Almanac by Cones
Produced by Michael Rosen and Jonathan Rosen
Lyrics by Jonathan Rosen
Engineered by Michael Rosen at Honeymoon Suite 
Mixed by Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather
Mastered by Joe Lambert

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Hey Good Lookin'

Drain

The Way It Was

~An ode to breakups inspired and written during our year-long hiatus~

Here's the first single off our new mixtape coming Summer 2017!

--Credits--
Written and Performed by No Vacation
Artwork by Sabrina Mai
Recorded by Sean Paulson at Different Fur Studios
Synth recorded by Nat Lee
Mix and Mastered by Stefan Macarewich

Lyrics

Take a photo
Put it in your pocket
Promise you won't change your ways
Promise I won't stay the same

Just relax, 
Time will pass if you let it go
Sifting through your sorrows
won't get you anywhere

And I don't want to let a moment pass
Running circles in my mind 
Circles in my minds
Circles in my mind

Call you later,
Something that you'd forget
Waiting on the dial tone
Maybe I'll just let it go

Here I am,
Been waiting on you for far too long
Maybe we should call it quits
But you never even 
Gave a shit

And I don't want to let a moment pass
Running circles in my mind 
Circles in my minds
Circles in my mind

Mind Fields

Daydream

--Credits--
Written and Performed by No Vacation
Recorded by Sean Paulson at Different Fur Studios
Synth recorded by Nat Lee
Mix and Mastered by Stefan Macarewich
Artwork by Justin Ma

~~lyrics~~

Why don’t you take off your red shoes
So we can end our night well spent

Why don’t you say what’s on your mind
I won’t run away

I won’t turn away
won't turn away

When morning comes our way
I’ll be here to stay

Staring at a distance
This warmth is hard to find
Sitting in the silence
I gave my best, I tried

Simply a distraction 
I didn’t hope to find 
Sitting by my side 
I hope you’re here to stay

Yam Yam

Roses and butterflies
They pass by
Memories of time
All in my mind, hold

Hold on till I turn blue
Till the day that I see you
Runnin round when skies were blue
Sunny days got me dreamin too

With the daze, with the daze, with the daisies
Dreamin, Dreamin
In your base, in your base, in your basement
Dreamin, Dreamin
In a haze, in a haze, in a haze
Dreamin, Dreamin
With my babe, with my babe, with my baby
Dreamin, Dreamin

And roses and butterflies sippin my wine
My favorite time
And roses sweet lullabies by the poolside
Memories of time

Hold on till I turn blue
Till the day that I see you
Runnin round when skies were blue
Sunny days got me dreamin too

With the daze, with the daze, with the daisies
Dreamin, Dreamin
In your base, in your base, in your basement
Dreamin, Dreamin
In a haze, in a haze, in a haze
Dreamin, Dreamin
With my babe, with my babe, with my baby
Dreamin, Dreamin

Dream Daisies

Dream Daisies (prod. Quelle Rox)

From the Double A Side 'The Gloom That Looms'

Listen at http://jaduheart.lnk.to/TheGloomThatLooms

Tickets to their UK/Europe 2020 Tour on sale now at: https://www.jaduheart.com

℗©  VLF Records 2018

Heroin Song

Taken from "Dream Forever In Glorious Stereo" out on limited cassette and digital 23rd August 2019

Dream Forever In Glorious Stereo

Night Tapes - Forever

Skinshape - I didn't know (slowed)

Cones are Jonathan and Michael Rosen, two brothers from San Francisco who make far-out, addictive pop music in Los Angeles. Jonathan, the band's singer and principal songwriter, is also a middle school art teacher and a visual artist whose trippy hand-drawn animations and drawings have been styled for artists such as Erykah Badu, Toro y Moi, Pond and Eleanor Friedberger, and is a contributing cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine. Michael is a classically trained pianist, composer and producer who carefully crafts their recordings at his Los Angeles studio Honeymoon Suite, and additionally works as a software engineer at THX in the world of spatial audio. Together, Jonathan's intuitive, abstract approach and Michael's technical prowess combine to create what Tiny Mix Tapes describe as "crisp, tuneful, spontaneous bursts of sound and color."
 
After a string of acclaimed singles and their debut album Pictures Of Pictures (2019), Cones are back with their second album, Almanac. Written and recorded during the first year of the pandemic, Almanac proves true to its namesake, acting as a musical cartograph encapsulating the brothers’ experience of such a perplexing time in history. 
 
The captivating new record offers up an intoxicating blend of shimmering psychedelic exploration, nostalgic lyrics,  and muscular pop craftsmanship, complete with infectious hooks and deep grooves that simultaneously hint at everything from Big Star and the Replacements to ELO and the Bee Gees. Mind-bending bass lines, euphoric synthesizers, deliciously crunchy guitar riffs and twisting vocal melodies all coalesce into a one-of-a-kind psychedelic sound that works equally well blaring from speakers at a party or on headphones late at night. 

The brothers draw on their radically different backgrounds here to remarkable effect, with each bringing their own unique history to the project in perfect complement to the other. The result is a whole far greater than the sum of its parts, a record that feels at once futuristic and vintage, spontaneous and deliberate, playful and profound.
 
Stereogum applaud Cones as a "wonderfully groovy synth-pop delight," and KCRW approve of their "easy breezy SoCal feel we love so much." Jonathan and Michael themselves liken their music to "candy in a conch shell." Almanac is the product of two restlessly creative minds drawing from all corners of their imagination. The result is an immediately delightful yet profound listen, a thrilling album built for warm evenings with friends and long drives down the coast.

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