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Pure Trigger

from Ego Jingles by Gabriel Hart

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    Recorded long before the plague was just a twinkle in our eyes, "Ego Jingles" is the first proper solo album by Jail Weddings frontman/author Gabriel Hart. His quietest audio effort to date, "Ego Jingles" is an avant-folk art-damaged test of nuance, a challenge to our sensitivity — often tender, occasionally antagonistic, sometimes cringe, yet altogether difficult to ignore or dismiss. Equal parts internal Seppuku and exterior dread, "Ego Jingles" is not without moments of existential comedy, as punctuated by his album-closing cover of Weird Al Yankovic's "One More Minute" as a band-aid — but after that, you're on your own.

    Hart's guitar/vocals are accompanied by Julie Carpenter (Less Bells, Jail Weddings) on violin/viola/cello as well as Dain Luscombe (Less Bells) with additional instrumentation/production.

    Recorded/mixed/mastered by Pat Kearns (Exploding Hearts, Blue Skies for Black Hearts) at his solar powered Goat Mountain Studios in Landers, CA.

    Cover photography by Austin Arthur Hart/art design by Reuben Kaiban.

    CD comes with handmade/signed lyric book.

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Written by Gabriel Hart

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PURE TRIGGER

I’ve got respect for words
So, of course your words hurt
But you can’t seem to handle anything
Who did you think I was?
When you claimed you were in love?
A band-aid for your psychic wounds that wouldn’t stop bleeding

Our therapist told me to run
I own the house
We’re not married
Have no baby
I persisted
Aimed for the sun
But you cannot take the slightest bit of heat

Pure trigger
You can’t be held tight
Without being set off
You turn our house into a rubber room
When the going gets tough

I always fall in love with tough chicks
Maybe deep inside I need some discipline
But all you know how to do
Is talk shit
Now look at the impossible mess we’re in

This was supposed to be about the language of love
Possibly, enjoying each other’s company
Not focusing on everything that you’re scared of
While hiding behind your absolute brutality

Pure trigger
I’m trying so hard to hold you steady
But there’s no handle on your neverending triggering

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from Ego Jingles, track released June 22, 2021
Gabriel Hart — vocals/guitar
Julie Carpenter — strings

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Jail Weddings Los Angeles, California

Wilted Eden, the expansive third album by L.A.'s tarnished romantics Jail Weddings is one of those rare albums recorded in "real time" chronicling the intersection between the whirlwind birth and eventual death of new love, along with the sudden unforeseen deaths of many loved ones. Still standing in their 10th dizzying year, the Wall of Sound provocateurs return anew... ... more

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