The Cut’s That Deep! was born out of the work that my friend Kléo and I have been doing over the past year in digging through the archives of my earlier music and other artwork that my parents had been kindly storing in their home.

It combines never-before-heard, often completely unexpected arrangements of Cannonball Statman songs you might already know from other albums, like an acoustic demo of “Hard to Break” from when I first wrote it during the COVID-19 lockdowns and a lo-fi electric piano version of “F Train Over Brooklyn” from when I was a teenager, with some versions of other tunes that are less well-known. The last track is a sound collage of echoes of a lot of different things that were happening in the 2000s and early 2010s, all recorded on cassette and then spliced together with a tape deck in 2012.

We’re really happy with how this one came out, and it’s the first in a series we’ve put together, so be sure to stay tuned for the next one if you like what you hear!

A download of The Cut’s That Deep! also comes with the entire 11th issue of my photography and poetry zine Stranger Dreams that was originally released in 2011.

released July 14, 2025

Cannonball Statman on acoustic and electric guitars, basses, vocals, drums (track 9), and keys (tracks 2 and 4)

Joe Crow Ryan on additional vocals (track 7)

Tracks 1 and 3 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman next to a Parrot on a Bicycle in London, 2021

Tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 9 produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2010-2012

Track 5 recorded by Cannonball Statman at The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2012

Track 7 recorded by Cannonball Statman at Sidewalk, NYC, and mastered by Cannonball Statman at Space Travel Studios, Brooklyn, 2014

Photography by Cannonball Statman in San Francisco, 2008

All music and lyrics by Cannonball Statman, 2009-2021