BECAUSE WE HAVE THINGS IN COMMON [LP] - Available now from Sabolek Records

BECAUSE WE HAVE THINGS IN COMMON (CD/c49)

Side A:

1. Because We Have Things In Common

2. Settle

Side B:

3. On the Way Home

4. Ghosts At My Party

Recorded 2009-2010

Available now in digital, CD and cassette formats from the Sissysocks Bandcamp via Sabolek Records 

This is very, very dour. It wasn't particularly fun to make, and it's certainly not very enjoyable to listen to. I made this when I was a 21ish year-old listening to almost exclusively anything that you could consider as any or all of "lo-fi", "ambient" and "drone". Grouper, Pocahaunted, Robin Guthrie, Inca Ore, Emeralds, William Basinski, U.S. Girls, Topaz Rags and so on (Zola Jesus would come around then too, but as an influence later on).

Ultimately I tried to as make so dour and as difficult as possible to reflect the headspace I was in at that time. It's a naïve and melodramatic person who's been taught a lesson coming to amongst the wreckage. Asking silly questions like, why do we spend our time with the people around us? What attracts us to someone? What attracts them to us? And then childishly trying to get around the answers.

All the tracks were done in essentially one take. After overthinking Bloodied (despite what it might sounds like) I wanted to make this as raw as possible, although like Bloodied I ended up feeding nearly every track through an effects box. In the end I deliberately tried to make it sound non-deliberate; to make it sound "lo-fi", at times "ambient" and perhaps even something that could be described as "drone".

I now look back at the time I initially recorded these songs with a lot of nostalgia, although I wouldn't have expected to then.

This is part two of three of the story arc that began with Bloodied.

1. Because We Have Things In Common

Is it safe to say?

Is it safe to say...

2. Settle

I swore

I just want to leave

I have no home

I swore

I have no company

3. On the Way Home

Oh, your boy

What a man!

Oh, your boy

What a man!

What a man.

Oh, your boy

What a boy!

Honestly?

What a boy!

Oh...

I can't watch

He's got a car

He's got a car

I can't watch

He's got a car

Oh...

Honestly?

What a man.

4. Ghosts At My Party

I looked around

And I swear that's what I saw

...I swore.

I swore...