Yes Table was writing a press release. They compared their music to a splattering painter. They used the phrases “Deep Cloud” and “Fragment of a Hymn.” They described their sound as “the end of jazz” and “a courtly poem.”

Then they saw what they’d written, laughed, cried, crossed the whole thing out and stuck it in a drawer. They never released a press release, but now they’ve released an album—The Boom The Strain—and that tattered, florid prose constitutes its cover. Album of the month, cover of the year, and self-deprecating band of all time.

Love Lion Book and There is Not Passion Enough smoke your soul at the Bullfinch… Drunk Variation and Poisoned Wheat at Hamilton’s…