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What’d I miss? I’m safe
I don’t think I wanna behave
What a miss, mistake 
A little dip back into it
I won’t sound alarms again 
I never meant, I never meant 

What’d I miss? gotta save face
I don’t know how much I can take
What a miss, mistake 
A little dip back into it
Wishing I could melt away
I only meant to erase

To erase
Erase

What’d I miss? I’m safe
I don’t think I wanna behave
What a miss, mistake 
A little dip back into it
I won’t sound alarms again 
I never meant, I never meant 

To erase
Erase

Maybe I’ll just run around in circles
Maybe I’ll just run around in place

What if I just run around in circles
What if I just run around in place

Safe

Stuck in the Present Tense is an album of songs written about eight years ago but only recently recorded. Craig joked that he wanted to record these songs by the time he turned forty. But then he turned forty, there was no album, the rest of the band had moved away. Miraculously, the band regrouped in Seattle in the winter of 2021 for just long enough to relearn the songs, play the Magic Lanes living room, and record. And while Craig, in the intervening years, had forgotten lyrics and guitar solos (long replaced in the brain by bossa nova fake books), Jacob's acumen for shredding soared (Two Tigers solo), John got arty (Kathmandu bass harmonics), and Zach triumphed the taps (Jubilee).

None of the songs are set in the present, and while hardly any of them are even relevant to the songwriter anymore, the underlying idea here is something persistent: nostalgia, heartbreak, big plans, daydreams, and reminiscences can simultaneously be refuges and blackholes. How does anyone have time to reflect on the past, make a five-year plan, and do the dishes over the course of a single day? These songs are kind of about running that existential gauntlet through a series of mundane experiences like rain, roses, pictures, and snow.

Edition of 100 white cassette tapes, with hand stamped labels, and full color j-card. Artwork by Davi Jabari. Comes with a Bandcamp download code.
credits
released November 4, 2022

Craig Peters - Guitar
Jacob Jaffe - Guitar
Zach Burba - Drums & keys
John Broback - Bass

Engineered, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Nicholas Wilbur at the Unknown in Anacortes, WA, between December 2021 and April 2022.
Artwork by Davi Jaberi, El Sobrante, CA.
Tape by Jon Manning, Vancouver, BC.

Stuck in the Present Tense

Craig Salt Peters "Two Tigers"

New single from flypaper. Taken from the debut EP "big nada" out August 25 2023 via PNKSLM Recordings. Listen/buy: https://www.pnkslm.com/big-nada

flypaper is the solo project of London based songwriter Rory Sear, vocalist/frontman of PNKSLM alumni Beachtape, and will be making its debut with the big nada EP on August 25. Six tracks of home-recorded bedroom pop, retaining the immediacy of Beachtape's indie rock but moving into a more intimate direction inspired by classic singer-songwriters like Randy Newman as well as Elliott Smith, big nada is an intriguing introduction, with more music to come from flypaper.

flypaper - 365

Moths and Butterflies

Here's one for the summer - A  'Summer Breeze!' Sway and dance to this chillout  track,  'Americana style'. I hope you enjoy it! Haribol! Prem

Steps Towards The Light (Oh Govinda)

Coolhand Jax 'Proper Fun' album released on Spirit Goth Records [SG55]
🎧 Listen / Stream → https://sg55.fanlink.to/proper-fun

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Proper Fun

Coolhand Jax - Days Go By

Field Guide | OurVinyl Sessions

If I Keep Seeing You (OurVinyl Sessions)

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****Let someone give me better guitar and bass skills****

It'll be nice to stare at a different kind of ceiling
It'll be nice to stare at a different kind of ceiling

"Try crying in a different city, I think it'll do you good"
And I've tried crying in a different city, it didn't do me any good.

and I'm just thinking about it
when I wake up, when I go to bed
and I keep checking up on you and I wish I could live without my head

Cheap purple lights,
really do bring out the shallowness in your eyes
I guess the chandelier makes up for the lack of personality there
and your black curtains make you so incredibly edgy

still it would be nice to stare at a different type of ceiling
It'll be nice to stare at a different type of ceiling

"Try crying in a different city, I think it'll do you good"
And I've tried crying in a different city, it didn't do me any good.

and I'm just thinking about it
when I wake up, when I go to bed
and I keep checking up on you and I wish I could live without my head

try crying in a different city (demo)

"Long Distance Healing" is the first single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://MamaBird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace & Clark Williams  
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace (Skyway Man)
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals, Keyboards, Synths & Piano: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

Willow, sing for me
With shaky fever, stranger than a
Long gone harmony
Pulled from the edges of old mankind

Tell me the story
About the morning I was born
Don’t leave anything out
That I could cling onto

Left under your weeping lace
My legs gave out underneath me
Right now, the effort it takes just to raise my head
Mother, it’s more than I have in a day

Willow, scream for me
Open your wings wider than the sun
I’ve forgotten to fear the fire I was forged from

Wildflower pillow
Come see how weak I’ve become
Bring warmth to the cold moving shiver across my spine

Oh on the way to your dream embrace
My eyes start to deceive me
I pray to the faces in your floating leaves:
Show me what future remains

Daylight is breaking
Hear the bells’ chaotic ring
There’s a gun on my hip
I must be dreaming, I smile

Are you right here with me?
Is that your whisper in my skull?
The farther it came calmed the horror of changes in time

Go, I’ve already seen my fate bent through the light of your branches
Until my body releases and I drift away, I’ll cling to your canopy still
Into your canopy still
I cling to your canopy

“Old weeping willow, got cut down years ago
I would show you the way there, but the path is overgrown
That old weeping willow got cut down years ago!
I don’t know, but that thing you found might guide us home.”

Craig Salt Peters "Two Tigers"

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