On his sophomore album, "As It Was, As We Were", Hayes Noble continues to refine his brand of fuzzed out punk rock, with increasingly dynamic songwriting. Recorded and mixed by Luke Tweedy (William Elliott Whitmore, Appleseed Cast, Erase Errata), and mastered by Carl Saff, "As It Was, As We Were" captures the nineteen-year-old's talent for fusing melodious noise with timeless coming-of-age lyrics. Sheets of feedback collide with driving beats and abrasive hooks. Blurred vocals move from subdued delivery to impassioned shouts, compounding the youthful sincerity. Recorded two months after his high school graduation, "As It Was, As We Were" is the story of hot summer nights, first loves, and teenage desolation in the driftless hills surrounding the upper Mississippi. It’s the realization that you’re out of step with the weekend cowboys and keg party rollers, just trying to find some other outcasts and weirdos in a town the size of a dinner plate. Hayes presents us with a Gen Z snapshot of leaving home, and the suffocating bleakness glimpsed on the horizon. With artwork by Mike Scheer (Built to Spill, Treepeople) "As It Was, As We Were" continues Noble's trajectory as an emerging talent in a new generation of guitar-driven indie rockers.

COMETS

Trapped in a way
Perusing it all
I could just scroll
Around the universe alone
It's not like I care
'Til sometimes I do
Notice the leak that's
Slowly filling up the room

Day's last breath is spent
Drenched in your silence

The sun is angled low
Animates the shore
Shadows running out to sea
Into the swell

Took a trip
Deep in the week
Had to get out
Because the walls began to peel
The ginkgo and oak
Showered the street
The mid-morning ghost
You know that I can sometimes be

And I don't mind
Water burns our eyes
Throws us from all sides
A chance to surface right

As sun is angled low
Animates the shore
Shadows running out to sea
Into the swell
All your breath is spent
Falling through the sand
Drenched in the silence

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Music and lyrics by Nicholas Warren Evans and William J Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

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Drenched In Silence

stuck in the mud again
fever gripping me
bitter medicine
helps me not to think
placating sedative
helps my ease my mind
lets it all sink in
wanna be someone again
change the state that im in
you know that bitter medicine
makes me who i am

head in a detached state
dont know where im going and its getting late
visions getting blurry
need to isolate
refresh and restart
give me a new face
i wanna be someone again
change the state im in
you know that bitter medicine
makes me who i want to be
im sick and tired of the stagnancy
just wanna be free

Bitter

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Part one of Yndlings sophomore album. Full album out this fall <3 Thanks for listening

COMETS

Hayes Noble

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