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Is This Thing On

from The Small Hours by Stephen Clair

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    This full-length record album, recorded at the beginning of 2020 in Beacon, NY, perfectly displays the powerful dynamics of this superfine rock and roll trio. This batch of Clair songs, all written in the last half of 2019, are elevated by the muscle and prowess of his well-suited comrades, Daria Grace on bass, and Aaron Latos on drums. Clair wields a telecaster throughout. You know that glorious Fender sound when things are turned up loud but played (sometimes) delicately. The band performs with the ferocity and immediacy of one of their late-night live shows, while maintaining a mighty but always dangerous control over the songs. A band has to have played—and played—shows together to play with such knowing abandon. In case you can't tell, we are thrilled with this record, and if ever there was a Stephen Clair record to be pressed to vinyl, this is it.

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lyrics

That old Antoinette
When she gets on the Internet
It’s like she grows a second head
You can’t believe the things she’s said

The next day Antoinette
I saw her at the Superette
She didn’t seem to recollect
She’d sent us over the edge
Is this thing on

You can get out of bed
On the same side for so long
Waking up on the wrong side
It can happen to anyone

People maybe ought to talk
Rather than make shit up
You can wreak some damage
With a little imagination
Is this thing on

Where do people get off
I mean where do they get on
Where are we now
Is this thing on?

I just want to hear your story
Sing me a little song
Something you made up
It doesn’t have to be that long
Is this thing on

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from The Small Hours, released September 18, 2020

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“Blending the kind of jaggedly cool guitar and piano that put Spoon on the map with a deadpan, almost spoken-word vocal delivery, the song quickly evolves into a righteous bar band anthem that feels as much linked to acts like the Hold Steady as it does to Wilco”
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