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For Immediate
Release
February 19th, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO'S TERESE TAYLOR'S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM,
THE CRYINGNESS OF YOUR CRYING WHEN YOU CRY
AVAILABLE
ON CDBABY.COM
San Francisco-based Terese Taylor is a floating rib of sorts - her idiosyncratic
style and sound isn't attached to the flimflam sternum of the music industry.
On her second record, The Cryingness of Your Crying When You Cry (Bombsniffing
Dog Records), she loosens her oyster clutch to share seven darkly-lacquered,
private grains of post-punk-alternative-folk-rock. While her sophomore
effort lives in the same world as her 1999 release, The Clothes We Wore
Before We Were Married, it exudes more of an intimate glimpse into the
black heaviness that Taylor and drummer
Rob Johnson are known for.
The Cryingness
was recorded in two five-hour sessions by student engineers in San Francisco,
mixed by Matt Boudreau (mattboudreau.com) and mastered by Michael Romanowski
(paulstubblebine.com). The sessions were named Impounded because Charlie,
the horn player got arrested on the way to the studio, and Moustache because
everyone wore stick-ons to keep themselves playfully entertained.
Johnson, who says he's from Massatucky (Colrain, MA) is musically fueled
by his pleasant memories of his father shooting things with BB guns, and
the unsinkable influence of his Harley For Jesus kind of mother.
Hailing from Buffalo, NY, where Genessee Cream Ale flows from every spigot,
Taylor's melancholic stories of doom, gloom, old familiar rage and hope
were come by honestly. She's a back-porch storyteller that cleverly leaves
colossal gaps open to interpretation - as in one of her most lyrically
jarring and talked about songs, "Goats for Daddy":
"Billy mountain goat/Red ribbon 'round his neck/A present for my
dad/I carry him on my back/I follow it the best/Because I'm the best he's
ever had."
The album is a lyrically potent mesh of anomalous feedback molded with
thick, syncopated drumbeats, which are particularly evident in "Reluctantly",
and "Your Hand" - a song Taylor wrote about a stalker who lived
below her in New Mexico, but it somehow was twisted into the closest she
says she's ever gotten to a love song. Her broad vocal range is eerily
addictive and adaptive as she effortlessly switches gears from low and
perfectly offbeat in "Sweet" to complete falsetto in one of
the records best, "Ghost", which oozes a mood comparable to
sitting in a dingy restaurant with roof funk dripping down onto a breakfast
you didn't want in the first place.
With the exception of "Candy" (a self-proclaimed "fuck
you to radio ready pop nuggets"), all the songs are seemingly the
resultant strain and chafing of the wax plug that safeguards the contents
of a brilliant paper skull.
ACCOLADES:
-FolkAllianceFestival 1999, NPR interview, Albq, NM
(attended with Cookie Marenco (otrstudios.com), seven-time grammy nominee
and engineer of Taylor's first album.)
-Talent for Liquid Audio at NAMM, NARM & AFIM music
conferences (Toronto,CAN, New Orleans,LA and Atlanta,GA)
-Shut Eye Records, BuzzCuts compilation, trk #4/Goats for Daddy,
August 2003
-SXSW compilation, 2004/ghost
-Performances at Fillmore West with Elliott Smith, Club
Cocodrie with Rocky Votolato, Slim's, Cafe DuNord, full venue list available
on request
*Radio play
KMXT (Kodiak, AK), KRUX (New Mexico State University), KZMU (Moab, UT--approx.
5 spins/week), KUNI, WVUA, WUOG (University of GA), KBUT (Crested Butte,
CO), KUCR, WFWM (Crossburg, MD), WVOS (Fairfield, CT), WZLY(Wellesley,
MA), WBER, WHRW (Binghamton, NY), KGNU, WRSU, WOUB, KSCB (University of
California), KZSU(Stanford Univ), WERW (Syracuse, NY), WBKE(North Manchester),
RadioFedra(Serbia/Montenegro), KUSF,
KALX, WRFL(Lexington,KY), KWMR(Pacifica,CA), KAWC(Yuma, AZ), KNON(Dallas,
TX), KRSC(OK), KRVS(New Orleans,LA), KRZA(CO), KUFM(MT), KUMD(MN), WGAZ(WI),
WMPG(ME), WNJC(NJ)
Internet radio stations:
www.live365.com/stations/compgeekgirl?play , www.radiocrystalblue.com,
www.live365.com/stations/laststoprecords
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