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Production history

Howard started playing music while attending

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as a film major in the late 1990s. Soltero has had several incarnations, including a five-piece band (with

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and

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) and a four-piece band, as well as solo and duo acoustic lineups. The first full-length Soltero album, entitled ''Science Will Figure You Out'', was recorded with members of the Mobius Band and self-released in August 2001. April 2003 saw the release of ''Defrocked and Kicking the Habit'' on Handsome Records. ''The Tongues You Have Tied''. an album recorded winter 2003/04 on reel-to-reel 8-track, was put out on Three Ring Records in June 2004. Soltero's 2005 album, ''Hell Train'', was the first to prominently feature his live band of three years. It was first self-released in March, and then released more widely by Three Ring Records in November 2005. Soltero's fifth record, ''You're No Dream'', found Howard returning to the solo recording dynamic of earlier work. Recorded in Philadelphia using an array of borrowed instruments, the album was released in 2008. The band's sixth album, ''1943'', was recorded at Junxt Studio in Brooklyn and was selected by French production company Microcultures as a featured project for release in late 2011.

Career history

Tim Howard graduated from

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CT in 2000. During a trip through

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in 2009, he decided to pursue a career in

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. He applied for an internship at ''

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'' and began working there in part because producer

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was a fan of his music. Howard currently works for the

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podcast '' Reply All'' and continues to write and record music in his spare time. Sometimes Howard's two careers overlap, like when Soltero's cover of

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Discography

Albums

* '' Science Will Figure You Out'' (2001) * '' Defrocked and Kicking the Habit'' (2003) * '' The Tongues You Have Tied'' (2004) * '' Hell Train'' (2005) * '' You're No Dream'' (2008 on La Société Expéditionnaire in the US and Messie Murders in France) * ''

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'' (2012, on Microcultures in Europe, self-released through

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in the US.) * '' Jamming the Gaydar'' (2013) * '' Western Medicine Blues'' (2017)

Collections

* ''Best Hits'' (self-released, 2013, compiles tracks from Soltero's first six albums)

References

External links

Soltero's Official Page

Soltero homepage for music, links, and info

Soltero's Bandcamp Page

Microcultures Project Page

Soltero's Myspace Page

A Guide to the Music of Soltero
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