Hey guys! This is a (extremely) non-professionally done podfic for The Heart Rate of a Mouse. I was getting a fair amount of demand and requests on my blog (which you can find here: sterlingarcher.tumblr.com) so I decided to do this. I'm really hoping you guys enjoy this! I wanted to make this fic as accessible as possible for everyone, which I hope I've accomplished. Make sure to listen to the Intro/Disclaimer before you begin. I'll outline everything there.

You can find the fic here:
http://beggarsnotes.livejournal.com/55360.html


As 2012 drew to a close, The Color and Sound began working through the wide range of their musical backgrounds. Forming from the collateral of two recently deceased Boston bands,the group set out to whittle down their influences and experiences into a uniquely-tinted blend of a modern indie band. The result was The Spring Tour EP, released in March of 2013, named minutes before they packed the van and left for their first tour. The following summer, the band traveled out into the mid-west to deliver their energetic and often ludicrous live adaptation of the EP to any attic or bowling alley that would take them.
The Color and Sound used the fall of 2013 to delve further into their spread of influences in an attempt to bring the cacophony of their first release down to a singular yet equally defiant statement ranging the experiences they had gone through in their short time as a band. After starting off 2014 following the polar vortex through the mid-west on a short run with Modern Baseball and The Hundred Acre Woods, they returned home to Boston to write their follow-up to The Spring Tour EP, set to release on Black Numbers this fall. The band feels confident standing behind the music and experiences they made together and look forward to what the rest of 2014 has to offer.


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Act One, the debut full-length from songwriting duo Marian Hill, was written and produced in its entirety by Jeremy Lloyd (music/lyrics/production) and Samantha Gongol (music/lyrics/vocals). The multi-talented duo, who have been collaborating in one form or another since high school, have shifted the classic paradigm of a woman on a stage and a man with a piano to a woman on a mic and a man with a laptop -- and the results are seductive and vivid. Tempting paradox with a blend of blues and bass, acoustic and digital, classic and modern, Marian Hill have arrived.

Two years ago Sam and Jeremy wrote and recorded “Whisky” over spring break in Jeremy’s parents’ basement. When they released it for free on Soundcloud later that summer it was the only song they’d written for the project, and in a little over a year’s time they had recorded their first EP in a bedroom, amassed millions of plays on various platforms, sold out shows across the country and featured in high profile commercials. They signed to Republic Records in early 2015, released the Sway EP, and settled in to write and record their debut album over the course of the following year with a plan to push their unique sound to its fullest potential.

For the first 50 seconds of “Down” you might think you’re at a supper club in the 1920s, but when the bass drops out of nowhere you couldn’t be anywhere but 2016. Act One then takes you on a journey through the complexities of modern relationships, with each song inhabiting a specific and charged relationship lyrically, melodically, and sonically. “I Know Why” constantly transforms and reinvents itself as the vocals grapple with a secret while “Mistaken” is the hardest of sax trap with a classic songwriting backbone. “Same Thing” is the saddest part of the album, a haunting ballad depicting serene resignation of a doomed relationship, but castanets rise from the ashes as “I Want You” closes out the night in a pure moment of optimistic electricity, a glance across a crowded room that changes everything.

Marian Hill’s one of a kind sound is present throughout — blues harmonies blend with sparse hip hop drums, horns blast under classic vocal melodies, and soloistic vocal chops sit side by side with clear, intimate lyrics. You’ve never heard this before, yet it’s surprisingly familiar. And it’s only the beginning.

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