Cruel Optimism TSOV-INACTIVE-1 This LP is pressed on

This LP is pressed on standard black vinyl

janglingly fingerpicked wisps of melody and electronics baking in the all-too anemic sunshine of San Francisco's elusive summer

Duane Allman and Johnny Winter

ex-VIOLENT FEMMES saxman blowing on it

Cruel Optimism TSOV-INACTIVE-1 This LP is pressed onLP version. "Cruel Optimism is a record that considers power (present and absent). It meditates on how power consumes, augments, and ultimately shapes two subsequent human conditions: obsession and fragility. This edition owes it's title and it's origins to the wonderful text of the same name by American theorist Lauren Berlant. In Cruel Optimism, I found a number of critical readings around the issues that have fueled so much of the music I have been