
- 1. Pink Marker
- 2. Slime Time Live
- 3. #23
- 4. 2soft2chew
- 5. Cactus Couch
- 6. Shapeshifter
- 7. All Skaters Go to Heaven
- 8. Knife Knowing You
- 9. Quietly Streaming
- 10. Pink Marker 2
Tracklist
Shapeshifter
Label: Hardly Art
Catalog #: 73098
“I have a way of loving too many things to take on just one shape,” Jilian Medford sings over and over again on the title track of the Brooklyn-based band IAN SWEET’s debut album, Shapeshifter, repeating it like a mantra. This is Medford’s thesis statement, a narrator to carry us through Shapeshifter, which is above all else a meditation on loneliness and displacement.
With Medford accompanied by drummer Tim Cheney and bassist Damien Scalise’s playful instrumentation, Shapeshifter becomes a celebratory purging, an album that finds humor in self-deprecation and vice. IAN SWEET’s debut interrogates capital-e Existence through a candy-coated lens, their mathy precision scaffolding the chaos of Medford’s personal neurosis and turning those anxieties into something hook-laden and relatable.