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Jason Urick - Fussing & Fighting 12" EP

Jason Urick – Fussing And Fighting 12″ EP is a limited edition vinyl release from Thrill Jockey.

Limited to 500 copies, Fussing And Fighting EP is presented with a 10″ x 6″ high-gloss photo print hand-pasted to the EP jacket.  There are 250 white jackets and 250 black jackets.

The title track is a perfect adventure in trance minimal dub electronica. Watch the promo video for Fussing And Fighting.

Unlike Husbands’ gentle washes of ambience, the songs on Fussing & Fighting are Jason Urick’s first in a very long time to incorporate any sort of rhythmic element.

With this release Urick appears to have made a conscious effort to slowly steer away from the experiments with density that were utilised on the album Husbands, opening up his music sonically and allowing things to breathe.

As with Husbands, all three of the original tracks were recorded by Urick himself at the famous Floristree Space in Baltimore.  The fourth and final piece on Fussing & Fighting is Matthew Papich of Ecstatic Sunshine’s reworking of the title track, recorded with engineer Craig Bowen.

Jason Urick is highly regarded in the Baltimore music and arts scene, through his work in WZT Hearts at the Floristree Space where he has curated many shows and festivals. Fussing and Fighting follows his solo album debut Husbands, and finds Urick pushing his music farther forward with new experiments in rhythm and sonic space.

“Husbands is a very compelling and enjoyable listen…it’s near faultless…these four tracks are certainly worth 43 minutes of anyone’s time” (8/10) – Drowned In Sound

The original tracks on the Fussing And Fighting 12″ EP were spawned during the period just after Urick completed his work on Husbands. After not listening to little else as he finished that album, Urick dove deep into some old faves, including Pita’s Get Out and also became obsessed with videos of London reggae linchpin Jah Shaka.

The three compositions included on this 12″ are experiments in trying to combine these influences into Urick’s working methods established for Husbands – manipulating sounds and samples on his laptop, mostly recorded using its built in microphone.

Jason Urick – Fussing And Fighting 12″ is released on 19th April on Thrill Jockey.