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01. Bobby Conn - Recovery
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02. Bobby Conn - Disposable Future
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03. Bobby Conn - Good Old Days
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04. Bobby Conn - No Grownups
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05. Bobby Conn - Brother
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06. Bobby Conn - On The Nose
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07. Bobby Conn - Bijou
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08. Bobby Conn - Disaster
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09. Bobby Conn - It's A Young Man's Game
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10. Bobby Conn - Always Already
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ARTIST
CONN, BOBBY
TITLE
Recovery
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TAPETE RECORDS
CATALOG #
TR 450CD
TR 450CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/20/2020
Bobby Conn
on
Recovery
: "What's the point of recovery if we were never really healthy to begin with? I started working on this record about four years ago, thinking of the American obsession with self-help, self-care, and self-empowerment as a cruel and cheap substitute for helping each other. It's a concept that rewards those that have the money to help themselves, and blames those that don't for not trying hard enough. Then there were some elections. Now there is a narrative of 'recovering' our stronger, bolder, racially pure, cultural and economic glory days. And then some of my friends started getting sick, or dying or committed suicide . . . I was really into
10cc
,
J Dilla
,
Liaisons Dangereuses
,
Jean-Claude Vannier
,
Anna Meredith
,
Slade
,
D'Angelo
, etc. when writing this record, but I'm sure you can hear it for yourself. Musically, this is a collaboration with my partner
Monica BouBou
on violin and vocals and our super-band of drummer
Josh Johannpeter
, bassist
Jim 'Dallas' Cooper
, keyboardist and string player
Billie Howard
, guitarist
Devin Davis
, and longtime sound artist
DJ LeDeuce
. We recorded it over many months in a basement. There is a cameo by synth genius
Felix Kubin
on 'Brother'. Mixed by the brilliant
Tobias Levin
and
Hannes Plattmeier
in Hamburg, Germany. Some notes on each tune: 'Recovery' -- the never-ending journey and an addiction unto itself. 'Disposable Future' -- amazing new technology gives us unlimited choice delivered through devices we cannot control; is this what we were dreaming of? 'Good Old Days' -- nostalgia for the lies of old white men will kill us all. 'No Grownups' -- from the perspective of a teenager trapped in a world where all the adults are self-deluded, irresponsible narcissists in terrible clothes. 'Brother' -- it's easy to ignore the suffering that surrounds us everyday. 'On The Nose' -- grandpa's racism now rebranded as edgy rebellion for the internet generation. 'Bijou' -- an ode to a recently closed gay porn theatre in Chicago that was part of the struggle for sexual liberty. 'Disaster' -- our masters imagine themselves as heroes when the mob storms the gates and burns the palace to the ground. 'Young Man's Game' -- you can't play the same game forever. 'Always Already' -- a misreading of
Derrida
,
Marx
and
Foucault
turned into a nihilist anthem. With apologies to
Lionel Richie
."
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