The Blow
Poor Aim: Love Songs
Catalog: SRRWW CDEP
Release Date: October 19, 2004

7 Songs: Hey Boy, The Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide, Knowing the Things That I Know, Lets Play Boys Chase Girls, The Love That I Crave, Hock It, Come On Petunia

Birth Announcement: Thurston Co, Wash

Olympia- Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich and Jonathan Warren Bechtolt proudly welcome the birth of their first child Poor Aim: Love Songs, on October 19, 2004 at the Cupcake Midwifery Center, Portland OR. She weighs in a zero pounds, two ounces, and measures 5 inches long.

Khaela Maricich, after spending the past several years lovingly crafting pop songs of naive complexity under the assumed names The Blow (K Records) and Get The Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano- has joined forces with States Rights Records recording artist Jona Bechtolt (Y.A.C.H.T, The Badger King) to craft her most realized work to date - Poor Aim: Love Songs. As the premier co-release of Slender Means Society and States Rights Records collaborative Pregnancy Series, the EP is a laser-focused re-evaluation of the BlowÕs already celebrated vision; her stuttered, minimalist pop tones-undulating synths, languid bass ambiance, and longing lyrics delivered in post coital hush- married with BechtoltÕs crystalline, progressively adept production sensibilities. The product is unlike any other in MaricichÕs uncompromising discography š a dramatic leap of sonic and conceptual clarity that maintains MaricichÕs indelibly singular voice. A concept record loosely unified in failings š songs about failed love, and conversely, love songs that fell short- Poor Aim explores loveÕs yearnings, deceptions, addictions, and ultimately, its complacency.

With that in mind, however, itÕs important to approach Poor Aim as, first and foremost, a commanding pop statement or Òhit factory as weÕre affectionately calling it with songs after song glorious song of striking dance floor brilliance. A rapid-fire RIL assault certain to blow-up the play lists of iPod DJs nationwide. Give it a spin-we is sure youÕll agree.

As with each release of the Pregnancy Series, the compact disc of Poor Aim: Love Songs is strictly limited to 700 retail copies.

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