Name: Tickets to be an Extra by Reptile Tile
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: track 19 from 2019's Reptile Tile vs Human Man album

Beast & Burden is a tongue in cheek uptempo pop / punk song about a couple whose relationship has got to the point where they can barely look at each other!

Beast & Burden

White Gown

Written & Produced by Tessa Rose Jackson and Darius Timmer

LYRICS
What a waste, what a shame,
Could we start this over?
Or better still, let the hill worth dying on crumble 
This black hole will swallow us whole if you let it 
It’ll break unless it bends, so let it bend
Let it bend 

For the sake of curiosity
Entertain the eerie thought with me 
Fear bangs the drum
Let it thrum, let it thrum 

Who am I to rely on a final outcome
Take a beat, let it be and breathe it out
Chorus to chorus all us souls know the cadence 
Simmer down, circle 'round, common ground 
Common ground 

Can you hold the thought up to the light? 
Can you catch the phrase and harmonise? 
Fear bangs the drum
Let it thrum, let it thrum 

Steeped in the knowledge 
That all of this will make way 
With a sweet irreverence 
The old moth to the flame 
The rush passed 
The loves last 

And the plenty bear the fruit of us
To the chain we make, the dust is dust 
Fear bangs the drum
Let it thrum, let it thrum

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CREDITS
Vocals, Guitars - Tessa Rose Jackson
Keys - Darius Timmer
Drums - Dan Huijser
Bass - Dave Wismeijer
Electric Guitar - Kevin van Moorsel
Saxophone - Jean Vernheres

Engineered by Johannes Buff
Mixed by Darius Timmer
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios

Fear Bangs The Drum

Summer's Over

Premiered on Under the Radar Magazine - https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_josaleigh_pollett_shares_new_single_radio_player

Salt Lake City-based Indie Singer-Songwriter Josaleigh Pollett will return on October 28th with “Radio Player,” an electronics-infused and Poltergeist-inspired new single. Here, Josaleigh is reunited with long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy) for the first time since Jordan’s relocation to Japan, making this their first recorded output since 2023’s highly acclaimed “In the Garden, By the Weeds,” which NPR Music’s Bob Boilen featured on All Songs Considered.

Despite the distance between them, the pair opted to make their first cross-continent collaboration more ambitious and exploratory than what came before. Initially finding acclaim in 2020 with their ‘No Woman Is the Sea’ album, before going on to share bills with St. Vincent, Torres, Deep Sea Diver, DeVotchKa, Mini Trees, Hibou, and Kilby Block Party, “Radio Player” sees their sound continue to evolve. This new slowburning single merges analogue atmospherics, Indie Rock drive, and Pop melodies to create something that feels haunting, claustrophobic, and cathartic.

Speaking on their return, Josaleigh comments:

"Radio Player is a song about memory and fear, loosely based on seeing the movie Poltergeist at too young an age. It is a journey through the hallways of childhood that we leave a light on within. A pink light flickers on and beckons the listener through, releasing them changed and covered in ectoplasm five minutes later.

In true independent DIY fashion and similar to 2023's In The Garden, By The Weeds, this new song is recorded mostly at home between my Salt Lake City make-shift home studio, and Jordan's apartment in Japan. The difference this time is that we're bringing in more collaborations and new instrumentation. In addition to mixing and mastering, Nashville's Andrew Goldring helped with production and played some instruments on Radio Player, as well as being a part of the live band that played Kilby Block Party earlier this year. Radio Player really got its feet under it in a live band setting, and we tried to bring more of that to our production without losing the electronic-based production that Jordan is so fluent in. 

This is the first song we made together since Jordan moved to Japan in 2024, and instead of letting distance dampen our collaboration, we really tried to lean into the chaos and confusion of creating from different ends of different days while an ocean apart. I think a lot of that anxiety and newness mixed with the dedication of friendship drives this new music.”

Josaleigh Pollett.- Radio Player

with "DEEP CUT", we wanted to capture the generational experience of love in the aftermath of heartbreak. 

it’s about how quickly we move on 
[ or pretend to ] without ever really processing what broke us in the first place.

the song embodies our emotional vulnerability: how we only open up during the late hours, when substances or distractions make everything feel easier. 
but it’s never a real solution, is it?

and it’s only then that we realize the weight of the past still lingers. we carry unhealed scars into something new and without even noticing, we pass them on to each other in a vicious circle.

and in the end, the person we hurt the most might just be ourselves.

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