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Embrace the Hiss

by The Stormalongs

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    This album is a compilation of the five-part Embrace the Hiss EP series, originally released throughout 2017. Included in the download is the original artwork that accompanied each EP, all produced by the amazing Scott Farris (https://twitter.com/DynamiteScott). Feel free to use the cover you like best or split up the album into the original EPs.

    Tracks 1-4 appeared on Embrace the Hiss EPI (released April 1, 2017)
    Tracks 5-8 appeared on Embrace the Hiss EPII (released May 14, 2017)
    Tracks 9-12 appeared on Embrace the Hiss EPIII (released July 8, 2017)
    Tracks 13-16 appeared on Embrace the Hiss EPVI (released September 6, 2017)
    Tracks 17-20 appeared on Embrace the Hiss EPV (released October 27, 2017)     ... more
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Embrace the Hiss, River North Sessions, Scherzophrenic, The Stormalongs, ...they call me Destruction, Raise Up Your Head, and Fell Like Bricks. , and , .

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1.
Time to Run 03:25
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2.
Selfish Man 06:23
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3.
I Want You in My Wifi Soup 01:33
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4.
Holy Man 03:20
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I'm not a guru, I'm a holy man Eating my wifi soup Minding my peas and queues While you're out eating your grenes and blooze Capitalists laugh at this When they're in their sin eating scapegoat scenes You pawned your soul and you're bored with your job Can't to be off and be a slob No you're not your real self No you're not your real self No you're not your real self You lost yourself back there somewhere, sometime so long ago Stretching from fear to fear You got to shake the blood right out You still believe in the great man Whether he fucks the world and escapes to the moon Capitalists laugh at this When they're in their sin eating scapegoat scenes You pawned your soul and you're bored with your job Can't to be off and be a slob No you're not your real self No you're not your real self No you're not your real self You lost yourself back there somewhere, sometime so long ago
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Battleground 04:33
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Mouth Full of Spit 04:45
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Pythagoras Blues 03:12
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8.
An Ocean Once 03:32
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9.
Young One 02:57
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10.
The Light of All We See 04:21
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11.
To My Way 03:20
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12.
Waiting for Thunder 03:22
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13.
Come to Me 02:35
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14.
Go Not Without Me 04:51
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15.
Song for Who 03:16
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16.
Staring at the Snow 03:19
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17.
Black Hole 03:38
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18.
Holy Wreck 05:00
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19.
Stop Shaking 04:00
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20.
River Flowin High 04:37
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about

Embrace the Hiss
Accept that which is flawed as perfect
Forgive Adam, forgive Eve
Forgive God
But most of all forgive the Snake
Born cold blooded
A cruel mistake
Forced to seek heat
An s-shaped missile
But he has coiled himself around the human soul
Like tape around a spool
A magnetic force
Forked-tongue whispering secret songs
Music of discovery and tragedy
One cannot resist
Embrace the Hiss

Embrace the Hiss is an art project, an experiment in anachronisms, and a selective narrowing of freedom through self-imposed technological restrictions. Eschewing perfectionism in favour of honesty and purity of spirit, we decided to document these songs in the rawest possible form, often after only a few practice takes. Listen closely and you will hear mistakes. To us, this is exciting; a musical tight wire act. A sound wave limbo between +/- 1.0.

You will hear the static of our rehearsal room, you will hear drums rattling and amps buzzing. You will hear singing that is blighted with emotional human imperfections, a cardinal sin in the technocratic world which we now inhabit. We wanted to make something that would be antithetical to the modern methods of record-making, something nasty and flawed that crawls up your leg, around your face and into your brain like a benign, but undoubtedly parasitic, organism. Like when you first heard a scratchy old 78, and you could barely discern the emanations as music, so foreign was it to your lazy modern ears. But slowly it works its way to your core and sets up a nest in your consciousness. Snakes are reactive, but they know when to strike.

And there's no brickwalling here. Don't get us wrong, just because we're not fighting in the loudness war doesn't mean we don't want you to listen to these songs loudly. Crank it up and enjoy the dynamic range. That's what we like to do.

Embrace the Hiss was recorded without Dolby noise reduction to cassette via a Fostex 4-track and then transferred digitally via a Focusrite interface and mixed into mono through the open source program Audacity. It may not be the simplest or cleanest way to record, but it was possibly the cheapest— with the richest results. Consider the Embrace the Hiss EPs as a series of Stormalongs mixtapes, live memos from inside our band, a glimpse at our fruitful but erratic process.

We could never have afforded to record all this stuff in a traditional studio, even with the efficiency and parsimony we’ve developed with our productions. And the truth is, very few people want to hear this much music from a largely unknown band these days. But that’s okay, and it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make big statements. If you’re down, then hop on the serpent and ride—you can hop on and off any time you want to. Follow the spiral, dance on the edge of the volcano, and embrace the hiss.

credits

released March 15, 2018

Colin James Gibson: guitar, vocals
Matthew Tyler Thompson: bass, vocals
Rev. Nick Gaiser: drums

Recorded at the B Space, Toronto, May-August 2016
Engineered and produced by The Stormalongs
Mixed by Matthew Tyler Thompson
Mastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel, January 2018
Cover design by Scott Farris, twitter.com/dynamitescott

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