Confidence Freaks Me Out is an exercise in patiently constructed joyous absurdity. Each compositional choice was guided by a desire to confound and amuse: if an arrangement felt too serious, it was reworked with a silly premise, “bad” decision, or dumb inside joke tucked into a supporting wall. Any or all parts became interchangeable, permuting and transmuting ad nauseam.

As the pieces unspooled, they became completely untethered from their original meanings, generating new and increasingly wacky artifacts: melodic mondegreens spinning off into miniatures, placeholder syllables begetting dissonant symphonic breakdowns, toy pianos quantizing into shaky Hindustani talas.

Scaffolded by process-first mutant serialism and maximalist cheek, the album crams every inch of the canvas with stimulation, tempered by a lighthearted stupidity. It’s artrock with a bit of orchestral goof, a timid ensemble with party hats on, two composeurs playing musical parlour games.

1. In The Style Of
2. Garbage In
3. Slippery Sorry
4. Narn With The Clarn
5. Amused By Their Comment
6. What's Up My Dude
7. Monsieur Monet
8. Lowercase Father
9. Sticky Heat
10. Is That Enough
11. Uh Oh
12. Shean And Lasso
13. So Easy
14. Me Out
15. Berry
16. Cardinal
17. Fictional Season
18. Confidence Freaks Me Out
19. Capital P Process
20. Posers
21. Validation
22. Sorry Baba
23. Ey Vaay
24. Giddyup

first press:
250 180-gram black vinyl