![]() ![]() With basic structural architecture completed, Becker contacted local engineering stalwart, Jeremy Scott, about capturing the velvety fistful of grotesqueries he’d been fastidiously woodshedding, like, for real. It was there that he amalgamated the tones of tooth decay, ghost apnea and icy Green Mountain winds into a chewy pop pulp. What peculiar sounds! He immediately tried to silence the songbirds in his head by externalizing their Luciferian mandates concocting extraordinarily supple sound sketches in a Brooklyn shack smeared with Isabelline parchment, before relocating to a friend’s haunted igloo in Granville, New York. Unsure of what a chord was, he sat and looked quizzically at the instrument for more than a week before rapping hesitantly on the high E string. The journey began when Becker was bequeathed a nylon string guitar his grandfather had crafted out of the wheel wells of a Mazda 323 and some petrified sap from the infamous, 1,500 year old Boab Prison Tree. ![]() Human Potential is the solo project of Andrew Becker formerly the drummer for Dischord Records’ band, Medications and nefarious Brooklyn outfit, Screens.Īfter his latter group unceremoniously imploded in the summer of 2011, Becker consulted a high end, spiritual assassin who foretold a life just above the poverty line if he attempted to transpose the Bee Gees’ “1st” into an aural nightscape of loss, regret and heartache.
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