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Hold My Hand

by Title TK

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Hold My Hand is a non-auditory album that is available as a free download--just click "Buy Digital Album" and you will receive the 1 second of silence as an audio track and a PDF containing a transcription of a conversation the band members had over Skype, which is attached as a "bonus feature."This is the followup to their out of print debut album Rock$ from 2013 which was a 12" gatefold album sleeve with a conversation taped in the lounge area of a recording studio printed on a booklet inside.

On their long-awaited second album, Cory, Howie, and Alan discuss navigating the waters of bandcamp as a proprietor (Alan), consumer (Cory), and novice (Howie), as well as touching on Pitchfork, Hootie and the Blowfish, the Strokes, Guns'n'Roses, sales figures for Fiona Apple and Billie Eilish, Dr. Zaius, Lady Gaga vs. Fischerspooner, Fischerspooner vs. Daft Punk, fame in the art world, the Michelle Obama documentary, and podcasts.

RIYL: Seinfeld, SoundScan

About Title TK: It all started as a joke, during a three-way discussion of the overabundance of bands in the world these days: "We could go onstage and just talk about music, and say it was a band." But like most jokes, besides being funny it was also painfully true, and a pretty good idea: and so Title TK was born, in New York City, on a balmy May evening in 2010. Since then, the three amigos in the band have ambled onto stages near and far, with their electric guitars strapped to their chests yet never plugged in, fretboards never touched, seemingly transmogrified into mute observers of their owners' amplified banter, celebrity gossip, and breeze-shooting. Despite a stubborn refusal to accede to most of the conventional market expectations of a band (like actually playing music), Title TK has been terribly conscious of the fact that since they are a band, and they play gigs, they have to make records. But how do you make a record when you don't play your instruments, or, in fact, allow any commercial release of an audio recording of your shows, or even your voice?

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released June 5, 2020

Zoom, Skype, Electronic mail, Google Docs

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Title TK Norway, New York

Title TK (Alan Licht, Howie Chen, Cory Arcangel) is a banter-only band.
Pioneers of "talk rock, the ultimate sub-genre, where the band format is retained but music-making is discarded in favor of conversation between the band members (mostly music-nerd discourse and celebrity gossip). All releases are non-audio but comes with a pdf of a transcribed conversation. RIYL: Spinal Tap ... more

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