Tom Purdue "Cosmic Radiation and Bad Luck" Album Launches!

I'm happy to announce that it's launch day for my latest album: Cosmic Radiation and Bad Luck! The name of the album actually comes from my oncologist who, when I asked him how I got lung cancer, chalked it up to Cosmic Radiation and Bad Luck. I took that phrase and ran with it.

It's MY cosmic radiation and bad luck

I've been slowly working on this one since first being diagnosed with Stage IV Adenocarcinoma Lung Cancer. It's very much an attempt at a thoughtful, cancer experience-centric collection of experimental and electronic music. My hope is that you'll give it a listen regardless! ;) I think you might find there are a few silver-lined threads I try to pull on here and there amongst the sometimes scary, depressing, or anxiety-ridden experience that a cancer diagnosis can be.

The album covers a lot of my personal psychological battlefield, from initial diagnosis and discovery phase to celebrating caregiving heroes while continuing to live on with the diagnosis. I'm happy to finally make it available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and more!

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Spotify
iTunes
YouTube

Thank you to the Huntsman Cancer Institute for providing music therapy healing to a weird music dude like me. Bug Band forever!

Also, I'm happy to announce that I was able to reconnect with my friend Sean Young to co-author Demise Surprise (Song 3). Sean and I were joined at the hip through a lot of my 20's. He was not only the best man at my wedding, but also played guitar on a few of my early albums. To make matters more interesting, he's also a cancer patient caregiver. Stay strong!

. . . and as always, thanks to my family who has been going through this with me day in and day out. Love you!

I'll probably talk more about individual songs on my music blog in the future. If you have any questions, ask away! I'm interested in hearing your thoughts, and thank you for being a supporter and giving my weird jams a listen!