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Consciousness on Full Blast

by The Shoes

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electronic blues club (sixteen and stoned version) 02:58
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2.
making peace with the wobble 05:08
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3.
theocean 03:33
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4.
like foxes (when i walk through our town I look over my shoulder too often, fearful of improvised weapons) 04:32
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5.
atlas cuddles ayn rand's stupid face 05:54
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6.
four track fuck 02:58
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7.
old lady sigh bin 07:29
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8.
consciousness on full blast 04:29
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9.
and their dream of living on a communist marijuana farm came true 04:32
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10.
you say sorry 04:00
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about

While writing this album, the guitar and lyrics at least I tried to draw from a lot of things. the current state of the world, my varying moods and outlooks on my personal life, people I love and people that I've felt slighted by, but overall I think this is an album about love and absolute horrified anxiousness. It's about the viscera blissfully surreal young love I have for my partner, the wholesome cup-of-hot-chocolate love I have for my friends, and childish wide eyed love I still have for the world around me. It's also about the fear of growing up, the anxiety of bad highs, the dread of the fascistic world that we've come to live in, the senseless violence, the dissociative fits that seem to come in stronger and stronger waves. All of these sentiments and feelings were brought to some kind of buzzing uncanny life by Nora, who I cannot praise enough, a genuinely wonderful and endlessly talented human being. I'm still in awe at the tones and noises and real primal feelings she can pull out of these machines. She gives context to my words and to my often atonal singing voice. Anyway, to end off this flowery write up on this project, I'd like to say that all this is, is a fleeting recording of two mammals shouting their blisses and tribulations into a metal box.

Thank you:
Parker, Josh, Will, Sam, Gabby, Leo, Jack for your love and for your criticisms throughout the recording process

Josh for your friendship and your labor in taking photos and creating a fantastic cover representative of the music

Parker for your love and care and for listening to ideas, demos, recording sessions and delusions.

Dennis Hecker for letting us use and abuse your garage to make music you'd probably dislike

credits

released October 11, 2020

vocals, lyrics, guitar, sustain pedal (on marijuana farm), weird sounds - ben pugsley
casio, synthesizer, drum machine, compressor, shoe box recorder, pedals, backing vocals, chord organ, backing guitar (on consciousness, ocean), slide guitar (on blues club), weird sounds -nora noise
cover art, photos - josh likens

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