COOL HEAT - Drift

Lay Low

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

Order LP/CD: http://slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/273
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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

production/vocals/engineering by SUN$ET
On all plats 6/18

waiting for you

[Verse]
Let me feel your sleepy eyes
You look so cute when you're sleepy
I don't wanna say goodnight
I just wanna keep you with me

[Chorus]
If I lay down in the road
I just might fall asleep forever
If you lay down in the road
I hope that we can sleep together

[Verse]
The light of the stars is so soft
They burn so bright but from so far
The universe is so dark
I know it looks like that from mars

[Chorus]
If I lay down in the road
I just might fall asleep forever
If you lay down in the road
I hope that we can sleep together

[Verse]
If you feel the way I do
We can stay awake together
And if you don't feel the way I do
We can both fall asleep forever

Sleepy Eyes

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

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.

PURCHASE 🍦

A Beacon School - Hum

Love, you bring me to my knees
I'll do anything that you tell me to
We can share the same disease
I'll sacrifice my heart to you
Holding hands eternally
Laughing together, so happily
We dug our hands in the garden
To bury our little problem
Where the flowers die, little heathen
Where the flowers die, and stop breathing
We dug our hands in the garden
To bury our little problem
Where the flowers die, little heathen
Where the flowers die, and stop breathing
We'll carve our names into a tree
Before we dissolve under our skin
Forever is something we can be
Oh my sweet carcinogen
Holding hands eternally
Laughing together, so happily
We dug our hands in the garden
To bury our little problem
Where the flowers die, little heathen
Where the flowers die, and stop breathing
We dug our hands in the garden
To bury our little problem
Where the flowers die, little heathen
Where the flowers die, and stop breathing

Little Heathen

@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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