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PREORDER
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01. Blue Chemise - Anna
02. Blue Chemise - Zara
03. Blue Chemise - Lyndsay
04. Blue Chemise - Margaret
05. Blue Chemise - Kathleen
06. Blue Chemise - Susan
07. Blue Chemise - Jean
08. Blue Chemise - Florence
09. Blue Chemise - Betty
10. Blue Chemise - Lily
ARTIST
TITLE
Mothers of All
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SOD 145LP SOD 145LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/2/2026

Mothers of All is Mark Gomes' second album as Blue Chemise for Students of Decay, following 2018's acclaimed Daughters of Time. Though built from very different materials, it shares its predecessor's economy, sense of proportion, and fascination with the ways domestic life can open onto larger and less easily defined realms. Where Daughters of Time evoked tender, if alien, nursery songs, Mothers of All takes the form of spectral salon music heard at a temporal and geographic remove. These pieces feel fundamentally receptive, with Gomes allowing his chosen fragments to retain their own histories -- both personal and aesthetic -- while revealing unexpected tonal relationships through their idiosyncratic arrangement. The resulting music is at once deeply personal and strangely unmoored, a space where the intimate and the distant occupy the same plane. What lingers about this project as a whole is the paradox that the most private experiences can also be the least singular: that family, memory, and devotion become most legible at the point where they cease belonging to any one life.