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Double vinyl LP of music from the film Girl on the Third Floor; “creepy instrumental music” as described by co-creator Steve Albini.

When director Travis Stevens called about composing music for his new horror film, Steve Albini (Shellac) found himself with a new creative challenge. After meeting with Stevens and Greg Newman from Queensbury Pictures, Steve signed on and recruited Tim Midyett (Mint Mile, Silkworm) and Alison Chesley (Helen Money) to complete the ensemble that would compose and record the soundtrack.

Discussions with Stevens, the director, led to a sense that the music should react to the story on screen and, where possible, participate as a character. Initial recordings were song-form ideas the trio composed via email since there were no cuts of the film to reference. Some tracks were written by Albini, some by Chesley, and the rest were a collaboration of the whole ensemble. Once the demos of the basic song structures were in place, the three recorded the songs as an ensemble with a lot of extemporaneous variation and a small number of overdubbed accents (percussion, Vibrachime keyboard and counterpoint lines). The resultant recordings are the compositions identified by conventional song titles on the album.

The first piece the ensemble worked on was the song “Irish.” Initially over 30 minutes long, they cut it down again and again, telescoping the dynamics. Playing the baritone, Midyett used an echo pedal as a kind of third arm, creating a sonic effect that extends and reiterates fragmentary parts of his line as needed. In describing Midyett’s playing on “Irish,” Albini wrote, “There's a feature in "Irish" where he's making use of it in an abstract way that I find arresting, and I honestly can't think of anybody else who does precisely that thing he does.” When Albini contemplated adding vocals to “Irish,” only one voice came to mind ̵.......
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