Welp. This is the second time publishing Duck House Season 6. A second round of white-screen-of-death befell sgp.com a month or two ago. I think we only lost a few posts, but the energy level and enthusiasm to rewrite this one is low!
Here’s the album!
Check the discography page, find it on Bandcamp, or go right to the Google Drive!
And here’s the teaser that originally went up in October 2024.
Now that Blonski’s excised the demons from our wordpress account, we can post things again! I’ll let him explain why there’s been no small glowing pig for a year, but, for once, it’s not because we haven’t been doing anything!
First up is the release of the second Muffin album, Life Up Here. I put this one together over the course of a couple of months last winter and spring. Each song was written and mostly recorded in one night with drums or overdubs or other stuff being added in later. I had fun trying to keep some of the sound of the first album while also evolving it a bit. It’s still a Presidents / Queens of the Stone Age fusion, but I think I’ve made it a little more my own on this one.
Check it out on Bandcamp or hit up the discography page.
We’re currently wrapping up mixing on Season 6 of Duck House, and it should be good to go soon.
Since publishing Doozywop’s Wilford Brimley tribute EP in early 2022, Small Glowing Pig has been busy learning new jobs and raising babies. We’ve also moved equipment around, bought new stuff, and gotten ourselves back in the saddle.
On my end, we had our spare room in the basement redone and it’s been coming together over the past few months as a music room. Got a sweet ultrawide monitor, a TV to throw lyrics onto, some sound dampening foam (thanks, Blonski!), and a new Focusrite Scarlet 18i8. Also picked up an Ibanez hollow-body and inherited a banjolin, which I didn’t know was a thing.
Blonski and I are cooking up another album that will possibly be Season 6 of Duck House. As that was coming together, I worked on an EP of high energy rock songs.
Rather than starting with fooling around on guitar or programming synths, I wrote each song by coming up with a melody and lyric idea and then built chord progressions around them. I tried to keep each song short and avoided bridges or solo sections. I also kept the sound consistent between songs, making use of the same instruments, amps, plugins, etc. in each track. Check out the new tunes on Bandcamp or on the discography page!
The band Doozywop got their start in the mid 70s. After working the doo wop circuit and finally getting signed, they set out to record their first album. Disaster struck only a few tracks into the process when their sound engineer moved. Unable to recover, the band lost focus and ultimately parted ways.
The former members of Doozywop spread across the United States, settling in DC, Chicago, Philly, New Orleans, and Dayton, Ohio. They took up new hobbies like yoga, rock climbing, and gourd collecting. It seemed as if the Doozywop story would end there, but the tragedy of 2020 brought them back together.
After getting word of Wilford Brimley’s passing, the band reunited with the goal of honoring Wilford at his funeral. At the service, all hopes of celebrating the great Quaker Oatmeal spokesman’s life were quickly dashed as the crowd was unappreciative of the band’s music. It would have been easy for Doozywop to pack it in and return to their lives. They would not choose the easy road.
Fueled by the sting of the funeral show, the band wrote a double album that would honor their late friend. Eschewing the the doo wop revivalist scene from their past, the resulting compositions reflected the changes within each member’s lives and the music that influenced them since their fateful recording session so many years ago.
The title of the album was to be From Wilford to Brimley, A Collection. Unfortunately, after recording three songs, the sound engineer moved to Australia. The recording studio lay dormant, and any chance of completing their homage to the silver screen legend was lost.
What is left is the energetic yet soulful EP that smallglowingpig is able to present to you today: Doozywop’s Remembering Wilford. Check it out on Bandcamp here or on the discography page.
According to Southernliving.com, the foremost authority on philosophy and chronology, Marty Rubin once said, “Time does not pass, it continues.” If you don’t know Marty Rubin, he is, of course, the Canadian author of The Boiled Frog Syndrome. This is a book I must admit I’ve never heard of. It is also a fascinating title.
Anyway, time is crazy, because as I post Duck House‘s Season 5, it has now been four years since the last release. I’m not sure, but it might be even worse that we began what became the Duck House project nearly 10 years ago – in 2012. This means we’ve been making Duck House albums nearly half as long as Small Glowing Pig has existed. What.
And with that, we present to you Season 5. This project began when Steve and I listened to Season 2 and thought to ourselves, “This is weird. We should do something weird again.” Also it started by wanting to make a dance song (it would become “The Butcher Shop”).
Enjoy the muzak over on the Bandcamp page or check it out on the discography.
-Mike
Release Date: July 17th, 2021
Catalogue Number: SGP-0044
Download [Here]
Bandcamp [Here]
Track List:
Side A
1) I am Still Hungry! Not for Physical Food
2) I’ll See You Soon, Joliet
3) Nodens
4) Rock Duck
5) Tie
6) Yellow 5
7) Tenth Anniversary
Side B
8) The Butcher Shop
Writing Credits: Steve Blonski, Mike Savignano, and Kate Bojanek.
