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The cover artwork of Smellville and Smellody, showing Melville the anthropomorphic cartoon skunk in his titular store full of aromatherapy bottles and flowers, holding and smelling a rose while Melody sits in a beanbag by the window playing her guitar off to the right.
The cover artwork of Smellville and Smellody, showing Melville the anthropomorphic cartoon skunk in his titular store full of aromatherapy bottles and flowers, holding and smelling a rose while Melody sits in a beanbag by the window playing her guitar off to the right.

Smellville and Smellody EP

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Two soundtracks for the skunk pair Melville and Melody!
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Smellville and Smellody EP (2023)

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Watch the timelapse of how I designed the EP AND individual track cover arts simultaneously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf5oLyk3nFo

To stream these on other platforms like YouTube and Spotify:

Smellville and Smellody: hyperfollow.com/moule/smellville-and-smellody-ep Just Smellville: hyperfollow.com/moule/smellville Just Smellody: hyperfollow.com/moule/smellody

This EP concludes my early 2023 "skunk-a-thon" as I develop the characters in the MOULE WORLD - this time Melville and Melody - one track at a time!

This EP's tracks take place simultaneously, after the events of my previous release Hoodie Rave (moule.bandcamp.com/track/hoodie-rave). Melville and Melody have finished setting up their aromatherapy store, called Smellville. Being a skunk, Melville was teased in school with bad skunk stereotypes and called "Smellville" as an insult, but he's taken the name back for his own anti-stink store!

(For more info about the events BEFORE Hoodie Rave and Cried, check this out: mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/109898546781646856)

Unlike most aromatherapy stores, you can get some oddly-specific smells you won't find anywhere else, such as the smell of freshly-cut grass, petrichor, new car smell, and newly-opened boxes! Sitting on her favourite beanbag, Melody, Melville's new girlfriend, adopts the name "Smellody" and integrates speakers in air diffusers that spray certain smells in timing to her guitar chord progressions, inviting everyone to smell her music as well as hear it.

As for the origins of the tracks themselves, they were made nearly a decade ago back when I started out making music.

  • Smellville was created on January 7, 2016 as "Crystal", and was meant to be the successor to Indigo, back when I was reading about the new-age concept of "indigo" and "crystal" children. It was finished sometime in 2018 as an over-10-minutes-long track, later remastered and shortened to 5:45 minutes in March 2023. It is my 72nd finished track and 85th track release.

  • Smellody was created on October 10, 2015 and finished shortly after, making this my 2nd ever finished track, between Panthalassa and Indigo. It was originally called "Strange Things". It was meant to be the precursor to another track called "Stranger Things" (NOT related to the TV show), which ended up becoming Island within an Island: moule.bandcamp.com/track/island-within-an-island. It too was remastered in March 2023 and is my 86th track release.

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Shoutout to Limnetic Villains for suggesting "rain smell", petrol", "cut grass", "the circus", "airport tarmac", "new car", and "fresh magazine" for some smells for the bottles!

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