Pitchfork

Tramps like us, baby we were born to...write hard-boiled tales of drug dependency and frosty character sketches? Much has been written about East River Pipe commander F.M. Cornog's shady past and subsequent upswing into the life of a full-time Home Depot employee/DIY musician. Thankfully for everyone who roots for the New Jersey-based underdog, it appears you can take the boy out of the streets but not the streets out of the boy.

Cornog is once again ready to unveil an album of stories culled from his experiences in the urban battlefield and set to silken melodies laid onto his trusty Tascam 388. What Are You On? comes out Merge on January 24 and is the first East River Pipe album since 2003's Garbageheads On Endless Stun. If you're one of the first 50 people to pre-order the album from the Merge website, you'll get a free What Are You On? poster and magnet. Hopefully the fridge you attach it to was purchased at Home Depot.

What Are You On?:

01 What Does T.S. Eliot Know About You?
02 Crystal Queen
03 What Are You On?
04 I'll Walk My Robot Home
05 The Ultrabright Bitch
06 Druglife
07 Absolutely Nothing
08 Dirty Carnival
09 You Got Played, Little Girl
10 Life Is a Landfill
11 Shut Up and Row
12 Trivial Things
13 Some Dreams Can Kill You