we can rust the world into the dust of the universe

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1.	aweigh 12:58	buy track
2.	broken hip winter 22:34	buy track
3.	the evening redness in the west 22:38	buy track
4.	winter outro 03:27	buy track

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2022 was our twentieth anniversary as a band. a strange but stubbornly proud moment for a band who normally doesn't pay attention to that sort of thing.
but 20 years meant something and we wanted to celebrate with a new record and some shows.
we've never been able to do anything quickly so we started planning in 2020 while we all had a lot of time on our hands...

then brandon got sick in 2021.
he tried to be optimistic, we all did. but there was suddenly a clock hanging in the air that was hard to ignore.
but he wanted to keep busy during treatment and focusing on the anniversary was his way of staying sane.

so we did what we always did: he and i sat in the basement and wrote.
after a few months we had a skeleton to an album that we were able to bring to the rest of the band.

by the summer of 2022 time was up.
he wanted to spend what little time he had left working on the record he knew he wouldn't hear finished.
we set up a make-shift studio in the same basement where we all started making music as dumb kids and we recorded him playing his bass until he was satisfied with his parts.
a month later he was gone.

this record is a silence hanging heavy.
this record is a bargain for a little more time.
this record is remembering why we do this in the first place.
this record is a celebration.

this record was five days of recording in august of 2022 when he could still play.
this record was six months of recording in 2022/23 after he was no longer there.
this record is twenty years in an hour.
this record is an exclamation point, not a period.

thanks&thanks&thanks/tomorrow&tomorrow&tomorrow...

-bob/tfa

credits

released October 27, 2023

initial tracking was done from july 30th to august 10th, 2022 in the make-shift confines of "boxfortknox" in sycamore, illinois.

the rest of it was recorded at "lakewood walker" in aurora (www.walkersonicfx.com) , paul's "livingroom" in chicago, and "shangri-nah studios" in urbana (www.shangrinah.com) from december of 2022 to may of 2023.

sycamore sessions engineered by jason jensen
aurora sessions engineered by tim walker
chicago sessions engineered by paul kim
urbana sessions engineered by matt wenzel

the whole mess was mixed by tim with bob making things difficult at every given opportunity.

masterfully mastered by: maxwell citron
maxwellcitron.com

the band at the time of this recording:

bob aspatore: electric guitars, adequate glockenspiel, ebow, farfisa mini-compact organ, assorted loops&noises&drones
brandon welch: electric bass
nat kundanis-grow: violins
andy herald: additional percussion
tim walker: lap steel, electric guitars
paul kim: electric guitars
matt wenzel: acoustic baritone guitar, electric baritone guitars, acoustic nylon string guitar, saxophone, harmonium, organ, synth, sk1
mike taylor: electric guitar, ebow, additional bass on "aweigh" & "the evening redness in the west"
jason jensen: drums
russell emerson hall: electric guitars, drones

love/respect/thanks: angela schroeder, chris and bill welch, steve welch.

all of it in memory of brandon welch (1981-2022)

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the sound of old tube amps humming like angels, buzzing helicopter tremolo dancing with rickety strings, drifting analog delay, and antiquated brass bursts of joy.

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