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Last Year's Model

by Fur Trader

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1.
Altar Boy/33 04:20
I was an altar boy stealing turpentine Turning time with Mary Francis I kissed the neck of a tabernacle girl As she lit the candles My whole body trembled Down to my soul Down the fiery aisle to the king Of a Sunday swarm of miscreeds Could you believe the American in me? Kneeling down forever On cold black beds of embers Down in my soul The empty pulmonary ghost in my chest The pain never seems to rest Now I’m thirty-three and probably should be more thirsty For things like Jesus Now I’m his age When he died I was an altar boy feeling serpentine Serving time with Father Matthew I masturbate and then reconciliate Two black orbs above me All those sins inside me Down in my soul Pouring holy water on his hands As he blew the candles I made love to a boy before a girl Haunting me forever A nightmare caught in amber Down in my soul The empty pulmonary ghost in my chest The pain never seems to rest Now I’m thirty-three and probably should be more thirsty For things like Jesus Now I’m his age When he died
2.
Empty Bottle 03:16
I'm a rock bottom biter Chasin' down Uber drivers You fell for me full throttle Back at the Empty Bottle Come slay with me Through the fat ass rats and the drunk psychopaths And sway with me Like drapes in drafty, drab apartments Throw your white harms around me The boy with the growing army Chasin' down last year's model Down at the Empty Bottle Come slay with me Through the constant fate of garage alleyways And stay with me On half a couch, gun shots down the block Hold me Tell me who you think I should be Poor me I'm a bit too half in the bag To see Smashin' into something down at Marie's Probably isn't who I should be Come slay with me Through the fat ass rats and the drunk psychopaths And sway with me Like drapes in drafty, drab apartments
3.
October(Otr) 03:26
My heartache is narrowed My bones spilling marrow On pillows filled with thoughts to die young My window is arching Down Armitage marching Dead leaves on white kids' white Keds I'll take October on the rocks And trouble November when it's here My bloodline is buried In gray cemeteries All over the suburbs Northwest With Jesus and Nero And all the five pharaohs I wish I had gold in my tomb I'll take October on the rocks And trouble November when it's here I'll take October on the rocks And trouble November when it's here
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I'm on your side but I should apologize For almost leaving you in Bismarck, don't ask why
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Badlands 04:36

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Last Year's Model is the first album I (Andrew) finished when I moved to Los Angeles from Chicago. A few of the songs were done with Steve Shirk in Chicago prior to moving west, but all the music was finished in Los Angeles. It was a strange experience to put together a story about strong mixed feelings leaving a city and a place you've called home your whole life, and that's what this album is.

I broke up with my band in Chicago and it was immensely hard. Letting go of strained friendships and the feeling of failure, loss of community. The best time of my life was with that band, and my subsequent time living in the city of Chicago. Strange to reflect on that from a new city in a new state, where I am no one. Still today, I am no one. But I can listen to this record and sort of piece together my feelings on it all. At least I have that. Wondering if a relationship can withhold immense change (it has), wondering if music could be something I make on my own, for me (it is).

In some ways, I'm more of an artist now than I was during the timeline of this album. So much less bullshit and pomp. I gained a lot of autonomy, started recording when I felt like it rather than when I needed to. I miss those older days pretty deeply, as evidenced by these songs. I'll probably write an album about the days I'm currently living. I'm actually sort of doing that already. Anyway, thanks for listening and engaging. I hope you find some sort of familiarity with this story. It's arranged both geographically and chronologically. Have a great rest of the year.

Andrew
October 2022

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released August 7, 2020

Produced by Andrew Pelletier

Tracks 1,5,7 recorded and mixed by Stephen Shirk at Shirk Studios Chicago
Tracks 2,3,4,6 recorded and mixed by Andrew Pelletier at home in Los Angeles
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering
Cover design by Richard Shell
All songs written by Andrew Pelletier (Dolphin Boy Publishing ASCAP)

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Fur Trader Los Angeles, California

Fur Trader is the project of LA songwriter Andrew Pelletier. Born and raised in Illinois, Fur Trader songs blend 60s folk pop with the 90s melodic complexities of Elliot Smith, and nods to the baroque folk of Sufjan Stevens. Andrew has released a number of EPs as Fur Trader and works closely with producer/engineer Beau Sorenson (Bob Mould, Sparklehorse, tUnE-yArDs) ... more

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