Sound it Out # 36: Earlimart - “97 Heart Attack” (MP3)

Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray make records as Earlimart and also help other artists make theirs. Aaron owns The Ship Recording Studio in LA, which evolved from a group of friends who liked to drink beer and play music to a place where artists from around the globe come to make records.

The studio employs the latest recording technology, but Aaron also likes to toy with old-school techniques.

Here he is sanding 500 pieces of wood for a homemade quadratic diffuser for the studio:

...And here’s that same diffuser on the cover of the new Earlimart record:

This is all to say that Aaron is around music-making all day and he sure knows how to write a song.

The new Earlimart record is called System Preferences and Aaron is releasing it in his own Ship Records digitally on September 18; an LP and CD release follows on October 16. This is Earlimart's first record in over four years and it’s a sad and beautiful bunch of songs.

“97 Heart Attack” is my favorite kind of Earlimart song, where Ariana and Aaron take turns with the vocals and tell a heartbreaking story. It’s not going to smash you over the head with massive hooks; Earlimart is more subtle than that. After a few listens though, the song starts to creep into your mind the way the best songs do...and stays there. I hope you like it.

BONUS: Earlimart is one of my favorite bands, so our “E” beekeeping box bears their name. Please forgive my 5th grade-level painting skills.

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Amy worked in the record business at Enigma, Elektra, Virgin and Sub Pop before she got sucked into the technology vortex. She co-founded the Backwards Beekeepers, a chemical-free urban beekeeping collective in Los Angeles. She runs digital marketing for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Hollywood Bowl.

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me me

such a good call on the cornershop bee boxes. they are so completely overlooked.
me me

the band cornershop is overlooked, rather than the bee boxes.
creesto

I wonder how much wiki traffic was generated for “quadratic diffuser”
http://profile.yahoo.com/P3J5PK3CUFGD57C7EAKTCF2WBY mark

I can tell by looking at it that that’s not a Quadratic diffuser. It’s probably a Primitive Root Diffuser, but it could also be just a random selection of wood pieces. Without more details or measurements, it’s impossible to say.
http://twitter.com/sashwap dan jircitano

G BEE V!!

Earlimart - “97 Heart Attack” (free MP3)

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