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soil

About the album Details serpentwithfeet is an avant-garde vocalist and performance CATALOG NUMBER: SC366 artist whose growing body of work is rooted in dueling obsessions RELEASE DATE: June 8, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Digital with the ephemeral and the everlasting – key components of his CD BOX LOT: 30 artistic journey from a childhood stint as a choirboy in Baltimore COLORED LP BOX LOT: 50 through his time at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, GENRE: Experimental / R&B where he studied vocal performance before relocating to New KEY MARKETS: New York, , Baltimore, York City. His forthcoming debut full-length album soil is a return SF-SJ-Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Exclusive To Hostess In Japan to the sensibilities and wide-eyed curiosity of his musical youth

before symmetry and sterile soundscapes ruled the roost. With VINYL NOT RETURNABLE the release of soil the chameleonic serpentwithfeet (born Josiah Wise) rediscovers and ultimately returns to the unhinged version of himself he was sure he had outgrown.

With this album I gave myself permission to let the leaves grow, let the flowers bloom, let myself be hairy and let my sound be CD UPC: COLORED LP UPC: DIGITAL UPC: hairy. I’m excited about the way things naturally come out of my 656605036625 656605036632 656605036663 body. I am always going to embrace discipline and streamlining. But I’m in a space at the moment where I don’t need or desire the corset. It’s time for expansiveness.”

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Selling Points Tracks • Co-produced by serpentwithfeet and mmph, Katie Gately, SIDE A: SIDE B: (A$AP Rocky, FKA Twigs, The Weeknd) and Paul Epworth (, Bruno Mars) 1. whisper 6. cherubim 2. messy 7. seedless • serpentwithfeet will be on the cover of FADER pre-release, 3. wrong tree 8. invoice spring ‘18 4. fragrant 9. waft • Yellow opaque vinyl exclusive to indie retail and mail-order 5. mourning song 10. slow syrup • Touring history includes sold-out nationwide runs with Perfume 11. bless ur heart Genius, Grizzly Bear

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