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RIP: Natural Numbers

Bedford, Indiana’s Trevor Fitzhugh is retiring his Natural Numbers project. Eloquent, reasonable and perceptive suicide note below. The existential funk of a flannel shirt.

“over the past few months, i’ve been feeling increasingly like my popularity and interest in my music has just been a product of blogs looking for the next noise pop project — i don’t know any other way to put it than i am completely sick of the hype around this genre. just like every other underground music trend, it will be dead when music journalists migrate to the next “big thing.”

i hate feeling associated with that. i hate feeling like a hype artist. the subsubgenre that i feel pigeonholed into already has annoying conventions and stereotypes (punk has once again been co-opted into a certain sound and image, not a body of ideas and actions), all of which i hate the thought of being affiliated with.

i’m not quitting music, but i am moving on to other projects. my first 3 releases were born completely out of hate, and i want to move away from that. this was fun, but at the same time, i feel like it’s the right time to move forward.

RELEASES THAT HAVEN’T BEEN RELEASED YET:
they’ll be posthumous. this includes my splits with old blood and fungi girls. ocean ghosts will be re-written, re-ordered, renamed, and released under a new project.

i hope none of you feel like you’re being cheated out or anything, and if you do, i’m sorry, but it’s the right time for me to move on.

-trevor”

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Ibis :: sibl

Whilst some are smooching in the sun, London’s A Grave With No Name and Bedford, Indiana’s Natural Numbers have released a split online single. The physical release, a cassette, is available to order through here, and is complete with more artwork by the affirmable Ferry Gouw.



MP3: Natural Numbers - Sleep Through Today



MP3: Natural Numbers - The Tapes Inside My Closet



MP3: A Grave With No Name - Silver



MP3: A Grave With No Name - The Underpass

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Blimp Crash Fanatic

Listen to ‘June’. Noise rises huge and from nowhere, like yesterday’s pedalo drifted all night carrying your slumber and now, on waking, the blood in your eyes is staring back at itself from the huge, gleaming hull of this sudden ghost-liner. Natural Numbers is 13-year-old Trevor Fitzhugh from Bedford, Indiana, US.

MP3: Natural Numbers - June

MP3: Natural Numbers - I Wasted My Time

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