Albums

2024

Avulsion Segue Yeg

"Avulsion Segue Yeg" is the final song (and single) from Infranyms. Accommodating the audience - it can be an act of empathy and inclusivity. It also can be a cynical manipulation to herd people toward buying in or just buying. And the opposite? Solipsisic jagg-offs! What to do: Don't make them think or leave them guessing.

2024

Infranyms

indigo in the Rainbow Table

Infranyms marks the seventh album in The Rainbow Table series and represents the indigo color spectrum. Newton included indigo in the spectrum to ensure there were seven prismatic values to align to the seven tones in a major scale, the seven days of the week, and seven in occult concepts. Infranyms (meaning the name below) are full of indigo-ish hidden information that the listener can freely ignore or break out their decoder rings for additional fun.

2024

As Pop Omniscience

"As Pop Omniscience" is a sci-fi-filled single from Infranyms detailing an alien race's trauma tourism to our future Earth. Using their remarkable technologies, they re-grow a few humans for laughs.

2024

Cicatrise Dud

A single from Infranyms. It's a rebooting song - suitable for psyching oneself up or complementing antidepressant treatments.

2023

Taped Over

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The Earthly Frames are not known for putting out accessible music. Taped Over seems at first to break with this convention, offering some straightforward, melancholy Americana. The lyrics and title focus on a pre-digital, Younger era. The music, too, doesn’t veer far from the folk-rock formula of banjos, mandolins, harmonica, and Nashville-sounding baritone guitars that were popular in the 1970s and again in the 1990s. 

However, on closer listen, those heady Sci-Fi-esque metaphysics from the ‘Frames previous materials are still there. On the opening track, “My Worst Self,” the singer is not just referring to a bad day, but in its dedication to a “v875,” it seems to actually be talking about an Earth-616-style alternate universe self. In “Pixels,” Walsh’s shrill and affected voice notes to the ever-present screen molecule, “It’s a funny little world you’ve got yourself rendered here.” The title track, too, seems not to talk about a nostalgic VHS mishap but about aging and identity, “A plank to the head, on the ship of Theseus, hull marks obscured, we taped over them.” Yikes.

2021

The Empty Fields

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This recording focuses on ecosystem degradation and the inevitable environmental collapse. Long string quartets follow the arches of mass extinction cycles, surface temperature data is rendered as a droning, foreboding doomsday siren, and species variation becomes unsurvivable mutations. This full length takes the "green" position in The Rainbow Table. It is meditative, apocalyptic, and stoic with a strange resilient beauty. 

2020

Pulsar Palace

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Pulsar Palace lands squarely in the Electronic genre. Its beats, samples, and oscillations operate in the kosmische zone whilst the occasional guitar or orchestration reminds of Earthly Frames penchant for psych and art-rock. Each track is named for a room or space within the imagined Pulsar Palace. It is a walking tour equal parts grandeur and grotesque.

2020

Ruine

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Ruine, a combination of "ruin" and "rune" is the third full length by The Earthly Frames. It's a broken memory palace with allusions to the genres that were popular when I was a youngster. Subject matter ranges from personal memory to imagined futures.

2020

Feel Better Soon

Written and recorded during the pandemic.

2019

Light Reading

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On Light Reading, The Earthly Frames second full-length, Walsh’s powers of sonic and narrative fuckery are in their prime. The album follows the format of an imagined reading list. There's a corresponding song for each obtuse-sounding book. Titles such as “A Doorbell for Finite Beings” or “Dismantling Ubiquitous Monitoring Systems” offer glimpses into a parallel universe with exotic, yet obsolete, technology.  With each track, we hover briefly into the lonely worlds of ghost singers, failed philosophers, and dead ideas. It's a pile of books no one will ever read - a minority report filed away and forgotten. And yet, with Light Reading, The Earthly Frames remind us that knowledge, the reality we don't throw away, is indeed the power. 

2017

The Conjurer's Thread

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So you've lost all your heroes? Magic stopped working? Feds at the door? Perhaps you too have lost the thread.

2017

Hoarding Seventeen

Much of Hoarding Eleven was dedicated to soundtracks, dialog collages and the like. This EP pulls out the more self-contained songs and adds new parts, mixes and remastering.

2016

Purgatory Mixtape

An album of four covers, each of which had given me the feeling of some other worldly drift. This recording was remixed and remastered in 2016.

2016

The Earthly Frames: Volume One

This album was first released in 2010 on a limited set of USB drives. Each drive contained a unique file that when assembled told a larger story. The album has been remixed and remastered. Music & Lyrics by Gabriel Walsh. Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

2012

Hoarding Eleven

Hoarding Eleven is a story told over multiple mediums: a short film, a card game, a novella and an EP.

In the movie, Donny Reyes, played by Eliud Kauffman, works as a supervisor for a financially strapped outdoor advertising company. Donny's world begins to crumble after he inspects a mysterious billboard design that conjures lost memories and surfaces his fears of failing his very talented daughter.

The novella, written by the director's father, bookends the film to reveal how Donny and his family have all struggled with their repressed talents and paranoia - the shadow of their powerful imaginations.

The card game explores the notion of that a sequence of symbols, like those found on the mysterious billboard, can unlock dreams and memories or overload one's consciousness. Each player of the game attempt to arrange a sequence of handpainted cards as other players counter by intervening or tricking them into building a sequence of their own undoing.

The musical portion of the project is provided by The Earthly Frames. The sound is a strange mix of sampled country western and dub-influenced rock music.

Please note, the Hoarding Eleven album and bundle are no longer available. But you can still purchase the card game and novella via print on-demand services.