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Stars Turn Inside Out

by The Nature Strip

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Released by the Laughing Outlaw label in 2013, we have the remaining copies for sale. It's a jewel-case package with a twelve-page fold-out insert featuring lyrics and photographs from the sessions. Based on original art by Nic Dalton of Half a Cow.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Stars Turn Inside Out via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    releases

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Prime Time, Rainmaker, Beyond the Sirens (remix EP), I Cannot Deny You, Sixth Sense, Surgery, Past Pacific EP, Beetle Bones, and 3 more. , and , .

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1.
Beautiful Rain 03:07
2.
Three-Foot High Sissy Bar 03:42
3.
Fly Through 03:10
4.
It's Inside You 03:38
5.
What a Life 03:30
6.
Worst One 03:27
7.
Hero 04:24
8.
Sugar Crash 02:44
9.
Beyond the Nether 04:01
10.
If You Try 03:57

about

Stars Turn Inside Out is the debut album by The Nature Strip. Peter Marley and John Encarnacao had played together in Warmer (johnencarnacao.bandcamp.com) and The Flies, but The Nature Strip began in late 2009 when Pete asked John's help to finish a couple of tunes. One of them - The Worst One - is on this album.

So began a poptastic journey, equal parts the new wave of Blondie and XTC and the power pop of The Posies and Fountains of Wayne. Some notes on the songs:

Beautiful Rain
Who knew that the portal to another dimension was a toy piano?

Three-Foot High Sissy Bar
Stomps like a pair of Marc Bolan’s platforms, although it might be PJ Harvey wearing them. The drum sound is courtesy of the reverb of a two-story stairwell . . . and a pair of maracas standing in for drum sticks.

Fly Through
Highlights the Marley-Encarnacao vocal blend. The Everly Brothers they may not be, but they got their own thing.

It’s Inside You
Featuring John on Portuguese guitar (like mandolin but deeper).

What a Life
This is all Pete's work, with drums by Jess Ciampa.

Worst One
The power pop monster that started it all.

Hero
Pete smashes through meteors, battles with tigers and giants, dives deep for the prize. With a half-broken piano and an r’n’b drum loop that rumbles like a dinosaur.

Sugar Crash
Quotes Robert Johnson and sounds a bit like Kiss gone punk.

Beyond The Nether
Outer space tends to appear in Pete's songs, but this one by John is more about inner space. Return of the toxic Casio for extra early Eighties crunch.

If You Try
A kindred soul to ‘What A Life’, this sees Pete writing in an open tuning and delivering an impassioned vocal.

credits

released May 1, 2013

Instruments and voices by Peter Marley and John Encarnacao.
Cello on 'Hero' and 'It's Inside You' by Anthea Cottee
Drums on 'What A Life', "Worst One', 'Sugar Crash', 'Beyond The Nether' and 'If You Try' by Jess Ciampa.

Recorded by Peter Marley with John Encarnacao
Basic tracks for 'What A Life', "Worst One', 'Sugar Crash', 'Beyond The Nether' and 'If You Try', and cello parts recorded at Building O by Adrian Barr.
All songs remixed by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz
Mastered by Michael Macken
John Encarnacao is published by Mushroom.

Cover art and design by Nic Dalton.

Thanks to Tobes Colvin, Hoot Gibson, Bee Levine, Zoe Carides, Tim Whitten, Paris Mason, Stephen Creswell, Jess Ciampa, Nic Dalton, Mick D, and MC.

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