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Look

by Fred Smith

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    Deluxe 12" vinyl version of the acclaimed new Fred Smith album, 'Look'. It's a special limited edition with only 150 copies printed. Comes complete with lyrics and a download link to WAV files including bonus tracks. Looks great; sounds great.

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Time Flies 03:34
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In this hotel isolation, here within these walls that bind, plenty room for rumination, in the corners of my mind In this hotel isolation, I look around the room and find, old regrets and new frustrations, in the corners of my mind Motel room is beige and empty, ugly curtains broken blinds, fridge and television tempt me, from the corners of my mind Working world is unforgiving, pretty soon my plane is flying, guess a man can’t make a living, in the corners of his mind Back at home our daughter’s sleeping, hope the school kids treat her kind, hope she knows I love her deeply, in the corners of my mind I'd come home if you forgave me, the many ways I was unkind, you're the only one can save me, from the corners of my mind I could open up the curtains, I could open up the blinds, shed some light on where i'm hurting, in the corners of my mind
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Strange How 03:15
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For Myself 03:57
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Hel 03:54
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Crisis 03:07
Sittin in my kitchen sipping on a cup of tea, wishing I was fishing in the 1970’s crisis after crisis on my digital TV, crisis on devices so it seems this way to me: It’s a crisis, It’s a crisis Cretins in the Kremlin are criminally insane, Putin started shooting and now we’re rooting for Ukraine Looking for solutions and we’re gonna need them fast, Europe’s cold since Putin started turning off the gas It’s a crisis, It’s a crisis China’s buying miners and their lining up Taiwan, health care and the welfare has collapsed in Lebanon Northern Rivers flooding but Afghanistan is dry, this café’s out of almond milk and I can’t get Wi-Fi it’s a crisis It’s a crisis, It’s a crisis All the academics and a couple of my friends, say that this pandemic is the beginning of the end Icecaps are amelting and the seas are getting hot, dammit if this planet aint the only one we got its in crisis
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Lenny 05:13
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about

Fred Smith’s new album, “Look’, is in the can ready for release ahead of a series of tour dates in the latter half of 2023.

Although many of the songs were written at a time when Fred was working in or on Afghanistan, he describes the recording as “a collection of songs that are not about Afghanistan”.

They are about the stuff of our lives and the world we live in: the speed of modern life, love, isolation, and the internet in a world that seems to be lurching forward by a rolling series of crises.

The recording offers a warm blend of mirth and meaning and would fit well in your kitchen.

There are odes to the artist’s influences: Leonard Cohen, Helen Garner and a deceased Brisbane lawyer-folksinger and friend, John Thompson. These walk a nice line between tribute and piss take.

Mortality and introspection weave it through, and are masterfully handled too, served with trademark Fred wry bread.

Smith toys with a range of feels on the album from pop to rumba to bluegrass, but there are a couple of gentle ballads (“Come and Say Goodnight”, “Corners of My Mind”). Their intimacy reminds us why every generation rediscovers folk.

There’s a squiggly thread in the absurd running through the recording, absurdity the only sensible response to being human.

And that’s the bottom line with this recording: it’s a good one for humans.

credits

released October 13, 2023

Musicians
Fred Smith Acoustic guitars, ganjo and harmonicas
Fiete Geier Electric guitars; drums 2, 13, 14; bass 2, 13, 14
Carl Pannuzzo Piano 2, 6, 8, 12; organ 2, 8, 12; backing vocals 1, 2, 6
Mitch Preston Drums 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9
Matt Nightingale Double and electric bass 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9
Jen Lush Backing vocals 3
Mal Webb Horns and backing vocals 9
Kylie Morrigan Backing vocals 9
Liz Frencham Double bass 10
Stephen Taberner Choral vocals on 10

Production
Production by Fiete Geier and Fred Smith
All tracks recorded and mixed by Fiete Geier with some vocals and guitars recorded by Fred at home
Piano on 12 recorded by Carl Pannuzzo at the Forge Theatre, Bairnsdale
Rhythm sections for 3, 4, 7, 9 recorded by Jack Buchanan at David Pendragon’s studio
Mastered by Kimmo Vennonen

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Fred Smith Canberra, Australia

“Fred Smith is simply the best folk/country musician working in this country in 2020. Beyond writing some of the finest songs about Australians at war, he has created a repertoire that is wry, literate, witty, powerfully emotional and insightful.”(Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald). ... more

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