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''Information Retrieved'' is the fifth full-length studio album by the San Diego
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Pinback Pinback is an American indie rock band from San Diego, California. The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow, who have been its two consistent members. They have rele ...
, released on October 16, 2012 through Temporary Residence Ltd.


Background

On August 15, 2012 the album's first single "''Proceed to Memory''" was made available for streaming on
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. The album's second single, "''His Phase''", was made available for streaming on
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on September 20, 2012. Eventually, the entire album was made available for streaming for limited time on
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. On October 16, 2012 ''Information Retrieved'' and the music video for the album track "''Sherman''" were simultaneously released. The video was directed by
Matt Hoyt Matt Hoyt (October 13, 1975 – August 14, 2021) was an American independent director, voice actor, writer, and musician, from San Diego, California. Hoyt was best known for his music videos for the bands Pinback, The Blackheart Procession, Gobli ...
and was inspired by the 1962
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.


Track listing


Personnel

''Information Retrieved'' album personnel adapted from
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. ''Primary musicians (Pinback)'' *
Rob Crow Robertdale Rulon Crow Jr. (born February 21, 1971) is an American singer and musician from San Diego, California, known for his involvement with the bands Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Physics, Optiganally Yours and Thingy. He has also led the band ...
- Art Conception,
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Drum Programming Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These mus ...
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Drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
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Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
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, Mixing,
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* Zach Smith - Bass,
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Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
,
Keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...
, Mixing,
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Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
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Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...
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Composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...
''Additional musicians'' * Anton Patzner -
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* Lewis Patzner -
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* Chris Prescott -
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''Production'' * Ben Moore -
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* Roger Seibel - Mastering ''Album artwork'' * Daniel Danger -
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* Jeremy DeVine -
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Matt Hoyt Matt Hoyt (October 13, 1975 – August 14, 2021) was an American independent director, voice actor, writer, and musician, from San Diego, California. Hoyt was best known for his music videos for the bands Pinback, The Blackheart Procession, Gobli ...
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Charts


References


External links


Official website

Official Facebook
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