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The Other Planet I'm From (B​-​Sides Pt. 1)

by Jenner Fox

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Nothing New 05:43
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I woke up buried in the sand again Holding my shoe Thinking it was your hand again Nothing new And it's the bright hour of 11am I guess it's 6am for you They say people get used to Berlin You start laughing too But I miss you I woke up leaning this old tower against Words you hadn't written I woke up powerless Ugly as a kitten And remember that couple leaving a barbecue He said, "I overate, nothing new" And how you drew them into a cartoon With captions under their shoes And one said, "I need a lover" And the other said, "I need a mother" And I miss you, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you I miss you, I miss you, I miss you see I'm trying to be anything else But it's so good Being sorry for yourself And there's a whole city to dance with And there are lovers in the square And how in the dark you breathe like There could never be enough air And I miss you And I dreamed again last night How your brother hangs 'round your ankle And in the dream you were drowning Could it be that simple
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Pick Up The Phone 02:27
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That midnight feeling Finds me at nine Like a five foot ceiling Like the fan on high Like the moth mistaking Heat for the light Pick up the phone And talk to me

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The original “Planet I’m From'' album, just seven songs, took three rather fraught years to finish. We started recording it in 2018 in Brooklyn, moved the process to Nashville in 2019, were ready to leave the thing altogether in 2020, and finally released the little planet in 2021. Along the way, many of the recordings were left behind. Hard drives never sent. Miscommunications. I had a handful of mp3 files with no way to separate the drum sound from the vocal, or turn down a blaring bass. But I kept returning to those mp3s. They had that certain “thing.” Not quite ready for the public eye, but communicating something I liked. Most of the tunes were from the original Brooklyn studio sessions with Hans Bilger (bass), Lawson White (drums), and I playing live together – polaroids from a few long nights. 

Which brings Shawn Barry into the story. Shawn is one of my oldest friends and music collaborators from the 5th grade and beyond! He is a gifted composer, producer, and a creative goliath. I showed him the tunes, he believed, and we hatched the idea for a “B-Sides” project. Shawn worked with the songs making little additions, bringing certain frequencies up or down, doing a lot of music producer wizardry I don’t fully understand. He created a world for the tunes to take root, adding little moments and leaving others untouched. Shawn, ever traditional in his approach, added sounds from (to name a few) an acoustic guitar played with a cello bow, a saxophone trio pitched down an octave, and a clarinet recorded through the back of a piano. All with his playful and deft ability to protect “that thing.”

And so it became…"The Other Planet I’m From (B-Sides Pt. I & II)" !

Part 1 features “Nothing New” and “Pick Up The Phone.” Lonesome songs on either side of a restless sleep. A light bulb that won’t stop whining. A shoe mistaken for a hand. In Shawn’s words, “You let the ghosts bash through the door only to find they had something encouraging to tell you.” And as an unabashed fan of “extremely subtle” drumming, these are some of my all time favorite Lawson White drum performances.

Part 2 takes place in the daylight. On a street. In the kitchen. “Goodbye” is mostly in El Paso around a bowl of Guacamole with a candle stuck in it. “My Mother’s Hands,” is halfway into a batch of chicken soup in Hudson, NY. These songs were completed in slightly more traditional ways. Mainly because I had driven to Asheville, NC sometime in 2019 to record electric guitar parts with guitar Jedi Mike Sivilli (Dangermuffin), and bless the gods of hard drive backups, Mike was able to trace back and find the original sessions from 2019, allowing us to separate out individual tracks and instruments. Certain things were still baked in – vocal effects, layering, etc, but overall, part 2 takes on a more “bandly” shape.

And so you have it. A book finally closed. The other planet. Moon cheese. A look underneath the hood. I hope you enjoy!

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released January 5, 2023

Music and Lyrics by Jenner Fox
Production, Mixing, and Aux Sounds by Shawn Barry
Engineering and Percussion by Lawson White
Bass by Hans Bilger
Guitar and Vocals by Jenner Fox
Album Art by Michael Taylor

Mastering by Calyx Mastering

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There is something that happens inside a good song. A tootsie roll can take you back to your elementary school playground; the voice of a toothless refrigerator man reminds you to say “I love you.” Jenner Fox tells the stories of people and places with unparalleled compassion and respect. His artful tone, poetry, and fluency on his guitar do something only the brave ones do: let us in. ... more

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