Name: Crush by Ruby Haunt
Duration: 1 min 54 s
Description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r9DtrD7Kvo

From the album The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong out April 29, 2022 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / Listen: https://lnk.to/XHoJYpp2

On their debut for Western Vinyl, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist Nate Mendelsohn and his band use lyrical maximalism for the powers of good. Where Market’s previous home recorded releases shifted genre restlessly, on The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Mendelsohn took a core band of longtime collaborators to a house in rural Massachusetts where they carved out space for his words to speak through with humor and intensity. 

Though he comes from a background in experimental music, Mendelsohn’s ear for pop has prevailed. Certain moments on Bullshit Gong reveal his stranger side, as on the thundering bridge of “Scar,” which sounds like a more unhinged Parquet Courts, or the angular  “I Would Do That,” which takes cues from Cate Le Bon. On the whole, though, this band of close friends insists on directness, their arrangements clear despite the intricacies. Guitars and synthesizers tangle fluidly atop the rhythm section’s tight bedrock, evoking the tenderness and backbeat-centric qualities of Elliott Smith or Big Thief. 

After college, where he met most of the members of Market, Mendelsohn became an engineer and producer at the Brooklyn studio Figure 8 Recording. Through that community he’s recorded artists like Frankie Cosmos and Wendy Eisenberg, and played with Yaeji, Vagabon, Katie Von Schleicher (who co-produced Bullshit Gong with him), and Sam Evian, who mixed the album. 

While writing Bullshit Gong, Mendelsohn grappled with long-gestating OCD, watched a formative relationship dissolve, and experienced a mental health crisis that lasted a full year. During this turbulent time, Mendelsohn began to consider the ways he has approached friendship, partnership, and especially family. Those observations and partial conclusions make their way into the songs in an essential capacity, as he mixes the small with the very big on a dogged search for empathy. On “Control” he sings “I heard a kid ask a teacher today / ‘What is a memory?’ / Man, sometimes life is great / At 4:15 I was awake and a mess / My mind’s a broke machine.” 

The words flow in much the same way as Mendelsohn’s thoughts, with observation and memory giving way to moments of profound anxiety. This emotional heft is met in crucial ways by his band. On the tender “Watergate,” a love song set against both the Watergate scandal and James Comey’s senate testimony, the arrangement is simple and trusting, adding depth and intimacy to each word as he compares his life, love, and temperament to that of his parents. 

While recording “Old,” the band sat around an omnidirectional microphone shaking percussion instruments and singing out certain lines. In the background, you can hear Mendelsohn pick up his clarinet and eke out a few notes, a spontaneous act of playfulness that made the final cut. These tonal shifts matter deeply, as the words he sings could be interpreted differently in a darker setting: “Half of these feelings aren’t my feelings anymore / But I guess I could still enjoy the notes and chords / Maybe that’s just the way it goes / We always sing about things that are old.”

Creating intimacy out of manic self-reflection requires a delicate balancing act, one Mendelsohn tackles with abandon. His words never skew too poetic or grandiose, and when he invokes the ugly it’s met with a sonic tonality that sets him right again. In tender moments, his voice is often flanked by bandmates Natasha Thweatt or Von Schleicher, who help skew his words toward the universal. Still, Bullshit Gong is an obsessive look inward, one in which Mendelsohn simply asks himself if he is good to those he loves. It’s an act of trust between the artist and the imagined listener he takes with him.

The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong

Market - "Scar"

Taken from the 80N7 comp

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Happyness - Full of Minnows

Who I Am

Honky boys in leather boots
Breathing smoke and spitting chew
They don't know

Unkissed girls in swimming suits
Summer tans and smiles to boot
They don't know

Young love in your best friend's car
Making eyes got you this far
You don't know who I am

Coach yelling from lines 
Cool your jets I'm doing fine
You don't know

Cousin in Los Angeles
Teacher and my kid sis
You don't know

Ma I wish that I could say
Why I carry on this way
But I don't know who I am

You don't know me at all
I don't know who you think I am

Tarot cards and locks of hair
Secrets and regrets we've shared
Friend you don't know

Person person on the line 
Please don't waste my time 
Because you don't know

Voice inside of my head phones
Thought I knew you once now I know I don't
You don't know who I am

You don't know me at all
I don't know who you think I am

09 Who I Am

music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qgn8cXSzyY
with lyrics in video <3

music video

panic attack(s)

We Merge

🎤 Cover song by Saleea Saleen.
🎙️ Original song by Heartbrake.
👉 Original Track: https://soundcloud.com/rawtrex/music-box
🌎 Rawtrex: http://rawtrex.com/

Rawtrex

Music Box [Saleea Cover]

3:30 (Demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r9DtrD7Kvo

Crush

Always Shines

Spain

Lowertown- album 1
Charlie

why won’t u listen to me
when i tell you the truth
your ears are ringing 
from talking too much 
the words are slipping through your teeth 
and i don’t like them
i don’t like them 

and i don’t know 
what to say
it’s hard looking at your face 
when you’re wasting away
i wanna day together 
we’ll make it through ok
but i don’t know 
i don’t know

below the water 
your heads swimming 
and i can’t hear a sound
i must be drowning
i think i’m getting sick
my hairs thinning out

my heart seems heavier today 
looking at the circles under your eyes 
and i worry every time i see you now 

and i don’t know 
what to say
it’s hard looking at your face 
when you’re wasting away
i wanna say together
 we’ll make it through ok
but i don’t know 
i don’t know

- mastered by Grant Lepping (@icycrevice)

Charlie

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Crush

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