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Normal Street

by Painted Faces

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Writer/musician/film maker Chris Shields says:

Near the DIY venue, cooperative, and punk/freak haven, The Firehouse, in Worcester, Mass, there’s a street ironically named “Normal St.” I was lucky enough to be playing a gig with Painted Faces there a few years back. Driving up the steep, labyrinthine roads we spotted the green sign, had a laugh owing to some solid riffing by all present, and then, moved on. The gig was good, the people great, and the memories, the stuff that makes time on earth meaningful. Little did I know Normal Street would return. Considering David Drucker’s body of work and his unique brand of free form expression and clever pastiche, I shouldn’t have been surprised. When you listen to Painted Faces what you’re hearing is a mind at work.

When Drucker begins to write and record, every dumb sign, bad horror movie, seemingly innocuous turn of phrase, petty embarrassment, transcendent joke, and musical influence are drawn together like iron filings to a magnet. What results is a document of a particular point in time for the artist. There are infectiously haunting hooks and raw atonal passages, cheap synths (and as time goes on less cheap ones), simple but effective chords, ramshackle percussion (a plastic toy maraca passed among audience members that... more
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releases April 28, 2023


1.
Normal Street
2.
An American Werewolf in Ridgewood
3.
Paranoid Dollhouse
4.
Forest Techno
5.
Playing the Field: The Ambassador Prowls
6.
Cult of the Ghost Shark
7.
Laughing Charlie
8.
Watching Tremors 2 at Work
9.
Contact Mind
10.
Xea


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released April 28, 2023

All music written/recorded/produced by David Drucker at The Skinny Apartment, 2021.
Cameron Christopher Stuart plays harmonica on “Paranoid Dollhouse.” David Drucker plays everything else.
Mastered by Thomas Miritello.
Cover art by Charles Comer.
Design/layout by Diana K.
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Painted Faces is the solo recording project of artist/musician David Drucker born in Miami,
Florida but based in Queens, New York since 2011. Sometimes there are other members playing live and on tour.

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