Bile and Bone, by al Riggs & Lauren Francis

Bile and Bone

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1.	Werewolf 05:30	buy track
2.	Love Is An Old Bullet 03:51	buy track
3.	The Richardson Spite House 03:41	buy track
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5.	Boyfriend Jacket, Boyfriend Sweater 03:47	buy track
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Bile and Bone is the new album from songwriter al Riggs and guitar annihilator Lauren Francis.

Two years in the making, and in between countless side-projects, singles, side-albums, and a premiere at Hopscotch Music Festival 2019, Al and Lauren recorded this nine-song album in two different New York apartments, an apartment in Durham, a house on the other side of Durham, and additional recording in yet another house on yet another side of Durham.

Produced by Francis and mixed/mastered by Alli Rogers (recently an engineer on Bon Iver’s “i,i”), Bile and Bone is a culmination of familiar themes and tropes in Riggs’ songwriting (horror movie monsters, queer politics, puns) taffy-pulled into a widescreen format by Francis’ production and arrangement. Swaths of strings and electric piano are cut through by chunky acoustic guitar that sometimes teeters on the intrusive. Flirtations with soft rock (“Werewolf”) motorik pop (“Boyfriend Jacket”) and Eno-esque ambient balladry (“Apex Twin”) sit snugly against the ghosts of Fahey (“Dying Bedmaker Variations”) and the dust-clogged remnants of a pawnshop (“Love Is An Old Bullet”).

The title track is a shuffling climax of held-back fury, summarizing the overall air of the album with volatile lyricism (“I should not be in a place/where I am on my knees each night/praying for my leaders/to be shot down on sight”) with classic pop harmonies provided by Rook Grubbs (Vaughn Aed).

The end result is a patchwork of beauty with claw marks. Possibly cat, possibly wolf-person, definitely lovely.

“At the very end of the opening track, a sound is heard, a warped deviation, and you might, for a moment, think that it was Satan. Not the Satan our parents’ parents rejected in recordings, but rather a new, much improved Satan 2.0, leading by example of sensitivity and risky business, no longer mutually exclusive. Do not fear it. Give in and go forth and enjoy.”
-Adam Schatz (Landlady, expert on Satans)

“It is their best and most compelling record yet, Riggs singing songs about self-realization during a moment that badly wants to beat you into preordered shapes, delivered with both tenderness and intensity over matching acoustic picking. A work of clarity and reckoning, it is the album that Riggs has been building toward for this busy past half-decade.”
-Grayson Haver Currin (Pitchfork, NPR, makes his own mayo)

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released September 18, 2020

BILE AND BONE
is an album by
al Riggs and Lauren Francis

All words by al Riggs
All music by al Riggs and Lauren Francis
"Dying Bedmaker Variations" contains an interpolation of John Fahey's arrangement of "Jesus Is A Dying Bedmaker"
Backing vocals on "Love Is An Old Bullet" and "Bile and Bone" by Rook Grubbs

Recorded and produced by Lauren Francis
Mixing/mastering/additional recording by Alli Rogers
Artwork by Cameron Lucente

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Al Riggs and Lauren Francis would like to thank, in no order;

Dustin Britt, Lindsey Charlotte, Justin Ellis, Owen Fitzgerald, Moms and Dads, Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Nathan Walker, Rook Grubbs, Alli Rogers, Cameron Lucente, Brad Cook, John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, Jon Wurster, Peter Hughes, Reese McHenry, Skylar Gudasz, Justin Vernon, Adam Schatz, Zach Stamper, the audience at the Bile and Bone Hopscotch 2019 show, the staffs of Bull City Records, Nice Price Books, The Pinhook, Ruby Deluxe, The Wicked Witch, Slim's, King's, The Cave, and every friend and well-wisher that patiently listened to us talk about this album for two years. We love you all.

Extra special thanks to studio cats Ripley and YoYo.

In Memory of John Prine.

When in Durham, visit Monuts.
When in New York, visit The Donut Pub

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