Clash The Truth: Edited and Extended

Written, recorded & produced by Nick Sowersby (Sunbeam Sound Machine). Mixed by Stu Mckenzie & mastered by Andrei Eremin @ Jack the Bear.

Real Life

Taken from the album "Chorus." Out now on Slumberland Records.

Order LP/CD: http://slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/273
Order from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/chorus-itunes

Philadelphia, PA’s Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, met Cardaci and Whaland at the house venue they both operated in Austin, TX. Cardaci and Whaland each ran small imprint labels and, a million adventures later, the trio decided to form a band. Upon moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who also joined the fold. 

In 2012, following a well-received single and a track on Gerard Cosloy’s “Casual Victim Pile II” compilation they released their debut album, "Arab Spring," which became a cult hit within the indiepop community. That album is sharp and immediate, almost mod-ish in its attack, but always tuneful and going for melody where it counts. They toured the US in support, and have performed with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Eternal Summers, Ted Leo, Sic Alps, White Fence, Gentlemen Jesse, Hospitality, and Brown Recluse. They also appeared on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic.

In 2013 they released a follow-up 7”, “Tie Dye” and contributed a track to Esopus Magazine alongside artists like Jens Lekman and The Shins. They also played at that year’s NYC Popfest, which helped cement the buzz that was steadily growing amongst savvy pop fans. "Arab Spring" was treated to a re-mastered re-press, which followed the first pressing and quickly sold out.

Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, "Chorus," with lauded engineer Gary Olson (whose body of work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.

The result is an album that is as immediate as it is timeless, full of effortlessly catchy and well-crafted tunes that echo pop legends like Smiths and Orange Juice. All of that time in the studio has resulted in a rich, considered sound that puts the band's arranging and playing front and center. "Chorus" is one of the most exciting pop records in years, and marks Literature at true contenders.

Literature - New Jacket

forget about it kid

Accelerator

Heaven's Gate

world war one devon fisherman conscripted into the army looses his life on the first day of conflict his ghost and soul lives on .vocals  Katherine Briggs.

Fields of ghosts 1916. Sound Of The Greyhounds.

prod. wisssery 

i'll wait forever for you
what to do?
i'll sell my soul for the truth

i hope that you meant what you said
cause now that you're stuck in my head
i pray that this won't kill me dead
you won, you won it all
now that she's there in my stead
every time i love it's a mess
no need for more tears to shed no,
i've gotta be careful

you know that you're breaking my, breaking my heart
no i can't take cannot take it no more
please do not fake it don't fake all your love

help me love
am i at fault?
my hearts been caught
i'm not yours

i'll wait forever for you
what to do?
i'll sell my soul for the truth

love me then throw me away

Clash the Truth

Modern Holiday

Gemini

Live in Dreams

Taking Off

What a Pleasure

Out in the Way

Shallow

Lessons

Nausea

Vocals - John Cudlip FT. SOKO
Guitars - John Cudlip, Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV)
http://fanlink.to/AnnieBlue

Annie Blue

Vacation

Time

Lessons

beachfossils

Recent comments

CARLOS

ZagorSwiss

bryan

gnvrley radicvl

Related tracks