Tadaloora adventure, a video game based on the upcoming Tadaloora album,  is available to play now!   Follow the link to learn more and preview this awesome record.

Well, it’s been awhile, but we’ve been busy working on our fifth full-length album due out this spring. This will be a more narrative experience, telling a story about the people and history of Tadaloora, which is also the name of the record. Our friends in Paris will be releasing this one on their label, Microcultures. Like our previous album, Cement Postcard With Owl Colours, we will be launching a campaign to help fund Tadaloora. You can learn more about it here.

Also, we just had the great fortune to be featured in The Maine Magazine, with a very flattering article by the talented Sarah Braunstein. Please check back soon, more updates (and a BIG surprise) are on the way! (We promise).

That’s right, Mojo Magazine gave Cement Postcards four big ones in their March issue.  Here is the review in full:

“Coming to us courtesy of French label Messie Murders, Phantom Buffalo’s latest is every bit the same beguiling patchwork of ’60s-styled pop, energetic indie rock and surrealist Elephant 6 psychedelia as its predecessors on Rough Trade and Time Lag.  Leading with Listen to the Leaves and Greenstar Botanical Airway, two delicious slices of autumnal melody and layered sonic shimmer, singer/guitarist Jon Balzano-Brookes also adopts a similarly organic slant on Weather The Weather, Battle of the Roses and Radio Signal. It’s not all paeans to plant life – there’s longing love songs in both Atleasta and I Bring the Sunshine And Nightmares, echoes of The Byrds in Ray Bradbury’s Bones, of Olivia Tremor Control in Frogman, and with the hazy sweetness of Goliath Tales the perfect end to this multitude of daydream-pop delights.”
- Andrew Carden

Thank you Mojo!

Here come the year-end lists;  Portland Phoenix includes Cement Postcard as a top  album of the year…  Giddy-up!

Here’s the score:

1)Confidence, Spouse
2)Mercury: Closest to the Sun, Theodore Treehouse
3) Self-Titled, Grand Hotel
4)We Are a Lightning Bolt, Roy Davis
5)Portland Steel, Covered in Bees
6)Cement Postcard with Owl Colours, Phantom Buffalo
7)La Perla, Olas
8   )No Tomorrow Tonight, Colepitz
9)Narrow Gauge Quad Trains, Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees
10) Thinning the Herd, Moshe

http://portland.thephoenix.com/music/113207-years-top-10-local-albums-and-five-eps-to-bo/

And if spell-check tells me “colour” is wrong one more time,  I’m turning it off.  And you sertinly dont want to reed irisposibal righting like that