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Appetite For Redaction

by The Size Queens

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    The Freeedom of Information Act and Wikileaks have enabled us to offer 25 discs, manufactured and pre-sold in (virtually) “leak-proof,” confidential dossiers conceptualized and produced by Adam Klein and Chuck Mobley, numbered, and signed by songwriters Klein/Mullen, including lyrics and original archival, redacted documents tracing the activities of the band over the past 6 years since the recording of “Is It In Yet?” in 2005. This new release and its companion limited-edition disk and dossier are available alongside The Size Queens’ oeuvre only online at Bandcamp. First come, first serve. Dossiers will be sent out to arrive in time for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in plain, brown envelopes. The name "The Size Queens" will not appear on your billing statement. Limited to 2 Editions of 25 each.

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“Appetite for Redaction” is loosely strung together by narratives that might have been (and probably were) picked up by surveillance. New York City and Kabul are interchangeable and abstracted as though observed by a drone. In each city, life persists with minesweepers, insurgents, former terrorists, tired revolutionaries, sad activists, trafficked men and women – most trying to maintain their apartments or jobs at any cost, or to make things seem normal. One of the indirect consequences of this ten-year war has been singer Adam Klein’s assistant professorship at The American University of Afghanistan. (Proof that there really are jobs out there if you look for them!) Vaguely influenced by the likes of John Cale and Big Star, “Appetite For Redaction” sounds like celestially decaying space junk, Vic Chesnutt ranting at the gates of St. Peter, and Nina Simone in a knife fight on an elevator. It sounds like robots trying to articulate without code and Kim Jong Il trying on sunglasses at a Walgreens. It sounds like screeching trains in rain-soaked tunnels, and quarters and pocket lint sorted in CoinStar machines. It sounds like the death rattle of liberal America in a downgraded democracy. The saddest things do come back, and The Size Queens have done so, too. While their new record is plaintive, full of desperate late-night outings, and the thunder of distant or impending violence, it also features some of the band’s most heartbreakingly concise pop melodies yet.

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released September 11, 2011

For this record, The Size Queens consist of the usual suspects: Tim Mooney [formerly of American Music Club and The Toiling Midgets: production, drums, bass, guitar]; Carlos Forster [formerly of For Stars, now a solo artist whose album “Family Trees” was just released on Hush Records: backing vocals]; Mike Carnahan [of The Green Door: bass, guitar]; John Murry [of Bob Frank and John Murry fame: guitar]; Danny Pearson [former bass player of American Music Club: guitar] Michael Mullen [of the solo project Pocket Shelley: piano, keyboards] and Adam Klein [author of “Tiny Ladies” and “The Medicine Burns:" vocals].

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THE SIZE QUEENS 2005-2017
After 12 years, 8 records and 1 EP, the loose-knit group of artists and activists, musicians and poets quietly and amicably disbanded and the art rock experiment that was The Size Queens was completed.

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