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Our fourth album: thirteen songs about arsonists, King Lear, the Titanic, a corpse in a glacier, a giant lizard monster, and the benefits of playing tabletop fantasy board games in solitary confinement. Recorded in 2018, over 14 weeks, in Kurt’s spankin’-new basement studio. Features a ‘pocket orchestra’ of fifteen guest musicians culled from the Missoula indie scene.

Mack Gilcrest – vocals, keyboards, percussion
Kurt Skrivseth – bass, guitars, mandolin
Austin Graef – drums, percussion

The Absent Friends are:
Taylor Caprara – vocals [Night Atlas, Mercy (I), Inner Space, The Other Side of Mercy (II), Absent Friends]
Eric Stahl – vocals [Homecoming, The Other Side of Mercy (II), Absent Friends]
Bethany Ordiniza – flute, vocals [Night Atlas, Absent Friends]
Olivia Adams – oboe [Night Atlas, Absent Friends]
Victoria Havel – clarinet [Night Atlas, The Iceman Cometh, Absent Friends]
Matt Austin – tenor saxophone [Absent Friends]
Nathan Crawford – trumpet, vocals [Homecoming, For Iago, The Iceman Cometh, The Other Side of Mercy (II), Absent Friends]
Josh Hungate – trombone [Homecoming, For Iago, The Other Side of Mercy (II), Absent Friends]
Will Cook – violin [Night Atlas, The Iceman Cometh, The Other Side of Mercy (II), Absent Friends]
Matt Wellert – cello [Night Atlas, The Iceman Cometh, The Other Side of Mercy (II), Absent Friends]
Brady Hanson – pipa, banjo, vocals [Homecoming, Absent Friends]
Lucas Mesenko – banjo [Absent Friends]
Henry Mansfield - saw [Mercy (I)]
Ryan Carr – harmonica [Absent Friends]
Thomas Hensley – jaw harp [Absent Friends]

Music and lyrics by Pale People
Orchestral arrangements by Mack Gilcrest
Mixed, engineered, and produced by Kurt Skrivseth
Mastered by Jason Suko at South Sound Sound
Album artwork by Kurt Skrivseth
Special thanks to Nikki Koontz, Cooper Hyde, Hillary Lester, Leon Slater, and Patrick Williams
Copyright © 2018 Pale People Music

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