Something being planned for August 11th and a few weeks later as well. Stay tuned for details/updates.

for those of you who haven't heard, Chase is now playing bass in London Vs New York. You can count on both of us for both rock & roll and avant weirdness!

Whoa... only THREE DAYS between posts? Weird.
Decided to put up some older demo songs from late 2007. We like these tracks, hope you do too.

Abolition Of The Cross
01) Four Removed
02) Improvisation Two

additionally, you can download both tracks as a single .ZIP file:
Abolition Of The Cross (2007 Demos)

Download, share, spread like wildfire.

wow. over a year since the last time we updated this (to talk about how we never update this site). we have been busy with a few other projects, but NVLST is still alive and running.
new site in the works, but don't hold your breath. other new websites we're both working on seem to be taking precedent.

we do have a Facebook page that will be updated sooner if anything important is happening.

Ryan is now playing guitar in a band called The Fucking Hotlights. They have a 3-song EP you can (and should) download on their site. For anyone who wishes we played that "rock 'n' roll" thing, your dreams are true.
Chase has resurrected mutus liber as a focus and will be releasing a new album this year. He also has a new project he plays drums in on the way...
Both of us also have our independent websites about design & some music. you can check them out below:
Chase Middaugh
Ryan McMullen

we are once again updating our sound and our approach to playing and writing. Plans include finishing an actual goddamned album, recording it, and releasing it in 2010 (even if it kills us). we say that a lot, but seem to be better at following through on various musical projects at this point.
thanks for reading. see you soon.

we're real bad about updating this site. not there's anything too urgent to tell you.
we're playing our first show since July of 2008 here in Buffalo at Soundlab on March 2nd with the fantastic Capillary Action and our good friend Alfred Brown. check them out if you're not familiar:
myspace.com/capillaryaction
myspace.com/alfredbrown

full up of empty spaces is a collection of recordings we made in our rehearsal space in the fall of 2008. these are improvised rehearsal recordings, so they're a little on the rough side, but we feel they show a side of this band that a few of you might not have heard. this is to give you an idea of where we are headed with our "real" album, but expect that release to be different still.

this release consists of 3 tracks:

01) vitalism
02) contra apionem
03) adramelech

you can download this EP as individual tracks or as 1 compressed .ZIP file here:

http://www.chasemiddaugh.com/novelist/full_up_of_empty_spaces/

alternately, you may use mediafire to download the zip file:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y1l4tcwgjty

thanks for reading. hope you enjoy.

PLEASE REPOST THIS WHEREVER YOU SEE FIT AND SPREAD THE WORD.

discussing plans on a new full-length.

change in plans. change in directions. new sounds at our myspace page.

more soon...

NYC. October 8th.

Been a little while, huh?
We recently played a show in Baltimore with our new friends Microkingdom and OAK. We're currently trying to put a string of dates together in June. Take a look at the schedule and let us know if you're able to help out.

"DROSERA" draws close. for real this time.

We'll be playing two shows to close out 2007.

12/29 - Lakewood, OH @ Bela Dubby
12/30 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks

here are some images from the 2nd TEETH SO SHARP performance taken by Bobby Griffiths:

we are coming up on our 2 year anniversary as a band and decided it was time to overhaul our web presence. the old design was great, but hard to make updates to. this new blog-inspired format should allow us the chance to update frequently. besides, the internet is only blogs, myspace profiles & porn these days anyway.