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Soft Shoulder - “Aerosol Can Stand” 7” (Gilgongo Records, 2020)

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    7" record, released on Gilgongo Records in early 2020. Includes small individualized art print.

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1.
Thin Red Straw (High Tension) 04:14
lyrics
Went in on an open run, an open ended loose take: once or twice and it’s considered done. Miscellaneous pieces of someone’s broken drum kit, a microphone lays on the floor, gaff tape stability: aerosol can stand. The motivation is found in these unplanned situations. Unrelated: a few remarks, five words, infinitely credited to MES (three letter preference, the speak-shout enthusiast).
2.
Wellness Line (Move a New Way) 04:35
lyrics
Many demand an answer, but you’ve got to ask this of yourself: Are you concerned with common health? It’s a sick and sad way to be (when your only measure is wealth). Additionally: a textbook composition, a broadcast yet legless transmission, a fall-on-deaf-ear type of listen. A skip in your step, but you keep a scowl on while running around. Unrelated: two or three sentences, borrowed in a moment of improvisation, capitalizing on the random snippets of sound, infinite credit to B.A. Wizard (a scholar who knows which way you must move).

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Aerosol Can Stand finds JAMES FELLA's long running “post-punk / no-wave / junk-kraut” group in a rare moment of pop sensibility (subject to objection and critique). Recorded spur-of-the-moment during practice, these two songs are a snapshot of Soft Shoulder as a trio (with JOSH RODRIGUEZ (Mallevs, Sleep Money, etc) and Moone Records’ CALEB DAILEY) in late 2019.

However, the same variety of haphazard approaches and bedroom-style recording methods which Fella is accustomed to using when processing songs alone were utilized here with the full band. Everything captured on the second take: microphones taped to broken pieces of drum kit hardware and whatever else was sitting around on the floor, overblown overdubs done with a faulty reverb unit, synth later dropped in as an afterthought directly before a maniacal full-volume mix-down in the same rehearsal space later that week.

Comparisons aside and credit due as collateral: RIYL The Fall, The Homosexuals, etc. Edition of 600 (includes download and every copy comes with a unique print made using components from the artwork).

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released January 10, 2020

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