Shut Up Cain, by Alyosha

Shut Up Cain

by Alyosha

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1.	Hatchet Man 04:05	buy track
2.	You Will Be Enough 03:13	buy track
3.	Hateful 05:02	buy track
4.	Where The Demons Call 06:23	buy track
5.	Should We Make A Baby 03:28	buy track
6.	Narrow Way 03:48	buy track
7.	King Cain 04:16	buy track
8.	Leviathan 05:30	buy track

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Shut Up Cain is a spiritual reckoning. It’s the sound of a man once lost in hopelessness and nihilism finally finding the pathway out. These are songs of real joy, tinted with that peculiar dark edge that the real world always has. It’s seriously life affirming but it’s not lame. SUC doesn’t find it’s joy in the denial of suffering. It finds it in truth, in all its terrifying, beautiful glory.

“This album perfectly captured what was a serious personality upheaval for me. I had to completely abandon everything that I believed, I had to burn off an entire psychological infrastructure. What a relief! You can actually hear the stupid suffering being joyously lifted from my shoulders. It’s about accepting the responsibility of being a human wholeheartedly. To tell the truth, to stand up straight and to take one’s moral duties seriously. It’s impossible to describe in words what this experience was like but you’ll feel it when you hear Shut Up Cain. This was me finally understanding that meaninglessness, hopelessness, nihilism - it’s all WRONG. As in factually incorrect. A faulty conclusion. Nothing has been the same since I figured that out.”

Alyosha (aka Michael Strong) is a songwriter, record producer and live sound engineer. He runs at a fever pitch of music production at all times. He is the frontman at The Disappointed who’s debut album Escapism came out in 2019. He is the IDM maestro Young Girl, who’s debut A Marshmallow Called Moon dropped in 2019 (new album coming this year). He is the producer and drummer at Odlaw, who’s new album Debut came out in 2020. He is the soundie at Beaufort St Songwriters Club.

Shut Up Cain doesn’t try to be weird but it is a bit anyway. Idiosyncrasy and genuine personality lift the album above the indie pop rock fray. It’s both ambitious and a little scrappy which is a weirdly compelling combination.

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released October 30, 2020

Written, performed, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Alyosha at You’re Weird Mixing Studios
Keys and backing vocals on Hateful and Narrow Way by Chiara Adams
Photography and artwork by Chiara Adams

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The new indie pop rock project from beloved Perth creative Michael Strong

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