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VINYL PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW  •  FILM COMING SEPTEMBER 21, 2025

engrams
from the floral couch

remastered album  |  photobook  |  short film

‘Engrams from the Floral Couch’ is a multimedia project by Strong Black Coffee (SBC) that
reimagines their debut self-titled album through remastered tracks, a photobook, and a short film. Drawing inspiration from the ambiance of dark diner coffee, warm summers, and unforgiving winters, SBC invites listeners to experience the music from a nostalgic perspective.

 

The accompanying photobook features written pieces by poets and creatives who offer their diverse perspectives and charged emotional depth. The project culminates in a short film that frames each piece within vignettes, placing viewers in liminal and curious scenes. Originating in upstate New York and revisited years later, ‘Engrams from the Floral Couch’ serves as a reflection on recalling familiar places, honoring quiet supporters, and unsteady courage to face the future.

preorder the vinyl bundle

​includes: 
- remastered clear vinyl pressing of SBC self-titled EP
- signed booklet of photos and written pieces from project authors
- hand written note

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pre-order window will close on July 4th.
estimated ship date: September 30th.

film teaser
coming june 27

film by

wayland media

 

written works

benjamin miller

lo whipple

ryan beiter

kaitlin tymko

william bortz

 

music by

strong black coffee

 

audio engineer

adam wakefield

 

field recordings

taylor whipple

Pulling inspiration from dark diner coffee, warm summers and even colder winters, Strong Black Coffee (SBC) writes piano bits to sleep on. In this anniversary rerelease of their debut self-titled album, the tracks are remastered and the scenes where these songs were created are revisited in the project nostalgically named ‘Engrams from the Floral Couch’. Listeners are invited to see through the lens of SBC but invited to look even further to draw their own feelings of recollection, profound displacement, and eventually quiet contentment through an album, photobook, and short film. 


Accompanying the remastered tracks, Engrams from the Floral Couch takes the form of a photobook along with sui generis written pieces authored by poets and creatives of the like, using SBC as their backdrop. Each author was encouraged to textualize their visceral interpretation of the music, resulting in an honest variety of works that give the reader a window into multiple different perspectives. This exploration is concluded in a short film where each piece and its written work are framed by a vignette that places the viewer in liminal and curious scenes.


Born in upstate New York and revisited years later, Engrams from the Floral Couch is a multimedia explanation of recalling familiar places, remembering those who quietly supported us, and the shaking hands of courage needed to look to what’s ahead of us. 

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