Risen From The Rails, our worldwide hit 2010 album, is now available as a free digital download on our album download page. You may also prefer to pay cash money for the limited edition hand-assembled pressing released on Climate Homemade Records. This is available at amazon.com, cdbaby.com, and also through the download page linked above, where you can pay with paypal.

We’re currently arranging and tweaking our summer 2010 release titled Boats of Totora Rush. This album features 32 one-minute tracks at a constant 132 beats per minute. That’s 4224 beats for one low price. Coming in August.

- Nathan

God bless Travis J. Austin. He is the former owner of myspace.com/climate and he just gave it to us. We were formerly at the less-desirable myspace/climatexas. Perhaps check out his new project called Alliances at myspace.com/alliancesmusic

We have validation that we’ve made it big now! Climate has finally broken in to the valuable teen listener market. Lyrics from “The Escape” off the new album appeared recently as a Facebook status. Taylor Swift is going to be so jealous!

After a prolonged battle with the extremely temperamental last.fm uploader, I’ve finally got all the Special Friends Records era stuff into the last.fm Climate page. Thanks to Travis Austin of Climate (IL), I was able to get access to the Climate area and tried to clean it up a bit, and slightly reduce confusion regarding the Polish thrash metal band also called Climate. If you play Climate radio now, you’ll get a fair does of metal, but maybe eventually it’ll start tuning towards the sweet sounds of Climate (TX). Check it out.

- Nathan

So, I recently started figuring out how to add us to all them new-fangled Internet radio stations. Pandora (my personal favorite) is a little difficult, and has a pre-screening process. Two test tracks are submitted and they let you know at some undetermined time in the future if they want more. We’re currently working on that one. Then I checked out last.fm and was shocked to find that we have a name conflict with not one, but two other bands named Climate (and there’s even another band called The Climate). We’ve been around the longest (since 1997), but seeing as how none of us are famous, we all have about equal right to the name.

I contacted the other US Climate, based in Illinois, and also the occupier of myspace.com/climate. He was extremely nice and said they pretty much haven’t done anything in years and we can have the name space. But I was absolutely horrified to find that we’re also conflicting with a Polish thrash metal band of the same name, and I haven’t been able to contact them (or maybe they don’t speak English). So, in effect, if you visit Climate on last.fm, you’ll think we’re this thrash metal band:

The worst part is, last.fm somehow culled all our album names and track listing from whatever information spidering they do, so it looks like this thrash metal band wrote, for example, our hit 2000 album Swallow All Letters. It’s really depressing. Anyway, we’re not a Polish thrash metal band.

– Nathan

The Risen From The Rails CD package is now completely ready. It’s available on amazon.com and at bandcamp.com. This is what the Darren Frayne-designed package looks like:

Coincidentally on Easter Day, Risen From The Rails, Climate’s approximately 16th studio album, is completely done. All the tracks can be previewed at our bandcamp site. A real CD package with artwork by Darren Frayne should be available on Amazon and Pandora pretty soon.

- Nathan

The new Climate album, Risen From The Rails, is currently in post production after probably six months of focused attention, based on several years of demos. Shelley Beach, our newest Ricket sings on this one for the first time. See the album page for more information and samples.

Darren Frayne is doing the art package. These are the early parts we’ve gotten.

The art package should be pretty amazing. Darren drew the parts by hand to look like an etching and then applied Photoshop magic. We’re hoping to get this CD out by the beginning of March. Arcube in Richardson is going to do the pressing.

- Nathan