For some reason I had my high school alma mater in my head. I couldn't find any recordings of it on the internet so I recorded my own version. Traditionally, the song ends with an uproarious chant of "WYOMING VALLEY WEST!!!", but I decided not to include that part. 

Alma Mater Interpretation 1

This recording has guitars, microkorg, lap steel, a tascam 8 track, jiyoung typing e-mails, a broken vox amp and an old mxl condenser mic. 

Mob Ethics

Something You Never Say (new motels)

Sometime in mid-April, I had a dream where I was writing this song specifically for James Abercrombie's Facebook Weezer challenge. It was an exciting dream and when I ‘woke up’ I quickly recorded the song to my iPhone. While I liked the chorus, the verse was a direct ripoff of Weezer’s “Where’s My Sex”, which was kind of disheartening. That’s the worst Weezer song ever written. Before I had too much time to dwell on that fact, I woke up for real and realized that I hadn’t recorded the song at all. That part was a dream too, and now I had forgotten the song all together. I dug through my brain searching, but I couldn’t find anything except for “Where’s My Sex.” I began to drift away to a gentle slumber when suddenly the chorus bounced back into my mind: “Don’t tell mom. The babysitter’s dead.” Wow, that’s cool! Never saw that movie, but I’ll gladly sing it. I recorded it onto my phone for real and went back to sleep. 

A couple days later Jiyoung and I put the pieces of this song together and while it may not be the full song from my dream, the chorus most certainly is! That’s never happened to me before, and the song feels special because it came from that mysterious dream-space. It’s definitely going to be on the next Antbrain EP. We’ve never shied away from sounding a little Weezer-y. (Stomp and Stammer once called us “weezer worshippers” in a mildly derogatory sense.) But this was real fun. Thanks for inviting us to be a part of it! 

davebonawits