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Tremolo Arm
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A visual representation of bent sound--in between, undefined. Art by Maya Stoner.
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Pill Hand
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Pale purple ink on black T-shirt. Photo and design by Alec van Staveren.
"Can cause paranoid or suicidal ideation and impair memory, judgment, and coordination. Combining with other substances, particularly alcohol, can slow breathing and possibly lead to death."
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Persona
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"I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot."
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Cold Air (Tan Ink Shirt)
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Let my mind ruminate too much.
Seeing meaning in everything.
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Covering My Bloody Valentine is probably taboo, but it felt necessary. In June (2015) I traveled to Zamora, Spain bringing my dad's old acoustic guitar, my laptop, and two microphones. In Zamora I met Dulce. One night I watched her sing on a rooftop and her voice made my throat close up, swelling with melancholy. She soon moved across the country and invited me to follow. I stayed with her in Calafell, a small beach town near Barcelona. Here we spent time playing music together over the drone of the Mediterranean; we discovered our shared love of My Bloody Valentine. "Sometimes" is my favorite song so I suggested we record our version of it—she sang into one microphone while I played guitar into the other, forming a tangible sound memory. After listening to our recording she asked if I would fill up the empty spaces. Alone on the train back to the other coast—from where I would be flying home—I attempted to do so. With my throat once again constricting I absorbed the emptiness by creating new sounds from the guitar, the laptop and her beautiful voice.
Mesmerise by Chapterhouse:
(Originally intended for a Good Cheer Records covers compilations that never happened.)
Mesmerise is my favorite Chapterhouse song, it's totally euphoric but there is this unspoken layer of sadness--like MDMA. I believe we recorded this cover sometime in 2015 and may have played it at one of the "soon asleep" release shows, although memory often fails me. I was teaching myself more about recording at the time. Trying to recreate the instrumentation on an ornate 90's studio single on my laptop seemed like a good lesson. Tuesday and I recorded together twice. I can't remember if it was while recording this song, but one of the times we got completely waisted--on both "melt" and this you can hear the half-alive, blissful distance of being fucked up in our voices.
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released October 28, 2015
Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine:
Dulce Membibre - voice
Kyle Bates - acoustic guitar, computer, voice
Kelp speaks to me. Sad and experimental like Drowse. Musical freedom. I teared up during the chorus of "Falter" while watching them play last week: "you are changed." drowse
August creates slow, warm songscapes. He has released a wild amount of albums since starting the project last year and I'm in awe of his work ethic. Also, my friend Alex from Sprain plays on this. drowse
Portland shoegaze that plays, as the best representatives of the genre do, with huge, hollow atmosphere against intimate observations. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 23, 2016
