Kicks or Macabre, by Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers

Kicks or Macabre

by Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers

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1.	Newest Thing 04:22	buy track
2.	Dizzy Land 03:46	buy track
3.	Bite Down 03:33 video	buy track
4.	Suburban Girl 03:50	buy track
5.	Shoot Through Me 03:04	buy track
6.	Party Store Suicide 03:41	buy track
7.	C Street Blues 02:53	buy track
8.	Turn to Jade 04:01	buy track
9.	Trips 08:28	buy track

about

"Hark! DIY sleaze-rock henchpersons, ascend from your cellars and rejoice... Midwestern anti-folk hero Christopher Alan Durham (The Bibs, All Gone Recs) arrives on high horse in full-length mode with a band of merry menaces in tow. Following a string of cassette and 7" releases for labels like Spacecase and Soft Abuse (whom are also responsible for the gift in hand), "Kicks or Macabre" is CAD's first LP outing under his own name, and we're all the better for it.

Recorded in and around modern-day Detroit, the record certainly has that street-walking cheetah energy that one might expect from a protagonist presumably raised on the teet-to-mouth diet of Destroy All Monsters youtube vids, vending machine snacks, trucker speed 'n' malt liquor laced with the ever present back-and-fore ground pollins of our patron Jim Shepards, Pussy Galores, Gibson Bros and countless other unscrewed basement saints who shook rattled and rolled before us... but wait, there's so much more.

Durham and his trusty Peacetime Consumers (ex-Quilt Boy/Roachclip cohorts) conjure up a thicker-than-usual, borderline *soulful* (?!) junk sick blooze that slinks and swaggers like a lean-drunk Flamin' Groovies or Gulcher/Richie-era KV if you traded his happy-go-lucky, confidently carefree dopiness for the frantic urgency of a paranoid loner whose slumlord is putting the screws to him, and look... there ain't enough grass left in that bag to even pack a bat...

But the band plays on, and if Durham's long-running development as a mainstay in the American sub-underground proves to hit its peak with "Kicks," we should consider ourselves lucky to have ever had such good seats in this, the theater of his own strange little lower-middle-class tragedy songs, often reflecting less on the overarching and impossibly big/bad times than they do on the smaller, more understandable, more feelable good ones.

Even luckier for us, he may have only just begun."

- Ryan Davis, 2023

credits

released August 18, 2023

01. Newest Thing
C.A.D.: electric guitar, drums, percussion, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, drums, percussion
Bill Corrigan: piano
Recorded in Southgate, MI

02. Dizzyland
C.A.D.: electric guitar, harmonica, frog, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, acoustic guitar
Heath Moerland: drums
Recorded in Southgate, MI

03. Bite Down
C.A.D.: electric guitar, organ, recorder, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass
Heath Moerland: drums
Recorded in Southgate, MI

04. Suburban Girl
C.A.D.: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, drums, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass
Trever MIllay: sleigh bells, tambourine
Recorded in Detroit, MI

05. Shoot Through Me
C.A.D.: electric guitar, bass, drums, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, organ
Bill Corrigan: piano
Recorded in Southgate, MI

06. Party Store Suicide
C.A.D.: acoustic guitar, texture guitar, drums, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, slide guitar
Recorded in Detroit, MI

07. C Street Blues
C.A.D.: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, electric guitar
Bill Corrigan: piano
Recorded in Southgate, MI

08. Turn to Jade
C.A.D.: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, electric guitar, harmonium, harmonica, tambourine
Nick Alcock: bongos
Recorded in Hamtramck, MI

09. Trips
C.A.D.: acoustic guitar, drums, vocals
Tyler Hicks: bass, electric guitar, organ, bongos, percussion
Bill Corrigan: piano
Recorded in Hamtramck, MI

Recorded and mixed by Chris and Tyler, except tracks 4 and 6 produced by Trever Millay, throughout 2020-2021.

Mastered by Sean McCann

Artwork and lettering by Mary Andaloro
Design by Chris Berry

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Christopher Alan Durham Detroit, Michigan

Recording Artist & Poet based out of the Downriver Detroit area, debut 12'' "kicks or Macabre" out on the Soft Abuse Label, featuring a rotating cast of pals, The Peacetime Consumers

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