'nothing gold' out now
yep. i was getting real anxious going 13 months without releasing new autumn rhythm material, especially when the end is nigh for college, but ultimately it was good to wait and figure these new songs out. a lot of them are written in tunings i invented. real fun to work those out, but it took a while...
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live 24.3.15, photo by bade dagli |
i started writing this record on my seventeenth birthday. it's probably our brooklyn record. i've never classified us as a long island band, even though the majority of us do live out here; we only started building anything close to a community around our music in brooklyn, which greatly influenced our direction and development. i've spent more free time in the city than at home this past year, and lyrically, this record reflects my recent interactions, good and bad, with the scenes and people i've surrounded myself with. of course, this record is also about horrible gut wrenching anxiety and depression, but every fucking 'shoegaze' album is now. whatever.
no song is about one thing only... i have a habit of writing a song and dedicating each verse to a separate emotion/person/idea. leaving lyrics online for this one already
here, but i'll give some extra thoughts on each tune to celebrate the album's release.
hero worship is my favorite song on the record. the sample at the end is mags asking me to join a bill, sometime in may 2023.
novelty is a song about the past. this one should've been called 'hero worship II' on account of one specific harmony that i definitely stole from TNT's 'cartwheel.'
hang on is a reminder.
indisposed was sketched out on a 1995 fender stratocaster passed down from my girlfriend's mom, to my girlfriend, to me (for a couple of weeks in july). it's a real pretty instrument.
lit a candle talks about how new relationships change us in the eyes of people we've left behind, how deep
even the dogs- this song's title was inspired by a church sign in ridgewood, and dedicated to the late david berman (who i take some lyrics from for the chorus). first song i wrote for the album. jesse plays bass on it.
forgiver- i remember playing this riff over and over again while upstate with dusty, again on one of her mom's instruments. some of that made it into the end of this
vlog about that trip. it reminds me of winter
catch up- i wanted to write something really loud, equal parts eric's trip and dinosaur jr.
rest cure- i play some screwdriver guitar on this. isen lent some guitar to this track to give it some SY-esque guitar interplay, and i like how this track meanders in the middle like how one of their songs might. lillian sugrue, who's currently writing under
big toothy grin, played some vocals. thanks lillian.
campfire- this song is for thomas kinkade, living room kitsch painter who also highlighted as a blathering, abusive alcoholic. 'kinkade' was in the running for album titles, actually. me, jesse, and our friend
charlie lomonaco shout as one on the bridge.
lots of people made this album possible:
a heartfelt thanks to ryan shea, charlie lomonaco, lillian sugrue, tom oeffling, dusty+fam, jack, nora, krishna, maya, jayden, sam levine (as good of a drummer as you can get), bd&david, mom and dad. also, thanks to lydia slocum for the cover art, and dylan wall for handelling mastering. i'm honored to have worked with you both.
thanks everyone for sticking around. going to miss doing this quite a bit when it's over.
xo