Oh this is beautiful, agree Holocaust Nancy is indeed awesome as are your lyrics and vocals, superb track guys!!

Really creative and enjoyable song.  Enjoying this very much.  Nice collab, guys

Fantastic track & collab!  Love the half-declaiming, distant vocals--and brilliant lyrics!!

Great collaboration. The musical soundtrack well supports the clever and creative lyrics that take one back to that decade by reminding us of those color schemes. This worked so very well indeed!

what an interesting concept for the lyrics--it's like the something the Flaming Lips might do  "Barry White decade"  very cool

Like falling into the middle of a great movie or book

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Written by Lexi Aviles (Love You Later), Bre Kennedy, and Kyle Dreaden
Produced by Kyle Dreaden
Guitar by Andrew Smith
Bass by Reagan Renfrow
Drums by Garrison Burgess

Keepintouch

Stream

made with garageband + live piano sample by me
cover art by me

Spiral Iris (demo)

There's a balance that's off in my brain
Where I can't ever treat you the same
I won't complain and I can't explain
But I want to and it's a shame

I'm constantly stuck in my head
I'll spend of the rest of the day in bed
The blinds in my room are always shut
I don't wanna see anyone

I really think I wanna be happy
But I don't think that's part of God's plan
I really miss the sound of you laughing
I just really want to hold your hand
And I don't know why any of this happened
But I won't be around one day
I pray, I'll come to terms with my decay
I woke up today so I deserve a bouquet I guess

Bouquet

Believe me when I said
I wish I chose these words instead
I would rewrite them
But I'm not much of a poet

And all of our friends all gathered there
I wanted to ask but I just stare
I found a strand of your hair
On my Jawbreaker shirt

Everyone believes
In their own bullshit
You have cigarette breathe
And I just can't quit

I'm afraid of the quiet
That comes along with it
So I just swallow the words
And choke on them

And you go walking in your garden
Where everything is dead
"If you loved them
You would water them anyway"

No, no you treat me like a book
So many pages overlooked
I wonder if you'll buy my story
This time

And I guess owe a debt
I should just pay it off instead
I really want things to work out
This time

And it feels like pulling teeth
To see which one of us cares the least
If I didn't why would I even
Try?

Jawbreaker Shirt

Written by Lexi Aviles (Love You Later), Bre Kennedy, and Kyle Dreaden
Produced by Kyle Dreaden

Girl With Headphones

Written by Lexi Aviles (Love You Later), Garrison Burgess,
and Reagan Renfrow

Produced by Garrison Burgess and Kyle Dreaden
Mixed by Kyle Dreaden
Mastered by Adam Grover at Sterling Sound

Are You Gonna Care When I Die?

In the End It Always Does

Sad to Breathe

Written by Lexi Aviles(Love You Later), Gabe Reali, and LIXA

Produced by LIXA and Kyle Dreaden

Mixed by Kyle Dreaden

Mastered by Adam Grover at Sterling Sound

Long Sleeves

Saints Be Praised For The Nuclear Winter

Music and artwork by Holocaust Nancy
Lyrics and vocals by Marshmallow Fortresses

I asked the great Holocaust Nancy if he would come up with music for a new version of this track, and I was elated and incredibly grateful that he gave me this.

Crochet and rayon 
captured in crayon
Sea Green shag carpeting
stretched beyond our bedrooms 
into Red-Violet mornings 
in that “Blue Marble” decade
	
Denim and rayon
captured in crayon
Raw Umber-walled 
rumpus rooms
fluoresced with
Saturday cartoons
in that "Soylent Green" decade

Color in the ‘70s
I’ve tried to stay
inside these lines	
Saturated, heavenly 
Keep the Shadow confined
to the back of my mind

Courtelle and rayon
captured in crayon 
Burnt Sienna cars we drove in
to the cold Cerulean 
pools we dove in
in that Barry White decade

Polyester and rayon 
captured in crayon
The Sunset Orange setting sun
torched the ocean 
and haloed everyone
in that "Mahogany" decade

Color in the ‘70s (Holocaust Nancy remix)

A double a-side single featuring:

a. Color in the 70s
aa. Brittle Inside
credits
released April 4, 2020

Words and music: Marshmallow Fortresses
Music*: Holocaust Nancy

*Color in the 70s is a remix of an original Marshmallow Fortresses song.

Photography: Marshmallow Fortresses

Color in the 70s / Brittle Inside

Brittle Inside

Before the entrance to the pub stands a doorkeeper.  Inside the pub a small crowd has gathered:  Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman and Mark Eitzel, Morrissey, Robert Pollard, Paul Westerberg and the elusive Don Lennon, the smart men from Wire and the surly Philip Larkin, Paddy McAloon, the good folks of Underworld and Yo La Tengo, Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, Ian Curtis and Lisa Germano, Annika Norlin, Stew, Mark E. Smith, Babybird, Rilke, and still others.  To this doorkeeper comes Marshmallow Fortresses, who prays for admittance.  The doorkeeper thinks it over for a moment, then answers, “Not now.”  
	Many days and years pass.  The pub door is always open, and through it he hears one miraculous song after another.  Marshmallow Fortresses repeatedly asks to enter so that he may  commune with his heroes, but the doorkeeper always responds in the same indifferent manner: “Not now.”  
	In time Marshmallow Fortresses grows old and his hearing begins to fail.  He gestures to the doorkeeper, who curtly asks, “What is it this time?”  In a creaky whisper, Marshmallow Fortresses observes, “How does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has begged for entry here?”  The doorkeeper bursts out laughing.  “Are you serious?  Every  aging Smiths fan has been crowding this door since forever.  But, as for you, I’m now going to shut it for good.”

(An altar to Franz Kafka)   

tl: dr    Wire did it all, and did it all better


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