Potholes

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Album Info

Release Date: 2024-04-12

Label: Strolling Bones Records

all Me Spinster is one part kaleidoscopic indie rock, one part porchy holler pop — and every bit a family operation. The brainchild of three sisters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Call Me Spinster skims nostalgia from psychedelic folk to 90’s synth-pop, weaving frank vocals with ethereal harmonies to make sense of their constantly growing world.

During the writing of their upcoming freshman album, Potholes, Call Me Spinster was a lifeline to the world outside, and a mirror of the lives inside. Throughout the album, the sisters reckon with past relationships, the very early phases of marriage and motherhood. According to Amelia, a major theme throughout “is stumbling into the new, all-consuming identity of a domestic person. So much tiredness, so many endless piles of mundane tasks and minutiae. Time will stand still, then, suddenly, erupt into technicolored joy."

Potholes is set for release on April 12, 2024 via Strolling Bones Records.
credits
released April 12, 2024

Amelia Graber Jacobs: vocals, synths; accordion on “White Lines,” piano on “Potholes,” Rhodes and glockenspiel on “Married in my Mind,” acoustic guitar on “Mule”

Rachel Graber Fortin: vocals, percussion, banjo on “Mule”

Rosalie Graber: vocals, upright and electric bass, flute and whistles on “No Yield Sign”

Luis Alfredo Fortin: guitars

John Hooker: drums, drum programming, percussion, synth bass on “Feet are Dirty,” additional guitars on “Married in My Mind,” “Constantly Dying,” “Born in a Ditch” and “White Lines”

JoJo Glidewell: synths on “Feet,” “I Went Down,” “Constantly Dying,” “No Yield Sign;” piano on “Feet Are Dirty,” “I Went Down,” “No Yield Sign,” “Burn the Boxes” and “Potholes;” wurlitzer on “Constantly Dying,” “Standby,” “Born in a Ditch;” organ on “Married in My Mind,” Standby”

Matt ‘Pistol’ Stoessel: pedal steel on “White Lines” and “Mule”

Wave Magnetik: trumpet on “Born in a Ditch” and “Burn the Boxes”

Chorus vocals on “Burn the Boxes” by Eli Miller, Kenneth Newton Jr., James Thomas, Benjamin Dalby, Luis Alfredo Fortin

Produced by CALL ME SPINSTER and DREW VANDENBERG

Recorded by DREW VANDENBERG, CHASE PARK TRANSDUCTION in ATHENS, GA
Additional engineering by CALL ME SPINSTER and JOHN HOOKER at CMS home studio in CHATTANOOGA, TN, JOJO GLIDWELL and MATT ‘PISTOL’ STOESSEL in ATHENS, GA, and WAVE MAGNETIK in CLEVELAND, OH

Mastered by JOE LAMBERT at JOE LAMBERT MASTERING in JERSEY CITY, NJ

Note to designer: all other info same as CD, except please add:
Vinyl Cut by Clint Holley

Artwork by Jackson Tupper

Photography by DH Jacobs, William Johnson

Layout by Jackson Tupper