Crocodile Tears, by Baker Ja Lehtisalo

Crocodile Tears

by Baker Ja Lehtisalo

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Monkton Wylde Loving this album at the moment, the intro to Neon Splashing reminds me of Cardiacs of all things but it takes me to so many places over the course of the album it's hard to pick a favourite. You really need this in your life! Favorite track: Neon Splashing (From Your Eyes).

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1.	(And I Want Your Perfect) Crocodile Tears 14:27	buy track
2.	I Wanna Be Your Bête Noire 08:17	buy track
3.	Neon Splashing (From Your Eyes) 12:14	buy track
4.	Face-Off 10:50	buy track
5.	Racing After Midnight 07:36	buy track

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"Whether doom lounge music was a thing or not, it is now."
- Simon Kirk, Sun 13
sun-13.com/2022/12/09/baker-ja-lehtisalo-crocodile-tears/

"[Y]our lover parts from you for the last time in the Shinjuku, the neon smearing in your vision as tears start to flow and your loved one slowly fades into the crowd to become indistinguishable from every other body and soul in there." (9/10)
- Dark Juan, Ever Metal
www.ever-metal.com/2023/07/12/baker-ja-lehtisalo-crocodile-tears/

"Crocodile Tears is cinematic and surprisingly poppy, its arrangements painted in colours of scorched doom and glittering dreamgaze, retro electronica and industrial new wave. The album requires a measure of patience, each of the five tracks burning slow and long with mesmeric repetition. Think Jan Hammer, The Beach-era Tangerine Dream, New Age Doom and Killing Joke at half speed, fused into a drawn out, intensifying mantra."
- Leah Kardos, The Wire Magazine Issue 476
www.thewire.co.uk/issues/476

"Take the bearded, drone-loving bloke from Nadja. Add the founder of genre-leaping Finnish pranksters Circle. Give them at least three instruments each and a vocal mic apiece. What have you got? Baker Ja Lehtisalo! On the duo's debut, Jussi Lehtisalo proved a playful partner to Aidan Baker's traditionally more melancholic inclinations, resulting in a surprisingly uplifting collection of "new wave industrial doom songs". Let's hope there's more to come."
- JR Moores, Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock Of 2023, The Quietus
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A collaborative album of new wave industrial doom songs by Nadja's Aidan Baker and Circle / Pharaoh Overlord's Jussi Lehtisalo

Early in 2020 Lehtisalo and Baker began trading sounds over the internet—fragmentary keyboard licks and textural guitar riffs, retro electro-beats and pulsing bass lines—slowly constructing them into songs that combined a sort of '80s New Wave/AOR aesthetic with a heavy/noisy/shoegaze/industrial sound. The end result was 'Crocodile Tears', five catchily anthemic songs channeling the perhaps unlikely pairing of Godflesh and Jan Hammer, electronic pop and pretty melodies mixed with textural guitars and heavy metal riffs.

Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jussi Lehtisalo is founder of the experimental rock band Circle, active since 1991. He also performs with Pharaoh Overlord, Steel Mammoth, and Aktor, to name some of his many projects, and has collaborated with Isis' Aaron Turner as Split Cranium. He has been running Ektro Records since the mid-1990s and with Circle has released albums on such labels as Southern Lord, Riot Season, No Quarter, and Hydrahead Records.

Canadian multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker performs solo and with various ensembles, most notably the ambient metal duo, Nadja. He has toured and performed around the world and released numerous albums on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Hydrahead Records, Karlrecords, and Southern Lord.

Limited CD release by Ektro Records and Broken Spine Productions (BSP014/EKTRO-150).
aidanbakercollaborations.bandcamp.com/album/crocodile-tears

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released June 30, 2023

All songs by Aidan (guitar, bass, vocals, drum machine) & Jussi (guitar, bass, vocals, drum machine, keyboards).

Artwork by Alexa Renée.
Design by James Watts.

Originally released on CD by Ektro Records / Broken Spine Productions.

www.ektrorecords.com
brokenspineprods.bandcamp.com
jussilehtisalo.bandcamp.com
www.aidanbaker.org

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