;
And some unprofitable scorn resign,
To praise the very thing that he deplores;
So, friends (dear friends), remember, if you will,
The shame I win for singing is all mine,
The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours.

Thank you for subscribing to this Q Curius newsletter. It will always start with a poem. It will be infrequent. In the sterile world of music streaming, we wanted to approach things a little more humanely.

Joel and I befriended each other in a basement in Oxford, UK, eating ramen and making the windows rattle with shared music. That’s how music becomes wonderful: a basement, rattling windows, the steam of a shared meal. This newsletter will be our basement with rattling windows. You’re invited in.

We’re ramping up to release an album in the middle of this year. The full album will be available on our Bandcamp months before singles appear on streaming.

For now, please check out our “Esoteric Pop” Playlist, which is a good introduction to the sort of songs we like.

Sincerely,

Q Curius