Tug of War

Child of Spring

Derde Verde 'Don't Look Away' out April 20th: https://found.ee/j2Cc4

Derde Verde are a Los Angeles-based indie rock band known for their melodic soundscapes, driving rhythms, and heartfelt songwriting. They are set to release a new album, Tug of War in June 2023, with 'Don’t Look Away' as the first single. Their 2019 album 'Slow Light was praised by KCRW as Best New Music. Their upcoming album, captured mostly live on 2-inch tape, explores the conflict between past and present selves in the post-pandemic world.

Written, Performed, Produced by Derde Verde
Recorded and Mixed by Rob Shelton at Altamira Sound
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

Lyrics

Maybe you’re just getting older,
feels like the world’s growing colder, oh oh. 
You stay in your own echo chamber, 
whatever makes you feel safer, oh oh oh.

But when the walls start closing around you 
there’s no more quiet corners to run to.
Twisted words and pointed fingers surround you 
threatening to tear up everything in two.

But don’t look away, 
don’t look away, 
don’t look away.

Nothing looks like it used to,
all the disguises were cut loose, oh oh. 
Everything that you understood
has been pulled out from under you, oh oh oh.

But when the walls start closing around you 
there’s no more quiet corners to run to.
Twisted words and pointed fingers surround you 
threatening to tear up everything in two.

Don’t look away, 
don’t look away, 
don’t look away, 
don’t look away.

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Don’t Look Away

So rest your head
Upon my chest
Until we both drift away
And dream sweet dreams 
Of times long past
When golden were the long days.

We passed the time 
with laughing eyes
And fell arm in arm on the wet grass
And stared at stars and passing cars
And wondered if we would be gone just like that

Living out our days until we are gray 
And maybe losing all our minds along the way
Living out our days until we are gray 
And maybe losing all our minds along the way

written by: Shirlé Hale & Sei Petersen
©2023 Josie Mae Music (BMI)

The Silver Garden

Lullaby

In Your Arms

Another Trip Around The Sun

An album preoccupied with spiritual themes, with transfiguration, the good life, with the soil, with the afterlife. The After is a meditation on timelessness and ethereality and their relation to the vanishing moment we call life. 

The opening track, “Extremophile” pictorializes, through tableaus of near-waltzes, the passage of life lived in a connected fashion, in serenity and wisdom.

“Mirrored Moss” represents the fungal texture of the planet, how its totality resides as a meeting ground between animate and inanimate, which the nonvascular plants and the eukaryotic forms serve as the “middle ground” between those two polarities.

“Silent Veil” is the surreal dream state of communication with spirits already on the other side.

“The Harvest” is the dramatization of an agrarian myth, with giant cadences representing the earth delivering its grains in an all-encompassing feast.

The last four tracks represent a transfiguration from matter into the spectral stuff of the afterlife: “Preparation” is the laying of the body down, “Gift to the Fire” is the ritual burning of the body, “Tomorrow’s Halls” is the journey upward and “The After” is the floating, transcendent state within the outer plain.

“The Harvest” and “Mirrored Moss” feature the wonderful Paul Brantley on cello and “Silent Veil” features the serene vocals of Cynthia Cook. 

Album cover design by Nathan Youngblood.

In loving memory of 
David Walcyck

The After

The Harvest

Private Earth

Golden Dawn

A track from Medicine Ball's masterpiece "Science Secret Stars"!

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Recorded at Radio One Studio, Dunedin, NZ in 1988.

Snapper - Hang On (Demo Version)

Holy Ship 'Night Aquatic" released on Declared Goods (DG15)Feb. 08, 2019. 

Holy Ship's Jonatan Westh latest single from the upcoming EP Event Horizon, formerly of late 00's shoegazers BLACKSTRAP (V2/Tee Pee Recs). With previous single "Tau", HOLY SHIP has been getting much praise and global playlisting as a star in the recent shoegaze revival. Here he explores post-punk dark wave with anthemic hooks

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