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CARE​/​TAKING

by Jess Cornelius

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    Pre-order of CARE/TAKING. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases June 14, 2024

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    On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING, the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness. Where Cornelius’ 2020 debut Distance found her untethered moving across continents and entering a solo career after a long stint fronting the Australian band Teeth & Tongue, this LP has the songwriter firmly established in her California home but no less at a crossroads. Over 10 intricate and immediate songs, she grapples with squaring global crises and insecurities with the transformations and responsibilities in her life. It’s searching indie rock that’s as biting as it is comforting.

    12" oblivion white vinyl in a standard jacket.

    PRE-ORDER LP WILL SHIP 1 WEEK BEFORE JUNE 14, 2024. ANY PRODUCTS ORDERED WITH THIS PRE-ORDER WILL BE HELD TO SHIP TOGETHER.

    Includes digital pre-order of CARE/TAKING. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    Purchasable with gift card

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1.
Tui Is a Bird (The Work)
2.
Back to the Mainland
3.
I used to be a different person Go out in the evening Had a lot to say But all of that is changed I gave away Pieces of my body And my brain I’ll get it back some day I used to think that I was different Something in the movement In my mind But I was far from right I was just the same Full of hope and promise Never coming true I wanted more from you But I know That if I could do it all again I’d do it just the same ‘Cause people are always forgetting the words to their song And people move on People move on Please don’t tell me what you’re thinking I don’t need to know it You’ve said too much That cannot be unheard Now it’s a worm Planted in my shadow Growing by the day I wish it didn’t work that way But I know That if I could do it all again I’d do it just the same ‘Cause both of us have forgotten the words to our song And people move on People move on And this, this is for my girl It’s about her daddy He is a good man I loved him all I can But love is a strange thing For you it’s never waning You are the big light.
4.
Desire
5.
The Surgeon
6.
Dying
7.
Cloud Postcard
8.
To the Desert
9.
Laps in the Drugstore
10.
When I Was Alive

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releases June 14, 2024

Produced by Mikal Cronin and Jess Cornelius.

Recorded by Mikal at The Grunge Dungeon and Daniel McNeil at Harmonizer Studios. Additional recording by Jess. Mixed by Tony Buchen. Mastered for all formats by Amy Dragon at Telegraph.

All songs written by Jess Cornelius.

Jess: Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic and nylon-string guitar, keys & synths, bass on 6.
Mikal: Bass, electric and acoustic guitars, saxophone, piano, keys & synths, backing vocals on 2, percussion.
Steven Urgo: Drums, percussion.

Cover art and layout by Lina Müller.

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Jess Cornelius Los Angeles, California

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux. On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING, the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness. ... more

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