Tracks:
and, you can stream it on youtube:
CREDITS:
1 Ca$h
guitars, drum programming, samples, vocals: Zeke Mason
“Money”: Fixer
2 Lies (4:00)
bass, guitars, drums & programming, vocals: Zeke Mason
sampled analogue synthesizer: Fixer
3 Just Lie Down (3:31)
guitars, bass, drums & programming: Zeke Mason
edits: Fixer & Zeke Mason
4 Falling Up is Easier (8:45)
guitars, bass, drums & programming, edits, synth-bass,
vocals: Zeke Mason
5 Quietly (2:15)
whistling: Fixer
bass, drums & programming, plastic, metal, & wood
percussion, rebar, vocals: Zeke Mason
6 Ignoble (0:42)
guitar & treatments: Zeke Mason (circa 2000)
7 Don’t Believe (2:26)
programming & edits, synth-bass: Fixer
drums & programming, guitars, synth-bass, vocals: Zeke
Mason
8 The Message (3:13)
guitar, drums & programming, synth-bass, vocals, samples:
Zeke Mason
programming, phase distortion digital synthesizer, edits:
Fixer
9 Blindness (5:07)
modem machine synthesis unit, drums & programming,
verse vocals: Fixer
drums & programming, guitars, oscillation synthesis unit,
edits, vst synthesizers, synth-bass, chorus vocals: Zeke
Mason
10 Dry Landscape (0:27)
guitars & acoustic drums: Zeke Mason
11 It’s OK, I’m Wrong (2:23)
programming, metal percussion, vocals, synth-bass: Zeke
Mason
12 The Weight (4:35)
sampled analogue synthesizer: Fixer
guitars, drums & programming, percussion, crashes,
vocals, papers, edits: Zeke Mason
13 Time (2:43)
drums & programming, bass, square metal tube, distorted
acoustic drums, distorted metal percussion, screams,
vocals: Zeke Mason
texture guitar: Fixer
14 This Very Earth (3:00)
programming, synthbass, frequency modulation digital
synthesizer: Fixer
drums & programming, guitars, edits, commodore VIC20
synthesis unit: Zeke Mason
15: I Used to Believe (3:43)
guitars, harmonicas, square metal tube, plastic & metal
percussion, vocals, delay signal: Zeke Mason
sampled analogue synthesizer, infinitely sustaining slide
guitar, delay signal: Fixer
16 Insatiable Disaster (2:33)
guitars: Fixer
acoustic drums, voices, delay loop: Zeke Mason (circa
2000)
17 End of the End (3:04)
acoustic drums, acoustic guitars, edits, programming,
digital wave synthesizer, vocals: Zeke Mason
18 Torture (2:13)
harmonica, chrometa, guitars, analogue synthesizer, chest
cavity: Zeke Mason (circa 2000)
19 Waste (3:41)
programming, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, phase
distortion digital synthesizer, frequency modulation digital
synthesizer, sampled electric guitar, synth-bass, vocals:
Zeke Mason
programming, phase distortion digital synthesizer, frequency
modulation digital synthesizer, strings: Fixer
20 Failing (1:25)
synthesis unit remanufactured from a nintendo video game
unit: Zeke Mason
21 Weep (7:51)
drums & programming, acoustic guitars, electric guitars,
electric piano, vocals: Zeke Mason
backing vocals: Fixer
Hymns of Disillusion was the first full studio
album made with Fixer. It was also the first time I
had let another person in at the ground level.
After much heavy conceptual work, I decided
that it would be an exercise, in and of itself, for
Dumbass to just go into the studio and sit down
and write and record an album. The only
restriction that we had going in was that we
wanted the album to be more rock oriented. As
we began to work songs developed out of drum
beats and chord progressions then lyrics began
to form. And though we did not go into the
process with a concept in mind, a theme began
to develop, which runs through the album from
first to last. Again, elements of change were
touched on. Hymns of Disillusion was the end of
a chapter in Dumbass’ history and the beginning
of a new one, but the profound sense of
disbelief and the aftermath of realization are the
most pervasive elements. Hymns of Disillusion
also represented a sort of return to our roots
musically. This was a moment where, after
staying away for quite a while (The Execution of
Certain Actions, Stories, 2 Weeks, etc.) we
realized that it was ok to still like to make loud
noise-rock. Enjoy. Zeke Mason
