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Mars

by Soul Psych

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    -180 gram, heavyweight vinyl

    -Three color splatter

    -Full Color Jacket and Labels

    -Poly Lined Inner Sleeve to prevent scratching

    -33rpm

    -Made in Canada

    -Limited to 200

    This is the first 12" vinyl pressing for Soul Psych and Soul Psych Records. It has been a long-time coming, so we went all out on this pressing.

    We actually put it up to a poll on Instagram on which album should be our first to press, and Mars won out, despite being such a new entry in our catalog.

    This pressing has a different track list from streaming, so we could work around vinyl's restrictions on run-time.

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1.
Marmalade 03:17
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2.
Untitled 03:11
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3.
Something Even Newer (Brass Clouds Remix) 04:12
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4.
Dissatisfaction 02:22
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5.
Do Your Thing 03:28
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6.
Hiccups (Garden of Earthly Delights Remix) 03:38
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7.
Gary's Song 02:40
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8.
Virtual World 03:04
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9.
Bolero 03:57
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10.
Work 02:49
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11.
Hiccups (Brass Clouds Remix) 03:41
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12.
We're Talkin' 'Bout Shaq 04:41
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13.
It's A Magical Place 03:33
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about

Quite possibly our most ambitious creative endeavor thus far... Mars captures a lot of the spirit of our early albums, but incorporates enough new styles to have it's own identity.

Experimenting with several new drum machines and production methods gives many of the tracks here a more electronic, almost dancey kind of a feel. Though, we still included songs that have a production style that's comparable to our first three albums to give a variety of sounds.

Hip-Hop was quite a big influence on several songs, as was 90's Madchester rave music. Listening to Gary Wilson's music also unlocked a lot of fresh creative pathways for us.

Lyrically, the album is kind of all over the place.

The track 'Bolero' has quite bleak lyrics of a man being left on a beach for dead. Compared to a track like 'Do Your Thing' that captures the "go with the flow" hippie mentality in such a satirical manner that it comes across as serious. 'Marmalade' tells the age old story of lust, whereas 'It's A Magical Place' describes a magical swamp that is paradise for all its inhabitants.

There are several instrumentals on this album and remixes by Brass Clouds and Garden of Earthly Delights. We let them both get as creative as possible and they both did phenomenal work.

This album is greatly inspired by: Gary Wilson, The Cure, New Order, 90's hip-hop, my bloody valentine, Ariel Pink and The Gorillaz.

credits

released June 3, 2023

Phoenix Alexander - Vocals, guitar, bass, drum machine programming, midi programming, synthesizer, drums, production, album art

Andrew Yeghiazarian - Bass, production, synthesizer, drum machine programming, midi programming, guitar

Dustin Dybvig (Brass Clouds) - Remixes (tracks 3 & 11)

Jack Walters of Passive Income - Bass on track 12 and assistant production on tracks 7 & 12

Thomas Hooper - Drums on Track 10

Jeff Repman - Originally tracked drums on the tracks Hiccup and Something New, which have been remixed here

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Songwriting and lyrics by Phoenix Alexander.

Tracked, Mixed and Mastered at La Bija Factory of Sound Recording by Andrew Yeghiazarian in Portland, OR.

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