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One-Sheet, Contact/Release Info, Streaming Player, mp3 and Press Photos:

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Tracklist:
Honey Say It
Out at the Wall mp3
Drag-Out Blues
Fete Du Feu
Ol Holiday
Along the Wire
Wedding Ring
Sinkhole
Necromancer
Living in the Fish Islands
Prick on the Prowl
Lemon Car
catalogue: LSE 008
upc :859700494103
wholesale:$8.25
store:$7.43
sugg, list:$11.98
release date: May 20, 2008
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Press:
daniel@forcefieldpr.com
force field pr
US distribution:
southern
radio:
apples
and cats
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Soltero
You're No Dream
LSE 008
hey guys -
good holidays...exhausting and busy and i'm glad to be back. trying to start making money again, doing some work for the author.
that show is on saturday night, don't know a lot about it - low key house show, probably starts around 8 or so. be cool to see you, though don't come expecting fireworks! probably gonna play a short set.
been meaning to give you that info for the album one-sheet. i'm gonna try that right now.
umm i guess i would want to stress that the new record is sort of a return to a smaller sound after the full-band album, and that i had moved away from the band (in boston) to philadelphia. i also moved a lot during the recording/mixing - five times in 07 - from philly to france to philly to two different towns in NC and back...and the whole time the only constant in my life was the record. it was personal music from the get-go, but i also was hoping to present it as if they weren't my songs or didn't have meaning; as pure sound (if there's such a thing). some bands i got into or listened to around the time of this record were bo diddley, dylan's blood on the tracks/new morning, ethiopiques, stevie wonder, and lots of romantic late 50s/early 60s doo wop singers.
also, philadelphia's urban environment was a big influence on some of these songs, as were the green neighborhoods of jamaica plain.
i don't know, do you have anything to mention?
take care,
tim
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Players: Tim Howard, Andrew Churchman (drums on Prick on the Prowl) Eric Hou (strings on Prick on the Prowl) and Susan Sakash (trombone on Sinkhole)
Previous Selected Press:
"When the songs come together, they incorporate humor without being cute. They use word play without seeming overly clever. They can dig into personal or emotional territory and not feel overdone. Throughout, it's all executed with a surprising level of assuredness and thoughtfulness that gives the songs an air of sturdiness that is palpable early on..."
-Pop Matters
"Meticulously crafted songs full of surprises, with glints of melancholy French horn, garbled voices swathed in white noise, and tipsy accordion filling in the spaces around his spare acoustic guitar and banjo. His lyrics explore the intricacies and entanglements of romantic relationships with an affecting candor."
-Boston Phoenix
"Tim Howard writes with wit, intelligence, and confused ambivalence. Pairing these lyrics with his low, often defeated-sounding voice and guitar played from super-slow to frenetic, the results can be quite nice, soothing even, especially during those really painful earaches...."
-Lost At Sea
"An open book of country pop and psychedelia imbued with a postmodern nonchalance, a la Pavement or Lou Reed.... Soltero reaches beyond its influences with new vision and in full color, presenting a collection of fine ballads, laments and invocations." -Owl Mag
"Howard's understated record... flutters with cerulean butterfly wings, a sudden display of brilliant design and a Nabokovian surreality."
-Junkmedia
Soltero's songwriting tact approaches that of Lee Hazelwood and Leonard Cohen with wry couplet after wry couplet that make the humor all the darker."
-Northeast Performer
"Entre le point de départ et l'arrivée, le train aura parcouru bien du chemin, faisant halte dans tous les patelins perdus rencontrés sur la route, et donnant de la sorte à chacun des musiciens ambulants l'occasion de s'exprimer à fond, jusqu'à faire exploser tout à fait la structure initialement prévue pour certains morceaux."
-PopNews.com (FR)
"The news may be bad, but the way Howard tells it often evokes a smile amid the tears. Without those few light touches, mostly lyrical in nature, Defrocked might have been too heavy for even the hardest cynics to endure. With them, Howard reminds us that a sense of humor is the best survival tool for life's myriad disappointments -- some good songs don't exactly hurt, either." ****
-All Music Guide
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Discography:
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LSE 008 La Société Expéditionnaire
Messie Murders (FR)
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Hell Train |
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TRR 009 Three Ring Records |
2005 |
The Tounges You Have Tied |
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TRR 003 Three Ring Records
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Defrocked And Kicking The Habit |
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Handsome Records |
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Science Will Figure You Out |
CD |
Self-Released |
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