Human Milk - Grape Fruit Clouds

I don't recall how I originally encountered Human Milk but my best guess is I was handed a CD at SXSW in 2008. Maybe I bought it. Memories are unclear. What I do know is that in the seventeen years that I've owned this album, I revisit it regularly. It's indie pop in the vein of The Unicorns or Animal Collective - often sickly sweet with a childlike buoyancy, undercut with a darkness in the lyrics and harmonies. It is very much up my alley.

Whenever I revisit it I try to find more information about it but my searches come up completely empty. Zero information is returned for a band called "Human Milk" with an album called "Grape Fruit Clouds." I know 2008 was a long time ago but it strikes me as incredibly bizarre that the Internet is devoid of information on this one. There's not even anything on Discogs! Shocking.

Since I have the CD, I can confirm that the record was written by Kerstan Wallace - an artist now living in Denver and creating music under his own name. He's got a Bandcamp, several albums on streaming and an Instagram. But his online activity seems to have gone silent around 2019.

I've posted Grape Fruit Clouds over on archive.org so that others can enjoy these sounds. It's 31 tracks that fly be. If Wallace disapproves, let me know and I'll be happy to remove it.