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FREIGHTLINER

by Anna Altman

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    37 minute long tape of our debut album, Freightliner. Originally pressed and released through the Exploding In Sound Tape Club. Solid red tape with AA and Freightliner logo printed in white.

    Released on the Exploding in Sound Tape Club
    Artwork by Jackson Payne. (jacksonpaynework.tumblr.com)
    Music by Lucia Arias and Christian Billard
    Recorded by Christian and Lucia
    Mixed by Rafi Carleton in Port Washington, NY.

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1.
today is for the meeting/ tomorrow there will be a greeting/ what if what if nothing ever happens? you'll find out you'll find me from behind the mirror
2.
Catcher 06:31
amanaplanacanalPANAMA/ that's where i wish i was/ i want all of it/ that's who i wish i was/ i wish i had a plan/ i've got a canal but nothing's in it now/ alice/ i know/ go to sleep now/ now/ below your room there's a big trap/ anna-tomic bomb and aggression/ wow/ you'll forget it in the morning/ won't you now? i'm a feeler but i wear concealer/ i'm a healer and i'm a needer/ i wish i was a man with a plan and a canal/ because then i'd take/ i'd take you all out/ all out. alice out to sea/ can you hear me/ can you hear anything/ if no then good/ another bomb went off again/ and i am offering anything
3.
Never 04:11
what breaks you can also take it back/ try to rush ahead/ you're only moving slower/ it takes up your whole life/ think that you can try to rush it down down/ try to take off and oh/ i never told you this/ i feel so brittle/ and i'm not kidding man/ i'm not kidding/ what'll it be today/ tomorrow tomorrow/ my whole life will flash in your car ride/ seemed like i did so little/ i take up this space/ i try to make it my own/ you're telling me now i don't need a doctor/ i'm hazed and i'm in awe/ and i say/ i never told you this/ i feel so little/ and i'm not kidding man/ i'm not kidding
4.
White Horse 03:23
you've got a book to write/ but it'll never get finished/ you've got a book to write/ like a white horse with a red ribbon/ you've got a book to write but it'll never get finished/ what a shame you're gonna have to go through this alone/ and it'll never get finished/ i can't get over it/ no i can't get over/ i'm over it/ you've got a book to write/ what if i name it/ i'll give it a name like a red ribbon on a white horse/ when you finish it/ i can't get over it/ i'm over and over it/ you've got a book to write
5.
i stepped out to the front yard/ i see people in cars/ familiar people/ i know that i'm not/ i stepped into the front part of my head and in my thoughts and i thought about the people in parked cars on my lawn/ they parked in cars/ they parked on my lawn/ they pulled up and we made conversation about places we should go/ they pulled up and we made conversation about people that we know/ got in/ listened to Joni on somebody's radio/ convinced myself that these are people that i should know/ but they're not and i'm not/ and they don't so i don't/ i pissed somebody off/ they kicked me out the car before we reached our destination/ it's a long trip/ the kind of trip you don't come back too quickly from/ hallucinogens and vitamins we took to be healthy bodies/ its a long trip/ the kind of trip you don't come back too quickly from
6.
Memory 02:10
hidden places/ so many faces i've gotta remember/ it's imported/ it's important/ it's important
7.
i can't stop it/ now i can't stop it/ now i can't watch it/ now/ i can't stop it now/ now
8.
Freightliner 01:46
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M.C. PH.D 04:12
a bottle amber/ the great invention/ a hundred year old tonic for when the big one comes/ a bottle amber/ drank it straight out of a great glass beaker/ a hundred year old cure for fever/ i'm haunted by her i'm haunted by mary/ cure me/ i'm haunted by her i'm haunted by history/ i'm haunted by her i'm haunted by mary curie/ i'm haunted by this i'm haunted by history/ history

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Released on the Exploding in Sound Tape Club.
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Anna Altman 'Freightliner'

Anna Altman, the project comprised of Lucia Arias and Christian Billard, gently packs a punch with their debut LP Freightliner. The album was recorded reel to reel at Billard's house in Port Washingon, Long Island, and recalls feelings of racing alongside blurs of scenery, in a car or on a train. For this, Freightliner is adequately named. Arias' vocals, at times tinged with reverb, are sturdy and melodic. On songs like American Gothic, Arias' gentle and overflowing guitar bends around these vocals, braiding and weaving together. Steady and skillfully marching drumbeats create a constant beneath vivid scenery, like running your fingers along a wrought iron fence or watching sea foam ebbing along a shore. Anna Altman runs as cool and deep as a river, it is ghostly and repetitive, yet comforting in its patterned sounds.

Anna Altman's songs seemingly evolve and then scale back over and over again within each composition. Winding roads and complex routes cut back to skeletal beats. By the time we reach the penultimate title track, the reel to reel is wobbling as if we have lost the way. Yet, the finale holds a concluding harmony in Arias' voice, the duo overlapping and playing tag on it's final notes. Like being jostled awake from a deep sleep, Freightliner ends firmly with sparse, jarring chords. It's strange, but it all makes perfect sense.

Words by Liana Hell Lean (Blood Club / Decisions). 2017.

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released April 28, 2017

Anna Altman is:

Lucia Arias (vocals/guitar)
Christian Billard (drums)

Recorded by Christian and Lucia
Mixed by Rafi Carleton
Artwork by Jackson Payne (jacksonpaynework.tumblr.com)

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