Ad Infinitum

Telekinesis

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MRG544 | Release Date September 18, 2015

limited-edition white vinyl still available!

Included on:
-Under the Radar's Top Albums of 2015 (#64)
-The Stranger's Top 10 Albums of 2015

When it came time to make Ad Infinitum, the fourth Telekinesis album, drummer/songwriter/principal architect Michael Lerner found himself in a predicament. In just under five years, he had released three fantastic records—Telekinesis! (2009), 12 Desperate Straight Lines (2011), and Dormarion (2013)—each more ambitious than the last. He had toured all over the world, shared stages with great bands, and enthralled fans of his infectious, ebullient power pop. Newly married and happily ensconced in the home studio he’d assembled in his West Seattle basement, Lerner found himself asking the question that has haunted modestly successful bands down the ages: What do you do after the rock and roll dreams you had when you were 19 have come true? “I went down to the basement,” Lerner recalls, “and started playing the same chords I always play… I just felt like I’d exhausted everything I knew. I was not excited at all. I just could not make another power-pop album.”

While many artists have made fruitful use of vintage sounds and production techniques in recent years, Ad Infinitum is a different animal. It feels less like a time capsule and more like a time machine. In the movie version of the story, Lerner would stumble on his way down the stairs, hit his head, and wake up in 1983, and the only way he could get back to the present day would be to make a record using available instruments. Then he’d wake in 2015 to discover he’d been in his basement studio all along. And the record he’d made in that strange dream state would turn out to be Ad Infinitum, the most ambitious and assured Telekinesis release to date.

LP will include the following bonus tracks as a digital download:

Falling (In Dreams) demo
Clickity-Clack
Froom

LP includes a coupon for a full download.

Track/Song Title Artist Duration Price MP3 Track
Play Falling (In Dreams) Telekinesis 02:39 $0.99 Buy
Play Sylvia Telekinesis 03:45 $0.99 Buy
Play In a Future World Telekinesis 02:59 $0.99 Buy
Play Courtesy Phone Telekinesis 02:30 $0.99 Buy
Play Sleep In Telekinesis 04:21 $0.99 Buy
Play Edgewood Telekinesis 02:59 $0.99 Buy
Play It's Not Yr Fault Telekinesis 03:06 $0.99 Buy
Play Farmers Road Telekinesis 03:37 $0.99 Buy
Play Ad Infinitum Pt. 1 Telekinesis 02:05 $0.99 Buy
Play Ad Infinitum Pt. 2 Telekinesis 04:05 $0.99 Buy

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