our new CD, "all the good meetings are taken" (Bop Tart Records), is now available at darla.com, itunes.com, and your local record store. yippee! we've been waiting for this for a long while- and we're really super excited that the time is finally here. big ups to the following people: LINDSEY BAKER!! of Bop Tart Records - lots of stuff JAMES (you can call him "jazz" but then he won't like you) NIXON - engineer/producer/live third member JOEL DEJONG - design/layout ELLEN DONOHOE - cover photo ERIC MASUNAGA - mastering DAVE at Nice Promo FRANK at 2:30 Publicity KAREN SEONG and MARK - promo photos JAMES at Darla - distro we don't want to pour lame all over this post, but without all these people, we really couldn't have put this CD together. thanks everyone!! now we owe all of you huge time. the recent shows in Seattle have been a lot of fun and we can't wait to play our cozy release party that's in the works at the beginning of next month - in Portland this time. we'll also be playing shows (Seattle/PDX/Eugene) at the end of May with Of Montreal and IQU, in support of the album. this is going to be a good time and we love a good time. xoxo akina and arland ok, now if you need more convincing, you can listen to a song called "arctic" here (and it's available for download too!): http://kandapop.com http://boptart.com and if you guys want to preview any of the songs, visit itunes!! Reviews for "all the good meetings are taken": "...[Kanda's] catchy twinkle and shimmer invoke images of robots tucking in little kids at night underneath glow-in-the-dark stars tacked to the ceiling." - Sable Yong, www.soundthesirens.com "On their second effort, All the Good Meetings are Taken, Kanda comes out pushing the nursery rhyme candor of the Moldy Peaches, if the Peaches had ever made it past the 5th grade." - Bree Kutz, www.kaffeinebuzz.com/ "if you like to feel... sunburst warmth from your headphones, you'll fall in love with Kanda." - Megan Selling, The Stranger (Seattle)