Welcome Abroad, by People Like Us

Welcome Abroad

by People Like Us

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1.	Sing 03:24	buy track
2.	Happy Lost Songs (CD/Digital only) 03:09	buy track
3.	Stuck in USSR (CD/Digital only) 00:37	buy track
4.	The Look (CD/Digital only) 07:37	buy track
5.	Help Me To Help Myself (CD/Digital only) 01:49	buy track
6.	What Will I Do 04:46	buy track
7.	Lost In The Dark (CD/Digital only) 02:35	buy track
8.	Push The Clouds Away 02:57	buy track
9.	The Sound Of The End Of Music 03:37	buy track
10.	Wonderful Wonderful 05:59	buy track
11.	Driving Flying Rising Falling 05:34	buy track
12.	Ever 02:35	buy track
13.	Hush 02:15	buy track
14.	Wandering 07:34	buy track
15.	The Seven Hills Of Rome (CD/Digital only) 04:47	buy track
16.	You've Got To Know When (CD/Digital only) 01:34	buy track
17.	The Atlantic Conveyor 02:51	buy track

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Continuing our ambitious People Like Us vinyl reissue program with Welcome Aboard – a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption closed much of northern Europe’s airspace.

Volcanically marooned in Baltimore and NYC, Bennett utilized some of her “free” time to work on the album and even gained audio contributions from fellow experimental musicians Jason Willett (of Half Japanese) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos) via her extended stay

Bennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Now strangely echoed by the Covid-19 outbreak and the various grounding of planes and stay at home policies worldwide.

While the general mashup culture often centres on the instant gratification of seamlessly juxtaposing hooks, People Like Us tracks transform the source material into collages that are equal parts dissonance and pleasure, making artful commentaries on our culture and Bennett’s own existential amusement within such a wondrous world. No one could have predicted how relevant this album would have been 10 years later.

Volcanoes or Viruses, Welcome Abroad is what happens when you’re stranded due to a freak natural occurrence trapping people all over the world and causing mass plane cancellations.

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released June 18, 2021

*the Digital/CD version has more tracks than the vinyl. Everyone ordering the vinyl will get the extra bonus tracks as digital download.

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