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Jesus Of Nazareth

by Self Defense Family

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This was recorded in 2011 and my memory doesn't extend back that far, so bear with me. Andrew was working at a studio on the side of a mountain and we would sneak in whenever there was an empty day on the schedule. At this time we were really big into capturing whatever we were feeling in the moment. Some second-takes but very few third-takes. Zach, who went on to play in Maniac, came through to play drums but he wants to rip and this song wanders instead. As it happened, Joe who plays in Defeater was in town and did us the favor of dropping by for this one-take 10min jam session.

It languished because I insisted on making the song lyrics narrative and attempted to detail the life of the historical Jesus. That's never gonna get top priority when we've got 2min songs about my breakups ready to go. So 'Jesus Of Nazareth' became this artifact that would bounce around our hard drives, losing audio stems with each move. The version you hear now is 'mixed' from a single WAV file with vocals recorded by Ian and I last week in a rehearsal space. I gave up on trying to tell a story in a linear fashion and instead just went with as many tactile sensations as I could muster about a homeless guy's life 2000 years ago. Lots of dust and blisters, really. Will Killingsworth did a really impressive job of mastering this rather stepped-on audio file. This is a wild track for fans of our Grateful-Dead-of-DIY era.

This single's art is a photo of our musician friend Nick Fit. This week's shirt design was purchased from Instagram account @creuestudio after we followed each other last night. Life doesn't gotta be complicated. See you next week.

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released April 23, 2020

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