True To Your Own Spirit

by The Hugs

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of True To Your Own Spirit, Strangers Lost [single], DIRTY GEMS, Witness [single], Great Bolongo Beat [single], In The Dead Black Night [single], On And On [single], Love You To Death, and 5 more. , and , .

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1.	Singing Out My Window 04:40	info	buy track
2.	In The Dead Black Night (free) 03:22		download
3.	Wake Up And Stand In Your Power (free) 03:32		download
4.	Sad Slow Song (free) 02:35		download
5.	Tomorrow's Open Door 03:32		buy track
6.	Great Bolongo Beat (free) 03:46		download
7.	Sad Place (free) 04:11		download
8.	Not Gonna Tell Me Who I Am (free) 02:42		download
9.	Don't Know Where I'm Going 03:10		buy track
10.	Street Preacher 06:40		buy track
11.	Ne Me Sauve Pas 05:07		buy track
12.	Beautiful Rich 03:40		buy track
13.	Witness 03:24		buy track

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Portland's The Hugs are back w/ their 7th full-length studio album. 3 years in the make and writing: True To Your Own Spirit w/ 13 new songs ranging in styles, genres and new sonic territory and soundscapes from The Hugs. An album w/ a nod to the British 90's culture of bubblegum pop guitars and crafty witty lyrics. . ."TRUE TO YOUR OWN SPIRIT" is as diverse and unique and catchy as guitar pop gets these days" - Preview the album w/ 4 new tracks streaming now!

Mixing by Sonny Diperri (Street Preacher) and Gordon Raphael (Singing Out My Window + In The Dead Black Night + Witness)

pre-order today - releases 6/3/2022 - www.TheHugsPortland.com

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released June 3, 2022

"TRUE TO YOUR OWN SPIRIT" - June 3rd, 2022 // Album credits:

Produced by Danny Delegato and The Hugs in Portland, OR.
Recorded in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. (September 2020- March 2021)
Tracks 1,2, 13 Mixed by Gordon Raphael (Hebden Bridge, England)
Tracks 3,4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 Mixed by Danny Delegato (Gearhart, Oregon)
Track 10 Mixed by Sonny Diperri (Los Angeles, CA)
Track 10 + 7 Produced by BACEO DARKER (PORTLAND, OR)
Track 10 Mixed By Robb Westlund (PORTLAND, OR)
Mastered by Frida Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Artwork Layout By Sean Allen at Ivity Studios

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Garage-pop band from Portland, Oregon. U.S.A.❤️
NEW ALBUM 'TRUE TO YOUR OWN SPIRIT'
OUT JUNE 3rd!

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