Ah, winter! How you brighten the world with your snowy glow and rip the flesh from my throat with your sinus infections! Children laugh and rejoice in your powdery goodness and sculpt carrot-wielding armies of snowman-soldiers — all ripe for training to beat down the drunken fratboys of Michigan with their precious, hand-made ice-cudgels.

It seems about time we output another piece of music…possibly one that embodies the spirit of this season — the time when Christmas is over, but Rudolph sticks around to repeatedly bludgeon your tender skin with his frost-clad antlers.

When at first you can’t complete an album, change your genre dramatically. At least that’s the formula we follow. While we’ve got over two hours worth of music recorded and in the process of being mixed, we sometimes get bored with the mind-numbing process of editing and decide we want to do the fun part again. So here’s a new piece of music, originally called “Deep” by Rob Ogden and myself (a sly reference to Rudolph’s frost-antlered stabbing), but now called “Damp Triangulum” for reasons unknown. Enjoy the hell out of it.

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“Damp Triangulum” by Pretend, Pretend. Photograph by Wesley Norman.