WHAT IF LOVING YOU WASN’T ABOUT ME

WHAT IF LOVING YOU WASN’T ABOUT ME is a lush and thrifty concept album of subverted pop songs that rattle notions of romance and relationships to the floor like a bottle left for dancing off a sultry shaking speaker cabinet. Ten interdependent critiques of the couple form gently woven together with care and concern for the state of love and relating. This collection aims to burrow into the heart like a romantic drama, to trip the feeling and trigger want for something otherwise, for new ways to radically see and hear and hold and release one another. This is a velvet hammer, a mossy wrecking ball, a pristine flood rushing to clear what it can of the tragic narrow labyrinths we’ve trapped ourselves in.     WHAT IF LOVING YOU WASN’T ABOUT ME was collaboratively conceived and written by Chelsea Tadeyske and Edie Roberts in Hrísey, Iceland as part of the Gamli Skóli Art Residency in April 2022. Images throughout are cut from photographs taken on the island. First Published July 2022 at The Bell Tower in Milwaukee, WI.

28 pgs, hand sewn with full color throughout

 

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