{"title":"Cross Record","description":"\u003cp\u003eCornwall, UK project of [a=Emily Cross].\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cross-record","title":"Cross Record","description":"\u003cp\u003e“What is your wish? What do you expect?” Cross Record’s self-titled third album begins with Emily Cross’s disembodied voice intoning from an otherworldly vacuum. In the three years since her last album, Cross has divorced, quit drinking, become a death doula, started the observational podcast “What I’m Looking At,” and toured with Sub Pop’s Loma, the trio she formed with Dan Duszynski on drums and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) on guitar \/vocals. On \u003ci\u003eCross Record\u003c\/i\u003e, she guides the listener like a sonic Virgil, delivering a textured soundscape of meditative curiosity, akin to Low’s \u003ci\u003eDouble Negative\u003c\/i\u003e, Broadcast’s \u003ci\u003eThe Noise Made By People\u003c\/i\u003e and Radiohead’s \u003ci\u003eKid A\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving recorded 2016’s \u003ci\u003eWabi Sabi\u003c\/i\u003e at home between work and sleep hours, Cross did the opposite for \u003ci\u003eCross Record\u003c\/i\u003e, writing the album while living on a secluded part of Mexico’s coast. The collaborative atmosphere of Loma challenged Cross to experiment with her sound, detuning her voice and obstructing its clarity in specific moments. As such, \u003ci\u003eCross Record\u003c\/i\u003e is primarily a showcase for Cross’s singing, as she pushes her range and engages with a multitude of approaches at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Rough Trade Exclusive. 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Chicago-born singer-songwriter Emily Cross and her engineer husband Dan Duszynski make their music on isolated Moon Phase Ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas. A combination of Emily's visual way of working (a trained artist) and the sum of Dan's years of engineering makes for a unique sonic experience. Ominous jangled and jittery guitars, breathy, wistful vocals and hovering drawn strings brood. Soaring vocals bask against a backing of ethereal shimmering while hordes of clamouring guitars push impatiently for their turn at the fore. Swirling ribbons of sound, Hammer horror organs and a crooning from the shadows into the trickled instrumentation of samples and sound. 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A two-and-a-half-year gestation period offered challenges, disappointments, and joys reflected in the cramped space of the album, which explores how we handle the weights we carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Cross had held hundreds of Living Funerals and was as many episodes deep into her podcast, What I’m Looking At. She was five years into serving clients as a death doula and fresh off a tour with Loma, her band with Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) and Dan Duszynski, when she began work on her fourth album. After moving from Austin, TX to Dorset, UK, she established the Steady Waves Center for Contemplation (named after a track from her second record, Wabi-Sabi ), where she hosted Living Funerals, met clients, scheduled mindful tea sessions, and showcased experimental music nights. All the while, she was scribbling down song ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCross’s Tascam four-track demos finally reached readiness, and she sent them to an interested major independent label. She was encouraged to push her imagination to the limits of what a record could be. So, unlike her usual process of recording as inexpensively as possible, she prepared a two-week recording session in Germany with a group of skilled musicians from around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue to her previous work, Cross left plenty of room in her demos for experimentation, collaboration, chance, improvisation, and complete obliteration, then resurrection when necessary. Comfort and traditional structure were eschewed in favor of unaccountable magic, prayers whispered into The Void. Cross is comfortable with the chaotic and unpredictable, a perspective demanded by her work and writing style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Berlin Airbnb was packed with people, instruments and luggage. During a ride down in a tiny elevator to the studio, Cross realized how central the sense of being crushed was to the album. “I thought of it later and it dawned on me that ‘Crush Me’ perfectly embodied the record,” says Cross. Yes, the weight of a body laying limply atop yours, or the tight squeeze of a hug, can be pleasant. Go too far, and you’re in the hands of a cruel, adolescent god.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon leaving Germany, the record was unfinished, and without a roadmap. As passages were recorded as isolated parts, Cross and musician Marcin Sulewski collaborated, facing a haphazard brick pile, waiting to be assembled. Work dipped in and out of view like a buoy bobbing in a violent sea over many months. During that time, the aforementioned interested label went radio silent, suddenly not seeming so sure of a thing. Collaborators disappeared, continuing the themes of abandonment, surrender, and disarray that followed the project. Cross physically felt her entire body go numb:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a twist of fate, the record was rescued by long-time friend and supporter Ben Goldberg at Ba Da Bing Records who was eager to help realize the project. Cross worked for months on the album, all the while nursing a pregnancy and continuing her full-time funeral work. The last minute participation of Seth Manchester of Machines with Magnets, who mixed and mastered, was an essential liferaft. He gave true final form to the abstracted songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrush Me\u003c\/i\u003e has the effect of a spell being cast, with songs balancing heaviness and levity. Vocals, guitars, and keyboards float above, as drums and upright bass (often bowed) lurch beneath. On “Rolling Backwards” percussion wanders about while feedback squeals and persists in the distance. “Dorset Area Of Natural Beauty” starts with a thick, unhinged church organ progression punctuated by the disquieting sounds of laughter reaching the point of hysteria. “God Fax” is a slow-moving panic attack, with shallow breaths in and out framing a guttural cacophony like a wooden freighter encountering increasingly turbulent waters and vocals struck emotionless by autotune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album ends with “Twisted Up Fence,” a reflection on life from outside the wall--wistful, warm, and comforting. 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