@kittensrjerks Oh cool! I love your spotlights. Really nice to see mine on there

Happy to hear it 😀 Thanks for listening

Written and Performed by Chloe Berry
Produced, Co-written, Mixed and Mastered by Sam Poon
Drums by Anthony Genovesi 
Additional Mixing/Mastering by Elijah Da Costa

Lyrics:
Days get away from me
I feel so sorry
Can you see 
How it's hard to contain
All of this pitiful pain

I didn't seem to notice
That things would be like this
Lacking any sweet old bliss
I didn't seem to know this
Dreary days come to say
Nothing will be okay

I promise that somehow things will be okay
I promise that somehow things will be okay

I know you want to make sense
But everything you say is on the fence
Of mad and sad how can you explain
I know it's you but I'm just really saying

I didn't seem to notice
That things would be like this
Lacking any sweet old bliss
I didn't seem to know this
Dreary days come to say
Nothing will be okay

I promise that somehow things will be okay
I promise that somehow things will be okay
Somehow things will be okay

Bitter Melon

It's Gonna Be A Good Sunset

From the upcoming album, Synestalgia

Written by Marlon Chaplin
Produced by Ewan Kay

Recorded at Candle Recording (Toronto, ON)
Mixed and mastered by Ewan Kay

Personnel:
Marlon Chaplin - Vocals
Ewan Kay - Guitars, Bass, Synths
Spencer Cole - Drums

Lyrics:

The Great Reflector
(Written by Marlon Chaplin)

I awoke like you suffocating through a burlap sack,
Knives and polyester at your back,
And there was napalm in the air and drops of dew,

I want to lead but I don’t want to deceive you,
I breathe - I’m alive,
I asked the machine what she dreams,
She told me "I dream of the place where we’re born”,

Chase me down and tear me limb from limb,
And leave me on the ground,
Don’t ask me why I walked away,
I did not run, 
I stayed when you got close then I played dead,

I want to lead but I don’t want to deceive you,
I breathe - I’m alive,
I asked the machine what she dreams,
She told me "I dream of the place where we’re born, where galaxies are formed,”
I bow, like you to the great reflector.

©℗ Marlon Chaplin 2020

The Great Reflector

1st draft of some decent pavement worship w/ instrumental chorus 

playground eyes your crimson smiles
i'm living with denial I’ve sold the truth
in porcelain pristine prom queen 
guise-less smiles and clumsy miles

gifted foresight tragic termite 
pressed upon your boots 
heartless wreckage, goddess scented
cannot tell the truth 

placemat heart our stunted start 
gaze raised to the stars you look right through
me missing, mistress listen 
silent starts and missing parts 

days in Autumn, Springtime’s daughter
warm rains sound aloof 
harmless feelings pleasant dreaming 
cannot tell the truth

playground (1st draft)

e t h e r

I wrote Die Alone sitting on the floor of my room. It was really different from my other songs at the time, but it stuck with me. At first I recorded it with GarageBand on my computer with loud vocals and noisy guitars. My brother Alec and I recorded it later with our band The Peaches for our Flyover Country album. Later, I redid it for fun, first in Garageband with some of the backing instruments that can still be heard in the final version and then took that to my friend Jake Whitecar Orangutan Sound studio in Montana where we recorded the final vocals, instruments, and live drums. I can’t believe there was a time when we could actually travel

Jake asked Jon Filkins to provide real, live drums and Amanda Ceaser to add background vocals. He also played bass, some synths, and some guitar. The song wouldn’t be what it is without their amazing contributions and I can’t thank each of them enough for participating

The result is peppy, but also dark. It has a heavy beat and some really cool vocals. I especially love the bridge where it gets really quiet and echoey and then builds to the most intense moment of the song

I recorded this song at a really hard time when I had to go to voice therapy because I had hurt my vocal cords and I was just recovering after a year wondering if I’d ever be able to sing again. I still hadn’t fully recovered during the recording process, but the result is cool because my vocals are a lot breathier than usual. My philosophy is: turn that mud into gold if at all possible

Die Alone. It’s about knowing that something or someone beautiful is gone, hoping they might come back someday, but not waiting around because you also have a life to live. It’s a dark song. Not exactly happy, but not unhappy either. Just fresh and raw from the pain and disappointment. The title comes from the phrase “You don’t die alone on the road”, which came from nowhere but really fits the overall energy, about moving forward despite all the uncertainty

In my mind, it’s a lot of dark night driving images which is going to feature in the video that will be released in the weeks after the song.

Die Alone will be out on ALL streaming platforms on Friday, September 25th. Here’s a pre-save link for the fans who don’t want to miss release day: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/maxoakland/die-alone

Listening to it, following me on Spotify and other social media, and sharing it will help me make this hard-won song as successful as possible. Thanks for your support, it’s always helped me keep motivated

Lyrics:
Oh I know it’s gone forever, but I can’t help but wonder
Can’t help but wondering
Filth dissolved in rain, like the clouds crashed and we're OK

You don't die alone on the road. Too many monsters to take your soul
You don't die alone on the road. Just gonna sell everything you know

Oh I know it’s gone forever, but I can’t help but wonder
Can’t help the wondering
Salts like cyanide washing away in the tide

Keep this one in my pocket to remind me of younger days
when the smoke we saw was dragons evolving in their caves
into you and your little sister all alone now in the snow
have we become the monsters when we drive away all alone?

You don't die alone on the road

Credits:
Songs by Max Oakland
Produced by Jake Whitecar and Max Oakland
Mixed by Jake Whitecar at Orangutan Sound in Missoula, MT
Performances
Max Oakland - Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Programming, Slide, Samples
Jake Whitecar - Bass Guitar, additional guitars & synths
Jon Filkins - Live Drums
Amanda Ceaser - Background Vocals

Die Alone (Single)

Die Alone

I can't stay awake
Cats eyes glitter and swim in the dream
Pretty in full beam
I'm in a car
I'm not driving, I've been released
To empty my head, at least for a while
And I keep forgetting what you're saying with each passing mile
I see you smile

I'm nodding
Thinking of nothing
Lost to the rushing sound of the road
No red lights
No red lights
No red lights

Dead to the world
Dark in the middle of some park in the West
Puddle on my chest
You brake a little hard
My eyes open and your hand is on my knee
I turn in my seat and fall back to sleep
Return to illusions, visions that surface and bubble and recede 

I'm nodding
Thinking of nothing
Lost to the rushing sound of the road

Nearly there
I don't really care
if we turn around and go home
There's no red lights
No red lights
No red lights

No Red Lights

Thank you to Barabbas T. Jones (Trex Jones) for playing drums on this track. All other instruments and vocals written, performed, and recorded by Bug.

Horse (feat. Barabbas T. Jones)

Beach Baby - Bon Iver (cover)

Moments

Juan Jacinto - Drums
Rose Keeler-Schäffeler - Everything else

Produced by James Hoare

Artwork by Mary Sims-Howlett 
https://marysimshowlett.com/

The Body - Keel Her

Low budget alternative pop rock. Max Oakland's music is perfect for the liminal times when the day is ending or beginning. Driving around on a summer night right before sunset, walking through alleyways, sitting at home, on a bus, anywhere

Max strives to build community through the art that he creates. With its stripped-down production and complex arrangement, Max’s music truly drives you to look into yourself to see whatever may be there.

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