7" - Joel Plaskett Emergency - Fill In The Blanks

The first release from Joel Plaskett Emergency since 2009's Scrappy Happiness. Two singles featured on 7" black vinyl.

1. Fill in the Blanks
2. Fill in the Blanks (Low Def Version)

“Fill in the Blanks” was written as an assignment for an online course I was taking from Andrew McLuhan on his grandfather Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 book Understanding Media. Chapter Two of the book is titled “Media Hot and Cold,” and I figured a light-hearted song might be a good medium for the message. 

I recorded the “low def” version on my four track cassette machine back in 2024, and then the Emergency worked up our full-band take this past winter. We tried to give it a “Joe Walsh goes for a beer with Steve Miller on Portland Street” feel.