Name: Seasonal Depression Suite
Brand: Neil Hamburger

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DC894

Colour

Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-17

Signed copies

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PIAS

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Standard:20

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0781484089414

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Black LP

DC894CD

0781484089421

DC894C

Tape

0781484089445

Artist

Neil Hamburger

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

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Drag City

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With an unwavering focus on quality over quantity, Drag City carefully curates its releases, ensuring each album receives the attention it deserves. Their meticulous attention to detail extends beyond the music itself, with beautifully designed album artwork and packaging that enhance the overall listening experience.

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Neil Hamburger presents a new work from the songwriting team of Gregg Turkington and Erik Paparozzi. Seasonal Depression Suite is an album-based musical, sung by an all-star cast whose voices embody various guests stuck in a perfectly average chain-hotel, wallowing in self-pity and paranoia, re-living personal catastrophes both real and imagined, or simply trying to use the hotel vending machine. Expert music played by an all-star band, to boot.

This song-cycle is filtered through the lens of various guests stuck in a perfectly average chain hotel during the holiday season, wallowing in self-pity and paranoia, re-living personal catastrophes both real and imagined, or simply trying to use the hotel vending machine. The musical tapestry woven by Paparozzi and Turkington draws from the stage musicals, pop vocal albums, film scores, rock concept albums, new wave mini-masterpieces, and singer songwriter epics that have captured their imaginations since childhood, in pitch-perfect support of their fictitious hotel guests and their tormented concerns. 

To sing these parts, a once-in-a-lifetime all-star cast was assembled - including Neil Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac), Annabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow), Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), Bonnie Prince Billy, acclaimed singer / performance artist Puddles Pity Party, voice actress Natalie Peyser, J.P. Hasson (Pleaseeasaur), enigmatic vocalist (and Frank Sinatra’s granddaughter) A.J. Lambert, Paparozzi himself and, of course, Neil Hamburger. 

Among the many musicians accompanying the cast were Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue), Danny Heifetz (Mr Bungle), Bär McKinnon (Mr Bungle), Prairie Prince (The Tubes), Atom Ellis (Dieselhed), Jason Schimmel (Secret Chiefs 3), and Alex Jules (The Monkees band) - an international assemblage whose talents give ‘Seasonal Depression Suite’ its epic sweep. 

With all hands on board, Turkington and Paparozzi created their own kind of masterpiece, like Sinatra’s late-period concept album Watertown fused with the misfit comedy of Neil Hamburger - a work that looks at a cast of characters both ordinary and bizarre, as they make their way from one grievance to another, traveling from place to place, hoping to live, while waiting to die.

Seasonal Depression Suite

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Discover Seasonal Depression Suite by Neil Hamburger. An all-star cast sings this album-based musical, featuring expert music and a unique storyline. Available on vinyl from Drag City.