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Armchair Cassandra

by Unglue U

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  • T-Shirt/Apparel

    UUAC T-Shirt - Fruit of the Loom HD 100% Cotton - NATURAL, KHAKI
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    "When I was prompted to make a cassette version of Armchair Cassandra, I was really hesitant. I wasn’t sure what kind of fidelity one would get out of audiotape that has to fit four tracks of high gain audio signal onto 0.15 wide tape (each mono track is 0.059 in) wide, plus an unrecorded guard band between each track. In stereo, each track is further divided into a left and a right channel of 0.024 in each, with a gap of 0.012 in)! Those numbers don’t sound good when compared to some machines that put two tracks on ¼-inch tape. You do the math.

    With reservation, I tried a test tape on my MCS 3564 deck with MPX filter on (Not Dolby) and a low bias setting; I hit the tape really hard. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. It sounded so good, but there were points where it distorted a bit, so the second pass with a hair less gain worked marvelously. I’ve kept that setting and went ahead and bought some really nice royal blue blank tapes, and those worked great to reproduce the album you see for sale here.

    The cassette version, I swear, gives this album a new stage to perform. It’s a heavier sound, and that weight puts a couple of the songs in a whole new light. The only way you can understand what I’m talking about, is if you hear it for yourself.

    The price of the tape ($16.00) is absolutely NOT commensurate with the amount of time spent on development. The audio, frankly, was the easy part. The hard part was the J-card. The J-card (the insert that goes into the case, named J-card for its shape) was very difficult to design as it’s two layers. The bottom layer is inkjet color on photo paper, and the top is transparency film, laser-printed with black ink. Printing a version on one layer with blacks and color on the same pass was disappointing: it was drab and blurry. I then had the idea to have two layers so that the black would pop. In order to get the transparent film and the photo paper to match up perfectly, It took a few days of eye-straining work (it was kinda fun, though)."

    -Lucas Maciel, Producer, Armchair Cassandra

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  • Poster/Print + Digital Album

    Commemorates the release date of the album. 18" x 24" Digital print on 100 lb. gloss cover paper. Numbered (01-15), signed by the band.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Armchair Cassandra via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 15 
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  • Poster/Print

    18" x 24". Printed on 100 lb. gloss cover paper.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Stephen Marcussen deftly mastered a 16-bit version of Armchair Cassandra, and it’s those files that appear on this CD. It sounds exquisite, believe me. Hand-assembled with high quality CDs, inkjet printed labels and Kraft envelopes.

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  • USB Flash Drive

    This very small 1GB flash drive contains .wav files of Armchair Cassandra in HiRes: 24bit, 44.1khz. Hand-engraved with band/album name.
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  • USB Flash Drive

    This very small 1GB flash drive contains .wav files of Armchair Cassandra in HiRes: 24bit, 44.1khz. Hand-engraved with band/album name.
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  • USB Flash Drive

    This very small 1GB flash drive contains .wav files of Armchair Cassandra in HiRes: 24bit, 44.1khz. Hand-engraved with band/album name.
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Heat 04:31
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Daijoubu? 04:42
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Rut 04:37
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Errand 05:53

credits

released October 1, 2021

ARMCHAIR CASSANDRA
by
unglue u

unglue u is:
matthew buckner: vocals, bass guitars, drums, synthesizers
lucas maciel: synthesizers, samplers, backup vocals, heavily-edited guitars/bass guitars/cello

megus
drums: mike perez; additional guitars: joel hoffman, adam johnson; dialogue: chet nelson

heat
additional vocals: emilia buckner

he can walk away
additional vocals: emilia buckner, abbie fenneman, joaquin “chochi” maciel; heavily-edited harmonica: joaquin “chochi” maciel

café dystopia
drums: mike perez

daijoubu?
dialogue: shingo annen, yuki baba, hideo date, seiya fukuda, bruce gubenko

larus condemnabitur additional vocals: emilia buckner; additional guitars: adam johnson

for tea['s] nigh, nurse
additional guitars: joel hoffman, clayton hotson

rut
drums: kevin byers

errand
drums: kevin byers; upright bass: adam johnson

produced, engineered, and mixed by: lucas maciel

additional engineering by: matthew buckner, kevin byers, joel hoffman, adam johnson, mike perez

mastered by stephen marcussen at marcussen mastering, LLC

special multi-output guitar on megus & club a, developed by adam johnson

album cover illustration and design by lucas maciel; photography by douglas buckner

©MMXXI, vanity shrine records, all rights reserved.

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Unglue U Oakland, California

Matt Buckner and Lucas Maciel are from Oakland, CA.

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