Shitlove

I Tried to Take Home With Me
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New Excuses

Shitlove is the songwriting project of Ani born in 2020 that has since performed live in various arrangements. The project has grown to include these two albums, "New Excuses" and "I Tried To Take Home With Me", being released on cassette by Call Waitn October 6 2022. 'New Excuses' is a recorded culmination of some of the first songs Ani ever wrote and was brought to a studio near the Brooklyn Navy Yards in 2020. Between 2020 and 2021 Ani continued to record and release Shitlove material and went on a New York State Generator Powered Skatepark Music Tour. She and Matt Norman brought a guitar and E-drum kit to 14 skate parks around New York at a time when live music performance and gathering was still not accessible or happening. "New Excuses" is Ani's first attempt at recording and sharing her solo songwriting. This collection has some purity. "I Tried to Take Home With Me" is Ani's most recent album. Its a collection of both newer songs and re-recorded older songs performed with Matt Norman on E-Kit, and Kwami Winfield on bass. This album was recorded in the house on Tompkins Ani lived in with Kwami and Riley who engineered the album. The band was set up in Ani's bedroom with a snake of cables running downstairs into Riley's bedroom (Matt Norman's old bedroom.) Kwami's room was just resonating. All instruments and vocals were recorded at the same time and tracked/mixed onto 1/8" cassette tape. Months after recording, when the album was being finished, the housemates found out they were going to be evicted from their shared home. Since then the album has taken on more signifigance and remains a testiment to the creative energy and spirit Ani was able to share and document with all her roomates. Between these two albums Ani and Matt recorded "Knee Demo" and another album entitled "Blazing Blues Murder", a collaboration between Shitlove and Insane Angel. After this the album "Don't Ask Me Why" was recorded by Paco Cathcart. Ani and Matt are currently working on the newest Shitlove release, bound to be an entirely different vibe. The two are hoping to do another skate park tour, this time funded by the state of New York. If you happen to have any leads please reach out to Aniage8@gmail.com To purchase a cassette of either album please email callwaitn@gmai.com 1st edition limited to 50 of each.