Dustbin of Empathy, by Bill Direen/Bilders

Dustbin of Empathy

by Bill Direen/Bilders

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Limited to 300 lps, co-released between Grapefruit and Sophomore Lounge. Includes lyric insert. Black vinyl. If you live in NZ check with Flying Out for copies being supplied by Bill Direen for New Zealand distribution and save your shipping. This is a pre-order, album ships in early August!

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1.	Citizens of Nowhere 04:29	buy track
2.	Bad Night's Sleep 01:58	buy track
3.	Shapin' East 03:05	buy track
4.	Scaribus 03:21	buy track
5.	Anvil Dark 02:42	buy track
6.	Caprice and Nemesis 02:24	buy track
7.	Lately Rain 02:53	buy track
8.	Angel (The Astronomer) 02:45	buy track
9.	My Father's Enemy 02:11	buy track
10.	Comrades 01:18	buy track
11.	Obedience 03:37	buy track
12.	The Weevil 02:53	buy track
13.	The Third War 04:34	buy track
14.	Statistics 02:05	buy track

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PRE-ORDER (release date August 2nd, 2024). 

Co-Released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records.

The NZ-American *Bilders* brings *Matt Swanson (Lambchop,* *My Dad Is Dead*) and *Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop)* into the fold, all with acclaimed albums in their saddlebags. Quality production and mature song themes reflect a lot of pure experience.

/*Dustbin of Empathy*/ opens with a voyage across Europe and down the generations, a tribute to the small people who survive massive events. One tune has an anti-war bias. Peace! Another is a trip of a kind — Angel (The Astronomer) is an eerie voyage into the “sinuses” of space. Most of the tunes were co-written, a couple were penned by Direen alone. High quality recordings, and the pedigree of the musicians, should make this unexpected album a pearl of 2024. It is hard to choose a stand-out track for campus stations — alluring “Lately Rain”, epic /Citizens of Nowhere/, the harder edge of Anvil Dark, lap-steel engraved Scaribus or already WFMU-blooded Custody of Love? Pure quality to take you from /Dustbin///right the way back to/Empathy/.

*Tracklist*

1. Citizens of Nowhere
2. Bad Night’s Sleep
3. Shapin’ East
4. Scaribus 
5. Anvil Dark
6. Caprice and Nemesis
7. Lately Rain
8 Angel (The Astronomer)
9. My Father’s Enemy
10. Comrades
11. Obedience
12. The Weevil
13. The Third War
14. Statistics

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released August 2, 2024

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New Zealand poet and musician with handpicked crews for recording collaboration projects. Lives in Otago, New Zealand.

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