The Loud Wars

Standard jewel case with clear tray, sticker on cover & 16-page lyrics booklet. [Sticker:] SO MANY DYNAMOS THE LOUD WARS Produced and engineered by Chris Walla Mixed by Alex Newport and Chris Walla [Booklet:] 'The Loud Wars' was produced and engineered [...] at Tiny Telephone Studio, San Francisco, CA (July 2, 2007 - July 12, 2007), Alberta Court in Portland, OR (July 15 - July 21), 700 Hale, Edwardsville, IL (August 3-4), and Great Western Record Recorders, Tolono, IL (February 11, 2008 - February 12, 2008). All songs mixed [...] at Future Shock Studio, Brooklyn, NY except tracks 1, 2 and 4 mixed [...] at Alberta Court, Portland, OR Additional vocals and group vocals engineered [...] at 700 Hale, Edwardsville, IL. Mastered [...] at SAE Mastering, Phoenix, AZ. All songs published by Coinfish Publishing (BMI). ARTIFACTS OF SOUND FOOTNOTES: 1 Opening lyrics of "Artifacts of Sound" was written in Patrick Kendrick's shower in Spokane, Washington. 2 A rough mix of this song appeared on CD-Rs given out at the 2007 CMJ Conference under the name "Out Of This Party". the name was changed because it would have been the third So Many Dynamos song to have the word "party" in its title. 3 "Artifacts of Sound" refers to digital encoding of mp3s and CD's. the phrase is taken from a conversation with [a2587403] during an existential crisis over the release format of his [a2560695] material. GLACIERS FOOTNOTES: 1 Portions of "Glaciers" contain melodies of the So Many Dynamos song "Search Party" performed backwards. 2 Second and final verse of "Glaciers" written while working behind the counter of a coffee shop inside of a grocery store in Edwardsville, Illinois. THE NOVELTY OF HAUNTING FOOTNOTES: 1 Most lyrics for "Novelty of Haunting" written in the smoking room at Gateway Medical Research in St. Charles, Missouri. 2 Lyrics about car crash written several weeks before So Many Dynamos van flipped over on Interstate 80 near Beaver Crossing, Nebraska on the way home from initial tracking sessions for this record. Any resemblence to actual events is purely coincidental. 3 Acoustic guitar string cutting sound by Clayton Kunstel. 4 Portions of "The Novelty of Haunting" contain melodies from the So Many Dynamos song "Inventing Gears" performed backwards NEW BONES FOOTNOTES: 1 Portions of "New Bones" contain melodies from the so Many Dynamos song "Heat/Humidity" performed backwards. 2 Song titled by Gareth Schumacher on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in New York City. 3 Tape collage of rewinding and fast-forwarding noises by Chris Walla 4 See: "Artifacts of Sound" If You Didn't Want to Know FOOTNOTES: 1 Drums to "If You Didn't Want To Know" were performed 10 beats per minute faster when recorded and slowed down to tempo. 2 Most lyrics of this song were written while pacing around railroad tracks by the side of the highway near the Wyoming/Utah border during a van breakdown en route to San Francisco to record this album. 3 Drums from 2:04 to 2:47 performed 20 beats per minute faster and slowed down to tempo. OH, THE DEVASTATION! FOOTNOTES: 1 All lyrics to "Oh, The Devastation" written while pacing around the baseball field across the street from So Many Dynamos' house in Edwardsville, Illinois. 2 The Loud Wars 3 Portions of "Oh, The Devastation" contain melodies from So Many Dynamos song "Oh, the Devastation" performed backwards KEEP IT SIMPLE FOOTNOTES: 1 Left-channel guitar part inspired by the melody produced when typing "So Many Dynamos" on a cell phone via text message. 2 See: "If You Didn't Want to Know", footnote 1. 3 Portions of "Keep It Simple" contain lyrics from the So Many Dynamos song "Start This Party". used by permission from the ghost of So Many Dynamos past. FRIENDARMY FOOTNOTES: 1 Song title "Friendarmy" inspired by the album "[url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4404710-Emperor-X-Central-Hug-Friend-Army-Fractal-Dunes-And-The-Dreams-That-Resulted]Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractal Dunes[/url]" by Emperor X, used by permission from Chad Matheny. 2 See: "Keep it Simple" footnote 3. IT'S GONNA RAIN FOOTNOTES: 1 An earlier recording of "it's Gonna Rain" originally appeared on a [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2089176-So-Many-Dynamos-Bring-Back-The-Guns-So-Many-DynamosBring-Back-The-Guns-Split]split 7"[/url] with [a1060780] in 2005. Select lyrics appeared in other So Many Dynamos songs on the 2006 [m=341100] album. 2 See: "This Is why We Can't Have Nice Things" 3 See: "How High The Moon" 4 See: "Let's MoveMountains" 5 See: "Progress" THE FORMULA FOOTNOTES: 1 Select lyrics from "The Formula" taken from the So Many Dynamos song "Fossils", which was recorded for this album and subsequently buried under the ground never to be seen again. 2 See: "It's Gonna Rain" 3 Dear Science, thank you for facts. Amen. [Back cover:] ℗ + © 2009 Vagrant Records. under exclusive license to Hassle Records. www.vagrant.com/uk www.hasslerecords.com Made in the UK. Distributed in the UK by PIAS.