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How To Become A Recluse

by Chalk

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1.
Emptiness 03:46
2.
Try 02:26
3.
A Withered Collapse of a Cleaned Out Character 03:53
4.
Our Town 03:20
5.
Slept With a Knife 04:08
6.
Everyone's Problem, No One's Problem 03:17
7.
There Are Certain Things Haven't Told You 05:45
8.
A Song For a Friend 04:24
9.
He Stole 04:32
10.
I Don't Care 02:46
11.
It's Fine 04:27
12.
Your Twisted Up Tale 06:03
13.
You Are Dead 01:03
14.
We Should Go to the Funeral Because Then We Can Say We Were There 05:00

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"How To Become A Recluse is the sort of record that says more in a whisper than a thousand screaming voices could ever accomplish - it is, in the truest sense, a human soul laid bare; there's nowhere to hide when the majority of a record is one voice and one guitar working in synchronicity. The best records are born from honesty and when coupled with the talent of a gifted songwriter and stroyteller, as in the case of Chalk, the result can't help but be a triumph. This is a gift for a rainy day, a reflective collection of thoughts that is so universally identifiable that it's as if Chalk has ripped a hole into your deepest hopes and fears, stuck his hand in, and had a good old pull on the strings." - Glasswerk Magazine

"Praise thus far has thrown in comparisons to the likes of Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse, and while there is a sense of that lofi, mid-Nineties sense of gloominess to his recordings, there’s no doubt the songs that make-up his new, and second, full-length are inescapably British. These songs carry a sense of resignation as forlorn as a seaside town left to rot through a morose Winter, where the gritty grey streets exist only as a map of what might have been, what’s already been and gone. Through every fuzzed-out slab of guitar and strained, downcast vocal, bleeds a kind of heart-fulled passion that swings almost-manically between stern defiance and unalloyed indignation." - GoldFlakePaint

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released October 27, 2014

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