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title: "tomboy femme"

meaning: "Applied Communications: Midlife Crisis EP track; mixed by Scoobert Doobert. Max Wood on identity, samples, and 17 years of reckoning."

year: 2024
release: "applied communications has a midlife crisis"
releaseType: "EP"

artist: "applied communications"

role: production
productionRoles: "Mixed"

press:
  - outlet: "SF Shameless"
    url: "https://www.sfshameless.com/the-artists/2024/3/28/applied-communications-release-new-single-tomboy-femme"

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/track/4Lof7jkSK9q3tvHmYjyQAu"
bandcamp: "https://applcomm.bandcamp.com/album/applied-communications-has-a-midlife-crisis"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSDSpRn-LHE"

themes: ["applied communications", "mixing", "2024"]

isrc: QZFYZ2480431
isrcSource: spotify
draft: false
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Track **2** on [**applied communications has a midlife crisis**](/albums/applied-communications-has-a-midlife-crisis/). Pre-EP single announced by [SF Shameless](https://www.sfshameless.com/the-artists/2024/3/28/applied-communications-release-new-single-tomboy-femme), Wood: a song worked on across **17 years**, built on samples and pop references, lyrics weaving reality and fiction around identity.

**Mixed by Scoobert Doobert; mastered by Riley Knapp** (same press credit as the full EP). Luke Francis Walton did not write the song.

See [EP hub](/albums/applied-communications-has-a-midlife-crisis/) · [oxytocin drunk](/songs/oxytocin-drunk/) (lead single press)

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