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Tangleweed made every effort to record this in the style of an old field recording. The recording was made live to 2-track analog tape in the empty second-floor apartment of a two-flat in Chicago?s Logan Square neighborhood. All the tracks were recorded in one afternoon in November, 2004, by Bob Weston. Everything is live and unedited. There are no overdubs. The band was literally gathered around the antiquated stove used to heat the apartment. Bob set up two microphones to capture the instruments, as well as an old RCA ribbon mic in the general vicinity of the vocalists. No headphones or monitors were used. The band played through most of the songs theyt knew over the course of the afternoon, never taking more than a few passes on any tune. You can hear floorboards creak between takes. You can hear feet stomping. You can hear voices crack to be heard above the din of five instruments. It is a flawed record, but also a very human one.