Wicked Jaw, by Locate S,1

Wicked Jaw

by Locate S,1

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William Leonard Christina at her very best - always an enchanting pop magician, but this album proves there's nothing she can't do. Favorite track: Go Back To Disnee.

danzzta whole album is the futur of music but especially this song :) Favorite track: Blue Meaniez.

Sasha Somehow Christina's songwriting just gets better and better, production stronger and stronger, willingness more professed. This one is a classic. Favorite track: Daffodil.

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1.	You Were Right About One Thing 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Even after the war, you showed up Said you wanted new problems What’s that? I’ve had all mine for such a long time You handled me well for the first time When I painted your cruel lover How come? Was it just to make me feel like a child? Wrote all my worst fears down when I conjured you So you wanna be like me, an artist Going 70 cross country How long does it take to learn it’s all cursed? The shadows that told us to go west To be held by the radio towers Lit up like a California forest fire Your worst half still haunts me when I’m weak But you were right about one thing I couldn’t have made it this far without you You were right about one thing She might have been a poet But she knows I’m the poet you chose That’s why she had to read me all her sad lines Now that our story is over Got yourself a kind love and I hope this one Can keep your fire alive Hope she doesn’t burn quite like I do Wrote all my worst fears when I conjured you But you were right about one thing you were right about one thing Couldn’t have made it this far without you
2.	Go Back To Disnee 03:16	lyrics	buy track
Young coconut caught in the canopy Child I used to know cancelled me Mccartney car ride, Cobain on MTV Health food cocoa teddy graham, bitch please I believe that the children of the future are America believe they’re bored enough One channel was good enough, we need TV I believe that we never really lived in America Go back to Diznee, Back to the palace stairs Back to the hiding places that were never there Under the blankets, Into the plastic dreams Into the comfort of parental regimes I believe that the children of the future are America I believe they’re bored enough One channel was good enough, we need TV I believe that we never really lived in America
3.	Pieta 02:53	lyrics	buy track
Alarms go off the moment that I close my eyes Gotta get up, get to work, don’t wanna fall behind Dark circle, spaced out, cracked up, blitzed out of my mind Other people look so peaceful frozen into time There you were, Pieta held me for the first time You were there, with citrus kisses, vitamin see me Radiation poison from the mother’s tits aglow What species are we now? we can never go home Some mutant darkness meant to neutralize a threat So hyperactive can’t we send the kids to bed? There you were, Pieta held me for the first time You were there, with citrus kisses, vitamin see me
4.	Heart Attack 03:33	lyrics	buy track
Heart attack, When the memories come back Everything I’ve done Heart attack, When the memories come back Everything I’ve done The perfect angel, just a character I play in life I beg the question, what am I really like? I know you’re out there, I know I hurt you With my careless lies I don’t want you I just want to be somebody who can sacrifice Heart attack, When the memories come back Everything I’ve done Heart attack, When the memories come back Everything I’ve done Didn’t have the answers to make a choice so I just rolled the dice Didn’t want to hurt you, So I hurt myself almost every night All the darkness, all the hatred that I’ve kept alive Take it from me now I was wrong I don’t wanna be the one giving people Heart attack When the memories come back Everything I’ve done
5.	The Hard Way 04:15	lyrics	buy track
You said it’s not cause I’m a woman Said I was just in the right place at the wrong time Why should you care what I’m doing upstairs When you made your bed down there? You said it’s not because you hate me You just wanna watch a bad girl fall Like you would know just how low I have been before You must use your love like a sword to cut through the ignorance If you use love like a sword to cut through the hate Then you’ll learn how to love the hard way The hard way Leave me alone tonight unless you have a kind word struggling to survive I’m finally boiling over I thought we were friends, but you broke me open I don’t wanna lose my life I kinda need a kind word I walk the street that we both live on I feel like Snow White when the sun went down Dark forces reach out just because they can And I fall to my knees every time Leave me alone tonight unless you have a kind word struggling to survive I’m finally boiling over I thought we were friends, but you broke me open I don’t wanna lose my life I kinda need a kind word
6.	Danielle 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Here I stand before you, naked and afraid I cast the mask off and I walk into the sun If you see me and I do not say goodbye Blame it on my emerald year I was the very paper doll of Narcissus she reached through my reflection and cut my paper flesh If these pieces of me ride the wind to you Blame it on my emerald year I wasn’t always like this I was born so young I was having fun Until Danielle came along
7.	Have You Got It Yet? 02:18	lyrics	buy track
Syd got kicked and we all fell down Architects wanna rule this town, I wanna burn it down Have you got it? No? Good Have you got it yet? gotta get it really good Cash cab’s no fun One black plague and the whole game’s done Wasn’t very long Have you got it? No? Good. Have you got it yet Have you got it really good? I thought prince was 6’2” If you didn’t, shame on you, please do better next time Have you got it? No? Good Have you got it really good? Carol Kay’s a criminal, That’s the face of a murderer Have you got it? No? Good. Have you got it yet Have you have you got it really good?
8.	Blue Meaniez 03:50	lyrics	buy track
Season finale 2020 death machine It’ll be you or it’ll be the blue meanies Street fire stray cat laughed at the tenor Of a policeman calling you a sinner Well-spoken presidents don’t stutter When they drop bombs in the desert Season finale 2020 death machine It’ll be you or it’ll be the blue meanies Pussy-hat Nancies push kremlin cool aid Blame Belarus for November Dot com commies forgot to talk to the black kids Giddy up for a hot Guatemala summer Season finale 2020 death machine It’ll be you or it’ll be the blue meanies Season finale 2020 death machine It’ll be you or it’ll be the blue meanies I went to the institution of modern investigation And I heated to boiling on high Did you find your sound, deep in the enemy’s council? Neither did I Season finale 2020 death machine It’ll be you or it’ll be the blue meanies
9.	Daffodil 02:26	lyrics	buy track
Rinzai double you, In the way I govern you The way you like Knowing we the barren will not shelter the rain Before lie free your rocks So they call you Daffodil Container, the stainer of fog For they see themselves upon an orphaned plane I rolled the candy that they made of a law Courtside barbecue, We could run and harbor you Though very far For the figs and berries that they grow for the day Defund that bricolage So they call you Daffodil Corridor, Muppet of a morgue For they steal themselves into apocalypse Untoward, they countenance the greatest of loves
10.	Wicked Jaw 02:16	lyrics	buy track
Who says I can’t? Pretty sure I can Show you the spot where you’ll lose your sense of humor I’m not above words of love I’m far below the words that would destroy you I had to dig it up but I got it I had to reach down and grab it Now you wanna take it away? I can’t help it, I’ve got a wicked jaw Would you punish me if I were you? I can’t help it, I’ve got a wicked jaw

about

From teddy grahams to pussy hats, California forest fires to cash cabs, the stuff of American nostalgia and horror adorns a personal reckoning on Christina Schneider’s triumphant third album as Locate S,1. With a name culled from a Daschel Hammitt noir novel, Wicked Jaw pulls from wildly disparate references and textures to survey the history of American pop music. Like Carly Simon soundtracking an Adam Curtis documentary, the album trades in dramatic juxtapositions across its kaleidoscopic ten tracks. Only Schneider could pull off singing a line like “season finale 2020 death machine” as a soothing lullaby, but jarring contrasts echo the tumultuous personal journey woven throughout. “I was in hell ... and loving it,” Schneider said of her childhood, describing a murky cocktail of sentimentality and despair. “It’s like when you escape the matrix and then you remember your wonderful time in the matrix.” The Athens, Georgia based songwriter, producer, and virtuosic pop connoisseur authored the album over two years while beginning treatment for childhood sexual abuse by a relative. “I was using these songs as an expression valve for all of these different parts (of myself) that I was trying to integrate,” she explained. The result is a surprisingly tender and often jubilant set of conversations with the ghosts of painful memories, Schneider transforming her metaphysical scars into gleaming armor as she redefines herself on her own terms.

Following 2020’s Personalia, an album Schneider created in collaboration with producer and romantic partner Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) – where reviews often displaced credit for Schneider’s intricate electropop to Barnes – Wicked Jaw finds Schneider decidedly and unequivocally at the helm, as the album’s sole producer. It's a stylistic departure from Personalia in many ways, beyond personnel. Spanning decades and genres from doowop to cold wave, disco to soft rock, Wicked Jaw has the vitality of full band tracking at its core. Recorded to a 24 track tape machine during a weeklong session in the summer of 2022, it features deft and magnificently wackadoo performances from players including Ross Brand (guitar, percussion), Jojo Glidewell (piano, synth, percussion), Zack Milster (bass, percussion, pedal steel), and Clayton Rychlik (drums, percussion, sax) among others.

Wicked Jaw both is and isn’t a pandemic album. The dystopic terror of COVID-19 is an omnipresent touchpoint in the songs, which Schneider began writing in the summer of 2020, but the virus functions as a gateway for interpersonal analysis and reflection. What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century? What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a survivor? Schneider digs tunnels into collective memory on songs like “Go Back to Disnee,” a devastating bossa nova track that could soundtrack an episode of White Lotus. “Under the blankets, into the plastic dreams / Into the comfort of parental regimes,” Schneider purrs with a delivery so gentle that you might not detect the venom seeping through. On this tune and others, Schneider’s exceptional songcraft is most evident through her ability to excavate the toxins lingering beneath the surface in a way where they begin to shine and radiate a strange beauty.

“Beauty throws darkness and pain into relief so you can see it more clearly,” Schneider said of this songwriting tendency. While her lyrics do a sort of time traveling alchemy on past wounds, the sonic palette of the record is the real time machine. The running joke in the studio was that Wicked Jaw should be called “Radio Free Christina,” since it felt like turning the radio dial from song to song. How else would we get an album that boasts both Dido and Thin Lizzy as musical references? But the breadth of its melodic toolkit is held together by the singularity of Schneider’s compositional voice. Although Wicked Jaw is among her most accessible releases yet, chock full of infectious hooks, these songs still feature what her bandmates call trademark “Christina-isms” – the odd metered phrases and unusual time signatures that keep the listener on their toes and the songs firmly rooted in a space of experimental sophistipop.

Lead single “You Were Right About One Thing” is a case in point. Composed with the aim of harkening classic Christine McVie hits, the easiness of this song for the listener belies an innovative underlying architecture, where complex rhythms and wild chordal leaps are somehow smooth as silk. Meanwhile, Schneider applies the same tender veneer to the song’s challenging lyrical content. “Wrote all my worst fears down when i conjured you,” she sings to a past lover who treated her badly. These memories aren’t recounted with resentment or anger, but with compassion for the ways that intergenerational trauma bears out on relationships, shaping the patterns we struggle not to repeat. “In the end, it's like, ‘can I really hate you for hurting me when I chose you to hurt me?” Schneider said, explaining that the song came from a place of “trying to reconcile forgiveness for yourself and for the other person, so you can both grow.”

Wicked Jaw offers a similar therapeutic release upon repeat listens as it did for Schneider when she wrote it. It’s a portrait of commanding and loving resilience in the face of victimization and apocalyptic doom. The potency of these songs resides not in their grasping toward the heavens, seeking escape or transcendence, but rather from digging in the dirt, sitting with it, and really seeing the worms and rot and entropy in vivid technicolor. “This is about me, but I hope other people relate to it,” Scheider said. “I have all these emotional problems that make me react like a fucking monster, but that is also forged by my experience and there’s something there that I can be proud of, that’s part of my survival. I can’t just cut the head off – I have to integrate it into myself.”

credits

released July 28, 2023

Ross Brand - Guitar, Percussion
JoJo Glidewell - Piano, Synth, Percussion
Zack Milster - Bass, Percussion, Pedal Steel
Zach Phillips - Keys on Daffodil
Ryan Power - Guitar and Vocals on Danielle
Clayton Rychlik - Drums, Percussion, Sax
Christina Schneider - Guitar, Vocals, Synth, Drum Programming
Chris Weisman - Guitar on Go Back To Disnee

Words & Music By Christina Schneider

Daffodil Words And Music
By Zach Phillips & Christina Schneider

Produced By Christina Schneider
Engineered By Drew Vandenberg
Mixed By Ryan Power
Mastered By Mike Nolte At Eureka Mastering

Artwork By Loren Burke
Art Direction By Christina Schneider
Layout By Christina Schneider & Patrick Fernandes

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