This is the first album to break the Chime/Space Continuum. 12-string Rickenbackers meet Moog synths in an analog festival of pure prog-pop joy.

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Ubique Records is excited to announce the release of Tanager, the new album from All These Quiet Hours. It's Keith Nyquistâs second album for the Ubique label, but the first under the new All These Quiet Hours alias.

With its melding of 60s pop sensibility and 70s FM-radio headphones-in-the-dark headiness, it's also the
first album to break the chime/space continuum.

"I love the sound of 12-string guitars, and old analog synthesizers, so I tried to bring them together to
see what would happen," says Nyquist. "My favorite music is absolutely fearless and is willing to either
fail completely or be great on its own terms."

âI still like the daring and strange records that I have to keep to myself like secrets because I gave up
trying to explain to anyone else why they were so wonderful," he adds. "So, to make a world almost like
that...that's what I tried to do with this record."

The opening track, âSpecific Dream Rabbit,â opens with a swirling Moog that collides headlong into a
thicket of jangly Rickenbacker chime; it closes with a mini-operetta of voices that rewards multiple
listenings. âMan on the Roofâ emerges from an alternate universe where a "Surf's Up"-era Brian
Wilson might have joined forces with Aerosmith and Pink Floyd, and the bittersweet pop lament of âThe
Othersâ forges a bright blend of Phil Spector and the Byrds.

Along the way, Tanager takes one surprising turn after another, juxtaposing new sounds and textures as
it races towards the mini-symphony âGreen Star.â The album closes with the October-skied "Tanager."

The characters who voice Tanager's lyrics all find themselves traveling back and forth in time and space.
"I didn't set out to write a travelogue," notes Nyquist, "but it ended up being one. At one point or
another, all of us end up looking back at where we've been and what we've done and wondering how it
all happened. This record is a kind of postcard sent from some of those journeys."

Nyquist's first album, Elephant Art, released in 2006 under the alias The Nyquist Frequency, was
described as a âshort and sweet, shimmering mix of harps, glockenspiels and twelve-string guitars.â
Both albums were made with the help of friends and label-mates Mark Mattson, Craig Swafford, and
Jeremy Heroldt. The four of them make up Ubique Records, a musical collective with six albums to their
credit.