{"id":33169,"date":"2020-01-07T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33169"},"modified":"2020-01-05T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T13:45:32","slug":"the-ah-announces-sophomore-album-mere-husk-shares-new-track-watermelon-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33169","title":{"rendered":"The Ah announces sophomore album \u2018Mere Husk\u2019 + shares new track \u2018Watermelon Tears\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ah\u00a0has announced his sophomore full-length\u00a0\u2018Mere Husk\u2019 will be released\u00a0on January 31st\u00a0via NNA Tapes and as a taster of the album, the lead single <em>Watermelon Tears<\/em> is out now. The single provides a glimpse into the imaginative and playful solo work of Jeremy Gustin, a\u00a0sought after\u00a0drummer, musician and composer who has worked\u00a0with\u00a0David Byrne, Albert Hammond jr, Kimbra, Delicate Steve, Rubblebucket, Marc Ribot, Sam Amidon, Daniel Rossen, and many more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremy also shared thoughts on creating the track:\u00a0<em>&#8220;I knew I wanted to add sounds or samples in the middle section and I experimented a lot with no luck.\u00a0Ironically, as the songs title has tears in it, laughter seemed the best fit for the track. But having one person laugh wasn\u2019t quite right so I started experimenting by adding baby\u2019s, old people, and even some animals laughing. Somehow that seemed to work. Perhaps watermelon tears are the kind of tears you get when you laugh really hard. Sweet tears.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can listen to <em>Watermelon Tears <\/em>via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4M_GH7DW8g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremy Gustin\u00a0is a one-of-a-kind drummer who has toured and recorded with\u00a0Rubblebucket,\u00a0Okkervil River,\u00a0David Byrne,\u00a0Marc Ribot,\u00a0Delicate Steve, and\u00a0Albert Hammond Jr.. He has long been in demand for his ability to bring a touch of the unorthodox to highly structured and improvised musical settings alike, so it should come as no surprise that on his own solo project,\u00a0The Ah, Gustin explores the outer boundaries of his imagination to the fullest.<br><br>The Ah&#8217;s new album\u00a0\u2018Mere Husk,\u2019 the follow-up to 2017\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Common Bliss,\u2019 sees Gustin once again crafting animal noises, water sounds, miscellaneous found audio, and his own playing into a harmonic language that straddles the line between his love of pop songcraft and his equally strong attraction to the abstract. Rather than employ gurgling fish tank bubbles and dolphin calls for their ambient properties alone, for example, Gustin bends them beyond recognition so that they mimic synths or serve the role of instrumental parts in an arrangement that falls together like a classic &#8220;song&#8221; &#8212; whether Gustin includes vocals or not. &#8220;<em>I love songs and melody,&#8221; <\/em>says Gustin. &#8220;<em>As much as I like unusual stuff, I&#8217;m a song guy at heart.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><br><br>Gustin&#8217;s longtime passion for photography gives us a window into\u00a0The Ah&#8217;s animated sonic universe. Whether he is out touring or just walking home from the grocery store, his eye is constantly drawn to the interplay of color, texture, and shape calling out to him from surfaces the rest of us might pass by without so much as a glance. A typical Gustin photograph captures what he refers to as \u201cFoundscapes\u201d: for example, multiple layers of posters on a Tribeca wall stripped and frayed to form an unintended collage; chipping paint rendered in such three-dimensional detail that it seems to invite your fingers to run across its contours; delicate veins of copper rust slowly eroding on a dented expanse of bright blue.\u00a0<br><br>In several respects,\u00a0The Ah\u00a0is Gustin&#8217;s musical answer to his visual Foundscapes. &#8220;<em>When I&#8217;m writing music,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0he explains, &#8220;<em>I look at it as something akin to archeology. It&#8217;s not like &#8216;This specific thing happened to me so I want the music to sound a specific way.&#8217; It&#8217;s more like I&#8217;m chiseling away until a shape emerges and it starts to seem like music. In a way, I let the music create itself. I don&#8217;t even see it as I&#8217;m\u00a0creating\u00a0so much as I&#8217;m just\u00a0finding\u00a0things. These materials are all around us all the time.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><br><br>As intuitive as Gustin&#8217;s process may be,\u00a0\u2019Mere Husk\u2019 expands dramatically on the vision introduced with\u00a0\u2019Common Bliss\u2019. Though twirling from playful to solemn and back again, Gustin&#8217;s music is as easy to take in as watching the myriad shades of colorful marine life swimming through an aquarium.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The release of\u00a0\u2018Mere Husk\u2018\u00a0will be celebrated in conjunction with\u00a0Gustin&#8217;s forthcoming photography\u00a0book\u00a0<em>Foundscapes\u00a0<\/em>(being released with 11A Records)\u00a0at Brooklyn NY&#8217;s Step Bone Cut\u00a0on February 1st.<em> \u2018<\/em>Mere Husk\u2019 is available for preorder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeremygustin\/\">here<\/a>, with a limited quantity of the album and book available as a bundle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.promojukebox.com\/filemanager_source\/co\/dy\/.d\/cody.defalco\/NNA124-Cover-Border.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"The Ah Mere Husk album artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Foundscapes\u2019 Book Release &amp; \u2018Mere Husk\u2019 Listening Party<br><\/strong>Step Bone Cut,\u00a0229 Cook St., Bushwick, NY<br>Saturday February 1, 2020<br>8pm\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/foundscapes-book-release-the-ah-listening-party-tickets-85528507067\">Tickets<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Ah\u00a0has announced his sophomore full-length\u00a0\u2018Mere Husk\u2019 will be released\u00a0on January 31st\u00a0via NNA Tapes and as a taster of the album, the lead single Watermelon <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33169\" title=\"The Ah announces sophomore album \u2018Mere Husk\u2019 + shares new track \u2018Watermelon Tears\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Culture Addicts: The Ah announces sophomore album \u2018Mere Husk\u2019 + shares new track \u2018Watermelon Tears\u2019","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[13,23,28,30],"tags":[8812,8811,8809],"class_list":["post-33169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-music","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-mere-husk","tag-the-ah","tag-watermelon-tears"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/8B2F75D7-F8B9-4B78-95F8-E0B54FC7D9BC-e1578231863408.jpeg?fit=1774%2C1135","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-8CZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33246,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33246","url_meta":{"origin":33169,"position":0},"title":"The Ah shares new track + music video for \u2018The Factory Girl\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"January 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Ah, solo project of composer and musician Jeremy Gustin, has shared the\u00a0second single\u00a0lifted from his forthcoming sophomore full-length\u00a0\u2018Mere\u00a0Husk\u2018. 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