FULL TIME JOB by sidebody (2024)

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sidebody kept promising each other they would record another album. but it was so hard to find a time when everyone was free. cara was finishing her book and hava’s business was taking off. lena had so many students and martha was printmaking at all hours.

a hole in sponge time brought them to the studio, where they found themselves reasserting connection through sound. underneath: synth loops, jumped octaves, pacing bass and tom heartbeats. on top: improvised harmonies, pet theories, call-and-response, and jokes. everyone was writing and singing lead; no one escaped their turn in the iso booth. they played everything a little faster than they meant to, but it sounded right.

then they just needed to finish mixing it. but it was so hard to find a time when everyone was free…

credits

full time job was written and recorded by martha schnee, hava horowitz, lena warnke and cara giaimo. produced and mixed by jachary, patrick colin walsh, and sidebody, and mastered by swaya. engineered by eric kilburn, jachary, and patrick colin walsh, and recorded at wellspring sound in acton, ma and jetpack pat studios in brooklyn, ny. cover artwork paintings by sascha braunig: Rolling Shutter, 2013, oil on canvas over panel, 20 x 18 and Orange Sucker, 2014, oil on canvas over panel, 20 x 16 in. collage by martha schnee.

sidebody by sidebody (2022)
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the eight tracks here are offerings held out by long-limbed friendship.

at the start of the covid-19 pandemic, friends who had met 15 years earlier as high school freshmen found themselves together again and picked up new instruments to deal with this new situation. their shared moments became songs, and as the world opened the songs became performances.

people came to hear and sidebody became a band: guitar, drums, bass, and voice, speaking to each other with the spark and stumble of newness and the fluidity of years.

to us, this album is a dried flower: what came of a deep-planted seed that built strength in the dark and spent it in the sun. in the end, the only option was to press it. if you breathe in deep you can smell what it was.

credits

released August 8, 2022

sidebody was written and recorded by martha schnee, hava horowitz, lena warnke and cara giaimo. it was produced and mixed by dylan grossman and sidebody, and mastered by swaya. it was engineered by eric kilburn, and recorded at wellspring sound in acton, ma and sidebody studios in somerville, ma. album cover design by martha schnee & photograph by lucie march.


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sidebody is:
vox/synth - hava horowitz
drums/vox/guitar - martha schnee
guitar/bass/vox - cara giaimo
bass/guitar/vox/drums - lena warnke