Locate S,1 shares video for therapeutic new single, “Heart Attack” .. From Wicked Jaw, out 28th July on Captured Tracks

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Today Locate S,1 (aka Christina Schneider) shares the therapeutic new single “Heart Attack” from the forthcoming full-length Wicked Jaw, due for release July 28, 2023 on Captured Tracks. The synth-pop track with a prominent bass groove addresses the process of acknowledging traumatic triggers while finding one’s way forward. The song’s release is accompanied by a video that Schneider directed and edited.

Christina Schneider shares: “I’ve always wanted to write a sexy power pop song à la Klymaxx’s ‘I Look Good’ or Prince’s ‘The Ballad of Dorothy Parker,’ but when I sat down with my LinnDrum samples and started writing, I found that I had a less sexy story to tell."
 

She continues, "For people with PTSD, a triggering event causes their brain to revert back to the same exact sensory experience they had when they were originally traumatized. When I wrote this song I didn’t understand why small conflicts could send me spiraling into tears of shame, hopelessness, and rage. My heart pounds, I can’t breathe, and I fall to the floor like a sack of potatoes. Worst of all, I lash out at people. It’s not uncommon to hear me say ‘I feel like I’m having a fucking heart attack!!’ during one of these episodes. When I listen to ‘Heart Attack’ now, it sounds like someone finally admitting they have a problem and pleading for help. It’s a song written by a desperate person who doesn’t want to push people away anymore just to protect their own pain. I’m very far from overcoming my own brain, but writing this song was a first step towards deciding to get real help.”

“Heart Attack” follows the deceptively breezy power-poppy album opener “You Were Right About One Thing” released in May with the album’s announcement, accompanied by a vibrant video directed by Tristan Scott-Behrends that takes cues from the noir of the album’s namesake, filtered through day-glo camp sensibilities à la John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar.
 
From teddy grahams to pussy hats, California forest fires to cash cabs, the stuff of American nostalgia and horror adorns a personal reckoning on Christina Schneider’s triumphant third album as Locate S,1. With a name culled from a Dashiell Hammett noir novel, Wicked Jaw pulls from wildly disparate references and textures to survey the history of American pop music. Like Pat Benatar soundtracking an Adam Curtis documentary, the album trades in dramatic juxtapositions across its kaleidoscopic ten tracks.

Only Christina Schneider could pull off singing a line like “season finale 2020 death machine” as a soothing lullaby, but jarring contrasts echo the tumultuous personal journey woven throughout Wicked Jaw, Schneider’s third album as Locate S,1.
 
“I was in hell … and loving it,” Schneider said of her childhood, describing a murky cocktail of sentimentality and despair. “It’s like when you escape the matrix and then you remember your wonderful time in the matrix.” The Athens, Georgia based songwriter, producer, and virtuosic pop connoisseur authored the album over two years while beginning treatment for childhood sexual abuse by a relative. “I was using these songs as an expression valve for all of these different parts (of myself) that I was trying to integrate,” she explained. The result is a surprisingly tender and often jubilant set of conversations with the ghosts of painful memories, Schneider transforming her metaphysical scars into gleaming armor as she redefines herself on her own terms.
 
Following 2020’s Personalia, an album Schneider created in collaboration with producer and romantic partner Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) – where reviews often displaced credit for Schneider’s intricate electropop to Barnes  –  Wicked Jaw finds Schneider decidedly and unequivocally at the helm, as the album’s sole producer. It's a stylistic departure from Personalia in many ways, beyond personnel. Spanning decades and genres from doowop to cold wave, disco to soft rock, Wicked Jaw has the vitality of full band tracking at its core. Recorded to a 24 track tape machine during a weeklong session in the summer of 2022, it features deft and magnificently wackadoo performances from players including Ross Brand (guitar, percussion), Jojo Glidewell (piano, synth, percussion), Zack Milster (bass, percussion, pedal steel), and Clayton Rychlik (drums, percussion, sax) among others.
 
Wicked Jaw both is and isn’t a pandemic album. The dystopic terror of COVID-19 is an omnipresent touchpoint in the songs, which Schneider began writing in the summer of 2020, but the virus functions as a gateway for interpersonal analysis and reflection. What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century? What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a survivor? Schneider digs tunnels into collective memory on songs like “Go Back to Disnee,” a devastating bossa nova track that could soundtrack an episode of White Lotus. “Under the blankets, into the plastic dreams / Into the comfort of parental regimes,” Schneider purrs with a delivery so gentle that you might not detect the venom seeping through. On this tune and others, Schneider’s exceptional songcraft is most evident through her ability to excavate the toxins lingering beneath the surface in a way where they begin to shine and radiate a strange beauty.
 
“Beauty throws darkness and pain into relief so you can see it more clearly,” Schneider said of this songwriting tendency. While her lyrics do a sort of time traveling alchemy on past wounds, the sonic palette of the record is the real time machine. The running joke in the studio was that Wicked Jaw should be called “Radio Free Christina,” since it felt like turning the radio dial from song to song. How else would we get an album that boasts both Dido and Thin Lizzy as musical references? But the breadth of its melodic toolkit is held together by the singularity of Schneider’s compositional voice. Although Wicked Jaw is among her most accessible releases yet, chock full of infectious hooks, these songs still feature what her bandmates call trademark “Christina-isms” – the odd metered phrases and unusual time signatures that keep the listener on their toes and the songs firmly rooted in a space of experimental sophistipop.
 
Lead single “You Were Right About One Thing” is a case in point. Composed with the aim of harkening classic Christine McVie hits, the easiness of this song for the listener belies an innovative underlying architecture, where complex rhythms and wild chordal leaps are somehow smooth as silk. Meanwhile, Schneider applies the same tender veneer to the song’s challenging lyrical content. “Wrote all my worst fears down when i conjured you,” she sings to a past lover who treated her badly. These memories aren’t recounted with resentment or anger, but with compassion for the ways that intergenerational trauma bears out on relationships, shaping the patterns we struggle not to repeat. “In the end, it's like, ‘can I really hate you for hurting me when I chose you to hurt me?” Schneider said, explaining that the song came from a place of “trying to reconcile forgiveness for yourself and for the other person, so you can both grow.”
 
Wicked Jaw offers a similar therapeutic release upon repeat listens as it did for Schneider when she wrote it. It’s a portrait of commanding and loving resilience in the face of victimization and apocalyptic doom. The potency of these songs resides not in their grasping toward the heavens, seeking escape or transcendence, but rather from digging in the dirt, sitting with it, and really seeing the worms and rot and entropy in vivid technicolor. “This is about me, but I hope other people relate to it,” Scheider said. “I have all these emotional problems that make me react like a fucking monster, but that is also forged by my experience and there’s something there that I can be proud of, that’s part of my survival. I can’t just cut the head off – I have to integrate it into myself.”
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Tracklisting:

1. You Were Right About One Thing
 2. Go Back to Disnee
 3. Pieta
 4. Heart Attack
 5. The Hard Way
 6. Danielle
 7. Have You Got It Yet?
 8. Blue Meaniez
 9. Daffodil
10. Wicked Jaw


Ross Brand - Guitar, Percussion
JoJo Glidewell - Piano, Synth, Percussion
Zack Milster - Bass, Percussion, Pedal Steel
Zach Phillips - Keys on Daffodil
Ryan Power - Guitar and Vocals on Danielle
Clayton Rychlik - Drums, Percussion, Sax
Christina Schneider - Guitar, Vocals, Synth, Drum Programming
Chris Weisman - Guitar on Go Back To Disnee
 
Words & Music By Christina Schneider
Daffodil Words And Music By Zach Phillips & Christina Schneider
Produced By Christina Schneider
Engineered By Drew Vandenberg
Mixed By Ryan Power
Mastered By Mike Nolte At Eureka Mastering


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