Shad TAO (BLUE VINYL) 12/23/22 and his first with The

and his first with The Black Lungs

Rather than crafting songs out of fragmented ideas in the practice room

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there are frequent meditations on death

They also deliver memorable original compositions like the autobiographical The One in the Middle

Shad TAO (BLUE VINYL) 12/23/22 and his first with TheShad began building his sixth record, TAO, from a much simpler concept: an image of a circle. Though, in true Shad fashion, he saw something much more profound within its basic round boundaries. The thing that inspired this record was this image in my mind of a circle, but its getting fragmented, and then the pieces start floating away from each other, he explains. And that felt to me like a picture of ourselves as individuals. If you think of our