State Laughter

New tape on State Laughter (HAHA-11) from Matt Lambert aka Night Cleaner. Matt's been playing in his band All The Saints (last band to have a new release on Touch and Go) for over a decade...close to 2 decades. Night Cleaner exists on tape for a reason, its driving music. Music for the urban explorer that doesn't leave the throne mounted to his steering wheel. Except maybe to sit on the hood and brown bag a beer. This third tape of his is a little less dense sonically, giving the dubby inflections more room to echo. While much of this is the soundtrack to our drive around Atlanta, occasionally in-between radio station, and tae warble we land on pop gem hidden in the radio frequencies. Even including a Lindsey Buckingham cover (A2). As quickly as they pop up they revert back to motor hum stretched out just like the DJ Screw mixes that often provide matt navigation on his journeys. New realms for us as a label, but when you hack the carcass apart you see that the guts are the same. The whip is just candy painted as opposed to moving down hill on 3 wheels.

2 versions of this are available. One comes with the normal cover i designed printed on cardstock. The other is printed on an array of scavenged maps, advertisments, found paper, mostly that i rescued from Atlanta's abandoned Public Works building years ago. Maps that date back 70-80 years. Some grided with Atlanta's city streets, some blueprints for CSX and Norfolk Southern railways winding their way across the city. These are things I've cherished and lugged around with me for years. A few were decrepit to the point that i didn't feel bad cutting them up to print on. These are all one of a kind and when they are gone they are gone. Not sure how many i will do like this. While driving thru the city alone is one of Matt's pastimes, it felt appropriate for me to reflect that in the art. A cosmic gesture on one side, and a relic of the city to ground us on the other. Some of these streets may not even exist on the maps, and some may not exist anymore. Think of this as a soundtrack connecting these worlds. Thanks Matt.