Friendly Puppy Music

TWO new albums from Otto Kowalski out right the heck NOW. Right here on bandcramp.

Otto Kowalski VS. The Robo-Squid - FPM00022 Strange Light Rises Over The White Mountain - FPM00023

Warm regards,

FPM00021

Friendly Puppy Studio Orchestra - ...Feelings of the Bygone Sublime, Illuminate My Heart [2025]

Billum Gray - Too Much Music - FPM00020

Whoa! Two new releases?! Yes Please!

Will Sings Songs - Squirrels Run the World - FPMK00018

willsingssongs.bandcamp.com

Castle Garrison - Moonbeam Spotlight - FPM00019

ANNOUNCING:

PRAIRIE CLAMOR - TRUE SONGS

MAY 20, 2022!

Preorder CD & Digital copies and listen to the released singles here. Preorder the cassette via Round Bale Recordings here.

A new track from True Songs will premiere every Friday at 8:00 am central on KMSU's Shuffle Function with "Shyboy" Tim & Shelly. If you're in southern Minnesota, tune in! All others visit here.

We are very excited about this release and we hope you will be too! Between you and me, this album was a freakin’ nightmare to get recorded. You can read more about that here if ya want.

1. Energy Park 2. Song for the Lake Street K-Mart Parking Lot 3. Call the Water 4. Beautiful Blue Skies and Golden Sunshine 5. Etherealreal 6. Blood & Diamonds 7. Truth Hurts II 8. Backyard

Castle Garrison’s debut album is an amalgamation of rebellious motivational occult counter-culture dance tunes for a dystopian nightmare techno hellscape. 

OR perhaps it’s a collection of esoteric tunes with some magical grooves, catchy while eclectic, comical while serious, personal while universal, and above all a call to action to be the best version of yourself that you can be.

All of the lightning converges tonight.

CASTLE GARRISON - AGAINST THE BASILISK - out 5/29/20 - FPM00014

PRAIRIE CLAMOR - SPILLING LIGHT - FPM00015 available everywhere 27 March 2020

Preview the album NOW: prairieclamor.bandcamp.com

Friendly Puppy Music design department director Peter Bjorndal (bjornd.al) has provided particle-board-shattering design for FPM’s first ever regular-sized CDs and Cassettes! That’s right, I’ll say it again, FPM’s first ever regular-sized CDs and Cassettes! Welcome to the 20th century, Friendly Puppy Music!

Read our seems-like-it’s-being-over-the-top-but-honestly-it’s-kind-of-an-understatment album description and INITIATE HYPE:

Spilling Light is the second album from Prairie Clamor, the ever-evolving experimental pop project of Minnesotan Will Bjorndal. With an ear for catchy melodies, Prairie Clamor builds an expansive sonic landscape whilst remaining intimate and earnest. Recorded obsessively over 11 months, Spilling Light is a bedroom pop savant’s hopeful hymn to the anthropocene–to seek optimism without ignorance, hope and humor despite despair.

Spilling Light draws on disparate styles across the pop canon, flowing freely from maximalist psychedelia (Specific Gravity, Relief, Hold On!) to crunchy power pop (62 Blue), space country (Grass Between The Cracks I: Returning To The Earth), stadium rock and EDM (Pop Music Savior), piano balladry (Elma, The End?), bubblegum pop (Humus), tropicalia (Grass Between The Cracks II: Rest Stop Coffee Machine), heartland rock and folk blues (Plastic Chair), and even metal-turns-baroque-pop (Zipper Merge). Seemingly-separate genres are sewn together, yet when filtered through Spilling Light’s lens of maximalist bedroom pop, every track feels organic and true.

Through peaks of ethereal anthems to valleys of quiet intimacy, Bjorndal’s songwriting remains idiosyncratic-yet-focused. Layers of vocals sing of ecological collapse, ecological resilience, Minnesota State Highway 62, life, plastic chairs, death, Iowa, concrete, absurdity, actual joy, and actual reality. Eschewing posturing and sarcasm, Spilling Light’s honesty, humor, and penchant for catchiness are a breath of fresh air. Prairie Clamor does not seek to be the coolest and most ironic band on the block; they seek only pure expression, to unlock the potential of pop in the face of ever-increasing awfulness.

MONK RUCKUS - TRUE DABBLER - Friendly Puppy Music’s 14th, er, 15th (?) release! OUT NOW:

https://monkruckus.bandcamp.com/album/true-dabbler

Here’s what Monk Ruckus mastermind Taylor Sharp (songwriter of OG FPM band Mapleview Lounge!) says about TRUE DABBLER:

True Dabbler is 50 minutes of pop that will surely unite baby boomers and millennials. Pleasurably and merrily, it spurts out when it has the urge catchy singer-songwriter melodies you'd hear out of a window as you flee your San Francisco hippie commune under the cover of darkness or driving in a 1970's car. It has layers of synths that any homebody with a laptop must find OK, warm and bubbly or muffled like it was sampled from an old organ that was swathed in a big ol' bathrobe. 

Jacob Whalen - Exposure Length.

Friendly Puppy’s First Release of 2019... OUT NOW.

From the liner notes:

“EXPOSURE LENGTH delves into what visual art cannot pull forth from the viewer — the feeling of being suspended in liquid information, ebbing and flowing, gently pulling your body forward and back. “

https://jacobwhalen1.bandcamp.com/album/exposure-length

We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new full-length record from Jacob Whalen, longtime friend of Friendly Puppy Music (and many actual friendly puppies). Peter and I first became acquainted with Jake through his visual art, particularly his exceptional mid-2010s Facebook Art Shows. Peter reached out to him about using one of his works for the cover of FPM0002, and we’ve been artistic allies ever since.

In addition to his visual portfolio, Jacob Whalen excels in songcraft. After collaborating on some pretty ambitious projects last year including Krautbrook, we dug deep into Jacob’s newest compositions. These sprawling songs hand’t been put to tape, so putting together a record for Friendly Puppy was a complete 1000% no-brainer.

Jacob Whalen’s songs are many things. They’re raw, real, emotive, emissive, massive, majestic, mysterious, haunting, hopeful, human, and more than several other alliterative adjectives. He’s got a new single out right now, Ornella, one of the poppier numbers from the record. Brush up on your Italian, take a listen, and get TOTALLY FREAKING HYPED to dive into the Deepest Depths Of Jake when the full record arrives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QptNa_8qPl0

Jacob Whalen - Exposure Length. . . . to be released March 2019.

Hey, well, neat! Will you look at that! A brand (spankin’) new release from Friendly Puppy Music! Prairie Clamor - Next 7 Exits FPM00011 Double Mini-CD action! Eryngium yuccifolium!!

FPM’s next release will be distributed at Krautbrook. 

27 September 2018 @ The Cranbrook Academy of Art (in the lounge)

Municipal Airport - Anthology Part metal, part video game, part fun!