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Taken from Tense Men's 'Where Dull Care Is Forgotten' mini LP released by Faux Discx on 10th March 2014, available on 12" (limited to 300) and digital download.

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The claustrophobic, miasmic world of Tense Men is a world of scuttling shapes, deformed shadows and rigid, repetitive rhythms. The world of Tense Men has a low ceiling, the walls are wooden, rotting in places and badly varnished. The world of Tense Men is clammy to the touch. Eyes twitch, ears ring. Ears burn, eyes sting. The world of Tense Men is dripping all over your mouldy living room carpet. Reptilian tongues darting in and out tasting the dank air. Human forms jerking awkwardly to a record skipping in a locked, sweaty room. Shrieking voices. Murmuring whispers. Telling you things you don’t want to know over and over again, you listen because you aren’t sure if you’re really hearing it or not. You are! Aren't you?

Tense Men was two and is now three men, varying in tension, height and origination. These men also exist within other entities, namely Sauna Youth, Cold Pumas and Omi Palone, amongst others. It began in the bleak Autumn of 2010 and has henceforth been peddling its suspect wares back and forth, here and there. Prior to Where Dull Care is Forgotten, there was an unnamed cassette on Casenove Tapes.

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The Radio Dept. - Freddie and the Trojan Horse

From the album Your Blues, vinyl reissue out December 2, 2014 on Merge Records.
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Your Blues

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Beach Fossils - Wide Awake

Following the February release of their critically acclaimed debut long-player, ‘Nothing Feels Natural’, Priests will be releasing ‘Early Recordings’ through Tough Love as part of this year's Record Store Day. It will be pressed on to opaque white vinyl and limited to 1000 copies.

Priests’ ‘Early Recordings’ combines the band’s first two cassette-only tape releases, originally recorded in 2011 and 2013. The small run cassette releases were originally intended to be for purchase only at the band’s live shows. “We didn’t want everybody to hear it,” said drummer Daniele Daniele. “We were still learning our instruments, so these tapes were not intended to impress the world, just document where we were for our own sake.” Daniele met vocalist Katie Alice Greer the same week she arrived in Washington, DC to complete a fellowship at Georgetown University, and the two decided to start a band. Guitarist GL Jaguar joined soon after, and bassist Taylor Mulitz completed the lineup the following year.

Tape 1 was recorded by Jaguar in his parent’s basement in Maryland. The band had existed for one week, and the trio had written four songs. “I was very eager to have evidence of the band exist for myself, because I didn’t know how long it would last, and I wanted to make music more than anything,” said Greer. “Diet Coke”, the band’s first song, is a hundred second blast of pummeling energy and what would become Jaguar’s signature riffage. A winking nod to advertising that sneaks into culture, the tune is followed by the more contemplative “Talking”, a song on which both Greer and Jaguar play guitar. Greer’s lyrics speak to US public school systems “rewarding complicity” and children being “being socialized by reality TV”. “The World”, perhaps foreshadowing the band’s krautrock-inspired penchant for repetition, is a jubilant intermission before “Cobra”, a playfully minimal stop-start closer inspired by cult favorite rock group She (also known as “The Hairem”).

On Tape Two the band was eager to showcase their fuller sound as a newly expanded quartet. The tape’s seven songs were recorded by Kevin Erickson and Hugh McElroy, who had already recorded the band’s first single “Radiation/Personal Planes” a year earlier and would go on to produced half of Priests’ Bodies and Control and Money and Power EP and all of Nothing Feels Natural. “Leave Me Alone” nods to the Priests’s affinity for inverting the cool funk of a song like Bush Tetras’ “Too Many Creeps” (“I see you when I’m out on the street/ I think you look like a creep”) while exploring more melodic territory on tracks like “Twelve”, hinting to material that would later surface on Nothing Feels Natural. Lyrically, Priests continued to explore themes that center women’s lives (“Lillian Hellman”), critique social perception of female celebrity (“Lana”), interrogate assumptions of US history (“Incantations”), and invert the male gaze on the Daniele Daniele-penned closer “Watch You”. Priests was already interested in expanding their musical palette, as evidenced by metallic clangs and a purring drum machine on “Watch You” and creeping mellotron weaving in and out of a few different tracks throughout.

‘Early Recordings’ lays the groundwork for Priests longer releases in the following three years and provides context for the band’s evolving sound.

Early Recordings (master MP3s)

Priests - Leave Me Alone

Written by EAT FAST
Artwork by EAT FAST
Drums recorded @ The Grain Studios, the rest in bedrooms
Mixed by James Hall
Mastered by Robin Schmidt @ 24-96 Studios

Immortal Kombat

produced by Jason Balla and Gabe MG. Mastered by Mike Bridavsky.

Leggy Singles

Not What You Need

Hair

I Am Not A Game

ลองหลับตาดูกาลเวลาหมุนผ่าน เรื่องวันวานพ้นผ่านปล่อยวางที
นี่ก็ต้องทำ นี่ก็ต้องทำ พักก่อน พักก่อน
พรุ่งนี้ใครจะรู้ว่าจะมีรึเปล่า  
หนีไปสุดโลกนี้ หายไปในอวกาศ 
สุดแท้แต่ ใจเรา 
กลับสู่ดินกลายเป็นเถ้าธุลี เป็นดวงดาวแพรวพราวยามราตรี
นี่ก็ต้องทำ พักก่อน พักก่อน
พรุ่งนี้ใครจะรู้ว่าจะมีรึเปล่า 
หนีไปสุดโลกนี้ หายไปในอวกาศ 
สุดแท้แต่ ใจเรา 
เวรและกรรม ดวงและดาว อาทิตย์และจันทร์ 
ฉันและเธอ เพ้อไป เผลอไป เผลอใจ
สุดแท้แต่ ใจเรา


Per(สุดแท้แต่)

I've seen and heard enough today
or can we call it for today
if we could be other than what we are
when i'm home i feel no music
all alone what is the point
if we could be other than what we are
what we are what we are what we are
on a plane i felt the hope
but when it landed it was gone
if we could be other than what we are
too excited never sleep
take good care of tired body
if we could be other than what we are
what we are what we are what we are
no where feels like my place
i never like how it taste
if we could be other than what we are
i like my feet on the grass
not many places or faces last
if we could be other than what we are
they keep saying who we are
who can say what we are 
if we could be other than what we are
just because you knew my name
it doesn't mean you know me the same
if we could be other than what we are
what we are what we are what we are

What We Are

city life can eat your soul oh no
it shakes you up down from your goal
but if you listen to the the sound around
you'll hear pretty raga all around

too much junk can't feel my soul oh no
it chews you up spit you out cold
but if you listen to the sound 
you'll hear what they say and what goes around 

leaving it all leaving it all leaving it all 
don't you wanna be free

so much luck won't save a soul who knows
you're digging yourselves a deeper hole
but if you listen to the sound around
you'll see what goes around comes around

leaving it all leaving it all leaving it all 
don't you wanna be free


Keyboard by Noa Shin
addtional lyric by Jen Gural

**May you all find Peace** 
Lots of Love
Little Fox 


Leaving it All

Hwasser's sax-drenched remix of The Radio Dept.'s "The Video Dept.".

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The Radio Dept. - The Video Dept. (Hwasser Remix)

Released October 29, 2013. 

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The Radio Dept. - Freddie and the Trojan Horse

Labrador Records

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