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Album
Recorded at the Brooksfield Gentleman’s Club in Detroit, MI. Produced, engineered, and mixed by Jonathan David Weier. Co-produced by Darling Imperial. Mastered by Dan Gonko at Cabin Creek Studios in Cullowhee, NC. From www.darlingimperial.com: "A veritable bloodletting. A grueling engagement that, upon completion, left us exsanguinated yet emboldened. From conceptualization to fruition, this album spanned two solstices and equinoxes, and much like these celestial intersections, it has converged at this exact moment in time. Through some mystical esotericism, it called us from our individual paths and into a single plane of musical existence, made tangible through Takotsubo. After the release of 2009s EP I Know Everyone You Know and the subsequent steady grind to promote that album, it became clear that an evolution had occurred within us. Much of what we thought we knew, we didn’t, and that which we had learned about ourselves and each other had beautifully unraveled to reveal an even deeper core than previously uncovered. Songwriting became fluid yet deliberate; melodies were merely the outward expression of bound up feelings; lyrics took on new meanings for all of us. It was with this in heart and in mind that Takotsubo was borne. Six tracks of heartbreak and hope. That’s what Takotsubo is. By definition, takotsubo describes a trap designed by Japanese fishermen to capture octopuses. Modern medicine adopted this term when they noticed a rare heart condition – takotsubo ca