May 2022

Daze of Summer (Part 1)

[Weekly Mix] 2022.05 (5)

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CREDITS
Producer: Philip Weinrobe, Sarah Beth Tomberlin
Mixer: Philip Weinrobe
Recording Engineer: Philip Weinrobe
Mastering Engineer: Josh Bonati @ Bonati Mastering


PERFORMERS
Sarah Beth Tomberlin: vocals, electric guitar
Cass McCombs: electric guitar
Felix Walworth: drums
Philip Weinrobe: electric bass


LYRICS
what’s the point of this 
if i know how it ends 
you said i got the spark
well baby are you
the flint?
and don’t you dare me to
cause you know that i will
and don’t you say those words 
that ain’t part of our deal

walk five miles from my door
just to give you some more
do you just talk to me 
when you’re lonely and bored
and don’t you act like that 
when you know what i feel
and don’t you tell me to stay
cause you know that i will

but you get so close 
i almost don’t 
bite my lip
happy accident 
and i wanna die
when you say don’t cry
i won’t quit
happy accident 

always measure my time
by the way you spend mine
i wanna burn it all down
could i borrow a light?
and don’t you dare me to
i could leave in the night 
and don’t you dare me to
cause you know i could fly

but you get so close 
i almost don’t 
bite my lip 
happy accident 
and i wanna die
when you say don’t cry
i won’t quit 
i’m no accident 

what’s the point of this
i don’t know how it ends 

#SCFIRST

happy accident

One For Your Workout

Lucky

CREDITS

all music recorded/mixed/produced by Jake Cheriff 
www.jakecheriff.com

+ additional vocals on track 01 "Smaller" by Margaux
+ guitar solo on track 04 "Tabletops" by Bernardo Ochoa
+ violins on track 05 "Make Sense" by Ian McNally
🎨 by Peter Slattery

Tabletops

Sometimes, Forever

Shotgun

Stream 'Fast Lane' here: https://orcd.co/ralphtv-fast-lane

Formed by childhood friends, RALPH TV is the project of four friends based in Brighton. The band draws influence from an eclectic range of artists including classic pop icons like Sade, Brian Wilson and Shuggie Otis to the current sounds of HOMESHAKE, Her’s and Shintaro Sakamoto. Accumulating millions of streams, the band comes back with a new single ‘Fast Lane’. Let yourself enjoy a lo-fi and vaporwave-like melody and heady lyrics. The song has this retro vibe that will lead you to a parallel groovy universe.

Fast Lane

Stream

RALPH TV - Fast Lane

Summer Nights - EP

When You're Around

STAY AWAY

Keep It Cool - Available to stream on all streaming platforms

Keep It Cool

Departure

Game on (Remixes)

Game On (Golan Remix)

Having grown up in the unusually sheltered environment of a church-turned-cult, Brooklyn based musician Jeremy Snyder has always found himself drawn to the harsh, dissonant music that was off limits during his formative years. Today, Pure Adult, the experimental punk band he formed in 2017 with contemporary dancer and visual artist Bianca Abarca, has released new single ‘The Power of Incredible Violence Pt. III’ via FatCat Records. The single, a visceral explosion of angst that calls to mind post-punk greats This Heat, addresses two questions; What does a hyper-violent oppressor perceive as violence against itself? What threatens the fundamental structure that upholds its violence?

“My parents and the church were very aggressive about expelling any non-christian music, films, and friends from one’s life,” says Jeremy, on his evangelical upbringing. “It was imperative to only make friends with heathens to convert them, otherwise you were exposing yourself to the evil they’re enjoying,”. 

In spite of this, in the mid-90s, Jeremy taught himself to play multiple instruments as well as learning how to make multitrack recordings using a karaoke machine. By high school, Jeremy was secretly listening to non-christian bands like Swans and Sonic Youth whilst recording his own songs and trying to recruit people to play live with him. “I was truly a believer back then and when the leadership told me I wasn’t supposed to play music, this caused a massive internal conflict. I was truly, fully idolising music as they had feared, but I couldn’t help it. So I just felt shame,” he explains.  

After leaving the church, Jeremy began studying religion, philosophy and politics whilst working as a sound engineer. “I ended up touring with some small pop rock bands, while my studies brought me through an array of beliefs and a far left political worldview. While I’ve identified as a communist for almost 20 years now, I didn’t fully give up on religious belief until around 2010. A fundamental element to our belief system was this sort of unverifiable feeling that must be something and, because I’ve experienced that feeling, virtually nothing can make me deny it. And it’s comforting, in a world of quantifiable uncertainty, a guise of certainty,” he says. 

In more recent years, Jeremy has become the engineer of choice to internationally acclaimed acts such as Mdou Moctar and IDLES, both of which are big fans of Pure Adult. IDLES lead singer Joe Talbot says of the bands forthcoming album: 

“Pungent chaos that serves no pomp, instead it throws around dark innuendo like a rag doll to the cadence of fury and fucking. The best album I’ve heard in ages. The best band you haven’t seen. Go dig, it’s beautiful at its worst.” 

At the centre of Pure Adult’s music is the far left political ethos and DIY attitude Jeremy and Bianca share. In 2017, in their apartment, Jeremy began recording what would become their debut EP. In his words it was “the most accurate representation of my musical interests and a way for sharing more radical ideas”. 

“Whilst working on one of the tracks on the EP, Bianca had gotten the melody stuck in her head and was idly singing it out loud and it occurred to me that it might sound better with her voice on it. She crushed it in a single take and we then proceeded to add her into other songs on that recording. Similarly, I found her messing around with some synthesisers and it was so cool, we developed several pieces from her experimentation,” explains Jeremy.  

Foregoing the clean polish of professional studios for various bedrooms, basements and empty venues around Brooklyn, Pure Adult’s dedication to creating challenging yet captivating punk songs has earnt them an ever expanding following. And with a debut album in the can, they are showing no signs of slowing down.

The Only Way Out

Danielle Ponder