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Stench of the City (2012)

This was the final Jesse Statman album of the 2010s – it was released as a homemade CD, similar to Collision in terms of the packaging and how it made its way to a bunch of my friends in the NYC antifolk scene specifically.

It’s also similar to Collision in arrangement – it’s me playing a nylon string acoustic guitar and singing – and really kind of conventionally pretty, but also introspective and melancholic songs – and very romantic – the big difference is, Collision had this experimental ambient soundscape I made going on in the background throughout, and I don’t think Stench of the City had that, if I remember correctly.

Most of the Jesse Statman albums besides Stench of the City and Collision are a lot more rare, because they were smaller runs that went out of print when I was still in high school – no one on the antifolk scene has a copy of any of those, and I’m not sure who still does, actually.

Stench of the City has the original version of my song “The Morgue”, which I wrote around that time, and the first verse of that song is where the album gets its name from.

Jesse “Cannonball” Statman performing “The Morgue” in 2011

Jesse “Cannonball” Statman performing “How Have You Been?” at Brooklyn’s Goodbye Blue Monday in 2013, with Ria Boss (vocals) and Jon Edelstein (drums)

from Out of Print and Unavailable Discography (as Jesse Statman)
Stench of the City (2012)
Collision (2011)
When it Rains (2011)
Painting With You (2011)
Pizza Carbonara (2011)
Rainbow in Santa Cruz (2010)
Motion Dream (2010)
For Your Listening Pleasure (2010)
Electric Fuzz Tiger, Wooden Room, World Stuff, and Space Travel (2010)

(or, go to the beginning for the full list of out-of-print and unavailable projects)