Taken from the album "Chorus." Out now on Slumberland Records.

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Philadelphia, PA’s Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, met Cardaci and Whaland at the house venue they both operated in Austin, TX. Cardaci and Whaland each ran small imprint labels and, a million adventures later, the trio decided to form a band. Upon moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who also joined the fold. 

In 2012, following a well-received single and a track on Gerard Cosloy’s “Casual Victim Pile II” compilation they released their debut album, "Arab Spring," which became a cult hit within the indiepop community. That album is sharp and immediate, almost mod-ish in its attack, but always tuneful and going for melody where it counts. They toured the US in support, and have performed with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Eternal Summers, Ted Leo, Sic Alps, White Fence, Gentlemen Jesse, Hospitality, and Brown Recluse. They also appeared on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic.

In 2013 they released a follow-up 7”, “Tie Dye” and contributed a track to Esopus Magazine alongside artists like Jens Lekman and The Shins. They also played at that year’s NYC Popfest, which helped cement the buzz that was steadily growing amongst savvy pop fans. "Arab Spring" was treated to a re-mastered re-press, which followed the first pressing and quickly sold out.

Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, "Chorus," with lauded engineer Gary Olson (whose body of work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.

The result is an album that is as immediate as it is timeless, full of effortlessly catchy and well-crafted tunes that echo pop legends like Smiths and Orange Juice. All of that time in the studio has resulted in a rich, considered sound that puts the band's arranging and playing front and center. "Chorus" is one of the most exciting pop records in years, and marks Literature at true contenders.

Literature - New Jacket

Daydream

Dissolve

Revival

Heaven

[Chorus]
i might make you hate me
Fade our love into a daydream
Static in my chest, yeah you can blame me
Draw a line, I’m slipping through it weightlessly
And drive you crazy
I might make you hate me
Turn our love into a daydream
Echo through the walls, you still can’t save me
Draw a line, I’m bleeding past it aimlessly
And drive you crazy

[Verse 1]
Every night feels black, like my heart, watch me fall apart
Engine humming with my shadows, drifting in an empty car
Whispers caught in cigarette halos, secrets sinking in the dark
Tell me things that bend the world, I spent too long pulled apart
You and I like diamonds in the water, fading
Tidal pull, dragging me beneath the aching
Tell me lies if you need to (if you need to)
See the blur behind my eyes, I can’t see you (I can’t see you)

[Bridge]
So run away, I’m burning out
Your tidal wave keeps crashing down
Hide my face, I’m full of doubt
I’ll just end up as your enemy now

[Chorus]
I might make you hate me
Turn our love into a daydream
Static in my chest, yeah you can blame me
Draw a line, I’m slipping through it weightlessly
And drive you crazy

[Verse 2]
Slow down, I’m not the one you wanted
Right now every truth feels haunted
Tell me “pipe down,” but I know you never want the truth
There’s a cliff above the ocean and I feel us drifting to it soon
You and I like diamonds in the water, fading
Tidal pull dragging me beneath the aching
Tell me lies if you need to (if you need to)
See the blur behind my eyes, I can’t see you

[Bridge]
I might make you hate me
Turn our love into a daydream
We aren’t the same, you always shape me
Draw the line, I’m drifting past it weightlessly

[Chorus]
I might make you hate me
Fade our love into a daydream
Static in my chest, yeah you can blame me
Draw a line, I’m slipping through it weightlessly
And drive you crazy

daydream

"Unless", the sophomore album by Los Angeles 3-piece Crescendo: www.wwnbb.net/artists/crescendo/

Crescendo - Repulsor

Somewhere Somehow

First single from @A-Beacon-School's "Cola" LP ~ out now!

Premiered via The Fader: http://www.thefader.com/2018/02/14/a-beacon-school-algernon

Cola is the full-length debut from Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Patrick J Smith, whose previous credits include playing with Modern Rivals, Bluffing and Fiasco. Having spent the last year working on a new project called Maxband with Max from Parquet Courts, A Beacon School marks Smith’s first entirely solo effort and the beginning of a new musical journey.

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A Beacon School - Algernon

@A-Beacon-School's Cola was released on vinyl for the first time on June 14 with three unreleased songs (Glue, Fade In Nylon, Cut Thru). Read more:

https://www.popmatters.com/a-beacon-school-fade-nylon-2636980439.html

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A Beacon School - Fade In Nylon

"In Absentia," off of Cathedral Bells' debut album out March 6th, 2020. Follow Cathedral Bells and add "In Absentia" to your playlists here ~ https://open.spotify.com/album/5BXJPYAsjsJYx6eBzfn5c5

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