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Completed Songs

by Sloping

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1.
Brute Force 03:57
The car smells like piss And orange slices Zoned out at the corner market entrance Or aging gracefully As a prop As a gutted building It comes around less often We don’t know you like that Nothing’s owed you like that An easy joke, I noticed you misspoke But you’re not misunderstood, you’re just awful
2.
Raft 03:47
Atone Bite my tongue Start again real slow Do I treat you awful When I leave my body? We’re born different You were always above True hacks take it easy on themselves, and I won’t do it Pollen Blue-green paint Residue from old tape Whether I know or I don’t know Resign to wrestle out or outgrow
3.
Clay 02:03
4.
Fitting Room 03:43
It was a hatchet job, I came in first and left last Trying to be thorough Overslept again and let the dishes all stack Building your cathedral You’re looking for an out, and it’s fitting you look in the well-lit places Brittle, green-yellow Pressed against the red clay on our feet Tried to exit quietly The whole house bending 60hz and throbbing endlessly Was it all conditioning?
5.
Nudge 02:10
Fetishize the past and now you get to live it The snake creeps back soon as you forgive it Fetishize the past and now you get to buy it The snake creeps back soon as it gets quiet I’ve forgiven a lot of things Never man-made scarcity Driving past a row of empty buildings
6.
Fir 02:34
Creatures of habit Call me when you haven’t run back to where the pain is I get it, I just can’t laugh with it It never worked for me
7.
Treading 05:25
Red clay, treading water at the lake Northeast Georgia, four to a backseat Every summer I get closer Hardest part of a new life Reconcile the old one sober Even just one night Cloud-eyed stray cat let inside Peers out, drizzle, asleep on the couch
8.
Trail 01:58
Trailing off when you talk at all Should’ve waited til the morning for those pills Trying not to sound concerned checking in You’d take that wrong Tell a story, your eyes half-closed Recognize it as a play I had to read Effortless, but honestly, What do you get out of this? Effortlessly Effortless, but honestly, What do you get out of this?
9.
Bench Seat 03:43
I assume You won’t remember me So I’ve been workshopping my thousand-yard stare To jog your memory All you contain would be lost on me Better I stay slumped in the backseat And I assume Nothing I do lasts We’ve been preserving your childhood chess set To sell you on the past All night went down like you saw in a dream Recreate the room from memory And I can tell by the slant of your letters you mean it this time I’m a stain dried in your clothes, a guard rail viewed up close Every streak of paint shows Far too close to leave clean

about

[SAL003]

How do you process emotion?
How do you come to terms with past and present self, while trying to remain optimistic for the future? How do you know who you are?

These are questions that JJ Posway asks on ​“Completed Songs​,” the debut album from his new project Sloping​.

Although some might recognize Posway as the lead songwriter for the band ​Scooterbabe, Sloping emerges as the next evolution of Posway’s lineage. Similar to how an anthology is a collection of series writings, ​“Completed Songs” ​serves as the next chapter to a history being written (and self-consciously re-written) by Posway himself. ​“Completed Songs”​ explores more organic sounds through a mysterious potion of twangy layers, sampling and silence, resulting in a beautifully natural chamber of reflection.

The album progresses from acoustic ruminations to synthesized memoirs, showing technique, patience and practice. Each track serves as a window, giving you a direct view into a moment of time, using decidedly ambiguous language to capture the feeling in a way that sheds through each verse. Practice makes perfect, and no one knows that better than Posway himself. If ​Sloping ​serves as an escapist diary, then ​“Completed Songs” ​is the voyeur’s journey – complete with twists and turns, a changing narrative with moral ambiguities, and an endless amount of heart. (Bio by Maria Lewczyk)

credits

released February 26, 2021

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by JJ Posway except where noted.

Recorded 2018-2019 in Nashville TN, Athens GA and Atlanta GA.

Taylor Chicoine - drum recording, additional mixing
Terence Chiyezhan - mastering, additional mixing and production, album art
Zach Spires - drums on Fir and Trail
Anna Staddon - vocals on Treading
Morgan Middleton - album cover photo
Karl Kuehn - cassette layout

Fir - (Posway, Spires)
Trail - (Posway, Spires, Chicoine)

Thanks to:

Taylor and Terence for indispensable guidance.

Rachel Scarbrough for crucial critique.

Bri Aab, Michael Buice, Dan Clifford, Cecile Duncan, Nathan Kerce, Maria Lewczyk, Alec Livaditis, Morgan Middleton, Will Miller, Shil K. Patel

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