Because I Am Always Talking is the third release by Careful, a project headed by producer and multi-instrumentalist Eric Lindley. Though Lindley now lives half-and-half in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the album was recorded almost entirely by the musician in his childhood closet in Orange County, California. His close friend, animator (& incredible artist in her own right) Miwa Matreyek joined him to sing harmony on 'I Had A Kid', percussionist Jay Garrett lent vibraphone to 'Old Crow', Kari Rae Seekins was recording engineer on 'The Water Kept Coming' and Nathan Ruyle was recording engineer on 'Old Crow'. Otherwise the playing and production is entirely Lindley’s.

http://soundcloud.com/ericlindley/04-i-had-a-kid

A follow-up to 2010’s critical success Oh, Light, the record itself is a catalogue of doomed relationships -- friendships, romances, families and physical bodies that disintegrate because they don’t measure up to their ideals. 'Because I Am Always Talking' outlines the narrative of a boy who kills his abusive father to protect his younger brother, which leads to a life of excessive thrill-seeking. 'Quite' is a hazy account of a middle-aged man botching a suicide in his multi-car garage. 'It’s Funny' is a story of a couple who, in the immediate wake of an apocalyptic disaster, have emotionally-distant sex in the ash of a deserted beach with a silver sky and black water. This is deeply personal music about doomed trajectories, and it is no mistake that Lindley returned to his childhood home to record it.


http://soundcloud.com/ericlindley/03-its-funny

Eric Lindley grew up in California, first on the edge of Yosemite, in a small mountain town that was the unlikely “birthplace of computer gaming” and later moved to Orange County -- a place also known for bleak, expansive, quasi-simulated landscapes. Perhaps this is why Lindley is obsessed with the tension between sincere emotion and simple human mechanism, with the beauty of hopeless rote. His obsession carried him through intensive studies in music theory and cognition at Dartmouth College, through explorations in home-brew circuitry and vocoders that he now performs live with (at venues including The Baryshnikov Center, Machine Project, & The Knitting Factory), and eventually to other musicians that share similarly studied-yet-delicate blends of electronics, academia and intimacy, as he has shared bills with Julia Holter, Xiu Xiu, Mt. Eerie, Lucky Dragons, Anna Oxygen, and currently is joined in his live sets by musicians like Qasim Naqvi and Aakaash Israni of The Dawn of Midi, and trumpeter Stephanie Richards, who has played with the Asphalt Orchestra with the likes of Yoko Ono, David Byrne, and St. Vincent.

Because I Am Always Talking tracklist

1. Because I Am Always Talking
2. The Water Kept Coming
3. It's Funny
4. I Had A Kid
5. Odd Exchange
6. Old Crow
7. Quite
8. You Love Me
9. Frog Went a'Courting

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