Best riff I've heard in a while. Favourite album of the year so far!

This song is the first song Danny and I truly finished together since I moved back to OKC. We sat on my Mesta Park quadplex balcony one hot day and started strumming this summery guitar part. At one point, I said, "we need a really Beach Boys-esque melody here" and Danny just started singing "Barbara Ann" which actually became the vocal rhythm of the song. 

The song felt like it was going to be a pretty clean surfy continuation of Golden Year, but then Tom Bishop suggested we should cover Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge." While practicing for NMF we would go into these poorly executed takes of the song and ended up shelving the idea. However, I think Devo made its way into this song - the drum beats, synths, and pre-verse turnaround have a Mark Mothersbaugh-type vibe that I dig. Zach Zeller came over for about twenty minutes and added some of the best parts of the song - the bass line, the guitar solo, and the synth hook all came from the twenty minutes he came by.

Lastly, the lyrics for "Neuromancer" are loosely inspired by William Gibson's book of the same title. That's all the references to VR cowboys and stuff. These are some of my favorite lyrics we've ever written.

LYRICS:
meatspace dandy blowin in the wind
cowboy 2.0 night dreamin
VR boys fly fast as you can
get around, get around, hip to your man

oh my lands, there goes another one
slip some green, gift in the minibar
cheap hotel next to stadium
all bout bout, all bout the benjamins

deadbeat dad, digital family
don't be sad, it's just reality

boss level girl, think she's the one
holograph card, first edition
spin your head to see her face
wondering how her chapstick tastes

deadbeat mom, digital family
CD-ROM, that's just reality

deadbeat kids, all in the family
flip your lids, it's just reality
deadbeat dad, digital family
don't be sad, it's just reality


Neuromancer

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press

"Different Now" is the first single from Chastity Belt's highly anticipated I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, out 06/02/17 on CD, LP, digital, and cassette from Hardly Art records. Pre-order the album today from flyt.it/usedtospend

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I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone

Chastity Belt - "Different Now"

The Districts new album "Popular Manipulations" is available on August 11 worldwide.  Pre-Order here: http://smarturl.it/PopularManipulations

The Districts - Violet

Music & lyrics by Dean Valentino
Produced by James Freeman & Dean Valentino
Recorded & mixed by James Freeman at Big Sky Audio
Mastered by Dave Walker at Stepford Studio
Artwork by Sarah Ujmaia

Fernweh

Track 9 from our latest vinyl release at http://www.vinylpost.co/volume-eight-september-2019/

Vinyl Post: Volume 8

The Undercover Dream Lovers - All You Need

Weirdo

Still Here

Vivid Dreams is the final single from our debut EP Microcosmic Things coming out 10th July. Enjoy x

Vivid Dreams

'Gonna Get Me' is the new single from our new album that will be released on Wild Honey Records on October 9th. 

Pre-Order "Day Ripper" here: https://wildhoneyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/day-ripper

Recorded, mixed and produced by Brown Barcella and Alessio Lonati at T.U.P. Studio in Brescia.
Mastered by Riccardo Zamboni.

Booking Italy: alberto@hoodooh.com
Booking EU/UK: elborracho.bookings@gmail.com
Booking USA: justin@atomicmusicgroup.com
Press: giovanna@bigmouthpublicity.co.uk

Day Ripper

Gonna Get Me

This could be the moment of your life
If you only had a reason to stay
I don’t have the guts to look behind
Cause I know that she’ll be leaving anyways

Tell me something I want to believe
What is it you think that I can’t know?
Hold me closer I forgot to breathe
But love me too much and I’ll start to choke

It would mean the world to see you smile
But I know that you’re not happy anyways
We can take vacations in denial
But it’s such an awful place to have to stay

I’ve missed you so much when you’re around
Ima miss you even more when you are gone
Look at all the love that I have found
Too bad it’s not where you think you belong

Do you see it going on?

Performed, Written, Produced, Engineered & Mixed By: Matthew Tavares
Mastered By: João Carvalho

The Districts - Violet

Fat Possum Records

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