Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 2021-10-04Label: Influenza Records
All songs written and performed by Social Square, which is Patrick Haour (vocals, guitars, computer) and Faez Politzer (real drum kit, electronic drum kit, percussions, theremin, backing vocals).Additional backing vocals on Fairness in the System by Ben Auriel & Arnaud Clergue.
We don’t use a bass; low end is provided by a pitched down guitar played through a bass amp. The only real bass was played by Patrick on Shortcuts. Faez used an iron beam for percussion on The Scary Part. He also made field recordings during a storm in Creil, France, which we used at the end of Fairness Reprise (all sounds 100% real).
All other sounds (voice samples, synthesizers and other sounds) cooked up by us on our laptop.
The people whose voices can be heard throughout the album are:
• Laura Balance from Superchunk on Keeping Track of Numbers, speaking at a “Featured Session” conference at SXSW 2018.
• Jacques Derrida on My Reflection, speaking at the Toronto “Other Testaments” conference in 2002.
• Two financial traders on The Scary Part speaking on the BBC and at City University London respectively, in the early 2010s.
• Julia Kristeva on The Way I See It, interviewed on Radio Canada in 1987.
• A TV anchor from YTN Korean in 2020 on I Thought It Would Matter.
• Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault on Fairness Reprise, interviewed in 1995 and 1981 respectively.
Tracks 2, 6, 12 recorded and mixed in June 2019 by Ben Auriel & Arnaud Clergue at Bellagio Studios, Boulogne Billancourt, France.
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 recorded and mixed throughout 2020 and early 2021 by Guillaume Sandret at Le Ventre de la Baleine, Pantin, France.
Tracks 3, 8, 11, 13 recorded and mixed in June & July 2021 by Pablo Saguez at Le Ventre de la Baleine, Pantin, France.
Mastered in September 2021 by Mat Leffler-Schulman at Mobtown Studios, Baltimore, MD, USA.