A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals

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A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
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ReleasedMay 28, 2021 (2021-05-28)
Genre
Length69:30
Label Darla
Producer Sweet Trip
Sweet Trip chronology
You Will Never Know Why
(2009)
A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
(2021)
Seen / Unseen
(2022)
Alternative cover
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Alternative cover, with the band members switching positions
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A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals is the fourth and final studio album by American experimental pop act Sweet Trip, released through Darla Records on May 28, 2021. [2] The album was released 12 years after Sweet Trip's previous studio album, You Will Never Know Why .

Contents

The song "Walkers Beware! We Drive into the Sun" was released in January 2021 along with the announcement of the album. Sweet Trip describes the album as being heavily influenced by the shoegaze and electronic pop sounds of their previous albums.

Background

Roberto Burgos and Valerie Cooper, the duo behind Sweet Trip, announced the band was taking a break in 2013. [3] Their last full album, You Will Never Know Why , was released in 2009, 12 years before the release of A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals. In May 2020, Sweet Trip released the song "In Sound, We Found Each Other". [4] In January 2021, the duo released the single "Walkers Beware! We Drive into the Sun" and announced the release of A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals as well as a reissuing of You Will Never Know Why. [2] Before the release of A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals, two of the band's previous albums, Velocity : Design : Comfort and You Will Never Know Why, were reissued. [1]

On January 7, 2022, two bonus tracks were added to the album on streaming, originally being exclusive to a 7" vinyl which came as a bonus in some purchases of the album on vinyl. [5] [6]

Composition and music

According to Sweet Trip's description of the album, it was "created out of the blue; nothing planned, not even a sense of direction" out of "strong emotions and pure love". The group says that the album was influenced heavily by their previous albums Halica: Bliss Out v.11 , Velocity : Design : Comfort, and You Will Never Know Why in terms of technique and style. [7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Tiny Houses"5:52
2."Surviving a Smile"5:25
3."The Weight of Comfort, This Rain Is Comfort, This Rain Is You"3:29
4."In Sound, We Found Each Other"5:07
5."Chapters"5:36
6."Eave Foolery Mill Five"7:26
7."Snow Purple Treasures"6:28
8."Come Spend the Night"2:50
9."Randfilt"3:50
10."You"5:08
11."Walkers Beware! We Drive into the Sun"3:41
12."Zafire Melts the Heart in Modulation"1:58
13."Polar Equals"6:38
14."At Last a Truth That is Real"6:02
Total length:69:30

Bonus 7" / digital tracks

No.TitleLength
15."Here Comes the Sea"3:16
16."Ravers Beware!"2:39
Total length:75:32

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