keepsakes is a functioning scrapbook of our lives, and as you flip through the pages you can relive the myriad of in-between feelings we experienced in our early 20s. we hope listening to this ep makes you wonder if someone has snatched your diary and put it to music. each and every one of these songs was made with toxic levels of sincerity and sentimentality by people who love each other deeply. “keepsakes” ties our loose ends and musings about calling exes, missing friends, and growing up into the perfect bow and we hope you can see yourself in it. 💌

Keepsakes

“Old Bones” captures the feeling of being a ghost floating outside your body, contrasting delicate, haunting vocals with warm, yearning guitar layers. “Old Bones” paints the moments spent avoiding inevitable goodbyes that only can lead to the sifting through of old photos of happy memories, just to end up feeling empty instead of nostalgic.  Shallow Alcove is presenting a love letter to the kind of sadness that can only be born out of love.

Old Bones

Wishes on Weeds

this song was born subconsciously in a dream, and since then so much love and intention has been poured into it. when i hear this song, it feels like i’ve opened a music box from my past and am watching all of my memories whir by. we hope it makes you feel that way too. if you have connected with it already, you have our hearts.

Dream Song

We're All Doomed

Gracie

“Heart Shaped Locket” is a cold splash of water to the face for anyone who is chronically sentimental to a fault. It’s about desperately trying to keep every moment and person from your past close to your chest, layered around your neck like hundreds of heart shaped lockets. Sometimes going down memory lane doesn’t feel like sweetly opening those lockets and admiring the photos inside, but rather like someone pulling on those chains from behind and choking you with nostalgia. “Heart Shaped Locket” sneaks hard lessons about how growing up is learning to let go into an almost “Keith Urban if he made indie folk” level bop. With anthemic gang vocals about learning how to make friends with time, the ending of the song will leave you feeling like you are sticking your head out of a moon roof like Emma Watson in the Perks of Being A Wallflower.

Heart Shaped Locket

Shallow Alcove is a band of friends fronted by Grace Krichbaum and Dan Harris. They combine stacked vocal harmonies, catchy guitar riffs, and diary-like lyrics to form a tender soundtrack to young adulthood. Shallow Alcove’s music is based in their love of DIY folk music and colored with narratives of friendship, the changing of the seasons, bad haircuts, and the ache of growing up. What started as friends writing songs in the bedrooms and basements of Upstate New York has since shifted to the apartments and studios of New York City and Philadelphia, but Shallow Alcove’s roots have remained the same: story-telling with the people they love.