Kelly Duplex by kelly duplex
Kelly Duplex’s s/t first full-length album is informed by senses of loss both circumstantial and chosen, a wry but vaguely positive outlook on millennial parenthood, the wool-blanket heat of summer in New Orleans, dreams of fractions, incessant list-making, and an abundance of opinions regarding Sylvia Plath. Written over the span of two years, Avrard’s guitar pop affections have culminated into this: a carefully realized debut on which the band display their emotional and musical relationships.
1. the seemingly endless heat of summer in New Orleans. a wool blanket of humidity, paranoia & broken A/C
2. an old friends' affectations, a night spent with Sylvia
3. a year of loss - chosen & circumstantial. a year of (re)picking up habits - remembered as more satisfying than they are
4. these are little souvenirs
5. of living chronically in a nation determined on ransoming my insulin
6. bijou, noun: something small, delicate & exquisitely wrought
7. and all can be divided into halves
Tracklist
| 1. | Hoverround | 3:49 |
| 2. | Pink Light | 4:19 |
| 3. | Shreveport | 3:37 |
| 4. | Here's Where The Story Ends | 4:01 |
| 5. | Good Title | 5:05 |
| 6. | Bijou | 6:03 |
| 7. | Halves | 5:20 |
Credits
KELLY DUPLEX IS:
Shane Avrard | Guitar / Vocals / Keys
Dreux LeBourgeois Jr. | Drums
Kenny Murphy | Bass
Recorded + Mixed by Nick Pope @ HighTower Recording | New Orleans, LA
*except: track 6 (Bijou) recorded by Shane Avrard, mixed by Shane Avrard & Nick Pope
Mastered by Carl Saff
track 2 (Pink Light) quotes from The Night Dances by Sylvia Plath
track 4 (Here's Where the Story Ends) written by Harriet Wheeler & David Gavurin, The Sundays
(Kick Me Again, Jesus) written by Dave Couse & Fergal Bunbury, A House
Photography by: Kat Kimball
Album art by: Shane Avrard, using The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by Oliver Byrne (1847)
Layout by Patrick Bailey
Vinyl pressed with Love @ New Orleans Record Press
©2021 Kelly Duplex
Strange Daisy Records | SDR025
