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You Can't Always Listen to Hausmusik - But... you might have to make an exception this time. Germany's Hausmusik imprint has stirred up something of a concept compilation by the aforementioned title to celebrate its 15-year anniversary.

For the album, which is due on December 5 exclusively in North America in both CD and double LP with book formats, 14 writers (including Thomas Palzer, Franz Dobler, Katja Huber, Harald, Staun, Didi Neidhart, Julian Weber, Sebastian Dietrich, Rev. Christian Dabeler, Almut Klotz, Roderich Fabian, Nora Scholz, Annemone Fesl and Martin Steinm ller) split into pairs to produce seven stories, each beginning with "Man kann nicht immer nur - hören," which translates to, "You can't always listen to..." Several additional contributors (Martin Dessecker, Doris Lasch, Ursula Ponn, Nadine Spengler, Martin Tom Dieck, Atak, CX Huth, Dominik Binegger, Melissa Gates, Helge Reumann, Xavier Robel, Marion Gerth and Silke Heinrich) produced comic book art, and also lent a hand in the creation of the tales.

The musicians, like the writers, worked in twos, with one artist beginning a song and another finalizing it. Pairs include Calexico and the Notwist, Console and Loopspool, Sodastream and Ms. John Soda, Couch and Squares on Both Sides, and more.

Tracklist:

01 Deaf Center/Carlo Fashion - "The Norwegians Gave Me a F#"
02 Calexico/Notwist - "Careless"
03 Broken Radio/A Million Mercies - "Something That We All Find"
04 Sodastream/Ms. John Soda - "Something That We All Find"
05 A Million Mercies/Calexico - "Freunde"
06 Console/Loopspool - "Graindead"
07 Couch/Squares on Both Sides - "Tents"
08 Iso 68/Fonoda - "Humming Man"
09 Fred Is Dead/Couch - "No Way"
10 Jersey/Broken Radio - "No Honky Tonks Around Here"
11 Loopspool/Ted Milton - "Can't Beat Bilmm"
12 Squares on Both Sides/Village of Savoonga - "Chromatographer"
13 Carlo Fashion/Iso 68 - "ambusonic"
14 Village of Savoonga/Jersey - "Dark Line"
15 Loopspool/Console - "Die Euphemistische Tretmühle
16 Fonoda/Deaf Center - "Basement Youth"