Sinai Vessel - I SING '2024

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The heavens open up and God's hairy forearm shoots forth from the clouds,
slapping the word SONGWRITER across your body's fragile avatar. And now the
question: is it a calling or is it a curse? Will you draw the sword from the
lake, victorious and gleaming? Or will your skin crawl with boils, your crops
alight in conflagration? Is the habit of songwriting something rewarding and
nutritive, like gardening? Or is it more of a dirty tic, like bumming a
cigarette every time you drink two beers? Is writing songs a job? A holy duty?
Or is it just an occasionally rewarding hobby? And if I do heed my destiny, just
how the fuck am I supposed to pay for healthcare?

Such are the celestial backyard wrestling matches that make up Sinai
Vessel’s fourth LP. I SING, what a phrase – chief songwriter Caleb
Cordes wields a DIY lifer's gallows humor as he tries to carve out a niche in
stone with a grapefruit spoon, speaking truth to streaming royalties and trust
fund powers. Crucially, though, Sinai Vessel never says "fuck you" to the
listener - instead Cordes shakes his head, laughing, and says instead "fuck
me.” How preposterous it is to be yoked to song, how silly to squeeze
considered noise into plastic, how absolutely goofy is it that any of us listen,
that any of us are moved. And in some unlikely screwball miracle, within the
vanishing middle class vocation of singing for your supper, Sinai Vessel
achieves the improbable: grace, resonance, a truly great collection of tunes.

— Ben Seretan

Tracklist:
1.01 - Sinai Vessel - Doesn't Matter (2:59) 
1.02 - Sinai Vessel - I Sing (2:18) 
1.03 - Sinai Vessel - How (2:33) 
1.04 - Sinai Vessel - Challenger (3:14) 
1.05 - Sinai Vessel - Birthday (2:55) 
1.06 - Sinai Vessel - Laughing (3:21) 
1.07 - Sinai Vessel - Country Mile (3:08) 
1.08 - Sinai Vessel - $2 Million (3:45) 
1.09 - Sinai Vessel - Dollar (3:03) 
1.10 - Sinai Vessel - Window Blue (3:04) 
1.11 - Sinai Vessel - Best Witness (2:59) 
1.12 - Sinai Vessel - Attack (6:32) 
1.13 - Sinai Vessel - Younger Brother (3:36)

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