Hand Habits - Sugar The Bruise '2023

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Inspired by month-long songwriting class Duffy taught in the summer of 2021,
they re-discovered, with newfound clarity, the generative capacity of embracing
the unknown, and how essential collaboration and improvisation are for accessing
the indescribable. Working with Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic, Art Feynman) and
Philip Weinrobe (Adrienne Lenker, Cass McCombs), Duffy surrendered to the
present moment, trusting that whatever sounds and words emerged were meant to
emerge. With additional production, engineering and arranging from Jeremy
Harris, Duffy created something which, in their words, “turned out nothing
like I’d imagined it would.” The result of this collective
experiment, born equally from play and intention, is a radical gift for
listeners: proof that our most vital processes, creation and destruction, are
exquisitely entangled. The unanswerable and untenable suffering of experience is
the fact of perpetual loss. And, yet, there is precious, vivid magic created by
this condition. In Sugar the Bruise, grief folds in on itself and becomes
laughter; language fades away into sonic expanses of the inexpressible; melodies
melt into cacophonies; love songs surrender to loss; historic violence is
supplanted by the disks of sunlight.



Tracklist:
1.01 - Hand Habits - Something Wrong (3:03)
1.02 - Hand Habits - The Gift of the Human Curse (2:22)
1.03 - Hand Habits - Andy in Stereo (3:59)
1.04 - Hand Habits - Private Life (3:27)
1.05 - Hand Habits - The Book On How To Change, Pt. 3 (2:54)
1.06 - Hand Habits - The Bust of Nefertiti (4:55)

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