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trembling

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exit 01:03
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when the sun comes back from sleep, it's time to say sorry--without explaining--and pay your dues to those that made you. it can be a figurative making, or maybe your neighbor in the morning it can be no one. o, that bad dream again I sleep heavy--you bet when the sun comes back from sleep, you read an email from your cousin recalling dated family drama about being gay (and oxford commas) now, you're starting to feel nauseous, like there's a cavity in your conscience, like you've lost your fighting spirit; all your ideas are incoherent the only thing getting resurrected is the notion you need correction that you're not really transgender i guess it's april fools this easter o, that bad dream again I sleep heavy--you bet you should go out and get some ice cream to mark the beginning of your treatment
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the only thing you pray to is in a number so don't try to chide me or ever speak to me of hunger but i can program a drum and grow out my thumb and if i do a good job, i can make a couple people hum and that's worth some but the sun is warm to day and I'm glad to be alive, i think it's fine the sun is warm to day and I'm glad to be alive, most of the time did I wash my hands when I first came in? can I pet my cat? I wanna go swimming. And watch the water wave at me like an old friend--the best kind of company am I distant enough to feel so uncrushed that I might take a walk and hope I see no one? does that make me someone? but I'm not in love today and I'm glad to be alive, I think it's fine I'm not in love today and I'm glad to be alive, most of the time most of
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a mouse 03:13
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$200 04:03
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lullaby88 00:54
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a glove 03:25
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100 winters 01:10
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about

"Philadelphia's ther is a project united around the observations and explorations of Heather Jones (they/she). Alongside Heather’s work as a freelance audio engineer, ther has often served as a capsule of unnerving anxieties fluttering around, set to music.

trembling, their debut full-length album, allows songs as old as ther itself to be revisited. “I had different plans for these songs before the pandemic,” they begin, noting that this new separation from collaborators made for a largely solo venture. “Because I didn’t have a band to work with, I had to flip these songs on their heads and revamp what I was going to do with them.”

stops on this wild ride include “resurrection sundae,” cataloging several ways to splinter and be put back together through a series of waking nightmares, and “$200,” a stunning and spare exhale that manipulates vocals to choral extremes in the face of police corruption. tenderness flows from these snapshots of unrest lest they explode, as the cacophony on “a glove” splits open a song built by tentative guitar threads.

Heather summarizes this record as midway between the world-weariness they’ve always felt, and the helplessness of watching the world be dismantled from a screen: “We’re reaching a breaking point: from an ecological perspective, from a socioeconomic perspective: we’re already in crisis. The pandemic has made it feel different because we’ve been forced to sit and do nothing but watch… that’s an apocalypse.”

If we're already at an end, trembling marks a new beginning: one where the planet and people interact with failing systems, recognize sinister natures hiding in plain sight, and one where we understand how to stare down evil forces with realism and tenacity. "

words by James Cassar

credits

released February 18, 2022

all music and words written and performed by Heather Jones except:

supporting vocals by Veronica Magner
additional guitar on "a glove" played and recorded by Jon Cox
"i dream a highway" performed by Geneveev DeGroot, Jon Cox, Veronica Magner, and Amelia Swain

and:

“I Dream A Highway" written By Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, published by Say Uncle Music (BMI) and Cracklin’ Music (BMI)

recorded in various places & mixed by Heather at So Big Auditory in Philadelphia | sobig.studio

mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
"bookstore" (bonus track) mastered by Heather at So Big Auditory with assistance from Jared Taylor

art by pauli mia | cargocollective.com/paulinka

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