Your Life Fucking Matters, Don’t Ever Fucking Give Up

by Absinthe Mind

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ukilla Whew! This album is fantastic. Organic and eery sounds, excellent instrumentation and mixing, with a down-home feeling, highlighted by iD’s vocals. Awesome, thank you!

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1.	Longing for Omaha 05:45	buy track
2.	Weathering Bones 03:55	buy track
3.	Empty Hearts 03:28	buy track
4.	Crimea River 03:21	buy track
5.	Halfway 03:58	buy track
6.	Break Me 02:59	buy track
7.	For You... 03:42	buy track
8.	Take Off 03:12	buy track
9.	Maajike 02:36	buy track
10.	Sour Hearts (original mono mic performance) 03:36	buy track
11.	Selfish 03:02	buy track
12.	Soured Hearts 03:26	buy track
13.	Had Enough 03:18	buy track
14.	Able to Kill 02:53	buy track
15.	Cans and Bottles 03:19	buy track
16.	Simple Tongue 03:45	buy track
17.	You Are 04:39	buy track
18.	Fucking Beautiful 03:13	buy track
19.	Chapter 11 04:45	buy track
20.	1,000 Days 04:24	buy track
21.	Gone4Good 02:59	buy track

about

Here is an early collection of Absinthe Mind music that was originally released on cassette. Currently we are working on remixing songs that we can, finishing partial recordings, and looking at what we can do with the most recent material we had been writing. In the mean time I thought it would be nice to start centralizing these early Absinthe recordings. Due to a lost hard drive we no longer have any of the original stems to these recordings so there’s not much else we can do with them.

Isaac and I started writing songs together in 2012. The basic idea was that I would write a piece on an open tuned acoustic guitar, record it, and hand it over to Isaac. In the beginning Kaylee Thomas played a big part in creating our sound with additional vocals, fiddles, and banjos. And so did Jasper, lending us his house to write and record in along with some extra sprankles. As the years went on Isaac and Jared took it upon themselves to provide the additional sounds. I hope you can enjoy our collaboration of musicianship as much as we have. Thanks for following along with us!

Tracks 1-10:
After having recorded a demo track for Isaac, I was inspired by the technique iD utilized to write music on the guitar. Isaac had only learned how to play guitar by writing his own music. I wanted to tap into that raw writing style and I started only using open tunings in an effort to discharge the muscle memory of playing standard tunings.

We started writing music slowly as we about an hour’s drive away from each other. During this process we found solace in Jasper’s shed as a perfect place to write and record music. After putting these ideas down we brought Kaylee in the finish everything with additional vocals, fiddles and banjos. And the rest is what became the first Absinthe Mind album, “Your Life Fucking Matters”. We made some dope ass DIY cassette cases and spread the music as far as we could.
2012-2015

Track 11-19
As a way to create music at a faster pace, I opted to record all my acoustic guitar tracks onto an analog 4-track recorder and then dump them off onto iD’s digital recorder in Lawrence. At this time Isaac worked to add some electric guitars and organs to the raw guitar tracks. Filing out some of those open sounds.
2015-2016

Track 20 & 21:
Isaac had recently moved to KCMO and I was working on some different ideas on how to record in a mobile capacity. We used Apple’s Garage Band and recorded exclusively on an iPad, however after 2 tracks we decided to go back to the analog method. These two tracks were recorded at Isaac and Sedona’s house in Waldo. These tracks have not previously been released on an album.
2017

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released July 24, 2021

Jared Lee- Acoustic Guitars, some sprinkles here and there along with a hint of vox
Isaac Diehl- Vocals, some electric sprinkles, and organs
Kaylee Thomas- vocals, fiddles, and banjos
Jasper the Friendly Host- Acoustic Sprankles and general hospitality
Bree Thomas-Original Cover Art

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Absinthe Mind Lawrence, Kansas

Music made to inspire you to run away from all of your problems and to get lost in the wilderness.

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