The English Department: Japan is on like Donkey Kong, or Godzilla, or Mothra if you like

How fitting that we release our debut album the day after W's State of the Union address. Especially as it's called "A History of Doubt". Of course, it's only being released in Japan today, which is a long way from Washington, D.C. However, politics aside, we're unbelievably excited that it's coming out today.

Yesterday we received an email from Kengo, our A&R guy at Star Mole Records. Well, actually, I was copied on an email from Kengo that he sent to all his peeps to promote the release of our album. It was in Japanese. I don't speak Japanese at all, but our good friend Taco the Destroyer does. She's from the Japan. She translated the whole thing for me. Turns out, we're on the radio in Japan. Our video may or may not be on TV and we're in a bunch of magazines. All of which is sweet meat. But nothing could prepare us for this...Star Mole have built their own site dedicated to The English Department that makes us feel like dinosaurs roaming the earth. In a good way. Check it here. Definitely click on "Sounds Info", that's where all the dinosaur action is at.

So, if you live in Japan, or know anybody that lives in Japan, tell them to go to HMV, Tower Records, Virgin Megastore or Shinseido and buy our record. Here's a photo of it on sale at the HMV in Shibuya:

We made a "celebrity" playlist for HMV.com. as well that I think will be online soon. If you refresh that page a bunch of times, an English Department banner will appear. They're offering a free download of an unreleased track there. You can also buy it on Amazon.com for $33.49. That's just crazy. If you want it that badly, let us know, and we'll figure it out...

We're going to have news about the official US release very, very, very soon.

Until then - here's a photo: