We gave you a foretaste of what was to come with a super-limited lathe-cut 7” in March, now Schizo Fun Addict – New Jersey’s finest and the first band ever to grace to grooves of Fruits de Mer Records*** - bring you their new album, ‘Desolate Ecstasy’…

Over to Jet Wintzer from the band to explain…

“DESOLATE ECSTASY... a concept album about the 27 year career of Schizo Fun Addict. We were the first band on Fruits de Mer Records - prophesied to be "a label of love" by Ian McCan reviewing us in Record Collector.

We were Mark Barton's favorite band (see his liner notes to our lp "The Last Wave"). Greg Healey gave us 5 stars twice in Shindig! Brian Bordello is our biggest fan. Everett True said we were as good as The Stone Roses, in MOJO.

PROG compared our "El Shoegaze Bossa Nova" LP to Jobim and Brasil 66; Dave Thompson in GOLDMINE told everyone we were "the greatest musical secret of the 21st century." Another prophecy which remains true...

...Out on the horizon of audio bliss, past the line. A space where the music drops you off as the sun sets in outer space. Flashes of joy build in the solar plexus. But there’s some anxiety too. Will the ride end too soon? Or will it take your breath away and make you never want it back. Desolate ecstasy is the best kind. It exists in a place that’s not inhabited by many. But rock and roll can take you there. Some never make it back. We did. And now share the map. This album is a guided tour into days gone by, mixing wired out 80s no wave joy with 60s psych infused by Rex John Shelverton’s wall of ocean new shoegaze guitars and tape saturated production. The double girl group vocal attack of Jayne Gabriel and Ilona Curtis bring some kind of synthesis of The Shangri-Las and Nico on a bender after seeing Brasil 66 at 3 AM for an outdoor festival in Laurel Canyon. We’ve got estrogen in the bass too…getting laid by Daniel Boivin’s Brooklyn Queens Expressway beats, and a manic street preacher named Jet Wintzer with a strange axe shaped like an SH-101 monophonic analog synth which freezes heat and oozes warmth at the same time. Nobody sounds like this except us. The album is a tribute to bands we love but ends with a sexy female serial killer. So listen at your own risk…of falling love with the wrong band. That’s us.

The tracks on the LP...

1. Pasteline Dream (3:03)
2. Cathedral Sunshine (2:39)
3. The Line Is Gone (3:45)
4. Scent Of Heather (3:00)
5. Coming To You (4:38)
6. Strange Theaters (4:24)
7. Believe (2:25)
8. Sudden Departure (4:09)
9. Dark Beach Rise (3:02)
10. Tease Murderess (3:54)

***It’s true, the band stepped in to record covers of George Martin’s ‘Theme One’ and the intro theme to ‘Ogdens Nut Gone Flake’ back in 2008 when the label was all but dead in the water before we’d even learned how to doggy-paddle.

if you're not already on our mailing-list, it's time to join or you might well miss out - as there are only 200 copies being pressed and the band + FdM club members will get priority, followed by everyone else on an FdM mailing-list - click on the 'mailing-lists' link at the top of the page to join in the fun