i am suddenly aware

by harm

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1.	A Little Latitude 04:08	buy track
2.	Coup Attempt in C Minor 03:05	buy track
3.	Hot Metal Bridge 07:02	buy track
4.	The Big Stopover 01:44	buy track
5.	Limited Midnight 02:38	buy track
6.	Any Day With Balance 02:42	buy track
7.	Easy Company 03:19	buy track
8.	Process, Remain 03:19	buy track
9.	Luck and the Automatic 03:11	buy track
10.	The Sailing Coast 04:19	buy track

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i am suddenly aware was recorded at WPTS 92.1 and throughout Pittsburgh in the winter/spring of 2001. It was originally supposed to be released by the indie pop tape label Blackbean and Placenta. Why didn't it? Great question! I think a couple reasons - one, I think we may have taken too long to record it, and they moved on. Two, I think typical band tensions kind of soured us all on putting it out and committing to whatever touring/PR would be required of us in 2001. And three, Kyle was off to grad school, and I was soon to follow, functionally ending the band (at least until we put out our EP and toured for a bit in 2005/6).

But we've always liked these songs a lot, and then in the depths of Covid Quarantine, I rediscovered them on my hard drive and fell in love with them again and all four of us were like, "Well, what's stopping us from putting this on Bandcamp? Literally nothing." I mean, unless Spectrum takes away my internet privileges for torrenting British comedies again.

So this is our lost album! Enjoy it in the car or while walking your dog or wherever you enjoy fine albums! And yes, half the lyrics I wrote were about what I was reading at the time: undergrad analytic philosophy and The Thin Red Line.

-Andy

credits

released July 8, 2022

All songs written by Andy Beckerman, Kyle Bittinger, Cindy Yogmas and John Lancia. © Bittinger, Beckerman, Lancia, Yogmas 2022.

Cindy, John, Kyle, Andy: guitars, casios, drums, vox
Meagan Palmer: trumpet on "Easy Company" and "The Sailing Coast"
Richard Brown: saxophone on "The Sailing Coast"
Bill Fulmer: trombone on "The Sailing Coast"
Erin Hutter: violin on "The Sailing Coast"

(It's been 20 years, and we no longer know who played the brass/strings on the album, but this is our best stab. If YOU played an instrument on this album and are not credited, get in touch with us TOUT DE SUITE!)

mastered by Luke Ferdinand
art and design by Andy Beckerman
Streaming release under exclusive license to Svylk Svylkyns

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harm Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Maximalist indie rock with 30 casios and 3000 melodies... harm was a casiopop project started by Kyle Bittinger & Andy Beckerman in 1997 in Pittsburgh, PA. In the '90s, a lot of twee stuff used casios as kitsch. Kyle & Andy thought it might be better to use them to write really good pop songs instead. The band eventually expanded to include two awesome musicians Cindy Yogmas & John Lancia. ... more

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