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teeter

by it foot, it ears

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1.
humor me 01:20
what’s the key to comedy - timing* humor me, humor me almighty comedy - what? what’s so funny? please act very concerned about this for me did you expect eye contact, did you expect eye contact? really? ef off asap head down politely, please there’s still wreckage - timing there’s still wreckage did you expect eye contact, did you expect eye contact? srsly? *based on a joke told by Jesse Quebbeman-Turley (that was a good one, Jesse!).
2.
jump rope 02:00
teeter dead skip kaput kick can bucket passed away grave play grave fossil jump rope everyone gets done for play grave play comfy mud skip dead meat* *this is what it’s like to grow up in Price, UT and have your playground right across the street from the cemetery.
3.
it rag 01:49
done up in camouflage heave-ho go away chamomile amo barrage, sip, blow-away unsportsmanlike life go play anyway it’s almost life like whole hearted hip-hooray sportsman life like hip camo almost wholehearted *based on a solo drumset piece written for Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, or the other way around, i can’t remember. Also for Jelly Roll Morton.
4.
shake on it 01:47
i want to see your eyelashes stop showing me your ashes take a breath take a breath boy, let’s shake on it swear up and down and cross out your heart *sometimes your friends die.
5.
racket 01:01
Rah Rah Rah... you rascal Hah Hah Hah... on the nose categorically stunning, I beg you proceed Bravo flat out remarkably wonderful, i approve, please continue *want to join IT FOOT BOOK CLUB? We all read the same books, but usually not at the same time (by "all", i mean Foster and i). This one came out of reading Invitation to a Beheading (we did read this one at the same time). Blowhards all over the place.
6.
picnic 02:23
a picnic a funeral and someone named Pearl lived and lived a western without sidearms and rattling pockets had earthworm stories to tell the wind picked up a paper cup and she looked up and said “i feel a little decapitated” i smiled a little *this is an old song, this is how we play it these days.
7.
I so ‘m so, I hm’m, so I ‘m so I, hmm ‘m I so ‘m, so I hm‘m so I, I so, I hm'm I, so 'm so, I hm‘m so I, hmm I told me so, I hm’m, so I ‘m so I, hmm ‘m I should’ve, what I mean by that? I should’ve I hm‘m, why? what should’ve? myself told me I, hmm *another IT FOOT BOOK CLUB song, this one after Molloy, which sent me into many other readings on Beckett, self talk, and schizophrenia. All that reading and this is what came out of it.
8.
lost an ear 01:46
we left behind poor uncle Leo and his piano they’re both buried out on the prairie everyday, everyday’s pioneer day it’s a long row to hoe gather round the fire and get up close nope they don’t float but they feel the spirit so let’s hear it it’s a long, it’s a long straggling stampede rations they had to eat their saddlebags say a prayer for another grave under the fire pit stampede rations lost an ear near Laramie straggling *plain old Utah pioneer song here.
9.
short wave 01:42
i could hear dead air when i tuned in tonight *Foster is wiggling the BFO knob on a Sangean ATS 818 short wave radio, and occasionally tuning into a radio station. This song used to talk about hearing mustaches, sorry if you liked that part.

credits

released September 30, 2017

Jason Rabb: voice, guitar
Nick Foster: percussion, voice

recorded at the Paul Reynolds house (Historic Wayman House, Centerville, UT) between July 6th and 16th of 2017
engineered and triple-mono-mixed by Michael Fuchs
mastered by Nick Foster
album artwork and design by Christopher Lynn

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it foot, it ears Salt Lake City, Utah

"it foot, it ears prove their unmatched accomplishments in technical ability, compositional intricacy and, above all, personality and wit." —SLUG Magazine

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