If It's Real, by The Highest Order

If It's Real

by The Highest Order

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Clive Gibbins Would buy anything Simone Schmidt is involved in Favorite track: Lonely Weekends.

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We recently unearthed 10 still sealed copies of long sold out If It's Real whilst doing inventory and are offering them here bundled with The Highest Order's debut 7" single. Last remaining copies of this cult classic.

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	1.	Cosmic Manipulations Pt. I 03:09
	2.	Lonely Weekends 04:50
	3.	Rainbow of Blues 04:53
	4.	Chain Mail 03:53
	5.	Sacred Team 04:00
	6.	Cosmic Manipulations Pt. II 01:19
	7.	Luxury Liner 02:45
	8.	Offer Still Stands 04:47
	9.	Two Hundred Pounds 03:45
	10.	Widow 02:58
	11.	Cosmic Manipulations Pt. III 02:03

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If It’s Real is The Highest Order’s debut long playing record. Working with producer Jeff McMurrich (Bry Webb, Jennifer Castle) mere months after forming, the band laid down its tales of lost love, loneliness, addiction, death, and murder all framed in a timeless collage of cosmic country and classic rock. A debut record that sounds like it should. Hear the joy of a band absolutely in the moment as Simone Schmidt pins the needles with their psychedelic take on Charlie Rich’s Lonely Weekends, in the country-kraut of the Cosmic Manipulations triptych, or what happens when the spirit of Lightfoot is sent through a tape slap in Chain Mail. An inspired pairing of energy and experience, If It’s Real acts as the perfect introduction to the world of The Highest Order.

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released March 19, 2013

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