Smoking Is Cool

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Album Info

Release Date: 2021-08-06

Label: Onomatopoeia Records

Digital release available upon preorder of Stephen EvEns - Smoking Is Cool... via contacting Onomatopoeia Records.
Track titles differ to those listed for the lathe release; track 1 loses the 'The', track 5 has 'Only' instead of 'Just' and track 6 has a comma after 'Stars' and does not pluralise 'Fire' on one of two tracklists, but does on the other. Limited tag is based on the fact that despite the fact that files can be copied easily on-for-one, legitimate copies of the digital album are only available upon (pre)ordering from a limited batch of 40.

On-site Bandcamp description:
6 tracks including 5 brand new Stephen EvEns songs recorded by Steve Albini over a long
weekend in France with Jen Macro (Guitar) & Jimi Scandal (Bass Guitar) in March 2020.
Recorded in the south of France just before lockdown we are releasing a limited run of just 40 copies.
Individually numbered one sided clear l12” records. Each record comes in a different coloured sleeve/artwork combination and is lathe cut making each piece unique. It is only available physically via Bandcamp but comes with a download of the files on request with your purchase.
The 5 new songs were written specifically for this recording session. It was asked that the band perform at least 3 songs and that should include at some point an acoustic guitar and piano recording. Stephen used this opportunity to squeeze 5 songs into the short amount of times they had with Steve’s considerable engineering skills which resulted in this mini-album. The 6th song is a homage to the band Shellac, a cover of their instrumental “Kittypants” from the album “Excellent Italian Greyhound” which was played entirely on Casio keyboards including use of the legendary VL-Tone. This was recorded separately at home and sent to Shellac for approval. Approval was granted.
This will not be made available on any streaming platform.