{"product_id":"pre-order-11-12-26-ex-re-save-as","title":"Pre-Order 30\/10\/26 - Ex:Re: Save As","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (30\/10\/26)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no grand, overarching storyline to Save As, the second solo album from Elena Tonra’s Ex:Re project. Rather, the album – produced by Fabian Prynn and also featuring Josephine Stephenson on cello, Hinako Omori on synthesisers, Ben Reed on bass and Jethro Fox on electric guitar – is the latest in the Daughter lead singer’s catalogue of expert chronicles of the gnawing minutiae of human consciousness: the over-thinking that consumes us, and the places we travel to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title of album opener “Radio Station”, which begins with stately strummed acoustic guitar and morphs into a trippy song about an endless California roadtrip, is a metaphor for how Tonra feels about her mind. “I end up getting stuck because I can’t make decisions,” she says. Demo recordings live on in many of the final cuts, as on “Sleep”, which Tonra first recorded in a hotel room in Paris. The final version features a melodic loop made from the demo’s acoustic guitar run through a vocoder and a drum machine, which together offer a muffled quality to the sound, like hearing a party through a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther tracks, such as the stand-out “Am I Even Real?”, a Tonra-Prynn duet on which Tonra sings about spaceships to ask whether she is being true to herself in a relationship, found their true version in the studio. That combination of long-held ideas stored in notebooks and on laptops with unfiltered first thoughts and improvisations is key to the album’s perfect mingling of liveliness and deep thoughtfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePure and Simple\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSay Forever You'll Be Mine\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNever Not Love You\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKiss It (and Make It All Better)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCan't Be That Wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOutside Your Door\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTomorrow Is Forever\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eI'm Sixteen\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHead Over High Heels\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eForever Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"4ad","offers":[{"title":"Indies only Crystal Clear Vinyl LP","offer_id":54776514216282,"sku":"4AD0944LPE","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":54776514249050,"sku":"4AD0944CD","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":54776844550490,"sku":"4AD0944LP","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/ExRe-SaveAs.jpg?v=1789206676","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/pre-order-11-12-26-ex-re-save-as","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}