☆ Day 1 of Aliveness ☆
☆ Day 1 of Aliveness ☆
Psychobabble Baby Bottle
Psychobabble Baby Bottle
Get To Know Some of the Artists
déCollage is the name of one of Reed Cameron Fox & Ben Weirich's bands; a kaleidoscopic avant-pop project creating space for imagination. They've brought their playful surrealism to stages shared with of Montreal, Dan Deacon, Animal Collective, and Deerhoof since their inception in 2009. In 2020, their collaborations with Naytronix from tUnE-yArDs were released in the form of two music videos. Blurring barriers, at Red Rocks & Meow Wolf they handed out a seemingly infinite supply of googly eyes while Max Geimer fed oysters to the audience. Lzr Dave (Ben Weirich) has been around music for his entire life. Growing up in a house with two professional musicians as parents, he began his lifelong journey into music at the age of three, learning to play violin. Since then, Ben has become a versatile and mature guitarist, bass guitarist, upright bassist, drummer, and keyboardist. Since moving to Colorado in 2010, he's played regularly around the front rage area, freelancing and as a founding member of more than ten bands, many of which have toured extensively around the US. Listening to him live or on record, one can expect to be taken to many places, experience real emotion and be swept up by the vast universe of multi genre knowledge at his fingertips. Reed is a DJ & founder of Moon Magnet Studios. When Reed isn’t Lego-ing, he’s trying to make déCollage’s upcoming record sound like an underwater bouncy castle with Ben or inventing things like the Oysterizer {an oyster back massager}. Check out all of the other collaborators in the credits!
📸: Juli Williams
ELECTRIC SUGAR
Here's a snippet from a companion zine of poetry I made while making this record. Enjoy!
LYRICS
Wipe that smile off your nose, put that smile on your toes.
Wipe that mud off your bones, put that mud on your big toe.
Munchin' bomb pops in the summerrrr,
Finding dog bones by the river, put it in a box and bring it back to life.
Wipe that smile off your nose, put that smile on your toes.
Wipe that mud off your bones, put that mud on your big toe.
Scooby-Doo snacks in the summerrrr,
Hopping fences through our neighbor's lawn, sneaking around anywhere we can!
Your friend said to me what she thought you said to me
And I said to you what I thought he said to you.
Wanna go outside but I’m stuck inside my lego hut
Looking for my friends, they think I want to eat their guts.
Roll up on the bus to immacular Academy
A real clam oysta don’t need no lobotomy
Trying to make friends with the teachers pet bunny,
A real strong boy don’t need no Lennie.
déCollage LIVE
ALTERNATE MIXES
(déLucks edition)
CREDITS
Vocals, Lyrics, Guitars & Production by Reed Fox.
Synths, Bass, & Production by Ben Wright.
Drums & Percussion by Adrian Wright.
Featuring Sean Culliton on saxophone, Kris Becker on Jupiter and Sub 37 synthesizers, & Ben Weirich on BG Vocals.
Lyric editing and additional lyrics by Snarklet Jamie Nagode.
Album Artwork by Jacqueline Sophia Cordova / Ancient Future
Album’s skeleton recorded live in one day at Catadawn Studios. Engineered by Brent Somermeyer & Matt Tanner.
Vox, Synths, GTRs Recorded/Mixed by Reed & Ben at Moon Magnet.
Mastered by Reed Fox & Michael Schultze at Denver University & MM.
Website by Stella Atkinson/Soggy John