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Maudlin of the Well

maudlin of the Well is an avant-garde metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their music contains elements from many different genres including doom metal, indie rock, jazz, progressive rock, post rock, progressive metal, death metal, gothic metal, as well as chamber music, ambient music and New...

's fourth album. It was funded by donations from fans and released for free on the internet in three formats, including a FLAC-encoded 24 bit version. The fans who donated prior to the album's release are credited as executive producer

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s. Donations of any amount continue to be accepted via the release website. It is currently one of the top rated albums of 2009 on Rate Your Music

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, and was voted the second best album of 2009 by ProgArchives.com collaborators.

In September of 2010, the album was released as a limited edition colored vinyl LP

LP album

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 by Antithetic Records.

Track listing

1. "An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" – 10:55
2. "Another Excerpt: Keep Light Near You, Even When Dying" – 5:59
3. "Rose Quartz Turning to Glass" – 7:30
4. "Clover Garland Island" – 8:18
5. "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)" – 11:50

Personnel

• Toby Driver
  Toby Driver
  Toby Driver is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and artist, best known for his work as the frontman of the experimental bands maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot....
  
   – guitar, baritone guitar, bass guitar, vocals
• Sam Gutterman – drums, bass guitar, other percussion
• Terran Olson – flute, alto and baritone saxophone, piano, organ, synths
• Greg Massi – guitar
• Josh Seipp-Williams – guitar

Guest musicians

• Mia Matsumiya – violin
• David Bodie – orchestral percussion, hand claps
• Madeleine Craw – cello
• Jim Fogarty – "hammond elbow"