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TRACK LISTING: SIDE A SIDE B 1. Belong to You 6. Separation Frig­ht 2. Mercy 7. Small Talk 3. Masters of the Deal 8. Carolina 4. Modern Drugs 9. The Old Temptation 5. Dreaming

MRG 548 On the heels of a celebrated reunion and the long­-awaited vinyl reissue of the first two Crooked Fing­ers albums, Eric Bachmann returns with a self-titled album that Eric Bachmann looks ahead to his future. “To me, the ’90s were for the Archers... The 2000s were for Crooked Fing­ers,” says Bachmann. “I feel like now—in 2015, 2016—it’s time to metamorphose. When you do this for a long­ time, you feel a strong pull to reinvent things from time to time, or at least to reconfig­ure them. There is resistance, of course, from many places to remain the same. But after a while the dam breaks and the compulsion to change becomes overwhelming. LP You just have to do it or you sort of feel like you’re not being true to yourself.”

Inspired to write an album on the piano by friend Todd Fink from The Faint, Eric consciously bid farewell to the “perso- nas” of his past. Eric Bachmann builds around the one truth Eric CD has found in his years of travel: “Places do not offer a sense of home for me. People do.” Gospellike vocal arrang­ements, 25 March 2016 pedal steel, and a song­ he “stole” from his wife Liz Durrett all combine to make this the most assured and personal album of vinyl is non-returnable Bachmann’s career.

Box Lot: CD 30 / LP 25 UPC: CD UPC is 673855054827 LP UPC is 673855054810 Format: CD is digipak with booklet KEY: LP is jacket + full album download coupon • LP includes full album download File Under: Alternative • RIYL Archers of Loaf, , Export: World excluding North America