Psychedelipop by The Alex Butter Field
"Psychedelipop is psychedelic pop: beautiful, complex, and rich in musical allusions, with a credit list that works as a pop quiz on the regional music scene. It’s a romantic album in the architectural sense: it feels like the moment of discovering Pet Sounds or neo-psychedelics like Echo and the Bunnymen, in the way that memories are sharply more intense than the actual experience and also in the way that memories are shaped around who we are right now."
— My Emu Is Emo
Tracklist
| 1. | Gardener | 3:44 |
| 2. | Candy's Got It | 3:21 |
| 3. | Pit of Fire | 4:29 |
| 4. | I Followed a Shadow | 2:17 |
| 5. | Radiating So Quietly | 4:11 |
| 6. | Rescue | 3:45 |
| 7. | She's Part of the Picture | 3:34 |
Credits
Hank Hoffman: Vocals, 6- & 12-String Electric Guitars, Electric Sitar, keyboards, Melodica
Tom Smith: Drums, Percussion, Invaluable Moral Support
Andy Karlok: Bass
Dean Falcone: Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Sitar, Keyboards
Scott Amore: Keyboards, Percussion
With:
The Furors (Derek Holcomb & Tom Dans): Background Vocals on "Gardener," "I Followed a Shadow," & "Pit of Fire"
Michael Deming: Background Vocals
Erik Elligers: Saxophone on “Rescue,” Malletophone on “Gardener”
Yannis Panos: Trumpet on “Rescue” & “Radiating So Quietly”
Netta Hadari: Violin on “Pit of Fire” & “She’s Part of the Picture”
Colin Benn: Viola on “Pit of Fire” & “She’s Part of the Picture”
Aimee Kanzler: Cello on “Pit of Fire” & “She’s Part of the Picture”
Jamie Sherwood: Electric Guitar on “Candy’s Got It,” Baritone Guitar on “Radiating So Quietly”
String Arrangement on “She’s Part of the Picture” by Dean Falcone
String Arrangement on “Pit of Fire” by Hank Hoffman with Dean Falcone
All Songs Composed by Hank Hoffman
© Hank Hoffman/Suburban Poser Music
Produced by Michael Deming, Scott Amore, & Hank Hoffman
Recorded at Studio 45 by Michael Deming and InnerSpaceSoundLabs by Scott Amore
Additional Recording by Bob Elliott at B.E.G. and Hank Hoffman at Suburban Poser Studio
Mixed by Michael Deming & Greg DiCrosta at Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven, CT
Mastered by Greg DiCrosta
Cover Artwork by Christian DiMenna
License
All rights reserved.
The Alex Butter Field is the studio psychedelic pop project of Hank Hoffman of Happy Ending (happyending1.bandcamp.com). Psychedelipop and Popsychle are the fruit of sessions spanning almost 20 years. Pop songs indebted to classic 1960s sounds, augmented with electric and acoustic sitars, fuzz guitar, strings, horns, keyboards and backwards tracks. Begun in 2002, available in 2020.