Give It is the eighteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic

Arthur Loves Plastic

Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...

 and was released in 2009.

Release notes

"Another mischievous instalment from Arthur Loves Plastic, with electro and contemporized disco flourishes. From the demanding groove of "Give It" to the house-engorged throb of "Searching for Love" this is an artist coming of age yet not getting old."

Audio previews

The album can be previewed in its entirety on the Arthur Loves Plastic - Give It music page and with the exception of the final track on thesixtyone

Thesixtyone

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 - Give It music page. Additionally, four tracks can be previewed in their entirety or downloaded for free from the Arthur Loves Plastic - Big Contact music podcast and the Arthur Loves Plastic - The Tapegerm Collective music page.

Track listing

The track "Hurting Divinely" is also known as "Hurt Me So Badly" and "Sad".

Personnel

• Produced by Bev Stanton
  Arthur Loves Plastic
  Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...
  
   at Sligo House, Silver Spring
  Silver Spring, Maryland
  Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
  
  , MD
  Maryland
  Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
  
  .

Additional musicians

• Harry Applebaum - Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
   (1)
• Phil Mathieu - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   (2, 9)
• Chris Phinney - Loops
  Music loop
  In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...
  
   (2)
• Anti Gravity Workshop - Loops (3, 11) ^*
• Buzzsaw & The Shavings - Loops (3) ^*
• John Nazdin - Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (4, 5)
• Robbie Magruder - Drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
   Loops (4, 5)
• Cystem - Guitar (7, 8, 11) ^*
• Phil Mathieu - Guitar (Excerpt from "Chamber Music with Guitar") (9)
• Carolyn Hyun Ha Oh - Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
   (Excerpt from "Chamber Music with Guitar") (9)
• Dan Henderson - Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  (Excerpt from "Chamber Music with Guitar") (9)

^* Remixed for The Tapegerm Collective

Audio previews/downloads from Give It

• 1. "Give It"
• 2. "Love This Feeling"
• 3. "Do You Feel?" and "Do You Feel?"
• 4. "I Ain't Happy"
• 5. "The Right Way" and "The Right Way"
• 6. "Here I Come!"
• 7. "Intoxicated"
• 8. "Searching for Love" and "Searching for Love"
• 9. "Fever"
• 10. "Hurting Divinely"
• 11. "Give Me Love" and "Give Me Love"