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8 Of Cups | Adventure

8 Of Cups by Adventure, released 29 January 2016 1. Blue Sky 2. Tea 3. Nom 4. Performer 5. Have A Pizza 6. Phone Call 7. Valley Amnesia 8. Living Dream "8 of Cups" is the beginning of a new chapter for Benny Boeldt, the Baltimore artist also known as Adventure. It’s the first record under Boeldt’s own name after releasing three albums as Adventure on Carpark Records. "8 of Cups" veers from wacky to beautiful to chaotic; using gorgeous melodies, hyperactive noise, and off-the-wall samples. The title is a reference to the tarot card, which Boeldt found to be an accurate representation of his life as he made the album. The 8 of cups card embodies the start of a new journey, a transition, growing apart, and accepting one’s faults to move on. The foundation of this strange, gorgeous, other-worldly record is made of VHS tapes. Boeldt began "8 of Cups" by culling through tapes of anime, horror, sci-fi, even instructional videos, and collecting hundreds of sam