Strengths by Invalids
This album has been pressed to vinyl by Soft Speak Records (`:
http://www.softspeakrecords.com/products/542201-invalids-strengths
This album was written over ten non-consecutive months from January 2013 to August 2014. All guitars are in open tuning (EBEAbBE) with various capo placement and all bass is tuned to standard. Tabs are included as .txt files with download of the album, or are available in .tbt form here: http://www.tabit.net/tabs/list.php?f=5655
Invalids tabs:
[.tbt] http://www.tabit.net/tabs/list.php?f=5655
[.txt] https://www[dot]dropbox[dot]com/s/k6e1iasda658cig/Invalids%20Tabs%20Complete%20Mar%202015.zip?dl=0
No picks allowed.
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Tracklist
| 1. | Sherwood Is Connector | 6:26 |
| 2. | Ironic Dysphemism | 8:05 |
| 3. | The World Is Square | 4:27 |
| 4. | Tiny Coffins | 5:21 |
| 5. | Whelk | 4:56 |
| 6. | Petrichor | 5:17 |
| 7. | Satellite | 6:34 |
| 8. | The Horse Raced Hardest Lost | 6:54 |
| 9. | Halo Brace | 5:59 |
| 10. | Antimetabole | 6:27 |
Credits
All music and lyrics written by Pete Davis
Guitars and vocals performed and recorded by Pete Davis
Drums programmed by Pete Davis with VST Addictive Drums by XLN Audio
Bass performed and recorded by Nick Shaw
Backup vocals performed and recorded by Garrett Botkins (right) and Jon Lervold (left)
Additional vocals on track 7 performed by Ellie Price of Signals. (signalsuk.bandcamp.com),
recorded by Neil Kennedy at The Ranch in Southampton, UK
Community-assisted backup vocals on track 7 submitted by:
Channing Chu, Shawn Collins, Matt Coston, Nolan Dorics, Andrew Grannis, Jeremy Harvey, David Martin, Stephen Mlinarcik, Thomas Morehouse, Valerie San Filippo, Noah Schmitt, Alex Vanblaere, Matt Vees, Mikey Webber, James Whiting, and Rick Vincent Will
Artwork by Yvette Young
yvetteyoung.wordpress.com
All music mixed and mastered by Pete Davis
© 2014 Invalids
This album contains allusions to songs I love and that have influenced my life, both musically and emotionally.
Crash of Rhinos - "Big Sea"
American Football - "Never Meant"
The Get-up Kids - "Ten Minutes"
The Appleseed Cast - "Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets"
NoFX - "We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows"
Cursive - "Staying Alive"
Algernon Cadwallader - "Casual Discussion in a Dome between Two Temples"
Anathallo - "Hoodwink"
Elliott Smith - "Angeles"
Nada Surf - "Bacardi"
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License
All rights reserved.
Invalids started as the bedroom project of Pete Davis (with remote internet-based collaboration with other musicians). As of March 2015, it has grown to a proper four-piece band with the addition of Joe Scala, Raymond Bonanno, and Blair Benzel.