NOTES
This is the first release with Matthew Donnelly drumming. Joe left town unexpectedly earlier that summer. Matt filled in for a mixed media show we played at King's College called Do You Want Fries With That? Our set was a collaborative installation with artist Heather Rappard.

A copy of Paint the Walls in Blood made its way to Marc-Antoine Dion who runs Patente out of Quebec City, QC. He approached us to do a release and this was the result.

It was recorded in the basement of our townhouse to digital 8-track by Dan Miller. We then dumped and mixed with both tape and direct digital overdubs.This is the first stereo release.

The packaging is a gorgeous multi-layered paper die cut by Marc-Antoine. The picture really doesn't do it justice. It was released on CD-R and is also available for download at the link below if you'd like support the label. Thanks to Marc-Antoine Dion and Patente for allowing us to offer this release for free download.
patente.bandcamp.com/album/folly


EXTRAS
Live in Truro is audio taken from live footage shot by Heather Rappard. It includes three songs from a set right around the release of Folly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHSI0DfUNak

This recording includes:
Hand in Hand
End of Orgies
Siamese

Heather Rappard also created a video for the song Siamese:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWVLrdDH7w


REVIEWS
"Le premier album de The Ether sur Snapped In Half était l’une des meilleures sorties de 2009. Die Rococco Die sur Campaign For Infinity continuait dans la même direction. Avec ces deux albums, en écoute très régulière, j’essayais tant bien que mal à comprendre comment un punk très garage et même naïf (un très léger clin d’oeil à F.Y.P.) pouvait si facilement se marier aux textures caverneuses de Bathory ou d’autres pionniers du black-metal, tout en gardant des trames rock’n’roll sinon, des moments de totale trance psychédélique. Ce groupe est franchement seul dans son monde, et ne peut laisser indifférent quiconque s’intéresse aux nouvelles musiques. C’est pourquoi nous sommes plus qu’heureux de participer à leur projet et de vous rendre accessible une autre de leurs folies !"
- Patente

"That should really be on vinyl, this is a pretty outsanding stuff, really works you out"
- DJ Rick, "Art for Spastics"

“These lo-bit atonal HFX-heavyweights return with another chaotic excursion into audactic nullity. Wailing saxophones pierce through the murky guitar shredding as gravitrons of distortion warp every sinusoidal tendency; it’s an ear-biting display of The Ether’s magnetic live show, no simple feat for a five piece using every noise-making machine known to humankind. Their deconstructed blues number (“I Need You”) is unsane. Another superb die-cut from the folks at Patente. MUSTGRIP.”
- Weird Canada

"If three-piece the Ether are any indication of what's to come from the new Halifax scene, then expect it to be loud. While their onstage demeanor is most likely evocative of their nice-boy statuses in real life, their chord progressions feel like Brando, that is to say wildly manic yet theoretically traditional. Their lead singer's cracked but surprisingly melodic screams over awesomely ascending guitar arpeggios vibrated in the audience's chest. In fact, seeing The Ether was an entirely visceral experience, embracing the experimental punk vibe in the best way possible."
- Jessica Carroll, Exclaim

"Halifax noise-rock two-piece and Pop Montreal standout The Ether has also been spewing radness on a swath of labels. First is the beautifully die-cut Folly CD on Patente, which is a blast of Lightning Bolt-lite, with overdriven amps, squealing sax and even blues riffs. This continues on the Die Rococo! Die! cassette from Campaign For Infinity, mixing in rap samples to crank the weirdo factor even further."
- Jesse Locke, "FFWD Weekly"