"American Standard" is my first full-length album and my most fully realized solo recording to date. The songs are expansive, slow-moving affairs with a playful and inclusive approach to song genre. Drone, EAI, melodic pop, consonance and dissonance, postminimalism, folk, noise, krautrock, glitch, post-rock, and additive/subtractive processes all have roles to play.

I worked on it over an 8 month period, before and after finishing the arrangements and recording process for Parenthetical Girls' Entanglements, and both records were released in 2008. I like to think of the two together as two different but not unrelated approaches to pop music. One that is hyper-dense and ontologically lazer-focused, another that is spacious and wide-open with an ambiguous self identity.

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1. Vortex at the Center of the World

2. Slab of Concrete

3. If I Only Knew Who You Were

4. Morgan Freeman's Voice

5. Let's Move (into the store)

6. Distancing Yourself

7. American Standard