Unknown (Rasputina album)
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| Studio album by Rasputina | ||||
| Released | April 10, 2015 | |||
| Genre | Cello rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 51:25 | |||
| Label | Filthy Bonnet Recording Co. | |||
| Producer | Melora Creager | |||
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Unknown is the seventh full-length studio album from cello rock outfit Rasputina. It was released exclusively on CD through Melora Creager's website on April 10, 2015, and is unlikely to ever be released in digital format – in response to Creager's websites, social media accounts and her own computer being hacked by an identity thief.
In 2012, Creager formed the five-piece narrative musical project Fa La La: the Bastardy of Shakespeare's Madrigals. Inspired by the Madrigal works of Elizabethan author Thomas Weelkes, the project expands on the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship – the claim that Edward de Vere wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare – by alleging that Weelkes was another pseudonym used by de Vere, and that the music of Weelkes could be seen as scores to Shakespeare's plays.
The fourteen songs found on the album were written and recorded by Creager over a three-week period in early 2015, and were performed by the singer alone in her "dank basement" recording studio using only one microphone – a Neumann copy of a Soundelux E47.
Lyrically, the album's central theme stems from Creager's experience of having her computer, website and social media accounts hacked by an identity thief. Disabling the singer's access to all of the band's online accounts, the hacker eventually rendered Creager's own computer corrupted to the point of her not being able to access anything on it, resulting in the loss of much of her life's work.
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