A kludge is:
A clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.
An ill assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.
A crock that works.

InFebruaryof 2013, Daniel Pujol set out to write and record the follow-up to his debut album,2012sUNITED STATES OF BEING.Pujol and producer Doni Shroader set up shop in Mt. Juliet, TN at The Place: a suicide-prevention center for teens located in a strip mall. They used largely borrowed and donated gear, recording every day from 5pm until 6am, all the while breaking down and setting up the temporary studio every day between office hours.Mixing took place during the building of Battletapes, a two car garage that was in the midst of being converted into an acoustically treated, professional grade tracking room; building permit, construction workers, and all.Following four months of vampiric living and working around conflicting schedules/eccentricities (the band, the engineers, the sun), Daniel, Doni, and Battletapes had finishedthe album they had been workingtowards. Recording and mixing happened in a non-location where things were being built or set up, in order to work on the album,working around the obstacles the location presented.

In short: Puj kludgedKLUDGE.

Examining well-worn subjects like love, death, authenticity, identity, alienation and society, Pujol appliesa filtercompletely his own and bringsthese ideas to aplacetheyve never existed before. His words examine the world withhissignaturebrandof skepticism, humor, idealism, andanunmistakableearnestness andsincerity.

PUJOLdelivers a sophomore recordthat pushes the intellectual boundaries of songwriting, while at the same timecreatingasuperb, audaciouspunk rock recordfilled with moments of delicate beauty. To do just one of these things is rare, but todo all of that is a true feat or just a crock that works.