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Deceptively simple, clear and concise, these songs surround and envelop, seeping into the skin until they are a part of you. Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom is a collection of songs written over the period of a decade. The album is a thirteen-song ìbest of,î recorded on four-tracks, two-tracks and computers, mostly in Texas and mostly alone.

Featured on the Devendra Banhart-curated, Arthur-produced CD Golden Apples of the Sun and sharing a recent split vinyl-only release on Troubleman with him, Jana Hunterís album is the initial release on the Gnomonsong imprint, a spectacular new label begun by Revolver USA, Devendra Banhart and Vetiverís Andy Cabic.

ìJanaís frail, reedy voice and delicate finger picking make her sound like a young man lost in a peat bog and plucking toads from toadstools to see whether theyíll spill their secrets.î --Boston Phoenix

ìHunterís songs are so honest, yearning and intimate, youíd be forgiven in thinking that youíre eavesdropping on someoneís private thoughts.î --Eric Boucher, Artvoice

30-second MP3 excerpts:

All The Best Wishes
The New Sane Scramble
The Earth Has No Skin
Christmas
Laughing & Crying
Farm, Ca.
Heatseeker's Safety Den
Have You Got My Money
Restless
The Angle
Untitled (Hanging Around)
Angels All Cry The Same
K

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"Paint A Babe" is a throw-back to Hunter's earlier material, written and recorded simultaneously on a borrowed four-track recorder. A real sad, longing song. "A Goblin, A Goblin" took a little more time to create: this strong, sturdy number, replete with violins and creepy harmony, tells the tale of an indignant outcast. "You Will Take It and Like It," turns one central, pretty and proud guitar part over and over and over, with others mirroring it, leeching from it, grabbing on like little parasitic danglers. The original version of "There's No Home" is here, the track that spawned an entire record title, followed by "Sleep" (titled, as it was originally, "Ooh Uuh"), from the recording that ended up on a lullaby compilation. Concluding Carrion is an acoustic re-presentation of the country-minded "Oracle," stripped down to one guitar, one melody, and one harmony, as it was originally conceived in its creation as homage.

"[O]ne of the best and most underrated luminaries on the neo-folk scene, Hunter ... toured the east coast ... [in the] summer [of 2006] by sailboat. Her meditative, playful, sparse, acoustic-driven songs are refreshing, somber, and sometimes eerie.... [T]he most excellent There's No Home ... finds Jana exploring ever so slightly poppier tunes." --Shawn Bosler, Village Voice

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Paint a Babe
A Goblin, a Goblin
You Will Take It and Like It
Ooh Uuh (Sleep Demo)
There's No Home (Demo)
Oracle (Acoustic)

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As extroverted as Hunter's previous release Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom was introverted, There's No Home focuses on community involvement. While Hunter plays most of the instruments herself, she's aided and abetted here by her brother John (Inoculist, Dethro Skull), John Adams (Fatal Flying Guilloteens) and Matt Brownlie (Bring Back the Guns), among others.

In 2004, Hunter made a big splash among fans of distinctive music with "Farm, CA," a track featured on the Devendra Banhart-curated Golden Apples of the Sun collection released by Arthur magazine's Bastet label, followed by a vinyl-only split with Banhart on Troubleman.

Late the following year, Hunter's full-length debut was the inaugural release on Gnomonsong, a label founded by Banhart and Vetiver's Andy Cabic in conjunction with Revolver USA. A thirteen-song "best of," compiled in part from various CDR releases, this collection garnered impressive critical acclaim.

Hunter spent the bulk of 2006 touring Europe and the US (including one string of East Coast dates traveled by sailboat). She hits the road again April, 2007

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Palms
Babies
Valkyries
Vultures
Movies
(Guitar)
Regardless
Bird
Pinnacle
(Guitar)
Oracle
Recess
Sirens
Sleep
There's No Home

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