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1.	HERCULO MONTANA 05:37	buy track
2.	LIMP GOD (INTERCEDE) 01:39	buy track
3.	TAPE DOCTOR 04:00	buy track
4.	BURNER ETHICS 02:40	buy track
5.	TRY LUVV 02:38	buy track
6.	MAURICE RAVEL 02:20	buy track
7.	SAD SONGS 04:47	buy track
8.	EYES LIKE TEST TUBES 02:28	buy track
9.	LIMINAL PROCESSION 03:18	buy track

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TAPE DOCTOR. 30 minutes of hypnagogic pop and hard disco. began as "no singing" sound collages & experiments i'd been recording casually in my bedroom on an old 2-track TEAC 1230 reel-to-reel that an old friend rescued out of a firepit in gainesville, ga. washing machines mixed with dirtbikes, drum patterns mixed with spoken word.

there were a series of performances across 2017 year where i brought that 2-track reel of tape to shows and played along with the collages, or over them, often manipulating the speed/motion of the tape reel manually as a DJ would with vinyl. soon realized the same reel of 1/4" inch tape also fit on my 8-track Tascam 388 recorder. before too long, the material swelled past the initial experiments & demonstrations got layered into full songs using the 6 additional tracks alotted by the 388.

there's a lot of deterioration conveyed in the music - decay & loss, reckoning & redemption. i had just stopped a whirlwind period of touring the very first mothers record and had starting living in an isolated spot by a pond in rural winterville, ga to try and recuperate & sort out the future! compatriot Jake Flowers called it Ugly Pop which i think is on point.

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released October 31, 2017

Bass guitar on "Sad Songs" by Ryan Taylor.
Vocal samples on "Burner Ethics" by (great) Uncle Kyle & Taber Lathrop.
Recorded oct '16 - aug '17 at Small Recordings in Winterville, Ga.
Mastered by Jesse Mangum at The Glow in Athens, Ga.
Special thanks to Stephen Cope and Logan Shirah.
Artwork & collage by me. Building pictured was Rock College, a building that was part of the Normal College that once anchored the normaltown neighborhood in athens.

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CIVILS produces fully versatile <catch-and-release songcraft> & subconscious renderings.
dangerous pop & bargain bops!
CIVILS aims to have as many tapes as lil b. music and art by Drew Kirby (CDSM, Sunset Honor Unit)

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