New Hope is 20 chronologically ordered recordings from the months of November 2023 - June 2024. Made with two microphones and a focusrite, the raw records play with room feedback and tape speed to reflect the sound of grieving while falling in love. Runtime is 90 minutes and gapless playback is recommended in a setting where you feel comfortable.

New Hope

big thanks to paddy (@clovehitch) for advice on arrangement and mixing

If it's not for love then what the hell are we doing now?
Going out just to drink it up and letting it go to waistdown?
Is it too hard just to say
You don't even wanna look at my face
And you're drenched and drowned in make up,
bled your makeup now.

I can't quite read your face, Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, Mona
Please communicate, I'm waiting for you to say 
something that will end all the pain.

I'm not a psychopath blowing up your phone for fun.
Could you listen to my song cuz I think you're the one.
Your dad is one lunatic if he wants me to stop
cuz I'm still in love with you and I'm still in love with you.

If it's not for love then what the hell are we doing now?
Going out just to drink it up and letting it go to waistdown?
Is it too hard just to stay in love
You don't even wanna look at my face
And you're drenched and drowned in make up,
bled your makeup now.

If you want to get to know me a little bit better, then you should try

telling if it's too late, I know it could just wait
telling if it's too late, I know it could just wait

try

Rosa Lisa

9/9

performed mixed mastered me
produced with my best friends sketchywav and san i wouldn't be here without u
sketchy also on some bg vox!!!

you got me feeling that it’s alright 
and i don’t think that’s okay
and now im up till the sunrise 
i wanna save myself from nothing
ill turn it around
and ain’t crazy that i made it this far?
this far 

maybe this part 
i was meant to play and
i don’t care what you’re saying 
motherfuckers wanna be me and cant

aim back, breach out
i don’t know what to care about, cause
maybe it’s all lie
aim back, breach out 
i don’t where tf u at cz 
maybe it’s all a lie 

MOTHERFUCKERS WANNA BE ME, AND THEY CANT
AND I JUST WROTE IT IN ALL FROM A LIE 
MOTHERFUCKERS WANNA BE ME AND THEY CANT
IN THE WINDOW OF IT ALL I SAW A PLAN
not ready for the end of it all

so, take it all in before you can’t
i understand that all this time 
ill take it back

end theory

New Hope, Chapter I - The Great Divide

I ran home cuz I thought I was fired
And man all these joints are tired
And I said “wait” I was waiting for a serenade
Tell me everything about your damn day
Lay me out front if you threw a grenade
So why?
Do I seem distracted to you?
It’s beautiful to lay awake in my eyes

So watch it all be enough for you to take in
Watch it all be enough for you to let in
I tried to face the great divide
It only tired me out

Date of recording (11.6.23)

The Great Divide

mastered by @alexanderpanos
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You've got a hold I cant explain
you would make me writhe in pain
you watched me as I grabbed the brake
and you made me hesitate

I falter but I own my faults
Though I can't control my thoughts
If you tell me im a piece of shit
Ill believe it

You complicated a simple stance
Could you give me one more chance?
You blew me off, said à tout à l'heure
Could you give me one more chance?
Could you give me one more chance?
Could you give me one more chance?

You know id kill to be your man
but you counter half my plans
I try to make you change your mind
Youre a loveable landmine

I know I should have self respect
But I cant put down the phone
You would throw me like an apple core
You dont like me

You complicated a simple stance
Could you give me one more chance?
You blew me off, said à tout à l'heure
Could you give me one more chance?
Could you give me one more chance?
Could you give me one more chance?

Bubba

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marlboro red

Reuploaded due to switch in distributor

Written and recorded on February 19th, 2023 in Colchester, VT

Lakehouse

Pulling at threads

a song for two very special friends and their special relationship - happy birthday sarah (:

inspired by the ups and downs of canoe trips during my time as a boy scout, the music of kathleen edwards (voyageur)/death cab for cutie, and the turmoil that comes with someone that feels like they were born to write songs

made in collaboration with soundcloud.com/9nasu

mastered by soundcloud.com/liquidaden

thank you to soundcloud.com/charlie-zacks for letting me use his space to record most of this

posting this from Chicago Midway International Airport… feeling very grateful for soundcloud and the beautiful communities it connects so I’m impulsively posting something I started and finished last week

LYRICS:

VERSE 1:
Give me a pen
Give me a shrug
Give me anything but your love
Or you and I will be stuck, gushing forever

If all you aspire
Goes up in a fire
The hydrants out of water
You and I can be stuck, nothing together

CHORUS 1:
All doubts withdrawn, we’re playing it long, we’re gonna follow things through

And if it ever gets hard, the hurt in your heart, oh I’ll heal for you

I’ll heal for you

VERSE 2:
Cut the ivy
We’re trying to find
A dry place to put our tent tonight
Begging, “could you please spare some sunlight?”

We’ll cross the water
In our canoe
And sprint to shore as rain pours down on two
We’ll make a home right here under the spruce

CHORUS 2:
Our maps redrawn, we’re planning for dawn, we’re gonna follow this route

And if the flint doesn’t spark, ember in your heart, oh I’ll blow on it for you

I’ll glow for you

REFRAIN:
(Wick alight forever)
(Wick alight forever)

Wick Alight Forever

New Hope, Chapter VI - Hush

Date of recording (1.9.24)

Hush

Why would you say that to me

.gav guy guy: why'd i let you go baby i,

need to know if you're not around now, i need to go now

oh im breathing slow, dont you know how to let it go?

https://soundcloud.com/loveywill guy guy:
I think we’ve gone too far, this time.
The olive branch was broken, as the bullets fly.

I don’t how to save you, this time.
The battle roars and rumbles, as we lose our lives.

So tell me… was it worth the war? Was it worth the bloodshed? Was it worth the gore?
Was it worth it? Was it worth it? Was it worth it?
Was it worth it? Was it worth it? Was it worth it?

gav guy guy: (dont lie to me) (dont lie to me) (dont lie to me) (dont lie to me)

olive branch w/ loveywill

New Hope, Chapter XVII - I hope you find what you're looking for
Recorded 5.2.24

yeah
oh, new hope
yeah
oh, new hope
yeah
oh, new hope
yeah
oh, new hope
yeah
oh, new-
yeah
oh, new-
yeah
oh, new-
oh, new hope
oh, new hope
oh, new hope
oh, new hope
oh, new hope
yeah
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new-
oh, new-
oh, new-
oh, new-
yeah
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new hope, new-
oh, new hope, new-

I hope you find what you're looking for

New Hope, Chapter VII - honest
Recorded 2.1.24

oh, don't let em take my breath away again
oh, I'll live forever if I could, if I could
death only matters anyway 
if you have someone to share it with
promise I won't put you on a pedestal
I'll only love you forever
and the sun's getting hotter, oh
but my hope's getting bright
one day we'll have a baby, my love 
one day we'll have a baby
in each other's arms, I love you still
oh, I could look at those brown eyes forever, and see you still

only I know how to love forever
if I could love you still
and only my friends could catch a glipse of the spark
only from the start
read your funny books
and tell me everything inside them
read your funny books
and tell me fuckin' everything

i know the music ain't perfect yet anyway
what the fuck does that even mean?
i'm recording into a focusrite
to tell you i'll love forever

baby I had a dream that you and I were in a library

-st

hmm? (do it anyways)

honest

New Hope, Chapter V - running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
Recorded 12.13.23

no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt
running through the park
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin home
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
yeah
home
what is this?
what is this?
(runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin)
about me
about me
about me
cause i'm running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
oh i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin through the park
yea im runnin home
runnin through the park yea i'm runnin home

running through the park, yea im runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin

New Hope, Chapter XVIII - gotta run!
Recorded 5.22.24
lyrics
don't you love me baby, definitely care
don't you love me baby
oh I found what I found
oh I found it baby, I found the key
oh I found it baby, I found the key
don't you love me baby, I found the key
don't you love me baby, don't you know
don't you love me baby, don't you know
oh I found it baby, I found the key
oh I found it baby, I found the key
oh I found the key, I found the key
oh I found the key, i found the way
gotta run run run, gotta run run run
oh I found the key
oh I found it baby, I found the key
oh I found it baby, I found the key
gotta run run run, gotta run run run
cause oh I found it baby, I found the key
oh I found it baby, I found the key
aura (woo)
oh I found the key, I found the way
oh I found the key, I found the way
oh I found the key, I found the way
oh I found the key, I found the way
oh I found the key, I found the way
aura
your aura
aura
oh I found the key, I found the way
oh I found the key, I found the way
aura
your aura
aura (oh it's time to go)
woah, woah
woah it's time to go
woah it's time to go
it's time to go
(don't you know)
it's time to go, oh it's time to go
it's time to go, oh it's time to go
oh it's time to go

that was nice

gotta run!

New Hope, Chapter II - Red Spell

spells, we were talking bout spells
oh well, we were talking bout spells
hell, don't talk about hell
oh well, we were talking bout hell

now I see the difference don't you need me to rest
I swear my intuition tells me nothin' but the best
oh I need a good c---
so take your intuition, get your fuckin' inhibition out your mind
I don't need nobody here to see me whine
I'm crying, don't you see that I was only so depressed cause the best of the people that I had in my mind
oh why?

baby this is full regeneration, not the way I ride
I'm swimmin' no regrets and babe I only see the sky
I'm wonderin' bout the
woah, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah standin' in the way

~

New Hope, Chapter III - Blue Spell

this isn't what it seems baby
I'm in a dream, and I'm doing fine
still running from the love that keeps me afraid
still loving how your hair looks when it's in a braid
fell for you when the moon hit the ground and I said "oh"
still waiting for the day to come when you say no
yeah

~

New Hope, Chapter IV - Green Spell

don't you believe?
don't you believe?
don't you we'll be fine, love

this isn't what it seems baby
I'm in a dream, and I'm doing fine
still running from the love that keeps me afraid
still loving how your hair looks when it's in a braid
fell for you when the moon hit the ground and I said "oh"

fell for you when the moon hit the ground and I said "oh"
I'm still waiting for the day that you say you can let me go
I don't wait for the ways that you say "you can let me know"

don't you believe?
don't you believe?
don't you we'll be fine, love

subliminal the way that you would let me go
and the radio is running the show
I care for you I do, I do
but I only have so much for you
and I can't use all my spells


Recorded 11.7.23

Three Spells (Red Spell, Blue Spell, Green Spell)

homegrown in pennsylvania
member/cofounder @anythingcouldbehere

I hope you find what you're looking for

patchymate

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