Andrew Cedermark

Andrew King Cedermark is a guitar player and schoolteacher who lives on a mountain off the coast of New York City. While releasing records on the venerable Underwater Peoples label — such as GarageBand barn burner Moon Deluxe (2010) and the ambitious Home Life (2013) — Andrew toured and performed with such revues as Titus Andronicus, Real Estate, Japanese Breakfast, and spent a good amount of time hiking around New Jersey. Like his celebrated Moon Deluxe, Andrew's new album Fort/da (2020) collects several years worth of home recordings in a sweet little package.

The lyrics to Andrew's new record, Fort/da, ruminate vaguely, and only somewhat, on the idea that our "adult identities" are sad attempts to veil the traumas of early childhood. Some songs prophesy the specific dates, times, and details of traumatic experiences to come, and ruminate vaguely on how these will shape us thereafter. Finally, a couple songs ruminate vaguely on the nature of romantic love. It was mostly recorded on an iPad.

Fort/da, the album, is about life in world that defies expectations, about what happens when the string breaks, which in turn breaks the world, or when you thought there was a string but there is no string, and the object flies away, when you realize, mid-act, that an action is irreversible.