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Auto-pain

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Cat No: LPFTK189X2

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Format Details: Deluxe / EX - Indie Exclusive - Red & Black Galaxy Swirl

Release Date:  27 March 2020

Label:  Fire Talk Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457001749

Genres:  Rock  Pop  

Release Date:  27 March 2020

Label:  Fire Talk Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457001725

Genres:  Rock  Pop  

Release Date:  24 September 2021

Label:  Fire Talk Records

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  634457061156

Genres:  Rock  Pop  

  • Description

    What do you do when pain blots out joy? How do you learn to take care of yourself? What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm? 'Auto-Pain' is the Sophomore album from Deeper, a record that finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would've blocked out the sun.

    While it's still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn't as insular as its predecessor; it's less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he'd heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack.

    The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy. Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World', Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago capturing the band's rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti's Pakistani heritage. The record was recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly).

    Description

    What do you do when pain blots out joy? How do you learn to take care of yourself? What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm? 'Auto-Pain' is the Sophomore album from Deeper, a record that finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would've blocked out the sun.

    The group ' singer and guitarist Nic Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti ' were all graduates of Chicago's rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire, Devo, Gang of Four, and Television. While the new record is still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn't as insular as its predecessor; it's less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he'd heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack.

    The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy. Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World', Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago capturing the band's rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti's Pakistani heritage. The record was recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly).

    Description

    Deeper's Auto Pain: Deluxe Edition reframes the liminal spaces of the Chicago quartet's searingly-nuanced sophomore effort about grief and resilience into a densely-layered perspective of emotional maximalism fearless in its vulnerability.

    The deluxe edition includes remixes from fellow ascending artists Working Men's Club, PVA, Fire-Toolz, NNAMDI and more as well as two stripped-back demos and live versions from the band's performance at the Chicago Cultural Center in March 2021. While the original version delivered a masterclass in razor-sharp post punk, the expanded record gives a glimpse into a lens of a year full of adversity and the growth and perspective that draws these songs together to pack a powerful, personal punch. Auto Pain: Deluxe Edition is out September 3rd on Fire Talk.

    New artwork with raised spot gloss gatefold jacket, pressed on Red/Black Galaxy Swirl Double Vinyl.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Esoteric
      • 2. Run
      • 3. This Heat
      • 4. Willing
      • 5. Lake Song
      • 6. Untitled
      • 7. Spray Pain
      • 8. 4u
      • 9. Vmc
      • 10. Helena's Flowers
      • 11. The Knife
      • 12. Warm

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Esoteric
      • 2. Run
      • 3. This Heat
      • 4. Willing
      • 5. Lake Song
      • 6. Untitled
      • 7. Spray Pain
      • 8. 4u
      • 9. Vmc
      • 10. Helena's Flowers
      • 11. The Knife
      • 12. Warm

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Esoteric
      • 2. Run
      • 3. This Heat
      • 4. Willing
      • 5. Lake Song
      • 6. Untitled
      • 7. Spray Paint
      • 8. 4U
      • 9. V.M.C.
      • 10. Helena's Flowers
      • 11. The Knife
      • 12. Warm

      Side 2

      • 13. This Heat - Working Men's Club Remix
      • 14. Lake Song - PVA Remix
      • 15. Spray Paint - Fire Toolz Remix
      • 16. 4U - NNAMDI Remix
      • 17. The Knife - Good Morning Remix
      • 18. Lake Song (demo)
      • 19. Spray Paint (demo)
      • 20. Willing - Live at the Chicago Cultural Center
      • 21. 4U - Live at the Chicago Cultural Center
      • 22. V.M.C. - Live at the Chicago Cultural Center
      • 23. Helena's Flowers - Live at the Chicago Cultural Center
      • 24. The Knife - Live at the Chicago Cultural Center
      • 25. Warm - Live at the Chicago Cultural Center