Jimmie Kilpatrick – Jimmie

Jimmie Kilpatrick – Jimmie is available in extremely limited quantities. Pressed exclusively for Jimmie’s spring 2025 tour, we have only 50 copies available for direct mailorder. Get it good!

Jimmie Kilpatrick’s first full-length release in six year opens like an elevator door. It may lift you up, it may bring you down. Either way, Jimmie’s still Jimmie.

Along with Kilpatrick, Jimmie (the album) features appearances by Ryan Peters (Ladyhawk), José Contreras (By Divine Right), Aaron Goldstein, Leanne Zacharias and Jenina MacGillivray.

Co-produced by Ryan Peters, the album utilizes sonic explorations from sound sculptures and installations, which Kilpatrick developed while working on an MFA under the supervision of seminal art rocker/artist Lee Ranaldo.

Such sounds are featured on the album’s lead single Satellite, which opens with the dulcet murmurers of a mechanically bowed electric guitar sculpture, as well as the boisterous swooping sounds of a tangerine-sized marble rolling along the strings of a robotic bass guitar.

Track one entitled Tape Loop, was recorded utilizing an epic fifteen-foot, six-player tape loop. With one player recording the sound of the other five players, as they amplify various points along the loop’s timeline, the installation worked like an accelerated Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting in a Room machine. With each rotation of the loop the recording degraded and shifted, reinforcing and amplifying dominant room-tones. Tape loop is an aural documentation of time and place but also holds analog technology as a metaphor for the human body – constantly decaying, from time to time in need of repair, and eventually dying.

From the recording methodologies to the lyrical content, Jimmie (the album) is a meditation on life, death, love and friendship.