Asthmatic Kitty Records
P.O. Box 1282
Lander, WY 82520

SHAPES AND SIZES

SPLIT LIPS, WINNING HIPS, A SHINER

After extensive touring on their self-titled debut album, Shapes and Sizes have refined their brand of
experimental pop to create a cohesive, demanding and rewarding listen. Split Lips, Winning Hips, A
Shiner is proof that Shapes and Sizes aim to please the while not pandering. Imagine a soulful top 40
Thinking Fellers playing songs for the prom.

Lyrically Split Lips is at once celebratory and derogatory; among other things, a peculiar but calculated
meditation on naive nationalism and potent protest ("Victory in War, oh what a bore"). "High Life"
focuses on benign habits turned scabrous, and "Alone/Alive" casts an existential strobe on freedom and
dependence minus the pretension that usually comes along for that ride.

Split Lip's harmonious discord is also technical: the band recorded with JC/DC Studios (Destroyer, New
Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, etc.) and mixed with Asthmatic Kitty's own Rafter Roberts (Fiery
Furnaces, The Rapture, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower) to forge a pristine decomposition. Don't
try turning it down- the overdrive provides the framework for equally aggressive lyrics that combine
sensuality, violence, and social critique.

“Pop songs can often feel like variations on the same pattern…Shapes and Sizes are able to remix that
formula, creating pop tunes that feel just slightly off, and thus become infinitely more interesting.” -
CMJ

Selling Points…
- Shapes and Sizes have recently shared stages with Silver Jews, Frog Eyes, The Thermals, Apples in
Stereo, Architecture in Helsinki, and label-mates Castanets.
- Shapes and Sizes have extensively toured the N. American and will be aggressively touring throughout
2007/2008
- Extensive radio and press servicing through Four Paws Media

RIYL: The Contortions, Fleetwood Mac, Deerhoof

ARTIST: Shapes and Sizes
TITLE: "Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner"
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty Records
CATALOG#: AKR031
RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2007
FORMAT: CD/2xLP (Vinyl Non-returnable)
UPC: 656605603124
CD BOXLOT: 25
LP BOXLOT: 18
FILE UNDER: avant pop/indie rock
EXPORT RESTRICTIONS: None

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1. Alone/Alive
2. Head Movin'
3. Geese
4. The Taste in my Mouth
5. Teller/Seller
6. Grassy corner, a sunset
7. Highlife (I had been duped)

8. Can't stop that (sinking) feeling
9. The Horse's mouthy mouth
10. The Long Indifference
11. Canvas skies, Muslin trees
12. Victory in War
13. Piggy
14. one, two, three