{"product_id":"pre-order-11-7-25-how-you-been-vinyl-mint-m-mint-m","title":"SML - How You Been (VINYL International Anthem IARC0105 2025) | NEW-","description":"\u003cp\u003eSML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their second album, How You Been, finds the supergroup of prolific composer\/producers pushing ever further into the hyperrealist, collectivist approach to music creation nascently explored on their debut Small Medium Large, which was lauded as “awe-inspiring” by Glide, “exuberant” by the Los Angeles Times, and “an exciting milestone” by Pitchfork.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAt inception the band inspired disparate but distinctive artist comparisons like Essential Logic, Oval, Herbie Hancock’s Sextant, and electric Miles Davis, as well as assorted genre touchpoints like Afrobeat, kosmiche, proto-techno and new-jazz. With How You Been their work manages to both collapse and explode such derivatives, displaying a new, high resolution version of SML, fully-flowered into a new strain of sound, bound to incite its own copycats in due time.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“SML might signal a new iteration of jazz, or it might not be jazz at all, or it might not matter.” - Pitchfork\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIt’s important to note that SML’s sound wasn’t created in a vacuum. The band is part of an extensive community of creative musicians who collaborate in a multitude of ways. Los Angeles in the 2020s is a musical Petri dish in the same way that Cologne \u0026amp; Dusseldorf were for the birth of Krautrock; Canterbury for progressive rock in late-60s; NYC for No Wave \u0026amp; the Downtown sound in the late 70s and 80s; Chicago for genreless, Tortoise-adjacent sounds in the 90s. The musicians of SML represent the core of a new school within the Los Angeles jazz and improvised music scene that seems to breed infinitely overlapping combinations, including Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet, the Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes trio, Anna Butterss’s own band, and various other projects encompassing every single member of the SML, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: International Anthem Recording Co.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nLabel:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nInternational Anthem Recording Company – IARC0105\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFormat:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nVinyl, LP, Album\u003cbr\u003e\r\nCountry:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWorldwide\u003cbr\u003e\r\nReleased:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nNov 7, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\r\nGenre:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nElectronic, Jazz\u003cbr\u003e\r\nStyle:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nExperimental\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA1        Guttural Utterance\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA2        Chicago Four\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA3        Taking Out The Trash\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA4        Plankton\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA5        Chicago Three\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA6        Daves\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA7        Old Myth\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB1        Stepping In \/ The Loop\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB2        Brood Board SHROOM\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB3        Odd Evens\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB4        How You Been\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB5        Moving Walkway\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB6        Mouth Words\u003cbr\u003e\r\nCopyright © – International Anthem Recording Company\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPhonographic Copyright ℗ – International Anthem Recording Company\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRecorded At – Zebulon (5)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRecorded At – The High Low\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRecorded At – Empty Bottle\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRecorded At – Tractor Tavern\u003cbr\u003e\r\nLacquer Cut At – SST GmbH\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 66471\u003cbr\u003e\r\nComposed By, Compiled By, Edited By, Overdubbed By – SML (4)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nCover [Cover Art By] – Sonnenzimmer\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDesign – Jeremiah Chiu\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDrums, Percussion – Booker Stardrum\u003cbr\u003e\r\nElectric Bass – Anna Butterss\u003cbr\u003e\r\nEngineer, Recorded By – Bryce Gonzales, Dave Vettraino, Dr. Jon (2)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nGuitar, Effects – Gregory Uhlmann\u003cbr\u003e\r\nLacquer Cut By – Kr*\u003cbr\u003e\r\nMastered By – David Allen (10)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nMixed By – Bryce Gonzales, Dave Vettraino, Josh Johnson (13), SML (4)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPhotography By – David Haskell (4)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nProducer [Produced By] – SML (4)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSaxophone, Electronics, Synthesizer – Josh Johnson (13)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSequenced By – SML (4), Scott McNiece\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSynthesizer [Modular Synthesizer], Samples [Live Sampling], Percussion, Synthesizer – Jeremiah Chiu\u003cbr\u003e\r\nEngineered and Recorded Live\u003cbr\u003e\r\nZebulon, Los Angeles (July 8 \u0026amp; 9, 2024) by Bryce Gonzales\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe High Low, Los Angeles (November11, 2024) by Bryce Gonzales\u003cbr\u003e\r\nEmpty Bottle, Chicago (March 3, 2025) by Dave Vettraino\u003cbr\u003e\r\nTractor Tavern, Seattle (March 20, 2025) by Dr. Jon\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eComposed, compiled, edited, and overdubbed by SML (2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Vinyl\u003cbr\u003e\r\nBarcode (On obi): 634457224742\u003cbr\u003e\r\nMatrix \/ Runout (Runout side A): IARC0105LP A -66471- Kr SST\u003cbr\u003e\r\nMatrix \/ Runout (Runout side B): IARC0105 LP B -66471- Kr SST\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: JAZZ\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalog Number: IARC0105\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Type: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2025-11-07\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SML","offers":[{"title":"- JAZZ *NEW*","offer_id":54552818876753,"sku":"1UKSCL-KBWD-00","price":23.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1030\/9297\/8001\/files\/alt-indie-new_irbPU.jpg?v=1786527853","url":"https:\/\/ilovevinylrecords.com\/products\/pre-order-11-7-25-how-you-been-vinyl-mint-m-mint-m","provider":"I Love Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}