Hand Habits - Sugar The Bruise - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2017 debut solo album by Meg Duffy of Mega Bog and the Kevin Morby Band. InchSinger, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, has been putting in her time on the road and in the studio over the past two years with Pacific Northwest band Mega Bog, and the Kevin Morby Band, making an impression on everyone she comes across with her natural charisma and uncharted talent as a multi-instrumentalist. But let Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) be her open invitation to the world to step inside and take a much deeper look into who Duffy actually is. Tracked in an Upstate New York living room, then finished in her current home in Los Angeles, this album was recorded by Meg herself; she has an acute ear for detail, has touched every corner, has seen every vision 'til it's end. Because of this, Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water all around you, a bath, and before you know it Meg's whisper has made it's way inside you. Meg has music in her touch, and this, like many bedroom-debuts (Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, Grouper) is only the beginning. But let us not look to the future now, and instead stand alongside her, our trust in her will, both humble before the void, with her first chorus as the mission statement Hold you like a flower, hold you like an hour glass.Inch - Kevin Morby. Album Tracks 1. Flower Glass 2. Actress 3. Greater la (Scene) 4. In Between 5. All the While 6. Demand It 7. Cowboy (Scene) 8. Sun Beholds Me 9. Book on How to Change 10. Time Hole (Scene) 11. Nite Life 12. Bad Boy 13. New Bones

Hand Habits TITLE Placeholder Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York and they cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby's band. The Hand Habits project emerged after Meg moved to Los Angeles; it started as a private songwriting outlet but soon evolved into a fully-fledged band with Meg at the helm. Hand Habits' debut album, Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void), was released by Woodsist Records in 2017. The LP was entirely self-produced and recorded in Meg's home during spare moments when they weren't touring. Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) is a rich, homespun collection of folk songs that found Meg in an exploratory state as an artist moving out on their own for the first time. Two years later, Hand Habits has returned with their sophomore album, placeholder, due out on Saddle Creek. To make this album, Meg chose to work in a studio and bring in collaborators, entrusting them with what had previously been a very personal creative process. Over the course of 12 tracks, Meg emerges with new confidence as both a bandleader and singer. This album is as tender and immediate as anything Meg's ever written, but it's also intensely focused and refined, the work of a meticulous musician ready to share their singular vision with the world. In 2018, as the wildfires raged in Southern California when Meg wrote the bulk of placeholder; the anxiety that came with living in L.A. during that time exposes itself throughout these songs. The flames that fuel placeholder occasionally billow out, but most often these songs are warm and comforting - a space listeners can return to again and again when the outside world starts to overwhelm. Meg describes these songs as their most direct to date, crafted with clear intention, and unlike Wildly Humble (Idle Before The Void), placeholder doesn't meander. As a lyricist, Meg is drawn to the in

Available in it's first pressing for Matador Records, Snail Mail's debut EP InchHabitInch serves as a nascent example of Lindsey Jordan's extraordinary talent as a songwriter, singer and guitarist. The seven song disc features the six original 2016 tracks as well as InchThe 2nd Most Beautiful Girl In The World,Inch penned by K Records Band Courtney Love and recorded by Snail Mail in 2018, available on record for the first time. The EP features a full-color cover as it had originally been designed, and has been remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters. Album Tracks 1. Thinning 2. Habit 3. Static Buzz 4. Dirt 5. Slug 6. Stick 7. The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl in the World