Lockdown Lullabies, by Sheer Velocity

Lockdown Lullabies

by Sheer Velocity

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1.	Totally Prepared 01:07	buy track
2.	What Day Is It 02:55	buy track
3.	You Cannot Quarantine My Soul 03:44	buy track
4.	Coronation 04:08	buy track
5.	Panic & Hoard 02:56	buy track
6.	Isolation Breakdown 04:16	buy track
7.	Remote Control 03:19	buy track
8.	Be My Quarantine 02:55	buy track
9.	Solitude Spaceship 04:03	buy track
10.	Shred Stops The Spread 03:01	buy track
11.	Taking My Temperature 03:22	buy track
12.	The Monster Among Us 02:41	buy track
13.	Black Hawks Over Bushwick 04:14	buy track

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Each track was written and recorded in one day using crowd-sourced keys, tempos, titles (and sometimes time signatures), over a 13-day period during the Coronavirus outbreak. The tracklist follows the chronological order in which the songs were written.

Andee Blacksugar - guitars, programming, voices, noises
Adam James - all electric bass

Cover art by HYPNODOLL

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released March 30, 2020

GUEST MUSOS (in order of appearance):

Alex Skolnick - guitar solo at 1:48 "What Day Is It"

Leon Gruenbaum - Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheee Peeee solo at 0:46 "You Cannot Quarantine My Soul"

Vernon Reid - guitar solo at 2:38 "You Cannot Quarantine My Soul"

Eric13 - scream, laughter at 0:10 "Coronation"

Timo Ellis - guitar solo at 1:07 "Coronation"

Lee Wertman - guitar solo at 1:16 "Panic & Hoard"

QUIST - 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th breaks in guitar duel at 1:13 "Isolation Breakdown"

Jason Bieler - guitar solo at 0:19 "Remote Control"

Chris Buono - guitar solo (and additional texture) at 1:03 "Be My Quarantine"

Buddy - outro "Be My Quarantine"

Adam Nanez - guitar solo at 0:38 "Solitude Spaceship"

DJ Nelson - guitar solo at 2:50 "Solitude Spaceship"

Ben Higgins - guitar solo at 0:32 "Shred Stops The Spread"

Tory Stoffregen - guitar solo at 1:14 "Taking My Temperature"

Leon Gruenbaum - Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheee Peeee throughout "Monster Among Us", flourishes in "Black Hawks Over Bushwick"

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Titles, keys, tempos and sometimes time signatures provided by:

David Burden, James Pasmore Jr, Jason Bilicki, Mike Greco, Kristen Burkhart, Brian Karp, Jackie Senft, Chas Banellis Killcode, Erik Blicker, Chad Von Haden, Melissa Spalding, Sacrificum, David Doobie Aaron, Drew Damien Richards, Jon Sullivan, Greg Wakefield, Clayton Taylor, Gina Fajardo, Travis William Jones, Nicolas Ruibal, Angie McCarthy, Lucien Lana, DJ Nelson, Chris Kelly, Mark Stought, Matt Sohl

THANKS TO ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS!
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Sheer Velocity Brooklyn, New York

When Andee Blacksugar is not busy tending to his hair, he records stacks and stacks of stream-of-consciousness instrumentals like these.

Sheer Velocity is a creative palette-cleansing, which drains off the more bizarre and indulgent musical notions that rattle around in this songwriter's head.

Each piece is conceived, written, recorded and mixed in one sitting. ... more

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