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Cruel Liars

by Mightmare

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Bucky
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Bucky While Mightmare veers from the outlaw country-punk we've all grown to love from Sarah, it possesses a similar attitude and alluring prowess that Shook is known for. Falling more in line to a gothic electronica genre, the tempo and emo vibes find a way to eat at your heartstrings similar to her raucous country act. Favorite track: Come What May.
ivanerik
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ivanerik Big fan of Sarah Shook here so I bought this without really having heard much, expecting something very different to the Disarmers stuff, but not quite sure what. In fact, on 4th or 5th listen, I'm still not certain what to make of this! Good album though, and hats off to SS for going, musically, in whichever damn direction feels best. Favorite track: Red.
joecov
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joecov She’s tough; the songs are sweet. Favorite track: Sure Thing.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition "coke bottle clear" band exclusive color vinyl. Printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

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Cruel Liars 03:32
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Red 03:10 video
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Enemy 03:09 video
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Make It Work 04:03
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Easy 03:27 video
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Sure Thing 03:23

about

Sonically, there are a few things we got right in the 90’s–stompy rage fueled queer bands, hazy uber-pedaled guitar, poeticism to be yelled full chested towards the windshields of our 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th) hand vehicles. More generally, there was also a lot we got wrong. Sarah Shook’s new solo project, Mightmare, finds a way to roll the sounds we couldn’t live without into a response to the things we couldn’t live with, confronting their habits and the rules they live by in the process. Loved for their work in Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Shook’s Cruel Liars brings crispy clean, country twanged vocals to the table alongside the furiously urgent need to express themselves. The record marks the process of finding meaning in spaces outside of gender or drinking or protocol, and slingshots itself towards something both conceptually remarkable and a simply exhilarating, embodied knockout.

credits

released October 14, 2022

Written, composed, arranged, produced and performed by Sarah Shook.

Aaron Oliva provided additional bass tracks on Make It Work, Red, Come What May, Cruel Liars, Saturn Turns, and Sure Thing.

Mixed by Ian Victor Schreier at Kaleidoscope Mixing And Mastering.
Mastered by Brent Lambert at The Kitchen Mastering.

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Mightmare Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mightmare is the solo project of River Shook, a queer non-binary writer, composer, producer and performer, most known for fronting punk country band Sarah Shook & the Disarmers.

Mightmare's debut album "Cruel Liars" will arrive via Kill Rock Stars on October 14th, 2022 and is available to pre-order now.
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