Tendencies, by Middle Sattre

Tendencies

by Middle Sattre

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alexclauria what a killer album. Really immerses itself in honesty and empathy, hitting the messy but ultimately beautiful parts of queer existence 🥺. Can’t wait for even more listens with it <3333

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1.	I Once Felt Safe 04:48		buy track
2.	Hate Yourself to the Core 03:31		buy track
3.	Refrain 04:49		buy track
4.	Sweet 16 04:18		buy track
5.	Pouring Water 03:58	info
6.	Imperfect Hands 03:14		buy track
7.	Dallas 03:39		buy track
8.	Out 02:19		buy track
9.	Stop Speaking 04:18		buy track
10.	Pornography 06:06		buy track
11.	Seven Years Since the Fall 04:11		buy track
12.	Corrupted 02:47		buy track
13.	All That You Want 05:02		buy track
14.	Getting There 05:01		buy track

about

Preface by Carter St. Hogan:

We’re lucky, to be asked to hold the tender body that is Middle Sattre’s Tendencies. Here is a work of diary unlike any other: not a glimpse, but a sitting-with, as Hunter Prueger reenters the haunted rooms of their Mormon upbringing to pray in a queer, clear-eyed language they can live in at last. Each line of the album’s poem is long and dense, each melody an architecture built to last. There are birds here. An orchestra, the sounds of hands, voices that dance alongside one another and twin and spin out and fade away. An idea of an organ cuts off; a ghost choir emerges, then falls silent again. Guitar strings creak, uncertain, before bursting into lush and confident arrangements. A harmonica brings out the lonesome. Elliott Smith is here, and Sufjan Stevens, and Neko Case: fellow pilgrims who burn and burn with knowledge that weighs. The intimacy of each song hurts to look at, but Middle Sattre teaches us that to look is to become brave: a fight for queer survival, in spite of/because of; a demand for accountability, direct and unflinching; an answer to every question that once cut our tongues. Hunter is unambiguous, beautiful, beseeching: I have eaten from the tree / I now have feet and they’ll stumble over the garden wall. We’re lucky to hold this record to our own ears, let it tell us who we are afraid to be, let it forgive us, let it make us brave in turn. I took this shame and I / gave it all to you, Hunter confides, hushed, and we’ll hold it gratefully. And we’ll hold it. And what a gift it is, to hold it. Together.

credits

released February 9, 2024

Hunter Prueger - acoustic guitar, vocals, synthesizers, piano, banjo, alto saxophone, harmonica, electric guitar, aux percussion, mandolin, violin, drum programming
Andrew Murray - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, zither, mandolin, nylon guitar, slide guitar, additional vocals, melodica, kalimba
Casey Boyer - viola
S. Wallace - additional vocals, backing vocals, harmony vocals, spoken word vocals
Mitch Stevens - acoustic guitar, piano, hammer dulcimer, harp, glockenspiel, flute
Hannah Marks - electric bass, string bass, backing vocals
Noah Simon - accordion
Jordan Walsh - drums
Shelby Mars - additional vocals, harmony vocals
Amanda Achen - additional vocals
Macall Potter - violin
Annelyse Gelman - additional vocals
Gus Ritchart - additional guitar writing
Austin Ali - trumpet
Jessy Eubanks - additional vocals

All songs written by Hunter Prueger

Produced by Hunter Prueger
Additional production by David Tolomei
Additional production on track 10 by Andrew Murray
Mixed by David Tolomei
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Photography by Sandon Sperry
Album art by Natalia Drepina and Tanner Capua

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Middle Sattre Austin, Texas

Middle Sattre started as a solo recording project in Salt Lake City, UT and has since grown into an eight-piece folk band in Austin, TX.

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