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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s shocking I wasn\u2019t killed,\u201d she says of the biking collision that shattered the elbow of her fretting arm. \u201cI went over the handlebars, I hit my head, I was cut all over my body. A week later, a young doctor was killed on the same street by a car doing the same thing: driving into the bike lane.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBut it was funny,\u201d she adds dryly, \u201cto be writing about the mayor and hating the mayor and then I was nearly killed \u2014 and if not that, nearly taken off my line of work \u2014 because of a decision made by the mayor to move away from the bike infrastructure that we\u2019ve all been pleading for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThat mayor-criticizing song became \u201cPeople\u2019s Loser,\u201d one of the nuggets on Sad13\u2019s new mixtape 1331<\/em>. A proudly DIY collection of 13 short songs ranging from 57 to 107 seconds, Dupuis\u2019 third project under the moniker \u2014\u00a0and first since 2020 \u2014 lands July 10 on Exploding In Sound, Speedy Ortiz\u2019s original label home. Today, the first three songs arrive: \u201cI Am Now Completely Invisible,\u201d \u201cArt Institute\u201d and \u201cWatermelon Manicure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tFollowing the injury, Dupuis\u2019 \u201clife flipped over into a basically full-time job trying to rehab it,\u201d powering through extensive nerve damage as her 1331<\/em> material, not to mention gigging with Speedy Ortiz, took a backseat.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cMy favorite thing that I learned is that all orthopedic doctors are, like, really into guitar,\u201d she says. When some began to cast doubt on whether she\u2019d be able to play again, Dupuis mentioned that she\u2019d recently appeared on Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s \u201c250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\u201d list. \u201cI\u2019ve never dropped something like that,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I found it very helpful in navigating the orthopedic-industrial complex. I wound up suddenly with the premier orthopedic surgeon at the hospital. I go to the Sixers\u2019 PT person and I go to the Eagles\u2019 PRP [platelet-rich plasma injection] person. They take insurance. [The doctors] pass my name along because they\u2019re like, \u2018Guitar player!’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tWhile 1331<\/em> is lyrically a snapshot of Dupuis\u2019 headspace in spring 2024, with nods to the fights for Palestinian justice and trans rights, her injury heavily informed the final product. She couldn\u2019t return to the road with Speedy Ortiz until fall 2024 (a support stint for Silversun Pickups), and wasn\u2019t able to begin tracking her new material until the following February \u2014 and when she did, due to the pain involved, the project she\u2019d initially planned to lay down in a few weeks ultimately consumed most of the year.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe cool thing was it allowed a lot more influences to seep into it,\u201d she says. \u201cThis was very much like, \u2018I saw Rebecca Black and The Hard Quartet this week, that is what\u2019s influencing the production of this song that I wrote over a year ago.\u2019 That was a cooler, or at least a different, experience for me, getting to have these immediate conversations with musical performances I\u2019d seen live.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSadie Dupuis<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tThe short songs on 1331<\/em> are also a paean to music\u2019s best practitioners of concision, from indie-rock heroes Guided By Voices to experimental Philly rapper Tierra Whack. \u201cEverybody does it, from the lo-fi punks to the major pop stars, and [those] tend to be the songs I\u2019m really interested in,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\tThe catalyst to devote a project to the form \u2014 which \u201caren\u2019t easier in any regard,\u201d because \u201cevery microsecond has to count for something\u201d \u2014 was Dupuis\u2019 work writing themes for podcasts, including comic Jamie Loftus\u2019 Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)<\/em>. When fans on Reddit wanted to hear full-length versions of the themes, \u201cin my mind, I was like, \u2018Well, these are complete. One-minute songs are valid,’\u201d Dupuis recalls. \u201c[1331<\/em>] was not only an excuse to dive into the format, but also a way to validate it to other listeners: that one-minute songs are just as full, if not more so, than the four- or five-minute version.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAnd while Dupuis cherishes the collaborative spirit of Speedy Ortiz, she opted to return to her solo, DIY roots for 1331<\/em>, writing, recording and engineering it herself \u2014 the first time she\u2019d done so in 15 years. Sad13 is \u201cthe place where I can be myself and screw around and see what kinds of weird noises I can coax out of a guitar or a synth,\u201d she says of the creative space that also allowed her to dabble in shorter run times. <\/p>\n\n\tSpeedy\u2019s 2024 support run for Silversun Pickups inspired Dupuis to rethink how she writes guitar hooks, and an opportunity to watch Liz Phair in the studio prompted a change in how she records vocals. \u201cShe sits to record vocals, and she sits in a crazy way that she said opens up some different aspect of her voice,\u201d Dupuis says. \u201cThere\u2019s more range on this record than on anything I\u2019ve done \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s over three octaves. I think the sitting-down-weird trick is genius. Liz is God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTechnically speaking, 1331<\/em> challenged Dupuis, who explains that after years in Speedy Ortiz her \u201cstandards have gotten a bit high.\u201d The project forced her to \u201clearn a lot of new software,\u201d and reacquaint herself with the all-encompassing nature of a DIY project. As she continues to accumulate production credits for herself and others, that\u2019s paying dividends: Dupuis is currently producing a full album for the first time, by her \u201cfavorite Philly band,\u201d the rising trio Grocer.<\/p>\n\n\tFrom Grocer to periodic gigs with the bands like Ovlov and Grass Is Green that Speedy started out playing basements with, Dupuis remains entrenched in her corner of the DIY world \u2014 and fittingly, 1331<\/em> is her return to Exploding In Sound, the respected indie label whose first release was Speedy\u2019s first record, and that has since released artists including LVL Up, Palehound and Washer. \u201cIt\u2019s a return to roots, but we both have so much more experience,\u201d she says with a laugh.<\/p>\n\n\tIn those intervening years, the business environment for labels like Exploding In Sound and artists like Dupuis has become even less forgiving than it once was \u2014 but she remains committed to her craft, a sentiment documented on 1331<\/em>\u2018s \u201cPretty Little Lifers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\u201c\u2018Lifer\u2019 is the term for someone who will just do this forever,\u201d she says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if they get huge; it doesn\u2019t matter if they get huge and then go back to playing basements. You\u2019re in it for the love of the game, and you\u2019re going to play music for life. It\u2019s all about figuring out a way to make it work under a shifting industry that hasn\u2019t often favored the artist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs she puts it, \u201cjust lifer stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
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