Kudos to You!

Kudos to You!
Studio album by The Presidents of the United States of America
Released	February 17, 2014
Recorded	2013
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Burnside Records
Producer	Martin Feveyear
The Presidents of the United States of America chronology
These Are the Good Times People (2008) Kudos to You! (2014) Thanks for the Feedback (2014)

Kudos to You! is the sixth studio album by The Presidents of the United States of America. It will be released on February 17, 2014.^[1]

The album was announced on November 22, 2013. It started as a project through the direct-to-fan platform PledgeMusic, where fans would be able to pledge money on the future album and other rarities such as lyric sheets and other items. The project reached its goal in nine days.

According to their PledgeMusic campaign, The Presidents of the United States of America more or less actively considered These Are the Good Times People to be their final album. Despite this, studio time was booked for October 2013, with nothing really planned. No songs had been written, but apparently the music kept coming. More studio time was thus booked for November.

Also announced as part of this project is a live album, which will be released around the same time. The album will be called Thanks for the Feedback, and will feature 20 songs from one of the bands performances at their own PUSAFEST '11.^[2]

Pledgers are also able to pledge money on a limited edition colored vinyl of the album, where the color of the vinyl version was voted on by the pledgers. The winning color combination ended up being a burgundy and yellow swirl.

Track listing

^[3]

1. "Slow Slow Fly" – 3:25
2. "Crappy Ghost" – 2:26
3. "Good Morning Tycoon" – 2:28
4. "Poor Little Me" – 2:39
5. "Rooftops in Spain" – 2:37
6. "Stay with Me" – 2:31
7. "Crown Victoria" – 3:10
8. "Electric Spider" – 2:37
9. "Finger Monster" – 2:39
10. "Flea Vs. Mite" – 2:17
11. "Innocent Bird" – 3:04
12. "Ohio" – 2:08
13. "She's a Nurse" – 2:59
14. "Truckstop on the Moon" – 3:43

Personnel

• Chris Ballew – vocals, basitar
• Andrew McKeag – guitbass
• Jason Finn – drums
• John Roderick – backing vocals on "Crown Victoria"^[4]
• Martin Feveyear – producing

Trivia

• Electric Spider is a cover of a song off the debut album of The Feelings Hijackers, one of Chris Ballew's side projects,^[5] even though it dates back even more than that.

• Finger Monster is an unreleased b-side that dates back to the mid 90's.

• Flea Vs. Mite is a reworking of the song This Is a Blitz, with all new lyrics.

• Good Morning Tycoon is based on an unreleased demo song by The Giraffes, a Chris Ballew solo project. Slow Slow Fly and Stay with Me are also past songs by The Giraffes, the former can be found on the album 13 Other Dimensions.^[6]

• Poor Little Me is a song that dates back to the Smell Me Fist cassette, released by Ballew's earlier band EGG in 1988.^[7]

• Rooftops in Spain and Truckstop on the Moon have both been available as bonus tracks on the album These Are the Good Times People.

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