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Strange Bedfellows

by Jeff Stults

A 1970’s psychedelic album meant for night drives or lounging around with headphones on. If you only listen to this on your phone you’re really missing out. A journey down the rabbit hole.

“The premise when I was working on this was using two source of inspiration (the strange bedfellows), some time travelling, classic and modern. I guess it’s my cult rock record, with the state of the world it seemed appropriate to sing the parts as heavily layered echo chamber cultists.

This project also marks the 20th anniversary of my old record, Andalusians, so this is her sister record. That record was written about mortality and my mother’s passing. My best friend< Cat Barney helped me with a large part of that record. Cat has, sadly, passed but there are a lot of half finished treasures with her singing that I keep finding. I worked with her poetry for two of the songs, Further and Into The Desert. Through samples and digital vocal re-building I worked her into quite a few songs. A literal ghost in the machine. I miss her terribly so it’s nice to hear her wander the songs, even if it is just an imaginary version.

A lot of the record really pushed me to my limits, vocally (sometimes unsuccessfully), musically, emotionally, even with my graphics. I wanted something experimental and out of my wheelhouse, I think most of my stuff is already fairly weird and psychedelic so this was a natural progression. Each song is sort of its’ own movie, a bit of a scavenger hunt (if you can figure out the dual inspirations, let me know).

The way the world is going I can’t fully write something to tune help us it out, but hopefully this provides a little technicolor vacation. As always thanks for listening.”

-Jeff