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Recorded to analog tape and crafted under the scorching Los Angeles summer sun at Studio 22, Scorpion Tea's sessions were led by producer Tomas Dolas (of Osees). “We spent six days in the brutal end of summer heat, with tons of equipment running, causing the heat outside to match the heat inside,” explains guitarist Christian Cruz, "It was nothing less than hallucinatory."
While the well-rehearsed and prepared quartet brought the power of performance, expressivity and their uncompromising ethics, Dolas and studio partner Joo Joo Ashworth (Air Bol Bol) also brought unique devices into the sessions, including a legendary Eventide H910 Harmonizer, to assist with the album's unique character. "Scorpion Tea were a real pleasure to work with,” marks Dolas, “Truly monsters playing broken instruments! They had such a great raw and dystopian energy in the studio. I think all that heat definitely got infused into the tracks!"
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