Better Leave Me Alone

You're driving into work and you're hungover from the cheap whiskey you promised yourself you wouldn't touch anymore. Your stomache is rumbling. The brakes on your truck are sponge-soft. You reach behind your seat in the space where you've collected empty packs of smokes, fast food wrappers, and unopened collection notices and blindly feel for something you won't find. The radio station plays a familiar song but it sounds different right now. It's beautiful, like it's being performed underwater. Out the window you see a collapsing barn and you say "I know, right?"

Initially conceived in early 2016, this release finally sees the light of day. Side 1 is a damaged cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Sugar Daddy" performed by Jake Levee (guitar, bass, vocals) and Josh Snader (drums and recording). Canadian Rifle re-recorded the song for their newest LP "Peaceful Death." Go get it somewhere and listen to it and enjoy it. This version has a much more raw vibe, both in sound quality and emotion. The Death Dedication track on this side is a collection of field recordings from a jobsite with blistering feedback and damaged electronics experimentation edited together by B. Hill at The House Where I Died. This was recorded soon after the "Watching" tape and before "Heart Gets Harder." The track on the b-side was recorded straight to tape at Property Solution in April 2019 inspired by the experimental nature of the a-side track, but with no fancy editing. Just raw static manipulation and contact mic madness that starts with a sample of Jake Levee in a raft.
C12 clear cassettes without labels, tan cardstock with blue and yellow ink stuffed into cases of a discarded folk band's sealed cassettes found in a thrift store. Limited to 18 copies. Price includes shipping in US.