The Book of Knots – the Brooklyn-based group featuring members of Skeleton Key, Pere Ubu and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – have announced the upcoming release of Garden of Fainting Stars on Ipecac Recordings.

Garden of Fainting Stars is the third release in the group’s “By Sea, By Land, By Air” trilogy, and focuses on space. Says the band:

IThe imagined utopias that await doomed travelers and early astronauts at the other end of their fantastical journeys inevitably give way to the grim realization which mankind has faced again and again: At every hopeful turn, commonplace realities await us. A vast and empty universe stretching far beyond infinity, capable of containing the countless imaginary creatures, civilizations and otherwise terrestrial impossibilities that inhabit our dreams, dies in the fluorescent lighting of the laundry soap aisle at Walmart. Once again, we cast a wormless, rusty hook into the lifeless seas of the music industry, expecting to reap only sorrow.”

The tracklisting for Garden of Fainting Stars is as follows:

Microgravity
Drosophila Melanogaster (Blixa Bargeld – Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Moondust Must (Nils Frykdahl – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Dawn McCarthy – Faun Fables)
Lissajous Orbit (Aaron Lazar – The Giraffes)
Garden of Fainting Stars (Elyas Khan – Nervous Cabaret)
All This Nothing
Yeager’s Approach (Mike Watt)
Planemo (Mike Patton)
Nebula Rasa
Obituary For The Future (Trey Spruance)