[Weekly Mix] 2022.07 (3)

SUGAR SWEET

teen suicide - get high, breathe underwater (#3)

Gourmet Feat. Ausar

Good morning
I love you
Come over
I'll heat you up some leftover shepherd's pie

Suddenly I feel older
How long will it take for you to kiss some other lips when I die

I'm still alive

Today I'll buy you a houseplant
A visual indicator of our love
If I seem to be distant
I just never thought I could be as happy as I am with you
What to do

If I die in a chemical fire please know
Our love fed the brightest flame

Will you take me to the lake just one last time
Nothing left to do but just smile and die
Yeah I'll leave you my demons if you promise to walk them everyday on leashes

If I die in a chemical fire please know
Our love fed the brightest flame
If I die in a chemical fire please go
Move on without shame

CHEMICAL FIRE

Love the Stranger

Chomp Chomp

Do Your Worst

First Rodeo is Tim Howe and Nathan Tucker

Sam Wenc - pedal steel on tracks 2 - 6, 8;  banjo on 6; bowed banjo on 5 and 6
Elian Conroy - trumpet on tracks 1 and 7
Andy Rusinek - guitar on track 10, ensemble vocals and percussion on 1 and 10
Teal Bluestone and Jeremy Murphy - ensemble vocals and percussion on 1 and 10
Everything else performed by Tim Howe and Nathan Tucker

Tracks 1, 3, 5, 8 written by Tim Howe
Tracks 2, 4, 7, and 10 written by Nathan Tucker
Tracks 6 and 9 written by Tim Howe and Nathan Tucker

Recorded on Lopez Island, Washington in August 2021 with additional overdubs in Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Brooklyn, New York during Fall of 2021
Engineered by Andy Rusinek and Nathan Tucker
Produced by First Rodeo
Mixed by Nathan Tucker
Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Thanks to Andy, Teal, Jeremy, Sam, and Elian; Dylan Howe; Sonia Weber; Al Nelson; Jordan Krinsky; Milly's party crew; Matt at Forged Artifacts, and especially to the Desha family, in whose cabin we recorded these songs

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Longshot

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Release Date: 13th July 2022

Andrew Bayer collaborates with Danish singer/songwriter Asbjørn on ‘American Boy’, out now.

Exploring cross-continental love in uncertain times, the indie-pop anthem ‘American Boy’ is taken from pt.1 of Andrew’s upcoming double album ‘Duality’, which leans into the experimental, boundary pushing side of his artistic persona.

Bayer and Asbjørn were introduced to each other by Above & Beyond’s Tony McGuinness, who set them up on a collaborative ‘blind date’ after Tony discovered Asbjørn’s music on Lulu Rouge’s ‘The Song Is In The Drum’ album. An epic joint effort emerged, ‘Super Human’, and the rest is history. They’ve also worked together on ‘Tomorrow Boys’ and recent single ‘Equal’, out now ahead of the release of ‘Duality’ pt. 1.

“I remember hearing [Asbjørn’s] music for the first time and thinking “this guy is completely out of my league!“. Tony took me to meet him in person at one of his electric shows in London, where I was completely floored once again. The best part was Asbjørn wanted to work with me! I was completely shook. We then went on to do ‘Super Human’ and ‘Tomorrow Boys’. I’m so happy to have him in the ‘Duality’ family.” - Andrew Bayer

“American Boy is written about a romance, which is fed by its own impossibility. In my experience, kamikaze relations are often easier to give into, cos they’re doomed anyway. Without the pressure of a potential future, what have you got to lose? At the same time, they have a tendency to turn into personified existential longing, and that’s exactly what’s happened in this song.” - Asbjørn

‘Duality’ pt. 1 is out on August 12, with the more club-minded ‘Duality’ pt. 2 following on October 28.

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Bull (On Wheels Pulls Thread)

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The Misfit

Follow You Home

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Karma Tattoo

Never

The name “Let’s Whisper” implies secrets—the sorts of things you’d tell friends in a night’s waning hours, as the sun is about to peek over the horizon. Colin Clary and Dana Kaplan have been friends and musical collaborators for years, and the openhearted, detail-rich indiepop they craft together reflects their rich creative relationship and trust in each other. On The In-Between Times, the second Let’s Whisper full-length—the band’s first release in eight years, and first as a five-piece—the Burlington-based band digs deeper into their day-to-day worlds while confronting their individual and collective futures.    
“This is a record about love and loss and change and possibilities,” Colin and Dana say about The In-Between Times, which comes out on Fika Recordings in August 2022. Indeed, the prevailing mood of this album is a sense of grounding, of not letting the big questions of life—“what gets you through the night?”, “will I see you around the town?”, “have you done the thing that defines you yet?”—completely obfuscate the minutiae that makes it beautiful.  
Musically and lyrically detailed, The In-Between Times is the work of a band that uses the catchy melodies and jangling guitars of indiepop to peel off into exciting, and at times unexpected, musical and lyrical directions. “The Thing That Defines You” is crisp and questioning, with squiggles of guitar at its melody’s fringes implying the strands of identity that a friend is trying to see in order to get a full, unencumbered-by-narrative picture of someone they love. “Sing!” swells from a gentle jangle into a triumphant trans anthem that charmingly flips the bird to societal norms. “40 Ways To Love You” pairs its pointillistic detailing of a loved one’s best qualities with a weepy guitar countermelody that makes the romance all the more poignant.        
Let’s Whisper started as a home-recording project between Colin and Dana, also in the beloved “open-hearted indiepop revolutionaries” The Smittens, in the mid-2000s. Writing and recording music at home resulted in more tightly knit songwriting process, which the pair referred to as “Whispering.” After releasing a pair of EPs, 2008’s Make Me Smile and 2010’s Keep a Secret, Let’s Whisper brought on drummer Brad Searles (Eef, The Also-Rans), expanding and adding a fulcrum to their sound. Since Brad joined, Let’s Whisper has released one album, 2011’s The Shortest Days, and a 10-inch, 2014’s As Close As We Are. The latter was called “short and sweet, by turns deadpan in its delivery and sentimental in its subject matter” by the Vermont weekly Seven Days, and it was Let’s Whisper’s last release until now.
But Let’s Whisper has kept creatively busy in those ensuing years. In addition to the three members pursuing their own projects individually and together, Let’s Whisper toured the US and the UK, rounding out its lineup with bassist-guitarist Jeff Baron (Essex Green, Ladybug Transistor) in the States and bassist-vocalist Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, Mammoth Penguins) in Great Britain. For the recording of The In-Between Times, both Jeff and Emma joined Colin, Dana, and Brad during sessions at Marlborough Farms in Brooklyn—although they did so a year apart, with Emma recording her parts (including banjo on the chiming “Simple Times” and vocals and banjo on the plainspoken “Long Run”) with the core three in 2017 and Jeff adding guitar and keyboards in 2018, when the finishing touches were put on the album by studio owner and engineer Gary Olson.  
With The In-Between Times, Let’s Whisper have created an album that, even in its more pensive and mournful moments, celebrates the array of what life has to offer—the elation of watching hot-air balloons lift off at sunset, the triumph that comes with living honestly, the joy that comes when an open heart is mirrored by a friend, or a fan, or a loved one. Lean in and listen closely.

The Year Of Getting High

Let's Whisper - The Year Of Getting High

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'Sunday'

Track 9 from 'Bedroom Mixes'.
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[Weekly Mix] 2022.07 (3)

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