'Shoo' is the debut album from Lionlimb, the project of songwriter Stewart Bronaugh
and drummer Joshua Jaeger. The record is a collection of songs Bronaugh wrote
between 2012 and 2015 while living in Chicago, San Francisco, and Nashville. After
returning from an Australian tour playing guitar and drums in Angel Olsen's band,
Lionlimb began recording 'Shoo' in 2015 with Robin Eaton. Bronaugh and Jaeger
started by tracking live drums and piano, and then for weeks Bronaugh filled up reel
after reel, layering compulsively over their recordings. In the spring, Bronaugh and
Eaton began the task of peeling away the layers. The resulting sessions proved to
be a departure from the duo's previous recordings with a shift toward jazz, rock and
soul with the addition of saxophone and Fender rhodes. The album's influences can be
traced back to Miles Davis' 'On the Corner', Jack London, Schumann, Elliott Smith, and
Jackson Pollock.
