Thanks, I Missed You, Too

by Joshua Barton

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1.	Hello (It's April Everywhere) 02:30	download
2.	Ypsilanti is Seething 03:27	download
3.	You're Just a Baby 03:43	download
4.	[untitled] 03:13	download
5.	Pillaged Land 03:45	download
6.	Reputations 04:05	download
7.	Snakes 02:10	download
8.	Head Hang Low 05:13	download
9.	Farther Along 03:55	download

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Every May, Joshua turns another year older and thanks the world for another successful year of staying alive. Likewise, he has established the tradition of releasing some thank-you-gift of music each year, and in 2009, that was Thanks, I Missed You, Too. In this first, semi-proper solo effort, Joshua allows himself to endulge in playful combinations of ambient sample assemblage, country gospel, new folk and the buzzy shoegaze sound that his band, Fields of Industry, has occasionally donned. In other words, Joshua gets to do all the stuff he's done before, but this time he does it all at once. Thanks... is an effort to reach an empathetic hand to Michigan with the hard-times resignation often employed by FoI, but here it's with a strangely up-key touch. Drawing upon recordings from 2005 to 2009, this was edited and compiled in 48 hours under the intense urge to get something done, an urge that Joshua hopes is contagious.

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released May 21, 2009

All songs and music by Joshua Barton, save "Head Hang Low" by Julian Cope, and "Farther Along" by Rev. W. A. Fletcher. Surely, Mr. Cope is forward-thinking and level-headed enough not to hate one for paying him homage. Likewise the good late Reverend Fletcher should not mind a tribute. Nevertheless, any objecting parties will be respectfully heeded, but probably not agreed with. Samples and found sounds from www.simplysamples.com available under a Creative Commons ReCombo license, creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/

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Joshua Barton Lansing, Michigan

Michigan-based singer/songwriter self-releasing the sad and the sacred, with abiding, conflicting enthusiasm for lamentation, Southern gospel, American primitive guitar and the drones of shoegaze.