2024 Begins with a New Album!

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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.

Dead Air Fresheners Support Trans Rights!

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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!

 

Recording & Streaming w/ Jennifer Robin (plus Now On TikTok!)

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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.

Two Dead Air Fresheners Albums Reviewed in The Wire magazine!

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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!

2022 Ends w/ a Bang, 2023 Begins w/ a Brand New Album!

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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!

Streaming Live: Jerry Soga w/ Dead Air Fresheners

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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 October Get Unfriended.

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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.

Unfriended. Prepares for Landing

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In September of 2019 Dead Air Fresheners began toying around with the idea of creating a guitar driven noiserock album. We talked to a friend with a lot of great audio production and engineering skills and some notoriety as an undergound experimental artist about producing it. Lots of Google Drive folders were created. A pandemic hit. Our producer friend left the project scratching their head. Another experimental musician friend who wanted to produce rock bands came on board. And left scratching their head. We started playing every Friday at 5:15 PM online to fight the pandemic until vaccines arrived. Some other geopolitical stuff went down. We continued to work on the album which we called Unfriended. We also had other moments of inspiration that had nothing to do with what we were doing with Unfriended. (including in collaboration with other artists) and so released other singles and albums while we continued to work on this now seemingly mythical record. 3 years passed and we put out a total of 6 other albums while constantly telling the world Unfriended. was coming! We finished it at the Beginning of 2022 and submitted it to the label we’d been talking the whole time about giving it to. They liked it but feared some legal issues that we didn’t have a convincing argument around. So we dialed up Bob Buck Jr. over at Personal Archives and asked him if he’d have us again on his fine label. A release date of September 11, 2022 was set. We can’t really believe it but that date is upon us!

PRE-ORDERS are Available Now! Over at the Personal Archives site you may order the limited edition CD version or the digital version NOW. We have three sample pieces streaming including the just released “Have You Seen Junior’s Grades” featuring the legendary poet Chuck Swaim who we had not had the pleasure of working with in over a decade, and first ever for us collaboration with Olympia underground metal guitarist Eddie Shredder AKA Pizza-T! Check it!

For those in or near Portland, Oregon, we’ll be having a free all ages live performance to celebrate the official release on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 5 PM at the awesome independent record store Speck’s Records & Tapes in the beautiful Kenton neighborhood of North PDX. JOIN US!

Commercial Suicide Begins at Home

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We ought to have been doing everything we could to prepare for the release less than 5 months away, 9/11/22, of the fabled Unfriended album on the esteemed Dubuque Iowa label Personal Archives… Instead we went and produced a new album we have put out ourselves on Kill Pop Tarts.

While Dead Air Fresheners have semi-intentionally become a drum and guitar driven avant-garage noiserock affair in recent years, this album may be viewed either as a return to form or absolute regression into electronic and horn drenched ambient drone psychedelic-jazz mindmelt. Forged from recordings dating back some sixteen years, including a live set soft opening the now fondly remembered Portland venue Someday Lounge, then processed with loving pitch bends and wall of reverb in our post-Covid garage studio… this album would represent our 2112 or Metal Machine Music were we handing it over to any label other than our own.

Having career or relationship difficulties? Put this record on really loud and it will sort that out in either the home or office!