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- PennLive:James Wolpert releases new single 'Bats'
Posted by : Fabio
Nov 5, 2014
The former "The Voice" contestant and Strasburg resident is still working on his first album, "The Entire City," which was funded by Kickstarter in June. But now, fans have something to tide them over until its release - his first single, "Bats."
"It's a very self-deprecating song," Wolpert told PennLive. "It's about personal missteps that I've made to push people in my life away. It's just a little facet of the whole album, which is essentially a self portrait."
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"He creates like a mad scientist and then he comes out with these creations and we all sit around and are like 'Wow, we need this in the world.'"
"Bats" is especially significant to Wolff - it is the first song he ever heard Wolpert perform.
"I never saw him on 'The Voice,' so I saw him onstage with an acoustic guitar playing 'Bats,'" Wolff recalled. "For me, it was like this is a huge song with this huge story."
"It's a musical experience that brings you to places," Wolff said later. "As you listen to it you feel anxiety, you feel your heart beating faster, you feel actual physical symptoms. It gives you chills."
One thing that makes "Bats," and Wolpert's entire album, unique is the fact that the vocals have not been adjusted for pitch.
"It's so rare these days, but the vocals you hear are the scratch recordings of the take we ended up going with in the studio," Wolff said. "Nothing's been done, there's no pitch correction. He didn't come back and re-record these vocals."
"If you were in the studio now and we solo-ed just the vocal track, you'll hear all this crap in the background -- you'll hear somebody coughing. You don't hear it within the context of the song, but soloed, you hear it," Wolff continued.
"That's just a testament to what a rare talent and brilliant artist [Wolpert] is."
While the single is being released on Halloween, it won't make for the perfect Halloween party dance record. "It could set some Halloween-y ambience though," Wolpert said. "It's a very gritty, rough and screaming sort of song."
"It's meant to be listened to loud, wherever you can fit that into your life," Wolpert said
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