1 Locate S Wicked Jaw Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Sky Blue Vinyl.From teddy grahams to pussy hats, California forest fires to cash cabs, the stuff of American nostalgia and horror adorns a personal reckoning on Christina Schneider's triumphant third album as Locate S,1. With a name culled from a Daschel Hammitt noir novel, Wicked Jaw pulls from wildly disparate references and textures to survey the history of American pop music. The Athens, Georgia based songwriter, producer, and virtuosic pop connoisseur authored the album over twoyears while beginning treatment for childhood sexual abuse by a relative. "I was using these songs as an expression valve for all of these different parts (of myself) that I was trying to integrate," she explained. The result is a surprisingly tender and often jubilant set of conversations with the ghostsof painful memories, Schneider transforming her metaphysical scars into gleaming armor as she redefines herself on her own terms.Following 2020's Personalia , an album Schneider created in collaboration with producer and romantic partnerKevin Barnes (Of Montreal) - where reviews often displaced credit for Schneider's intricate electropop to Barnes - Wicked Jaw finds Schneider decidedly and unequivocally at thehelm, as the album's sole producer. It's a stylistic departure from Personalia in many ways, beyond personnel. Spanning decades and genres from doowop to cold wave, disco to soft rock, Wicked Jaw has the vitality of full band tracking at its core.Wicked Jaw both is and isn't a pandemic album. The dystopic terror of COVID-19 is an omnipresent touchpoint in the songs, which Schneider began writing in the summer of 2020, but the virus functions as a gateway for interpersonal analysis and reflection. What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century? What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a survivor? Schneider digs tunnels into collective memory on songs like "Go Back to Disnee," a devastating bossa nova track that could soundtrack an episode of White Lotus.Wicked Jaw offers a similar ther...