Continual Sentimental War, by ///supersun///

Continual Sentimental War

by ///supersun///

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

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

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

23

releases

Get all 23 Definitely A Label releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of magnonolilia, Sluts for Confusion!, a singular vision, Celeb, Nihilism, 502fc4, Continual Sentimental War, Sentimentality, and 15 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$24.73 USD or more (30% OFF)
Kirk Varnedoe Single b/w Demo Version
Cassette + Digital Album
Two sided black and white tape, with "Kirk Varnedoe" on side A, and the original demo version of "Kirk Varnedoe" on side B, as well as the original version of "Nuclear Bomb 2019". Very limited edition of 2, with handmade artwork and labels.

Includes unlimited streaming of Continual Sentimental War via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out
Continual Sentimental War on VHS
CSW on a VHS tape. Picture video accompanies the entire album, which has its own unique track listing separate from the album as it's presented on BC. Also comes with a booklet insert. Each copy is handmade and completely unique.

Will ship out 1 week within ordering.

Includes unlimited streaming of Continual Sentimental War via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out
Original Demo Tape for Continual Sentimental War
Cassette + Digital Album
When I started first working on this album I recorded a handful of demos onto a Michael McDonald tape (which you can hear in reverse on "Bad Times Mix"). I've decided to sell that tape.

Listening to it is a pretty weird experience--after a few moments of Big Mike, the original demo version of Kirk Varnedoe plays, except in reverse. CSW was recorded to a 4-track, which uses both A and B sides to record simultaneously. Apparently when I started recording this I had the tape in backwards.

Side B plays the first edit of "Kirk Varnedoe" with an extended ambient section. It's really beautiful, and happened completely by accident. Rather than upload this version I decided to just leave it on the tape.

I know this is a stupid amount to pay for a tape, but it'll be the only one in existence Even I won't own a copy of what's on here. I've also cut up the original Mike McD insert into a unique handmade label. The insert has a quote from Kirk Varnedoe.

Includes unlimited streaming of Continual Sentimental War via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

Sold Out

1.	Deep 13:42	info	buy track
2.	Bad Times Mix 04:58	info	buy track
3.	Variation I (Feeling Backwards) 03:03		buy track
4.	Nuclear Bomb (Philemon & Baucis) 03:56	info	buy track
5.	Shirley Mix 05:07		buy track
6.	Unending Uselessness 07:40	info	buy track
7.	Kirk Varnedoe 15:07	info	buy track
8.	Variation II (Looking Forwards) 05:23		buy track

about

Please listen to this album on shuffle.

I often see
the war and hope it isn’t real;
as some form of made-up cacophony,
a fictive progressive aesthetic royale, a
cycle of churches burning,
Building and rebuild-
ing. Can we have art-
istic armistice in our nowness?

Anne Carson: “Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack.”

John Cage: “I don’t know when it was that I found out how to let this month go by without continual sentimental pain. It’s very simple now, because I’m looking forward to seeing you again rather than backward to having seen you recently. That’s a happy way to be.”

Kirk Varnedoe: “In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.”

credits

released April 10, 2020

Obliteration music for the hopeful.

Continual Sentimental War was recorded to a Yamaha MT4X 4-track cassette recorder. Mixdown processes varied, from running whole songs through guitar pedals into Logic 9 on my computer, or taking the individual parts and rearranging them via Logic. No one song on this album used the same process to become its final form; 8 different processes were created (some intentional, some random, some repeated and over-layered) to create the results of each individual track. It took a year and a half for this album to come into its finished form, and I almost scrapped it twice.

It was mastered, beautifully, by Zach Weeks, who had a very difficult set of songs to work with. I also want to acknowledge some others who made this possible: David Fylstra and Daniel Schultz, who got me playing shows again, and who inspired me to continue working ///supersun/// as a singular noise hound. Joe Davenport and Evelyn McLean, for listening to early drafts of this album, and for their kind words an encouragement regarding.

license

some rights reserved

about

Definitely A Label Portland, Oregon

Just another label in the world, nothing more, nothing less. Obliteration music for the hopeful.

SoundCloud

contact / help

Contact Definitely A Label

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Continual Sentimental War, you may also like:

Part Two
by Medicine for a Nightmare

supported by 4 fans who also own “Continual Sentimental War”
go to album
Golden Season
by BREEZE

The mix of shoegaze, punk, and noise from this Seattle band is notable for its urgency and bright, foregrounded vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 9, 2023
go to album
WET FRUIT
by WET FRUIT

Sweetly strange indie rock with a dreamy vibe and skittering rhythms sounds like it was made by angels. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 5, 2019
go to album
Instant Light
by Tar Of

Brooklyn's Tar Of bring a sense of levity and charm to their complex, collaged experimental art-pop. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 29, 2020
go to album
Landlocked
by Pagan Athletes

A raucous adventure through noise, no wave, off-kilter DIY prog, and the absurdist side of post-punk from Pagan Athletes. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 13, 2023
go to album
Velociraptor
by Chris Gunn

You’d expect an album titled “Velociraptor” to be heavy and this doesn’t disappoint, as it’s jam-packed with serrated noise & feedback. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 22, 2023
go to album
the lower way
by White Suns

The racket avant-rock/noise group White Suns make is queasy and challenging, but with a taut sense of dynamics and composition. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 19, 2021
go to album