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{{More citations needed|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Synthetic Socks | type = studio | artist = [[Gene Ween]] | cover = Synthetic Socks (Gene Ween album) cover art.jpg | alt = | released = 1987 | recorded = | venue = | genre = [[Lo-fi music|Lo-fi]] | length = 60:04 | label = TeenBeat Records | producer = Scott Lowe and [[Gene Ween]] | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} '''''Synthetic Socks''''' is an album by [[Gene Ween|Aaron Freeman (a.k.a. Gene Ween)]], released on [[TeenBeat Records]] in 1987. It is almost entirely the product of Freeman making personal recordings in his bedroom. Freeman sent two cassettes of material to TeenBeat over six months. Freeman and [[Mark Robinson (musician)|Mark Robinson]] later went through the tapes and selected songs from them that would later appear on the album.<ref name=":0" /> The cover of the album is a close up of a child (possibly Freeman himself) holding a frog. Alternate versions of the cover crop the image so only the frog and the child's hand can be seen. Instruments include Synsonic Drums, [[Korg Poly-800]], piano, and reel-to-reel. Long time friend of Freeman, Scott Lowe, assisted in post production using delay and additional keyboards. Credited as Synthetic Sox (not "Socks" as in the album title), three of the TeenBeat tracks; Tree, Sea of Mellichis and Investigating Tornadoes, were released on vinyl as part of Shadow Mouth: Compilation One, released on the Shadow Mouth Record label based in Asbury Park, New Jersey.<ref>{{Citation |title=Various - Shadow Mouth: Compilation One |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2225274-Various-Shadow-Mouth-Compilation-One |language=en |access-date=2022-11-19}}</ref> ''Synthetic Socks'' features a very embryonic version of [[Ween]]'s trademark sound. Freeman's later bandmate, [[Dean Ween|Michael Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween)]], appears a few times on the cassette.
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