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= Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt. 1 = Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt. 1 is the sophomore studio album of the Californian band Half Alive. It was released on February 11, 2022 under the record label, RCA Records. Consisting of seven tracks with four singles, the alt-pop album is just under twenty three minutes long. It is performed by lead singer Josh Taylor, bassist J. Tyler Johnson, and drummer Brett Kramer.

About
Half Alive lead singer, Josh Taylor, states that the major theme of Give Me Your Shoulders is love. It's about the desire for love and the reciprocation of it, from both another human and from God. As well as the desire for comfort of another person and the safety in that. This is the band's first work experimenting with the topic of love.

Josh Taylor says "Give Me Your Shoulders is Love. To give what you cannot carry. To accept another’s burden without condition. To yoke yourself with the author of Love & find rest for your soul.”

Promotion/Singles and Music Videos
The album's first single titled "What's Wrong" was released on March 31, 2021. It had been teased fifteen days prior on March 17th as the lead single. The official music video premiered the same day on Youtube.

"Summerland" is the second single of the album, released on July 23, 2021. The music video was released on July 30, 2021.

Single number three was "Make of it" released on September 16, 2021. The music video premiered the same day.

Finally, the fourth single off Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt.1 was "Hot Tea" released on November 18, 2021. The single's music video released the next dy. With the release of this final single, Half Alive announced the name of the album and that it will be a two part album. They also announced their headlining tour of the same name of the projected dual album. The second part of the album was later cancelled.

After Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt. 1
At the time of release, Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt. 1 was announced to be the first installation of a two part project, but the second part was effectively cancelled through an announcement on Twitter. On September 12, 2022 the band wrote: "the end of an era & the beginning of another. we didn’t need Part 2, we needed something beyond it.." and attached the video for their new spoken word track "Night Swims (poem)" which had released several months earlier on February 12, 2022. The seven tracks of the album were then placed on the band's third studio album, Conditions of a Punk, released in 2022.

Personnel

 * Producers— David Pramik, Half Alive, John Hill, Noah Conrad, Ojivolta, Rob Cohen
 * Writers— Brett Kramer, David Pramik, Josh Taylor, J. Tyler Johnson, Mark Williams, Noah Conrad, Raul Cubina, Skyler Stonestreet
 * Additional Editors— Aidan Carberry, R.P. Adam
 * Additional Engineering Assistant— Jonny Bell
 * Additional Production— Half Alive
 * Additional Vocals— Alexa Cappelli, Gregory Fletcher, Sophia James, VJ Rosales
 * Art Director— Devin "DLP" Parker
 * Assistant Engineer— Connor Hedge, Fili Filizzola, Hector Vega, Ingmar Carlson, Katie Harvey, Matthew Scatchell, Noah McCorkle, Ryan Nasci, Yung Matt
 * Assistant Mastering Engineer— Connor Hedge, Fili Filizzola, Hector Vega
 * Choir—Alexa Cappelli, Gregory Fletcher, Sophia James, VJ Rosales
 * Choir Arranger— Rachel Kramer
 * Choir Director— Rachel Kramer
 * Choir Engineer— Jonny Bell
 * Choir Recording Engineer— Jonny Bell
 * Coloring— Joseph Lombardi
 * Composer Lyricist— Brett Kramer, Josh Taylor, J. Tyler Johnson, Mark Williams, Raul Cubina
 * Director of Photography— Eric Ulbrich
 * Distributor— RCA Records
 * Editor— Josh Taylor
 * Executive Producer— Josh Taylor, Ojivolta
 * Mastering Engineer— Joe LaPorta
 * Mixing Assistant— Matthew "Yung Matt" Scatchell
 * Mixing Engineer— Jon Castelli, Neal Pogue, Rob Cohen, Tom Elmhirst
 * Phonographic Copyright— Half Alive, RCA Records
 * Production Designer— Matt Sokoler
 * Programmer— Mark Williams, Raul Cubina
 * Recording Engineer— Jonny Bell