Soft Shoulder - Formerly on Fluorescent Paper– New LP

Soft?  Soft as rusty angle-iron poking at your ribs...maybe it refers to the soft shoulder on the road that grabs your rubber and chucks you upside down bouncing your car head over hood down the hill and into the drainage ditch, the glass cracking, battery smashing, 1980s new wave crackling on the radio mangled in the smashing, someone up above on the ambulance megaphone asking you something, electronics sparking in the water puddled in the cement next to you.  -- winch (green noise)

14 jaunts culled from the artist’s tape soup collage of several generations’ worth of punk and no-wave adjacent music. Be it jagged, angular, short tracks… atonal layers in otherwise listener-friendly settings… repetitive string clang aside gurgling synth and flailing reed-bite… Soft Shoulder continues to be the primary vehicle for Fella’s take on songwriting, in whatever the loosely defined genre(s) may be. However, compared to Not The New One (an eclectic collection of various incarnations), Contextual Depreciation (performance and practice tapes from the current group) and the recent Copy Machine Fall Down 7” (an abstract, long-distance-collaboration) …Formerly On Fluorescent Paper finds Fella alone. Written and recorded in the fever-dream of late 2020. Mastered by John Dieterich.