Artist statement:

Much of what I try to do when building these things is to turn the obvious obscure or to obscure the obvious, to take something trashy and make it seem sophisticated, or some variation on these themes. Many times I get reactions that are very different from what I feel when I’m writing the pieces. When I sent Dennis Tyfus my Lipstick 7” for Ultra Eczema, a piece I had convinced myself was so elegant, he wrote back:

“The single sounds great! Crude!”

I read something recently that called my High Hopes LP - which I felt was very mournful - “bratty.” A lot of people referred to the use of guitar on that record. I assure you there is none. When these things happen I feel as though I’ve done my job.

When I made this track I had been thinking about shame and compromise for weeks. I don’t feel that shame is at all inherent in compromise, but I do feel that there is a particular kind of shame associated with certain compromises. I built this track as an attempt to present that feeling without tying it to any specific instance. Like most of my music, it was made in the afternoon and includes a bad pun.

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