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Gifts 02:21
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Anchorless 01:58
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so anyways, this thing.

I've been on a Propagandhi/Weakerthans kick these last several months, and John K. Samson is one of the great songwriters of the last 25 years, and I wanted to play some of his songs. But I ain't much of a guitarist, and these days, only a marginally better bassist. But hey! Chumbawamba put out a whole record of just acapella songs, and Ralph Stanley sang "O Death" without any accompaniment and that was probably the best song on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, so what the hell is stopping me? Well, equipment and time, I guess. But hey! I got a phone that's probably more powerful than the last computer I owned, and hell, HR sang "Sacred Love" over the phone from jail, and Mike Watt sang "Bermuda" over the phone, and even the crappiest little cell phone mic these days is gonna sound better than something being recorded over '80s copper wire, right?

Well, maybe, maybe not. But if there's one thing I learned from being a weirdo obsessed with punk rock for the last twenty-five years, at some point ya just gotta get out and do it. So here it is. Two covers of John K. Samson songs, both off Propagandhi's second album, Less Talk More Rock. Nothing but voice and hums and knee-slaps to keep time. (Maybe I shoulda done a little hambone routine.) Recorded in my car in a manner that I would refer to as "aggressively lo-fi". These are the first takes where I made it through the whole thing clean, without coughing, or burping, and where I thought it sounded okay listening to it afterwards. The kind of sloppiness that you can't fake. Maybe it's the prarie, or the introspection, but I've always felt like John's songs have felt a little country (the country version of "Futon-Revolutionist" agrees with me) so I putta li'l twang onnit.

So here it is. An unwrapped (unaccompanied, unmastered) gift from me to you.

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released November 9, 2020

Lang Huck - vox, hums, knee slaps

All songs written by Lang Huck, except "Anchorless" and "Gifts" written by John K. Samson.

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Double Hell Death Match Hillsboro, Missouri

lo-fi basement anxiety

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