Every Road is a Good Road, by Blaine Todd

Every Road is a Good Road

by Blaine Todd

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Emmerich If this music tells a story, it’s probably like Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, but with more sci-fi mindbending.

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about

Full Spectrum & Debacle are pleased to announce the return of close friend, Real Life Rock & Roll aesthete and longtime purveyor of the Infinite Future, Blaine Todd. Todd breaks his silence with the expansive Every Road Is A Good Road, his third proper solo release and first to be pressed to vinyl.

Taking its title from a personal mantra that Blaine has relied upon through the years to mark his high points and weather the lows, Every Road Is A Good Road was written in a manic burst of creative energy over the course of a single week. It took him some time to finalize these songs in the form you see presented here, however.

In order to mold this collection of raw sketches into a cohesive statement, Blaine needed to sit with them and contextualize what it was that he was actually doing. Having grown accustomed to performing in a number of bands throughout the Bay Area, he suddenly found himself operating truly alone following a brief decampment to NYC. The album became something of a salve for this dearth of creative outlets in an unfamiliar city, as he sought to burn off the sway of external influences and refine his own inimitable voice.

While parts of the record were recorded alone at home in both Manhattan and Alameda, California – or with friends and Full Spectrum compatriots in both Tivoli, NY and Littlefield, TX – Every Road Is A Good Road is perhaps defined by Blaine’s insistence on making this his first release largely produced in a ‘professional’ recording studio. Somehow, Todd managed to capture basic tracking for the entire album in just 24 hours. Afterwards, he felt fucked. Walking home from the subway at 8am the following morning, Blaine expected to experience some sense of accomplishment. Instead, he met the Brooklyn dawn in a fried and anxious state. You can feel this energy coming across in the loose, dragged vibe that carries through the album’s duration, drawing you deeper into Blaine’s dogged pursuit of raw self expression and ecstatic self discovery.

In the end – Every Road Is A Good Road embodies a ragged, tired psalms for the exhausted cowboy that lives within each of us.

credits

released May 24, 2019

at various moments throughout this record Brendan Landis played guitar drones and noise; Austin Glover played fiddle; Andrew Weathers played piano, drums, percussion, and synth; Seth Chrisman played the banjo and bells; and Gretchen Korsmo played percussion.

Infinite love and gratitude to Riva, Finn, and Tiny, and my family both natural born and chosen alike.

Engineered by: Adam Hirsch
Mixed by: Blaine Todd, Seth Chrisman, Nathan McLaughlin, Andrew Weathers
Mastered by: Andrew Weathers
Cover Art: Gretchen Korsmo
Photo of forlorn cowboy: Kevin Miguel Guzmán

Recorded in 2017-2018 at Figure 8 in Brooklyn, NY; Ordinary Dude Recording Services in Littlefield, TX; Cloud Nest in Tivoli, NY; and Tiny House in Alameda, CA

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Full Spectrum Records releases the works of experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames and unique compositional approaches.

discography

Mueller Tunnel

Sep 2020
The Thousand Birds in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Sky

Aug 2020
Llano Discs: a selective list of places I will never enter again for personal reasons 10/8/16

Jul 2020
City of Rocks

Jul 2020
When The Moon Fills With Blood

Jun 2020
Steam Turned To Ash

Jun 2020
Llano Discs: Two Loud Rooms

May 2020
Llano Discs: Flatland Mystic

Apr 2020
dirt road

Apr 2020
Llano Discs: Conways

Mar 2020
Georgetown Archive

Mar 2020
Llano Discs: SOUND-OPt

Mar 2020
san francisco: an audiophony in four movements

Feb 2020
Put Your Face In The River

Jan 2020
Cumberland County

Dec 2019
The Blood

Dec 2019
Sun Dogs

Nov 2019
Disposition

Oct 2019
Infinite Futures

Aug 2019
Every Road is a Good Road

May 2019
hirakito

Feb 2019
Things I said I'd never be

Jan 2019
wanna live in the world w/a whole face

Oct 2018
Radiate Don't Fear The Quietus

Jun 2018
s/t

May 2018
Lavatone

Mar 2018
Earth Tones at the Metal Show

Jan 2018
beneath the

Aug 2017
Ctrl-Z

Jul 2017
Nakatani/Nanna/Schoofs/Woods

Jul 2017
25 to 40

May 2017
Ogallala

Mar 2017
Golden Apples of the West

Jan 2017
The Channeled Voice

Jan 2017
I Can't Sleep, I Can't Wake Up

Oct 2016
Let Me Sleep / Death is a Narrow Sea

Sep 2016
MAHAMUDRA

Sep 2016
Sloth Period

Sep 2016
Emptiness Smiles

Apr 2016
Oakland to Sebastopol

Apr 2016
fey flight founders

Apr 2016
Deepest Indigo

Feb 2016
Nin-o-Van

Nov 2015
fine.

Nov 2015
Dillingham

Sep 2015
Olivebridge

Sep 2015
STRATUM

Sep 2015
Freight 1110 Through Greensboro

Mar 2015
Songs For Puppies

Mar 2015
Hymn Her Hum

Oct 2014
O, Annihilator

Oct 2014
Louella

Aug 2014
The Untuning of the Sky

Jun 2013
Dreamless

Feb 2013
Weakness

Dec 2012
I Will Love You, Always

May 2012
Open Mystery

Mar 2012
sam uho

Aug 2011
Same River Twice: In The All Together Vol. 3

Jul 2011
Word Is Bond

Mar 2011
A Season In Decline

Dec 2010
Over My Obstructions Volume 1: This Voice Saying These Words

Nov 2010
Lungs

Jun 2010
Revisiting

Apr 2010
A Process in the Weather of the Heart

Mar 2010
Andrew Weathers / Noose of Laurels

Dec 2009
Pnomoneya

Jun 2009
Holiday

Feb 2009
Aa

Jan 2009

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