Suavity's Mouthpiece

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Suavity's Mouthpiece is the pseudonym of American singer-songwriter Justin Trafford. Under the pen name Sinclair McRickson, Trafford's works are widely regarded as a successful blend of 1920s/30s crooning and post-punk music. Justin Trafford (born Justin Antoszewski) was born on 13 November 1990 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His unequivocally strict Roman Catholic upbringing played host to an adolescence spent in social anxiety. From a very young age, he wrote and produced his own musical works at home, using self-garnered musical intuition. Trafford certainly had music in his genes, as his mother was in a wedding band with her brothers in the mid-1970s to raise money for college. From early on, his works drew inspiration from the musical stylings of several indie pop and post-punk acts such as The Smiths and Magazine respectively. Being very literarily inclined, Trafford initially infused lyrical writing styles of Romantic poets -- and later, existentialist, anarchic, and nihilistic undertones -- into his music, never sacrificing meter for rhyme scheme. Very few copies remain of Trafford's initial recordings. Trafford instituted himself into the popular music industry with the 2002 release of his first commercial single, "Empty Dreamer," on his own Widowed Majesty label. The single, which was a patent work of baroque pop, established Trafford as McRickson in the independent artist community. As McRickson, Trafford began working on his first commercial full-length album, wh

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The Audial Equivalent of John Wilkes Booth

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Peerless Suavity

The Nuance of Suavity's Mouthpiece

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Facetious Melody

The Passion of Suavity's Mouthpiece (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

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Nerdflesh (Swampwalk Remix)

Know Your Place

Support Your Local Library

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The Passion of Suavity's Mouthpiece

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I've Been Expecting You - single

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