'Cinnamon' from Marika Hackman's 'Sugar Blind' EP.
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'81 from Marika Hackman's "Sugar Blind" EP.

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Marika Hackman - '81 (Joanna Newsom cover)

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Aventine

Run Cried The Crawling

Title track off the debut full length. Out September 27th 2011 on Hardly Art.

Breakers

We are the mannequins 
The junk people
The attic people 
The skip people 
The warehouse people
We are not real
And we are hungry

You do not see us
You do not hear us
You do not feel us
But we are here
You do not care
Or even think of us 
But we are here 
We are real


We are the broken people
We are the darkness people
We are the bits people
We are the broken people 
We are the cardboard people 
We are the damaged people
We cannot move
But we are coming 

We can change
We can move
We can feel
We can choose
We have feelings 
We have thoughts
We turn to action
And we act fast

We were the voiceless
We were the forgotten
We were the stolen
We were the young
We were the old
We were you

So first we think
And then we talk
And then we plan
And then we act
And then we move
All around you
Then towards you
And we grab 
You

we are real
And we
Are
Not
Going
Away

we are real
And we
Are
Not
Going
AWAY

Now you are nothing
Now you are empty
Now you are trapped
Now you are forgotten 
Now you are cardboard
Now you are junk people
Now you are nobody

And we are free
We are free
Are we?

(Pizzicato strings solo)

Are We?

Taken from the album 'Fall Forever', out now on Kanine Records.

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Tour Dates

16th May - Espace B, Paris, France
3rd June - Resident  Instore, Brighton, UK
10th June - Fall Forever Album Launch Show - St Pancras Church, London
11th June - Long Division Festival, Wakefield, UK
13th June - Oslo, London, UK (Sold Out)*
14th June - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, UK*
15th June - CCA. Glasgow, UK*
16th June - Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK*
30th June - DC9,Washington, DC , US
1st July -  Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, US
2nd July - The Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY , US
3rd July - Great Scott, Allston, MA, US
5th July - Bar Le “Ritz” P.D.B., Montreal, QC, Canada 
6th July - The Garrison,Toronto, ON, Canada
8th July -  Schubas Tavern, Chicago, IL, US 
9th July - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN, US 
12th July -  Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA, US 
13th July - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US 
14th July - Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, CA, US
17th July - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US 
19th July - The Hideout, San Diego, CA, US 
20th July - Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ, US
22nd July - Club Dada, Dallas, TX, US 
23rd July - Barracuda, Austin, TX, US 
25th July - The Masquerade (Purgatory), Atlanta, GA, US 
26th July - Cat’s Cradle (Backroom), Carrboro, NC, US 
27th July - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD, US
*W/ Wild Nothing

Fall Forever

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Sane

From the self-titled debut by Lean Year.  Available October 20, 2017 on Western Vinyl

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Lean Year is the debut, self-titled record by Richmond, Virginia based singer Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson. What for Rex was a departure from the structured life of academia toward the uncertain contours of a creative field, for Alverson was a return to form. Having released 5 albums with his previous band Spokane, Alverson took a 10-year hiatus from music to write and direct feature films. These departures and approaches bring a transience and listlessness to the album, like a walk interrupted by both curiosity and caution. 

Equally informed by the minimalist folk music of Elizabeth Cotton, Karen Dalton, and Fred Neil; the tenuous, ambient, and orchestral works of Harold Budd, Brian Eno, and John Cale; the quietly pointed but tender songs of Nina Simone and Bessie Smith; and the baroque pop subversions of Love and The Left Banke—the inspirations for Lean Year are as varied as Rex and Alverson’s biographies. Their childhoods—framed respectively by New-Age ideology and antiquated Catholic Catechism; anarchist Montessori and cold, cloistered ice arenas; the chaotic, upheaval of divorce and the strange, obligatory qualities of life-long marriage—provide footing on uneven ground for the record’s dream-like, oblique observations. In the wake of these dynamic histories, the two leaned on music as a kind of secular spirituality. 

Rex and Alverson co-wrote the album over the course of a year at their home in Richmond, VA and recorded it in three sessions at the home studio of Chicago musician/engineer Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings, NOMO), who also performs on the record. Alverson and Hall co-produced the album’s ten tracks, drawing on both Hall's and Elliot Bergman’s (NOMO) arsenal of instruments. For Hall and Rex, this project was a reunion of sorts, the two having met as undergraduates in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan over a decade before. Hall’s extensive vocabulary—ranging from jazz and pop to rock and afrobeat—informs his contributions to the record.

Alverson’s films [Entertainment (2015) and the cult-drama The Comedy (2012)] have premiered at Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam and the Film Society of Lincoln Center among others venues and festivals worldwide. Rex left academia and her position as Indiana University's Assistant Director of Sustainability in 2014 to focus on music and pursue resilience writing and analysis as a consultant. This is her first record.