Overcasts contains four short stories and an essay written by Kyle Bates of Drowse between 2019 and 2023. The stories trace the boundary between solitude and self-isolation. Reclusive, occasionally semi-autobiographical characters wander through movie theaters, lakesides, churches, and unfamiliar cities. They drift in substances, thoughts of family and death, and reflections on artists such as Low, Tsai Ming-liang, Max Neuhaus, Louise Glück, and more. These ruminations are frequently punctured by sublimely eerie events.
The essay, initially written as a graduate thesis while Bates studied at the renowned Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, continues the theme of being alone. It addresses works by experimental electronic composers Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, and Éliane Radigue, examining the various forms of memory at play in self-recording. While often bleak, together these writings reveal an always curious experience of the world through slippery contours of self.
Overcasts includes the stories “Cloud Light Over Obsidian” and “Second Self” that were originally only available with limited editions of the Drowse records Wane into It and Light Mirror.
Available as a printed 166 page perfect bound paperback. Also available for Amazon Kindle.
Goodbye
$20 USD
Wane into It – "Wane Into It" Colored Vinyl
$25 USD
A Matinee –
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
Lula Asplund and Kyle Bates
$22 USD
Wane into It – "Wane Into It" Cassette
$11 USD
drowse "Mystery Pt. 2" Shirt
$25 USD
DROWSE / AMULETS SPLIT (Reissue) – Limited Edition Split with AMULETS
$10 USD
A Matinee –
Screen Printed Limited Edition Vinyl (10 Available)
Lula Asplund and Kyle Bates
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Light Mirror – "Light Mirror" LP
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Cold Air – "Cold Air" Vinyl Edition
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"A Matinee" T-Shirt
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A Matinee –
"A Matinee" LP + T-Shirt Package
Lula Asplund and Kyle Bates
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Cold Fronts (Planning for Burial/Bryan Manning/Drowse/Jonathan Tuite) – Cold Fronts - PFB/Bryan Manning/Drowse/Jonathan Tuite - C46 CASSETTE [GWR17]
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Fog Storm pts. 1-4 (Planning For Burial Split) –
Drowse / Planning For Burial - Split Cassette
Drowse & Jesse Keating
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Memory Painting
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Cold Air (Tan Ink Shirt)
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Tremolo Arm
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Persona
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Memory Bed – EP – Translucent Yellow Cassette Tape
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Memory Bed – EP – Clear Cassette Tape
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Pill Hand
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soon asleep – Limited "Tour Edition" Cassette w/ 40 Page Memoir, 'Mnemonic'
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soon asleep – Limited Edition Cassette of soon asleep and 40 Page-Memoir 'Mnemonic'
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songs to sleep on -EP – Limited Cassette Released by Television Records
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