An actual #chicktract was left on our windshield in the Kaiser Interstate parking lot!
To learn more about Chick tracts and the #endofcapitalism please consult the #deadairfresheners and #macdawg album The Rebirth of Freedom Rock on Personal Archives Records.
https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/…/the-rebirth-of…
We’ll be playing together July 11th at Portland Arts Collective!
2025 has been a rough year for a lot of people all over the world but we have at least released two new Dead Air Fresheners albums on the bedraggled planet. The first came on April Fools Day but was NOT A JOKE! It is our first ever recording on the classic Pacific Northwest record label Green Monkey Records and features our longstanding collaborator author/poet/noise-diva Jennifer Robin! The album, simply titled Moon , is also blessed with a beautiful cover by New York Times featured artist, the Vancouver BC painter (and author and vocalist of one of our favorite punk rock bands Mecca Normal) Jean Smith!
Then slightly more than one month later on May 18th, 2025 we released a guest-free album of recordings gathered in our studio fortress of solitude known as The Elusive Hangar titled The Process of Elimination Will Find You in the End on our own Kill Pop Tarts imprint. Featuring drones, noiserock, field recordings, and plunderphonics, this record has a bit of everything we do in just eight haunting pieces.
We also had a great show at McCoy’s Cavern in our birthplace city of Olympia Washington on March 1st, 2025 playing between our good friends Dizzy Scribbles and Pizza T. And the year ain’t over yet!
At exactly midnight on New Year’s Eve as 2024 struck, the mighty Kill Pop Tarts label unleashed the surprise new album by Dead Air Fresheners: Forbidden Secrets of the Elusive Hangar. Coming out exactly one year after our last group release Tales from the Elusive Hangar, it would be easy to see this album as a sequel, which is not entirely untrue. It even shares having an original cover painting by St. John’s Portland artist Christopher Michael McMurray. Yet Forbidden Secrets is SO MUCH MORE as evidenced from the first single “The Courtship of Jerry’s Raven”. The 26+ minute opus features guest star Portland Oregon improvisational legend Jerry Soga (Waffle Taco, Fiasco!, Xapchyk, Folknoize and Sogatombs!) and was recorded in the yard outside the Elusive Hangar in October of 2022. While the first single, it closes out the album which also rereleases the great compilation pieces “5 Minutes in Dog Years” and “Dungeness Under the Hangar”.
Don’t worry, the album featuring Jennifer Robin is still coming out later this year too! Meanwhile check out Forbidden Secrets! Why did we not disclose to you that this album was coming? Because it is Forbidden Secrets! Buy one and we promise not to tell anybody.
We are honored to be part of the Cave Dweller Music compilation of Dungeon Synth music in support of equal rights for the transgendered Battle Hymns: Triumphs in Transition! 100% of the proceeds from the album go to support The National Center for Transgender Equality! Our piece “Dungeness Under the Hangar” is just one of 49 amazing tracks on this comp!
Spring and summer of 2023 the Dead Air Fresheners have been holed up in the Elusive Hangar creating and recording new music behind Portland’s hottest absurdist author Jennifer Robin! While we are still sonicly sculpting the album we are ready to let the world see a little of this current incarnation. Saturday, July 15th 6-8 PM PDT we are hosting a Free Streaming Concert in the yard of the Elusive Hangar with Seattle based classical guitarist Mark Hilliard Wilson! Mark will open the festivities with a solo set of beautiful guitar playing to be followed by a performance of our current ensemble behind Ms. Robin. Then we will attempt a spontaneous collaboration with all participants! Please join us!
IN OTHER NEWS: The internet is changing and we are willing to mutate along with it! It is in fact, all we have ever done. So while we will still have this website, our YouTube Channel and the Kill Pop Tarts bandcamp for house releases, we’re delving into a Generation Alpha with our new OFFICIAL DEAD AIR FRESHENERS TIKTOK CHANNEL! Think we are kidding about targeting Generation Alpha? We put the channel under the control of our 9 year old member.
Pacific NW music writer Emily Pothast recently contacted the band to tell us she had penned a short review of Tales from the Elusive Hangar for the “Noise, Industrial and Beyond” column in the March 2023 issue of the UK’s stalwart experimental magazine The Wire! While we were happily processing this exciting and gratifying information, it turned out that we had entirely missed Tape Hiss Is the Blow Job of Lo-fi being reviewed by Raymond Cummings in the same column for the August 2022 issue! To be fair, we were caught up with the release of Unfriended. on Personal Archives in September, and really weren’t expecting our single piece resurfaced noise collage vanity release to resonate globally quite like it did!
Dead Air Fresheners ended 2022 having released 4 albums (including one collaboration with Noisepoetnobody!) We received critical acclaim in legendary punk zine The Big Takeover , online experimental music review zine A Closer Listen, and extreme music blog Cavedweller Music, with a radio cherry to top things off. Our album Unfriended. released on September 11, 2022 made it onto WFMU’s end of year Heavily Played Records list!
We’re thrilled to have the album we spent 3 years getting the way we wanted being received with heavy play on the best known experimental music radio station in the world. Now onto 2023 and once again we will have a BRAND NEW ALBUM on Kill Pop Tarts coming out at exactly midnight as January 1 hits!
Jerry Soga, legendary PDX improvisor (of Waffle Taco, Xapchyk, fiasco, and More!) visits The Elusive Hangar to record with Dead Air Fresheners in their home studio.
This is the first ever musical meeting of these two explosive forces of Northwest Dada and Kill Pop Tarts is pleased to share whatever enfolds with you!
Join Us on Facebook Live Saturday October 15th at 5:15 PM PDT!
THIS JUST IN: The fantastic online zine Cave Dweller Music has an in depth interview about Unfriended. and the Dead Air Fresheners by Sound Animal up for your perusing!
On September 11th, 2022 the 17th album by Dead Air Fresheners was released to the world by Personal Archives Recordings. A limited number of professional quality compact discs can still be purchased. Don’t wait for Black Friday. We’re all in this together.
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