Name: American Foursquare
Brand: Denison Witmer

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

AKR140LPC1

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Colour

blue

Colour details

Translucent Blue

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0729920164400

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

AKR140CD

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With Bonus Tracks.

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0729920164639

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Denison Witmer

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Asthmatic Kitty

American Foursquare is a meditation on empathy, on love, and on the meaning of home. Denison began writing American Foursquare after he and his family relocated from Philadelphia to his hometown of Lancaster in 2014, trading their 800-square-foot row home for a 100-year-old house on the edge of Lancaster City. Denison wrote and recorded the songs as a response to the major life changes of moving and domestication, all the while taking a general hiatus from music to start a carpentry business and spend time with his wife and small children. Denison named the record after the architectural style of the "new" house. Designed in reaction to the ornament of late-nineteenth century architecture, the foursquare emphasizes simplicity and function, with an open four-by-four room layout and a balanced, boxy shape. It’s one of the most common styles of American architecture. As Denison wrote and recorded these songs, the simplicity, ubiquity, and plain-spoken utilitarianism of the American Foursquare house became a centering stand-in metaphor for many of the themes on the record: loss, change, settling, transition.

American Foursquare

Music GB