BIG NEWS: Better Than The Book announces the "Hopes and Dreams [Instrumentals]" bonus album + lots of Patreon rewards are out in celebration!
Hi everyone and some huge news today as Better Than The Book announces its "Hopes and Dreams [Instrumentals]" bonus album to be released on July 19th 2020 in celebration of 1 year of "Hopes and Dreams" and everything the album achieved!
With 8/10 tracks featured on the radio worldwide from the USA to UK to Australia including on idobi Radio, BBC Introducing, and The Ska Show with Beefy (the number 2 ska music show in the world), dozens of web blog and zine features, and the subsequent formation of the Better Than The Book LIVE band, "Hopes and Dreams" was my most successful album to date and made a mark I couldn't have even imagined when I first launched it! A huge thanks to everyone who helped make all this happen with a huge shoutout to Meg, the album's PR extraordinaire, Beefy and Melita for their continued radio support and great vibes, the BTTB live band's Eamon, Sam and Andy for their boundless enthusiasm to take these tunes to the stage, and of course to the patrons who keep my music going with special mention to Nathan, David, and Michael! Thank you all so much!
"Hopes and Dreams [Instrumentals]", much like I did for "Two Years On" will be a complete off-vocal version of the album for you to sing along to, make silly mash-ups, or simply listen to when you want some BTTB but without any vocals! I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to sharing it with you at 10am (BST) on July 19th 2020!
Check out "Hopes and Dreams [Instrumentals]" on Bandcamp to explore the full album credits, listen to / pick-up the pre-release single "Artificial Ignorance [Instrumental]" (the clear the fan favourite of the album), and pre-order the album now:
https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/album/hopes-and-dreams-instrumentals
Also, if you pre-order the album today on June 19th (from midnight to midnight Pacific Time), Bandcamp will be donating 100% of its sales share (about 15% of the price you pay) to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, an organisation fighting for racial equality. Read more about their fundraiser here:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-naacp-ldf-fundraiser
Of course you can also listen to "Artificial Ignorance [Instrumental]" on NG as well!
With such a big announcement comes rewards for my supporters on Patreon and there are a whole lot of rewards for today:
$1 rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37814853
$5 rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37814852
$10 rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37814797
For the $1+ patrons, you're getting all that publicly launched good stuff right now: downloads of the full resolution album artwork and the pre-release single "Artificial Ignorance [Instrumental]" (mp3)! I hope you enjoy them!
For the $5 & $10 patrons, you'll be getting the entire full album right now over a month before it goes out to the public, with the $10+ patrons getting an exclusive first look at the final album artwork for the upcoming 2nd Jabun album too!
If that sounds good to you, then become a patron to grab those rewards below! Remember that you're not just getting these things when you sign up, you'll also be gaining access to all past rewards for you tier too including the full Better Than The Book discography, a tonne of Jabun, many Patreon exclusive downloads and a whole lot more! Hope to see you in the community!
https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding
And that's it for this post! The next one will likely be when the "Hopes and Dreams [Instrumentals]" bonus album is launched on July 19th, but until then I hope you enjoy the new(ish) music and artwork and thanks as always for supporting Better Than The Book and my various projects! Cheers!