Accelerated
by FOTOCRIME
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Streaming + DownloadPre-order of Accelerated. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.Purchasable with gift cardreleases September 8, 2023
$10 USD or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumBlue vinyl with beautiful artwork and an insert. Limited edition.
Includes digital pre-order of Accelerated. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.shipping out on or around September 8, 2023Purchasable with gift card$25 USD or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumFotocrime CD jewel case edition. Includes a lyric booklet.
Includes digital pre-order of Accelerated. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.shipping out on or around September 8, 2023Purchasable with gift card$13 USD or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumBlue vinyl with a gorgeous T-shirt featuring the album's cover image designed by Ryan Patterson.
Includes digital pre-order of Accelerated. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.shipping out on or around September 8, 2023Purchasable with gift card$49 USD or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumCD edition with a gorgeous T-shirt featuring the album's cover image designed by Ryan Patterson.
Includes digital pre-order of Accelerated. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.shipping out on or around September 8, 2023Purchasable with gift card$39 USD or more
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T-Shirt/ShirtBeautiful eco-friendly t-shirt with the Accelerated album art, designed by Ryan Patterson.ships out within 2 daysPurchasable with gift card
$25 USD or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumBlack vinyl with white label. Limited for fans only!
Includes digital pre-order of Accelerated. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.shipping out on or around September 8, 2023edition of 5Purchasable with gift card$100 USD or more
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On The Edge Of The Light
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Accelerated
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I Still Need You Here
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Turn Away
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Saint Marie
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Match Factory Girl
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Servant Of Your Soul
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Primordial Blues
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Pulsar 99
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Night Must Fall
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about
Recent years have revealed a rapidly shifting reality as time seems to move at an ever-increasing speed. Our daily lives, access to information, and ability to process art have hastened in innumerable ways. Accelerated is Fotocrime’s response and reaction to living in this moment.
Fotocrime’s fourth album and their first for new label home, Artoffact Records, Accelerated finds the band leaping forward from their signature darkwave-leaning post-punk into new territory. The album includes electronic rock anthems (“Accelerated”, “Match Factory Girl”), soulful sophisti-pop (“I Still Need You Here”), minimal synth punk (“Pulsar 99”), hints of Italo Disco (“Servant Of Your Soul”), and dreamy art rock (“Night Must Fall”). Backed by a small army of vintage drum machines, Fotocrime’s instrumentation on the album includes 12-string guitars, bass VI, saxophone, accordion, marimba, piano, and an array of classic analog synthesizers (no software synths were used on this or any Fotocrime recording).
Fotocrime is led by founding member Ryan Patterson, the band’s singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. On Accelerated, Patterson’s songwriting has progressed dramatically and his rich baritone voice is front and center, taking the listener through the album’s themes of yearning, love, loss, and redemption. Patterson’s lyrics address the regret and grief of a family member lost to a drug overdose, the impassioned ache for the comfort of love, and the existential weight of the finite nature of life. Accelerated also includes lyrical narratives tackling concepts of class warfare, dreams of escaping into space, and buried secrets from the folly of youth.
For the first time in Fotocrime’s catalog, Accelerated is a full-band endeavor with Nick Thieneman and Will Allard joining Patterson on every song. Guitarist Thieneman has been a Fotocrime member since their first live performances and has appeared on tracks on past releases, but on Accelerated his catchy guitar hooks and textures permeate every song. Thieneman also sings backing vocals throughout the album and shares co-lead vocals with Patterson on album closer “Night Must Fall”. Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Will Allard anchors the album with his Motown-inspired bass lines, while also playing piano, synth, guitar, and singing backing vocals.
Patterson recorded and mixed Accelerated at his House Of Foto recording studio, except for opening track “On The Edge Of The Light”, which was recorded by J. Robbins at legendary DC punk studio Inner Ear during the final days before its closure.
The culmination of everything Fotocrime has worked toward to date, Accelerated is the sound of a genre-bending electronic-infused post-punk band at the peak of their powers.
Fotocrime’s fourth album and their first for new label home, Artoffact Records, Accelerated finds the band leaping forward from their signature darkwave-leaning post-punk into new territory. The album includes electronic rock anthems (“Accelerated”, “Match Factory Girl”), soulful sophisti-pop (“I Still Need You Here”), minimal synth punk (“Pulsar 99”), hints of Italo Disco (“Servant Of Your Soul”), and dreamy art rock (“Night Must Fall”). Backed by a small army of vintage drum machines, Fotocrime’s instrumentation on the album includes 12-string guitars, bass VI, saxophone, accordion, marimba, piano, and an array of classic analog synthesizers (no software synths were used on this or any Fotocrime recording).
Fotocrime is led by founding member Ryan Patterson, the band’s singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. On Accelerated, Patterson’s songwriting has progressed dramatically and his rich baritone voice is front and center, taking the listener through the album’s themes of yearning, love, loss, and redemption. Patterson’s lyrics address the regret and grief of a family member lost to a drug overdose, the impassioned ache for the comfort of love, and the existential weight of the finite nature of life. Accelerated also includes lyrical narratives tackling concepts of class warfare, dreams of escaping into space, and buried secrets from the folly of youth.
For the first time in Fotocrime’s catalog, Accelerated is a full-band endeavor with Nick Thieneman and Will Allard joining Patterson on every song. Guitarist Thieneman has been a Fotocrime member since their first live performances and has appeared on tracks on past releases, but on Accelerated his catchy guitar hooks and textures permeate every song. Thieneman also sings backing vocals throughout the album and shares co-lead vocals with Patterson on album closer “Night Must Fall”. Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Will Allard anchors the album with his Motown-inspired bass lines, while also playing piano, synth, guitar, and singing backing vocals.
Patterson recorded and mixed Accelerated at his House Of Foto recording studio, except for opening track “On The Edge Of The Light”, which was recorded by J. Robbins at legendary DC punk studio Inner Ear during the final days before its closure.
The culmination of everything Fotocrime has worked toward to date, Accelerated is the sound of a genre-bending electronic-infused post-punk band at the peak of their powers.
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releases September 8, 2023
FOTOCRIME is
RYAN MICHAEL PATTERSON:
Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Saxophone, Bass VI, Farfisa, Accordion, Percussion, Programming.
NICK THIENEMAN:
Guitars, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, 12 String Guitars, Bass VI.
WILL ALLARD:
Bass, Backing Vocals, Piano, Clarinet, Rhodes, Synths.
Produced, recorded, and mixed by Ryan Patterson at House of Foto in Louisville, Kentucky, Summer through Winter 2022. Except “On The Edge Of The Light”, recorded by J. Robbins at Inner Ear Studios in Washington, DC, July 2021, and mixed at The Magpie Cage in Baltimore, Maryland. Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio.
Evan Patterson sings backing vocals on “Saint Marie”.
Nico Bazire plays second guitar on “Saint Marie”.
Pete Moffett plays hi-hats on “Primordial Blues”.
Jeremy McMonigle plays marimba on “Night Must Fall”.
Music and lyrics written by Ryan Patterson. Copyright 2023 Fotocrime (BMI). Cover photos and album design by Ryan Patterson. “Up#3” sculpture installation by Sabrina Lang and Daniel Baumann in Le Havre, France. Fabien Mari appears in the photo. Back cover band photo and live photos by Nick Shaw. Collages by Jamie Beard.
Thank you.
FOTOCRIME is
RYAN MICHAEL PATTERSON:
Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Saxophone, Bass VI, Farfisa, Accordion, Percussion, Programming.
NICK THIENEMAN:
Guitars, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, 12 String Guitars, Bass VI.
WILL ALLARD:
Bass, Backing Vocals, Piano, Clarinet, Rhodes, Synths.
Produced, recorded, and mixed by Ryan Patterson at House of Foto in Louisville, Kentucky, Summer through Winter 2022. Except “On The Edge Of The Light”, recorded by J. Robbins at Inner Ear Studios in Washington, DC, July 2021, and mixed at The Magpie Cage in Baltimore, Maryland. Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio.
Evan Patterson sings backing vocals on “Saint Marie”.
Nico Bazire plays second guitar on “Saint Marie”.
Pete Moffett plays hi-hats on “Primordial Blues”.
Jeremy McMonigle plays marimba on “Night Must Fall”.
Music and lyrics written by Ryan Patterson. Copyright 2023 Fotocrime (BMI). Cover photos and album design by Ryan Patterson. “Up#3” sculpture installation by Sabrina Lang and Daniel Baumann in Le Havre, France. Fabien Mari appears in the photo. Back cover band photo and live photos by Nick Shaw. Collages by Jamie Beard.
Thank you.
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FOTOCRIME Louisville, Kentucky
Fotocrime is singer/guitarist and producer Ryan Patterson, guitarist Nick Thieneman, and bassist Will Allard. With danceable, battle hymn drum machines and layered synths, Fotocrime brings monochrome clarity to electronic-meets-organic post-punk with driving bass, chiming guitars, and Patterson's unmistakable baritone. Fotocrime seethes with Cold War paranoia, modern-day malaise and smoky noir. ... more
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