Sketches That Have Slithered Through the Characters' Shell

by Todd Fausnacht

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1.	Sacrifice Your Self Indulgence 02:39	buy track
2.	Goin' Away and Leavin' 02:45	buy track
3.	There's a Season 02:39	buy track
4.	Stay Out of my Dreams 03:33	buy track
5.	Talkin' Police Brutality Quarantine Blues 02:14	buy track
6.	Wedding Ring 03:27	buy track
7.	Frame of the Iris 03:33	buy track
8.	Aint You Glad 03:15	buy track

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it's exhausting to fit inside a character to open up this padlocked safe and dilute into a liquid form

the opaque fangs full of poison suck all the blood and glycemic content you have left in this form

in this cage

you and the serpent fight

toss and turn

while the setting unveils into a swirling bowl of blood and guts

the character he continues step by step

moment by moment

until he can check off the day from a leather moleskin.

task

complete

credits

released July 15, 2021

Todd Fausnacht - Vocals/Acoustic Guitar/Electric Guitar/Piano
Josh Friedman - Drums/Percussion
Tyler Yoder - Bass
James Everhart - Electric Guitar
Kyle Parella - Lap Steel
Ello Shertzer - Violin
Sean Hur - Organ
Brittany Luna - Vocals

Engineered/Mixed by Josh Friedman
Mastered by Jeff White

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Todd Fausnacht Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Whatever muse inspires Todd Fausnacht to pen his blue notes, he overshot by about two generations. Fausnacht is an echo chamber of the early twentieth century whose soulful blues ballads and front porch country toetappers kick up a Dust Bowl nostalgia the size of Oklahoma. The sound is Americana through and through, drawing from the blues of Blind Willie McTell and Lightnin’ Hopkins. ... more

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