Smelling Salts by Death and The Poetess

Your fav Elizabethan creepers are back! Death and The Poetess's 3rd RPM Challenge tips its chapeau to Weezer's Blue album, among other 1990s ghosts and Pumpkins. "Smelling Salts," a Jane Austen-esque title for a time-traveling mixtape full of Emily Dickinson worthy gallows humor (and a song from one of her poems). This record features some Princess Bride jokes alongside the mythology/archaeology-laden tunes you've come to expect from these cryptorian punks that watch too many history documentaries.

This year's contribution to the tomb-triptych of: Necropolis by the Sea (2019), and Red Skeleton (2020) is "Tomb-builders' Tombs," a love song about Deir el-Medina, Egypt. "Smelling Salts" the single is about social isolation and the character(s) and spirits one's home might now be inhabited by.

Smelling Salts: Implying one has been unconscious/faint, and one is waking to the liminal space of this record as astral time (restorative psychedelic). Or perhaps 2020 had you in the doldrums, your own personal non-linear oubliette. We welcome you warmly to - now. Have a whiff, slow exhale, peel yourself off your fainting chaise. Do please re-join the cosmic ball with us.

-jojo
2/28/21

Tracklist

1.	Smelling Salts	2:51

2.	Tomb-Builders' Tombs	2:18

3.	George Shankar-ing about	1:10

4.	Neptune Knows (L'appel du vide)	2:32

5.	Salacia	3:08

6.	Dang Emily	1:04

7.	Zounds!	3:01

Credits

released March 1, 2021

Blake Girndt: vocals, synths, guitar, 12-string, bass, production, and finalizing album art.
jojo Lazar: vocals, flute, ukuleles (soprano and concert), additional guitar on Shankar-ing, and album art paintings.

Recorded at Ghost 'n' Bones
Created for RPM challenge Feb 2021: www.rpmchallenge.com

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