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The Urbane Decay is songs written and recorded by Jakob Neil (since 2002). They're usually poppy, sad and somewhat tragic songs about his love-life (described on an ex-girlfriend's blog as "diary entries, the kind covered in pink fun-fur wih a lock on the side"). Some people call these ditties "emotionally devastating" while others have called them "songs about lonely people, for lonely people, by a lonely person" (http://backofthebook.ca/). That's fair enough.
About
For a while Nate and Jamie were playing the songs but then Jakob moved to Toronto and Nate and Jamie didn't. Jakob also used to play guitar and program drum-machines in a shoegaze/trip-hop duo called Sister Ray (2006-07) with a girl called Mel but she moved to Portland to marry her internet gilfriend. Before that he played keyboards and drum-machines in a disco-punk band called The Clap (2005ish) but that, like most things in life, fell apart too. Jakob also plays psyche music as Heavy Moon. Long ago he ran a punk-pop-indie-rock outfit called superPOP (1995-97). But that was a long time ago and merely of vague regional interest. Did I mention Jakob is from Vancouver Island? He is. Lots of people are. But like I mentioned, he moved to Toronto which he finds to be overly large, isolating and polluted but full of good restaurants and bookstores.
Recent Urbane Decay Cds are available at the ARACHNIDISCS STORE.
NEWS
21/01/09

NEW ALBUM FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE!
http://tonypucci.homestead.com/talented_friends.html
12/01/09
** Split 7" single with Geomentry Is Everything being planned.
** New EP or or possibly a full-length being recorded/mixed/agonized over.
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Old (2008) news below

**New 6 track EP released! Available at the ARACHNIDISCS STORE!! **
Track listing: 1. Teenage Love Song 2. Dreamlife 3. No One Is Listening 4. Breaking Up, Breaking Down 5. I Don't Want To Be Your Boyfriend 6. Love is a Wolf (that never sleeps)
**Arachnidiscs Mixcast: http://arachnidiscs.muxtape.com
**Featured twice thus far on the Pollyana Cowgirl Podcast: www.pcowpodcast.com
**53 MONDAYS #16 on the CJSW charts for the week of March 11th 2008!!**
**53 MONDAYS now on sale at the ARACHNIDISCS STORE**



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