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  Recorded between Feb 2010- Feb 2011, this album is the second collaboration between Tyson Ballew and sound engineer Ryan "Shmed" Maynes recorded at Club Shmed.The return to Club Shmed after the home recorded Summer of Dodos EP is a noisy acoustic pop punk album entitled The Escape Artist Kids. The album clocks in at 40 minutes with 7 new Tyson Ballew originals in addition to renditions of Prophets and Saints by local Missoula band Friedrich's Teeth, and a Lou Reed classic. The original works detail mid 00's Missoula punk scene, venues, and punks involved.
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  Singer songwriter Tyson Ballew's 4th full length (second released under his own name) is a fuzzy acoustic pop record that dabbles in anti-folk, pop punk, and studio experiments to bring 9 songs into a 45 minute album about Missoula punks and the music they made in an era long forgotten.
  
  1. Garden City Hardcore
  2. Manifest Destiny
  3. Short Term Memory Loss
  4. Vicious Tiger
  5. Warped Tour Kids
  6. The Great Theft of Ghosty Manor
  7. Prophets and Saints
  8. Cryptomnesia
  9. I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvet Underground)
  
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  2009 31 CD(R)s
  2012 20 CD(R)s
  2022 100 CD(r)s with new art work by Whitney Flinn
  
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