Echo

All Good

When Does It Get Easier

Let Me Down Easy

Double Down

If Things Had Gone Our Way

I Thought I Had More Time

How Lucky Am I

Hey, old friend
Remember the storm?
And maybe I'm a fool

Burn my youth
On Monday, or in the winter
Amazing mound of mine

Cause all I have is all I know
Something close to nothing
Cause all I have is all gone

Wait
Was it the wrong fire?
Or the fable?
Man of mine
Amazing time

Cause all I had is all I want
Something close to nothing
Cause all I have is all gone
Something close enough

Mix+Master by Gus Van Sound

Man of Mine

petunias

Running on Empty

Dear Other Woman

When You’re Not Here

Music Video: https://youtu.be/7drVeag0eak?si=wCvYeLXp27caInBi
Stream: https://www.submithub.com/link/dellwood-the-animals

With The Animals, Dellwood steps further into darker, more mysterious territory — a brooding folk song that feels both intimate and otherworldly.

Built around a simple acoustic guitar progression, the track is carried by haunting vocal layers in a lower range than most Dellwood recordings to date. The lyrics unfold like fragments of memory and dream — “Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground” — evoking both disorientation and belonging. It’s a meditation on longing and self-searching, on being caught in a mental maze but trusting the wrestle will find purpose.

“The Animals felt like a personal paradox,” says Chris Bartels. “I wanted to capture the feeling of being lost in doubt while still grounded in something familiar. It’s vulnerable and cryptic, but also strangely hopeful.”

The production leans into both nostalgia and experimentation. Folk roots are present in the acoustic core, while experimental textures emerge from recording layers in different keys, then pitching them back — creating ghostly shadows beneath the song’s surface. The result is a track that feels familiar and human, yet unsettlingly spectral.

The Animals expands Dellwood’s evolving palette: cinematic folk at its core, but open to the edge of the unknown — a voice both comforting and haunting, finding beauty in the wrestle between fragility and purpose.

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Press Highlights for Dellwood (Year One):

• “Soul-stirring indie-folk… raw and intimate strums wonderfully juxtaposed with cinematically produced vocal layering.” – Up To Hear Music

• “Delicate harmonies radiate raw emotion and soul… a hauntingly personal atmosphere.” – Caesar Live N Loud

• “Explores the weight of family through a haunting narrative… lyrics ache with unspoken words.” – Purple Melon

• “An intimate slice of folk… emotional power and sincerity reminiscent of early Bon Iver.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For

• “A warm, atmospheric soundscape… tackling life’s challenges and finding solace in shared vulnerability.” – Purple Melon

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LYRICS

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

Whispers knit, your cryptic verse
The night we broke, with starry guise
Tempered dust, I’ve been sculpted out
I washed it clear, with blood-red eyes

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

It’s brighter now, but only from the snow
The coffee, strong, forgotten on the table
Now back to dirt, the woodlands’ pull 
I’ve tasted all, the timeless fate, betrayal 

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

The Animals

Love Should Feel

Love Should Feel (Acoustic)

Coming Home

Written by: Lauren Juzang, John Mark Nelson
Produced by: John Mark Nelson
Vocals by: Lauren Juzang
Guitars: John Mark Nelson 
Bass: John Mark Nelson
Drums: John Mark Nelson
Piano: John Mark Nelson

Engineered + Mixed by John Mark Nelson
Mastered by Joey Messina-Doerning

Cover Photo Credit: Izzy Baradaran
Cover Art: Lauren Juzang 

Lyrics:

I feel better when I am known
In my car, in my old clothes
I feel better when I’m alone
In my own bones

I feel better in easy times
When the world isn’t in a fight
When my family is playing nice
I feel alright

I feel better
I feel better

I feel heavy in times like these
You’re far away 
And now we don’t speak
I’m in my head
And I’m in need
So desperately

I feel good when you’re off my mind
Somewhere else out of my eyeline
Out of sight, baby
Out of mind
I feel alright

I feel alright
I feel free
I feel everything I’ve wanted to be

I feel graceful
I feel neat
I’m feeling better

I feel better

I feel better when I am known
By myself and by all those
Who I love and who I chose
To call home


I feel better

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