Salon de la Guerre’s 41st album is an eclectic collection of electronic and guitar-driven pop songs on futurism, compulsive behavior, nostalgia, frustrated romance and frustrated cult leaders. Featuring a rogue's gallery of half-talented manipulators and smoothies, told with singer-songwriter Eric R. Rasmussen's flair for characterization and storytelling.

The album was written, performed and produced by Eric Randolph Rasmussen in his home studio in New York during the winter of 2024-2025.

Track listing:

1. The Plight of the Serial Cult Founder

2. They Drained the Pond at Lovers’ Lane

3. A Car, Of Course

4. The Bleeding Tree

5. Love on the F Stop

6. The Current in the Ice

7. I’m Not a Good Man When I’m Alone

8. Riding Coach to Mars

9. The Voyeurs

10. Honeymoon at the Track

11. Picking Up Girls in the Sympathy Card Section

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Salon de la Guerre’s 39th album is a set of raucous guitar-driven punk and pop songs that tackle themes of domesticity and sexual politics. The songs cover ground from gossipy towns to unaccountable young men and women full of the idealism of poetry ... with none of the wisdom to match.

The album was composed and performed by Eric Randolph Rasmussen at his home studio in New York City during the summer of 2024. Copyright 2024. All songs were produced by Eric R. Rasmussen The album is available for purchase at Amazon and Apple Music and is available to stream on Spotify and YouTube, among other sites.

Track listing:

1. This Town Needs Secrets

2. You Only Like Things New

3. Local Boy Makes Wood

4. Polly Emory

5. Ariel Despite

6. Incident at the Cape May Hot Dog Eating Contest

7. The Sound of One Hand Crying

8. The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Metal

9. The Plight of the Intellectual Brute

10. The World's Pain Leaked Through Her Shirt

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Salon de la Guerre’s 38th album is a set of electronic and dance songs about robots and futurism, with sci-fi themes about humans’ relationship to technology and what it means to be alive. When in doubt, the robots will dance (or perhaps learn to read Shakespeare).

The album was composed and performed by Eric Randolph Rasmussen at his home studio in New York City from 2022 to 2024. Copyright 2024. All songs were produced by Eric R. Rasmussen except for “Take Me To Your Robot Heaven in the Mountains,” which was co-produced by Christian Montalbano. The cover art is Eric R. Rasmussen. The album is available for purchase at Amazon and Apple Music and is available to stream on Spotify and YouTube, among other sites.

Track listing:

1. All Out of Candy

2. Don’t Kick a Robot Dog

3. Thirsting at the Edge of the World

4. How Do You Bleep?

5. It Doesn’t Track

6. Lead Me To Your Robot Heaven in the Mountains

7. Relaxation Demo

8. Swag Is Over

9. Making Yourself One With the Machine

10. 24th Century Robot Shakespeare

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Salon de la Guerre’s 37th album is a set of (mostly) acoustic folk songs about eccentric characters and folk heroes both modern and classic. It includes Americana experiments and meditations on despair and joy. The usual Salon de la Guerre themes.

The album was composed, performed and produced by Eric Randolph Rasmussen at his home studio in New York City during the spring of 2024. Copyright 2024. Cover photo by Eric R. Rasmussen. Released April 15, 2024.

The album is available for purchase at Amazon and Apple Music and is available to stream on Spotify and YouTube, among other sites.

Track listing:

1. Sixteen Dogs

2. Frown When You Dance

3. Different at 6

4. The Happy Believer’s Antiphony

5. Saw Creek Bridge

6. Woke Up Too Late for Coffee

7. Love Is Best at the Start

8. Lily Rose Ain’t Dead

9. They’ve Ruined Little Things

10. That Shirt

Salon de la Guerre's 35th album is called Citizen Wet Smack and it features some hard-rocking tunes covering familiar Salon de la Guerre ground, with vignettes of characters you might find in short fiction: small-time criminals, white collar scammers, spoiled rich kids and unethical philosophers.

The album was composed, arranged, performed and produced by Eric Randolph Rasmussen at his home studio in New York City during the winter of 2023-2024. Copyright 2024. Cover art by Eric R. Rasmussen with photos by Parsadanov. Released March 19, 2024.

The album is available for purchase at Amazon and Apple Music and is available to stream on Spotify and YouTube, among other sites.

Track listing:

1. The Least-Loved Child Works the Hardest

2. Scooter Impossible

3. Fred Jr.

4. Once Evil, Now Retired

5. Love Subscriber

6. The Philosopher and His Grandson

7. Spoof Addict

8. Adam and Eve Achieve Peak Solipsism

9. The Insurance Claim Sealed with a Kiss

10. Juiced In

11. Fred Jr. Jr.

Salon de la Guerre’s 33rd album, Even Toy Dogs Get the Blues, is an alternative rock album. This slate of 15 songs includes a lot of sketches of compulsive characters—spies, smugglers, strip club patrons, scam artists, obsessive dog lovers and Buddhists.

The album was written, performed and produced by Eric R. Rasmussen at his home studio in New York from May to July 2023.

The album is available for digital streaming or download on YouTube, Amazon, iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp, among other sites.

Copyright 2023.

Track listing:

1. The Physicist at the Track

2. When He Was Good

3. Yacht on Fire

4. Lost Wood

5. Walk Back the Cat

6. Too Much Innocence

7. Possessed by a Mediocre Demon

8. Remembered as Great

9. Goodbye, Govinda

10. The Shark and Me

11. Even Toy Dogs Get the Blues

12. Smuggler’s Dog

13. Face-Blind Love

14. Home Base Is Your Heart

15. The Forgetting Spring

Salon de la Guerre's 32nd album is loud, fast, cheap and only occasionally in control. It’s a work of ’90s-style alternative rock, ’80s college rock and good old-fashioned punk in the vein of Eric Rasmussen’s idols: the Pixies and Lou Reed. The album was composed, arranged, performed and produced by Eric Randolph Rasmussen at his home studio in New York City during the winter of 2021-2022. Copyright 2022. Cover photo by Eric R. Rasmussen.

released March 30, 2022

Track listing:

1. Stereoisomer

2. The Plight of the Zen Boxer

3. The Will to Win

4. Spank

5. Don’t Vamp When I’m Vamping

6. Doppelgänger

7. Existential Biceps

8. Misanthrope’s Dance

9. Lust for Sleep

10. Didn’t Recognize You in E Minor

11. The Banality of Eva

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Salon de la Guerre's 31st album is a 20-song cycle of pop, rock and electronic silliness about money and obsession and money obsession, as well as the various ways people flail about trying to make themselves happy and follow their own existential bliss.

The album was composed, arranged, performed and produced by Eric Randolph Rasmussen at his home studio in New York City during the summer of 2021. Copyright 2021. Cover design by Eric R. Rasmussen; male model photo by "FatSprat."

released November 15, 2021

Track listing:

1. Hit in the Dice

2. Wings Made of Cash

3. Awkward Alien Encounters

4. Wings of Trash

5. Coney Island Chili Dog Incident

6. The Desert Got Us Normal

7. Before the Flop

8. My Neural Pathways Got Paved

9. Hell Is Other Bicyclists

10. Fair Game

11. Find Your Fear

12. Sun, Sex, Music & Mutual Funds

13. Lanternfly

14. Trouble on the Back Nine

15. Waiting on the Drawbridge

16. Routine Traffic Stop Incident

17. Spider Sleep

18. Remittance Day

19. I Begged Your For Light

20. Larceny Paid for This Restaurant.

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Salon de la Guerre’s 21st album is a mix of guitar-oriented jangle pop and disco numbers with a few minor key dark changes. The notorious genre-hopping alternative rock act here serves up a album of big, candy-like pop numbers. Some of it's sour, some of it's cinnamon. A little darkness and a little light.

1. Skywriting

2. From Sour to Cinnamon

3. Amphibious Grandkids

4. Cyrano 3 A.M.

5. Methane Moth

6. My Niagara Is Not Your Niagara

7. Fallen

8. Carry

9. The End of Odette

10. A Kid’s Inside

11. The Sirens

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Salon de la Guerre’s 20th album sees composer Eric R. Rasmussen turning to alt-country music with weird guitar alternative guitar tunings, banjo and piano performances and more tales of loss and redemption.

Track listing:

1. Drink the Lake

2. Springfield Folly

3. Under the Wing

4. A Shotgun Wedding, But It Worked Out

5. Paper Anniversary

6. The Plume Makes the Rooster

7. Million Chances Later

8. Mirror, Mirror on the Floor

9. Hell Is Mud

10. I’ll Eat Whatever You’re Making

11. The Praying Hand

12. For the Choir

13. Nothing Like a Dame

14. She Loved Jazz and Country

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The 12th album by Salon de la Guerre is a pop album about drifters, murder, mayhem, the end of idealism and the quest for responsible retirement planning–mostly set in sumptuous Caribbean locales. A set of radio friendly tunes, with a couple of loud rockers thrown in for good measure. Cover art by Corey B. Sanders.

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Track listing:

1. Boxing His Way to Heaven or Florida.

2. Child of the Land, Man of the Sea

3. Sanctuary

4. White Lobster

5. Swine for Swine

6. Please, Do Not Walk on the Water

7. His Eyes Are Gone

8. Otto Half Soft

9. The Lighthouse Widow

10. Surplus

11. Taking Cyprus for the Wine

12. Moby-Sick

13. Little Lo

14. The Cayman Island Giving Tree

15. On Holiday From Survivor's Guilt

16. Come Back to My Chamber

17. Ma Connexion

18. His Eyes Are Gone (Reprise)

19. Dreaming With Numb Legs

Salon de la Guerre's 11th album is a pop album of dark doings, where strained, ethically challenged characters straddle the abyss but reach for the light. It continues writer Eric R. Rasmussen's exploration of electronic music as a means of balancing noise and melody. Its lyrics include small vignettes of players and grifters who wistfully muse about life, helplessness and horror.

All songs written and produced by Eric R. Rasmussen, featuring synthesizer performances by Eric R. Rasmussen (the album also features commercially available drum loops and samples). Copyright 2016.

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Track listing:

1. Bambi Meets Thumpers

2. The Note He Floated

3. Virginia Dare

4. Baby by Now

5. Song for Joni

6. The Church of Low Expectations

7. Reunion Kestrel

8. Master Kale

9. The Brand New U

10. Salad Year

11. Street, Chambers

12. Shinjuku

13. Bebop and Op

14. Funeral of a Beloved Enemy

15. The Sage

16. Blue Morning, Greenwich Village

17. A Night's Tale

18. Terror Room

A slate of tight pop songs about domestic life, values and growing up--and also a bit of a departure for this avant garage rocker.

Track listing:

1. Fast Food Colony

2. The Plight of the Millionaire Shoplifter

3. Surf and Turf

4. Evangeline

5. Your Blues Ain't My Blues

6. Airplane Commercial

7. The Patron Saint of Cop Shows

8. The End of Genesis Lounge

9. Value

10. Blaue Rosen

11. The Last Thing We Said To Space

12. Man Without A Concorde

13. Cross the Equator

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