Seattle Folk-Rock Band Tissue Releases
Debut LP
A PICK OF TWINS WITH MATCHING DOGS
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| Album art by Brian Standeford |
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| Photo by Kelly O |
A strange bar where
children are playing . . . a jukebox playing Raincoats, Sandy Denny, Kleenex,
Wire, Leonard Cohen, Sebadoh, This Heat, Graham Nash, Su Tissue . . . feeling sheltered,
in love, pissed off, sequestered, curious,
Tissue’s debut LP begins
with the line “I made a pulled pork sandwich of my heart” (“BBQ Heart”),
continues by evoking the death-defying dedication of the Olympic cyclist (“Gold
Medal”) and the nostalgia of checkbooks and Walden Pond (“Frogs”), and goes on
to highlight the strange, practical truths that define our lives (prepare for a
dark turn on the B side - homage to Neil Young's On the Beach?). With all the lyrical confusion but less of the
howling you recall from Stickers, Gabi Page-Fort leads the vocal efforts and
guitar stylings, with Dean Whitmore (Unnatural Helpers) on drums and harmonies.
Art rock without
pretension, folk music for the fanged and electrified, this is music to eat
sandwiches by, with a refreshing reminder of our shared mortality for dessert.
These are the first 12 songs written by Tissue, captured during a fact-finding mission at Forest Glen by true blue rock & roll maniac and producer Kurt Bloch. Revealed, it’s A Pick of Twins with Matching Dogs.
Out June 23 on Reefers Records on vinyl & cassette. Hit us at reefersrecordco@gmail.com to order. Stores please contact The Business, 216 Commercial Ave, Anacortes, WA 98221, (360) 293-9788, distribution@thebusinessanacortes.com.
Stream now, pay what you wish downloads for a limited time only:
https://tissue.bandcamp.com/album/a-pick-of-twins-with-matching-dogs