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TRACK LISTING:

01. Friendmaker of Oppositedayland

02. Saturday Night

03. Young Lovers in Love

04. Blues

05. Black Delicatessen

06. Run

07. Normal People

08. Sigh (Epistemological Naturalism Mix)

09. Tasting My Eye

10. Take It

11. In Sails

Hark/Sigh 7”

a. Hark

b. Sigh

	ARTIST: BABY & HIDE TITLE: NORMAL PEOPLE CATALOG: AV027 >> Digital release of the debut “solo album” from Everybody Uh Oh primary Jeremy Keller.
	>> NEW! HARK/SIGH 7” available with “normal people” digital release album included.

Jeremy Keller stands out from a crowd. People notice him, much to his chagrin, but thankfully they notice his ability to write a good song as well. “Not only are the lyrics intelligent and the vocals and instrumentation wonderful,” raved The Big Take-Over’s Jack Rabid of Everybody Uh Oh’s only album, Man Am I Brad, going on to add that “the mix is just perfect.”

While still fronting Everybody Uh Oh, Keller left Champaign-Urbana on the heels of its last indie explosion (Hum, Braid, American Football) and holed up in his beloved Chicago, enrolling at Columbia College. It might not seem like it now, but there was a palpable buzz brewing around Everybody Uh Oh, a fledgling band who were easily glossed up on the internet, and it was during that time that Keller was taken under the wing of uber-hip producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron&Wine, Grandaddy) and opened a lot of big shows in Chicago for the likes of Spoon, Crooked Fingers, New Pornographers, Archer Prewitt, Stars and others. These Songs are to be released as the Hark/Sigh 7”. Produced on beautiful golden vinyl with hand made artwork and the Normal People album + bonus track CD included with the 7”.

Since the expiration of Everybody Uh Oh, Keller has continued collaborating with Deck as well as longtime friend and producer Matt Mehlan, with Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys. Recording sessions in which Keller and Mehlan cross-collaborate, which shift from Chicago to New York, ultimately produced the collection of songs Normal People, which can only loosely be referred to as an album.

There are names that can be thrown at Baby & Hide – Xiu Xiu, Black Dice, Skeletons, Microphones, a more-drugs and less-dance Rapture – but none of them really stick to a body of work so scattered and cerebral. There are moments scattered throughout Normal People that are easier to grasp – the sugary, distorted guitar that harkens back to Keller’s earlier work in Everybody Uh Oh, the blown-out backbeat, the flitting soft-twee keyboard flourishes – but that nonetheless manage to hold on to their artistic integrity within the flow of the 11 track collection.

Did I say write 11? I meant nine, although there are 11 songs that make up Normal People. The sticking point is in the closing trio – “Tasting My Eye,” “Take It,” and “In Sails” – which were composed as one nine-and-a-half-minute whole, but broken up for the sake of convenience on the album. The entire, unabbreviated tour-de-force, appropriately titled “Tasting My Eye, Take It In Sails,” can be heard as the opening track on a newly compiled TEAM AV label sampler. There the epic track is immediately followed by the previously unreleased song “I Love My Boyfriend.”

Supported by Drummer Jeff Gorski, Keller has been performing live around Chicago and some Midwestern cities as Baby&Hide throughout 2006 & 2007. Opening for Final Fantasy, 120 Days, Label mates Oso, & Piglet and others. Looking to hit the road in 2008. Needless to say, we are stoked.

- Eric J Herboth / TEAM AV

With our 7” record in hand we are currently looking for slots in early 2008.

Booking: Jeff or Jeremy

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DISTRIBUTION · RETAIL

Lumberjack Mordam Music Group

Toledo Office:

5920 American Rd E

Toledo, OH 43612

(419) 726-3930 Phone

(419) 726-3935 Fax

Sacramento Office and Warehouse:

731 North Market Blvd.

Unit R

Sacramento, CA 95834

(916) 641-8900 Phone

(916) 641-8989 Fax

DISTRIBUTION
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DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA
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WEB: www.lumberjackmordam.com

PRESS SERVICE

For more information or press inquiries please contact

TEAM AV / Arborvitae Records

Eric J Herboth

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T: 515.231.3322

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PAST SHOW DATES

3/31/06 Team-AV Showcase, Chicago

4/01 Team-AV Showcase, St. Louis

4/02 Team-AV Showcase, Ames, IA

5/18 Gunther Murphy’s, Chicago

6/06 Empty Bottle, Chicago

7/01 Lakeshore theater w/ Final Fantasy,

7/07 Iron Post, Champaign. IL

8/12 South Union Arts Center, Chicago

8/21 Darkroom, Chicago

10/09 Schuba’s, Chicago

11/04 Empty Bottle w/ 120 Days

12/26 The Note w/ Thax Douglas

12/30 Permanent Records, Chicago

1/12/07 Stage 83, Lemont, IL

2/10 Iron Post, Urbana, IL

3/30 Soundlab, Buffalo, NY w/ Skeletons

3/31 Ghostly Home, Ann Arbor, MI w/ Skeletons

4/2 Lakeshore Theater, Chicago, IL w/ Skeletons

4/3 Canopy Club, Urbana, IL w/ Skeletons

4/4 Practice Space, Ames, IA w/ Skeletons

5/16 Shangri La Diner, St. Louis, MO w/ Skeletons

6/2 2010 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL

8/23 Subterranean, Chicago, IL

9/1 South Union Arts Center, Chicago, IL w/ Thax Douglas

10/17 Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL

Checkwww.team-av.com or www.babyandhide.com for future dates.