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Warping All By Yourself

by Wet Tuna

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    New Tuna means new time to COMmune with the tunes you need to make life real. "Warping All By Yourself" is presented here on tasty 140g black vinyl pressed by Furnace Mfg. in Virginia and ready for your enjoyment. Housed within delightful Dawn Aquarius artwork with insert. Mmmhmm.

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1.
Raw Food 07:45
2.
ain’t no turnin back when this is going on mighty cloud of joy keeps rolling in time and space left behind and i like it i like it like that let me be ain’t no turnin back when this is going on DIY renter faked it ’til it made it mathoms in piles posted land for miles free folk is a motherfucker shit you’re a big freak so many reamers let me be so many punishers inbetween ain’t no turnin back when this is going on ain’t no turnin’ back hey now get wet near the townline we could be the last bastion down at the coop we might be running out of rations thanks for nothin i’ll help you build another stanchion yeah much obliged down at the grange the bands don’t start ’til later down at the grange they still cast their votes on paper how you doin’? see ya later we’ll see ya ain’t no turnin back when this is going on
3.
fruit punch rando very fine scando/scandal watermelon sugar obnoxion hooker dankazoid jam dial up scam dollar bin punisher zen rummager space herbalist young green outrage fatigue inner peace chasing space dark lord half fried trying to score mid mod hot boo enormous jackpot with attitude metal militia homesteader pocket saver geek messiah baked case roll a pinner boozy pie with the stump humper unicorn blood down the pub laser hag cougar sag spectral geezer gravity between the knees sweet sweet chump change i can’t give you anything but sweet chump change can’t give you anything but sweet sweet sweet chump change
4.
so much vibe in the world some people are crazy they like to walk on the world some people are wild they like to walk on air when you’re lost in everything and negativity stares why don’t you walk on air and go easy so much vibe in the world go easy daylight is a pimp chump change just for you all i wanna do is be love is be loved by you with a new vibe going easy new vibe go easy there’s so much vibe in the world go easy there’s so much trouble in the world so much vibe in the world so much
5.
kinda feeling good my heart is beating i’m so grateful to be here right now don’t want space just want environments to be with you feeling good kinda feelin’ good i’m all analog don’t need a screen my eyes see you my eyes see the atmosphere don’t need a screen i just need a view to see you feelin good kinda feelin good my heart is beating don’t want space just want environments to be with you feeling good feelin good kinda feelin good
6.
been so long since i heard from you we got time and i can see the moon won’t you tell me where you been i knew you had to fly away by the stateline doing just fine you didn’t mean that much to me it didn’t mean that much to me been so long been so long
7.
Raw Food 06:32
when you’re outta raw food and off your game better go out and grow it or you’ll throw it away when all is lost and you find it in the hay you better roll in it you better roll it raw raw food raw food when you’re out hustling for raw food and your mating ritual is a coup for raw food well cheer up raw food hustler because it’s all around you until there’s no more raw food raw food

about

The kaleidoscopic sonic agriculture of Wet Tuna has long inhabited its own universe. Over the past five years, they have established themselves as one of the most forward thinking and anarchic of the many groups rethinking and reconceptualizing the notion of the “jam band,” all the while frustrating critical attempts to slot the group’s music into any scene, sound, or easily classifiable genre fad.

For Wet Tuna’s latest, "Warping All By Yourself," Matt “MV” Valentine—occasionally aided by longtime collaborators Samara Lubelski, Erika “EE” Elder, Mick Flower and Doc Dunn—flies mostly solo. Continuing the ‘Tuna’s m.o. of homegrown, dubwise psychedelia that eternally pivots on the edge of chaos and funk, "Warping All By Yourself" is as radical and beguiling as anything in the band’s—or, for that matter, its principle architects’—discography.

There remains a beautiful simplicity at the core of MV’s workbench alchemy; as with the music of Can, there is in his productions almost always a lodestar fixed within the eye of whatever maelstrom or fragmented primal abstractions surround it. On "Warping All By Yourself," funk and soul are both the unifying principles and the unlikely bedrocks upon which everything else orbits and rests, resulting in a concoction of iconoclastic, free-dancing music that has as much in common with Funkadelic as it does Crazy Horse.

Beginning with the sound of lapping waves on the shore of Coney Island, opener “Raw Food” sets the stage with an indica-kissed fever dream of shoegaze-y guitar and vocals over a slinky, sumptuous bass lurch; breakbeat-laced “Ain’t No Turnin’ Back” recalls the enigmatic street boogie of Royal Trux circa “Inside Game,” while “Kinda Feelin’ Good” foregrounds a slow-motion Earl “Chinna” Smith-style groove before dissolving into the kind of thick and blurry vortex from which a thousand e-damaged A.R. Kane fans have never returned.

The album’s high point might be the irresistible “Sweet Chump Change,” perhaps the first Wet Tuna jam you could seamlessly sandwich into a DJ set between Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” and A Tribe Called Quest’s “Award Tour.” Over a blood-pumping bed of warm keyboards, drums, and hand percussion, MV and EE free associate on what sound like potential song titles for some Kyuss-worshiping stoner rock band (“Geek messiah…unicorn blood, down at the pub…spectral geezer…gravity tweeze…”), while MIDI flutes, organs, and cascading, painterly guitars peek and poke through the cosmic fug. An absolute banger.

The kinetic, psychedelic, and downright fun "Warping All By Yourself" serves as further proof that the most visionary, truly original American art continues to be made on the margins. Don’t sleep—get Wet!

-James Toth, 2022-

credits

released April 8, 2022

Matt *MV* Valentine (all instruments, stories, possessions)

special guests:
Samara Lubelski (electric violin, backing vocals)
Barry Weisblat (Coney Island WAVes)
Mick Flower (backing vocals)
Doc Dunn (backing vocals)
Erika Elder (backing vocals)

studios:
Sweet Pond
Ridge Street
Harvest Manor
Flowerhouse
Coney Island Audio

engineers:
Rabbit, Vega, Erika, Whiteleaf, Samara, Coot

mastered by Carl Saff

front cover by Dawn Aquarius

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Three Lobed Recordings is a boutique record label that specializes all flavors of psychedelia. The label was started in 2000 and is largely operated by cats.

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