How Dark Can You Get?

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1.	Armored Tanks 03:56	buy track
2.	Forgery Moon 03:35	buy track
3.	Sheep 02:59	buy track
4.	Madness of Crowds 04:17	buy track
5.	Water 04:04	buy track
6.	How Dark Can You Get? 05:08	buy track
7.	Blood 03:11	buy track
8.	Amelia the Killer 04:41	buy track
9.	Nowhere Darling 04:18	buy track
10.	Stranded on the Surface 04:40	buy track
11.	Slower Train 04:08	buy track

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In 2003, VPN holed up in Tony Lockwood's Williamsburg home studio while the house was under construction and recorded on 16 track analog, pushing faders old school. "How Dark Can You Get?" is the band's most raw and live sounding album to date. VPN took a hiatus from playing shows for almost a decade, so the album was never released. Here it is, in all it's noisy, experimental glory!

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released April 16, 2013

Produced by VPN and TONY LOCKWOOD
Recorded at Lockwood Keating, Williamsburg circa 2003
Tracked by TONY LOCKWOOD
Mixed by TONY LOCKWOOD and VPN
Mastered by RICHARD MORRIS
Cover design: AUSTIN HUGHES

All songs written by AUSTIN HUGHES & VPN
Copyright and Published 2013 Austin Hughes Music, ASCAP

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HARRISON CANNON: piano, optigan, vocals, electric bass on Water, upright bass on Blood, Slower Train, and Madness of Crowds

EDDIE GORMLEY: harmonic debris, vocals, treated vocals on Armored Tanks, optigan on Slower Train

AUSTIN HUGHES: lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, electric bass on Madness of Crowds

PATTY HUGHES: electric guitar, ebow, vocals, banjo on Blood and Slower Train

JEAN RODD: electric bass, vocals, fuzz bass on Water

Guest musicians:

ELAINE AHN: cello on Madness of Crowds

RUTH KEATING: duet vocal on Blood, harmonica on Blood and Slower Train, choral vocal on Slower Train

TATI NGUYEN: choral vocal on Slower Train

JOHN SHANCHUK: banjo on Amelia the Killer

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