Total Reality, by Dr Sure's Unusual Practice

Total Reality

by Dr Sure's Unusual Practice

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Limited 'Purple Smoke' coloured pressing and Total Reality t-shirt.
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Tee printed in Naarm/Melbourne by Tee It Up Screenprinting.

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1.	Slug 02:12	buy track
2.	Celebration 02:27	buy track
3.	Elephant In The Room 04:23	buy track
4.	Escalator Man 02:47	buy track
5.	Keeps Ya Head Up 03:07	buy track
6.	Kerosene 03:27	buy track
7.	Never Enough 03:04	buy track
8.	Realest 03:17	buy track
9.	Last Guy At The Disco 03:32	buy track
10.	All Good Ends Must Come To A Thing 01:16	buy track

about

Total Reality is the sound of a group in constant forward motion, finding new sounds and new ways to express their joy and catharsis in making music together. On album opener 'Slug' the band sing ‘I’m feeling like a slug so I gotta visit the doctor’, and though reliably tongue-in-cheek you get the feeling they mean it - the members using Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice as a vessel to lift each other up while unpacking the collective fatigue of life in late-capitalist society.

“A mood like that, you're apt to stay in it, not dial your way out. Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating." - Philip K Dick

On their third LP Total Reality - a title ripped from the classic sci-fi novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ - Dr Sure's Unusual Practice tackle lofty issues through a hopeful lense, avoiding the often cynical pastiche of modern punk music. Total Reality touches on varied influences - proto-punk to post-punk, new wave to no wave, krautrock to trip-hop - to concieve something fresh and inspired.

Beginning in 2018 as a solo project, here Dougal Shaw is joined by an ever-expanding collective. In addition to a core band (Jake Suriano, Miranda Holt, Tali Harding-Hone, Mathias Dowle) the new record features contributions from Jack McCullagh (Cracodile), Stu Patterson (The Empty Threats/Placement), Alannah Sawyer (Babyccino/Mouseatouille), as well as Shaw’s partner Alivia Lester, and baby Blue - who also adorns the album cover.

An almost polar approach to the band’s acclaimed second LP ‘Remember The Future? Vol. 2 & 1’, which was tracked live in a recording studio, Shaw refers to Total Reality as a ‘collage album’. There are pieces of pandemic-era demo’s; drum machines coexisting with a live-tracked rhythm section; fresh collaborations; layers of guitars, synths, horns and percussion; collected field recordings and samples - all cut and glued in Shaw’s home studio to realise an expansive and colourful record.

- Robin Powell

credits

released April 19, 2024

Dougal Shaw - Vocal, Guitar, Bass, Synthesiser, Drum kit, samples, percussion, trumpet, melodica
Miranda Holt - Drum kit, percussion, backing vocals
Jake Suriano - Bass, Saxophone on track 1, 2, 5 & 7, backing vocals
Mathias Dowle - Spoons & Ring Mod on track 1, Synth on track 5, backing vocals
Tali Harding-Hone - backing vocals
Jack McCullagh - guitar on track 3 & 8
Alannah Sawyer - Saxophone on track 1, 5, 8 & 10
Stu Paterson - Saxophone on track 1 & 3
Alivia Lester - Spoken word on track 7
Blue Bululu LeShaw - Vocals on track 1 & 10
Daphne - Barking throughout

Produced by Dougal Shaw
Arranged by Dougal Shaw & Jake Suriano
Mixed by Dougal Shaw
Mastered by Nao Anzai
Released by Marthouse Records (AU) & Erste Theke Tontraeger (EU)

Cover Photos by Oliver Shaw
Art & execution by Dougal Shaw
Additional design by Blue Bululu LeShaw
Back cover quote by Philip K Dick
Insert Photos by Alivia Lester, Danysha Harriot, Dougal Shaw, James Morris, Jake Brown, Oscar O'Shea, Rick Clifford.

Recorded in the Merri Bunker, Merri-bek, Naarm/Melbourne, the land of the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation. All love and respect to the traditional custodians of the land.

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