She Sings Songs from the Toaster: The Bedroom Session was recorded in an actual bedroom. The name is not a stylistic choice. It is a description, and the intimacy of the setting is inseparable from the intimacy of the material: personal, sensual songs from one woman to another, sung by Some Guy Named Tim's Wife against piano and strings in a space that sounds exactly like what it was.
The album is nearly a complete movement. Ten tracks trace the full arc of a relationship, from the quiet beginning of drowning in someone through the goodbye and the silence that follows it. The eleventh track, Suicidal Vampire, stands apart as a bonus: the dark coda that belongs to the collection but not to the arc.
There is a discipline to the sequencing here that rewards close listening. The titles alone carry the story. How to Drown Quietly through and Protect follows the emotional logic of loving someone across the full span of it, nothing rushed and nothing explained. The music does the work the words set up.
Track 5, Smokes, is subtitled The Nameless Cowfish Tribute, written from the years of the real band that the novel follows. It arrives midway through the arc as the detail that grounds the whole album in a specific life rather than a general one.
Suicidal Vampire began as a poem in the Poems from the Toaster collections. It is also in development as a full rock and dream pop opera under Ace of Toaster Records.
How to Drown Quietly
One Breath at a Time
Begging You
Waves of Remembrance
Smokes (The Nameless Cowfish Tribute)
To Live Again
Her Goodbye Song
I Desire You
And I Sleep
and Protect
Suicidal Vampire (Bonus Track)
Vinyl projected August 1, 2026.
She Sings Songs from the Toaster is an ongoing series. New volumes will be released through Ace of Toaster Records as they are completed.
Smokes (Track 5) connects directly to Nameless Cowfish: The Years Between The Stations. Suicidal Vampire appears in the Poems from the Toaster collections and is in development as a rock and dream pop opera. For the heavier end of the catalog, Burnt Songs from the Toaster explores the same emotional honesty in a completely different sonic world.
All songs written and composed by: David Kitzmiller
Performed by: Some Guy Named Tim's Wife
Produced by: Hector LaNona
Mixed by: Kyle Kitzmiller
Mastered by: Eric Gates
Recorded at: Undisclosed Bedroom, Nashville, TN
Label: Ace of Toaster Records
Published by: Norman Kitzmiller Publications
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