Pre-order 'Fun City' ... NOW!
- May 1, 2020
- 1 min read
While it's not out until September, as the album has a huge cast of amazing LGBTQ+ collaborators involved, I wanted to start the pre-order now, and start conversations about everyone involved and the story of the record in the months building up to release. SO!
Pre-order the album at the following link http://orcd.co/funcity
It's available on Pink Vinyl, CD, Pink Cassette, Digital Download and a special limited edition super bundle of Yellow Vinyl, Yellow Cassette and bonus content, plus a range of Fun City merchandise!
Featuring guest performances by (in order of appearance) Brendan Maclean, Jake Shears, Andy Bell, Sam Sparro, CAVEBOY, Niki Harris, Donna De Lory, Initial Talk, KAYE, The Illustrious Blacks, Big Dipper, Mark Gatiss and Justin Vivian Bond... phew! Some of my absolute favourite LGBTQ+ artists and creatives!
I hope you like 'Sensation' which went public today and 'This Was My House'
I’m glad you called out the LGBTQ+ collaborators so explicitly — it reads like community-building, not just feature-stacking for streams. Also curious if the merch colors tie into specific characters/chapters of the record, because the yellow bundle sounds like it’s hinting at a whole visual world. This is random, but thinking about “palette” choices reminded me of StyleLookLab — StyleLookLab has me overthinking color seasons lately, and now I’m doing it with album eras too.
Pink vinyl + pink cassette is such a specific mood for this project, and it matches the “Fun City” vibe in my head already. With that many guests, I’m hoping the sequencing keeps it feeling like one coherent night-out rather than a playlist of cameos. Random tangent: the pastel aesthetic made me think of those “soft ghibli ai edits” people do for profile pics on soft ghibli ai edits, and now I’m wondering what the album cover looks like in my imagination vs reality.
The rollout strategy here feels smart: one single to set the tone, another to hint at the narrative, and then you’ve got months to spotlight each collaborator without it getting lost. I’m especially curious which tracks Mark Gatiss and Justin Vivian Bond show up on, because that’s such an interesting pairing energy-wise. Side note, the whole “announcement + directory” vibe reminds me of https://hrefgo.com where things live as a timeline of releases, just in a totally different world.
I like how you’re framing it as months of conversations rather than just a preorder link dump — with this many voices, it’s almost like a little universe around the record. Also, the title “This Was My House” is such a strong emotional cue; I’m expecting some gut-punch writing. Totally unrelated, but seeing “Identifier” in tool names always makes me think of stuff like https://caesarcipher.org/ciphers/identifier where you’re trying to figure out what you’re even looking at before you can dig in.
Putting the pre-order up months early makes sense when there’s this many collaborators — it gives people time to connect the dots and follow the story as it rolls out. The merch + formats lineup feels very “collectible pop era,” which I’m into, even if my wallet isn’t. On a random note, I got pulled into this site last week and lost way too much time chasing a high score, so clearly I’m susceptible to hype and hooks.