Via: BillboardGet ready for some Bubble-Gum Goth kids! Stephin Merritt is set to release his first album in ten years under the Gothic Archies moniker. Fittingly enough, the album is an ode to the gloomy children's novels A Series of Unfortunate Events written by Lemony Snicket (who also writes great books under his real name, Daniel Handler. His latest, Adverbs, is fantastic.)
The Tragic Treasury: Songs From A Series of Unfortunate Events will be released October 10, the same day that the thirteenth, and final, book in the series is released. The album will feature a song that corresponds to each book on the series, plus two bonus tracks.
Handler and Merritt are hardly strangers. Handler played accordion on several tracks of 69 Love Songs, and the two are in the midst of writing a musical script, The Song From Venus. Merritt will also be joining Handler on his book tour and playing the ukulele.
The Tracklist is after the jump. 01. Scream and Run Away
02. In the Reptile Room
03. World Is a Very Scary Place
04. Dreary, Dreary, Dreary
05. When You Play the Violin
06. This Abyss
07. Crows
08. Smile! No One Cares How You Feel
09. Freakshow
10. How Do You Slow This Thing Down?
11. Million Mushrooms
12. Things Are Not What They Appear
13. Shipwrecked
14. Walking My Gargoyle
15. We Are the Gothic Archies
[...] So this album gets my vote for guilty pleasure of the year. As previously reported, Stephin Merritt wrote a song to correspond with each book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, under his Gothic Archies moniker. Merritt deadpanning gloomy/doomy lyrics over bubble-gum goth tunes is too kitschy/awesome for words. “Scream And Run Away” is a little sea shanty that introduces us to Count Olaf, the main villain of the series. If you should see him yourself, Merritt suggests the following: “run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run or die, die, die die die die die die.” I laugh every single time. It’s a problem, but I don’t care. [...]