Name: breaking down by slowsmog
Duration: 3 min 48 s
Description: I made two new songs; one is about not coping, the other is about breaking down, so I guess they're both about not coping. I hope you like them.

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@culte666
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A lo-fi and intimate track from @culte666 reflecting on a winter that never seems to end. The single is the third and final taste from Vol. 1,  a compilation from Healthy Tapes in support of RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees).

The last six months have been incredibly busy for Yura supporting the likes of Yumi Zouma and Jarrow around Melbourne and releasing a collaborative EP with Rhysics.

It’s Too Cold To Be Spring continues a on tradition of loose and instantaneous recordings from Culte, with few distractions and a sound that’s likely to appeal to fans of Foxes in Fiction and Frankie Cosmos. Yura explains that;

“It's Too Cold to Be Spring is about October in 2016. It was a pretty intense & sad month - living off $3 every week and drinking mystery beers at the Tote. The spring time was only bearable thanks to my lovely friends which this song is dedicated to”

Vol. 1 will be released digitally and on limited turquoise cassette through @healthy-tapes on June 30th. The compilation also features Take Your Time, Stella Donnelly, Yeo, Allume, Bahasa Malay and many more.

Vol. 1

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Culte - It's Too Cold To Be Spring

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An unassuming and intimate second taste of Vol. 1 from Adelaide artist, @allume_music. 

PSA expands upon the delicate and gorgeous ambience that makes up Elena's previous work - stripping away the layers of reverb to produce something both complex yet inviting. Elena explains;

“It’s short for personal service announcement which was the semi-silly working title I gave the song when I first wrote it. Because the lyrics are verging on naggy: they're sort of stating a lot of obvious things about people who might like to use weed as a coping mechanism but not really addressing the broader picture. But I didn't write it to be an overview of the perils and perks of cannabis consumption; to be honest it wasn’t nearly so considered. I was just feeling like a cloudy, disembodied head one day, sat down to make the simplest melody and these are the words that came out.”

Vol. 1 will be released digitally and on limited turquoise cassette through @healthy-tapes on June 30th. The compilation also features Take Your Time, Stella Donnelly, Yeo, Culte, Bahasa Malay and many more.

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Allume - PSA

"I have quite an emotional attachment to my older work. I'm certainly not saying that my new material is lacking the same level of investment, just that there is a kind of reserved level of sentimentality in my mind for tracks like It's Very Sunny and One Day At A Time. Those tracks where influenced by some of the most trying and transformative times of my life. For example, "It's Very Sunny" was written during a particular low point. I was hemorrhaging precious hours of my life in this overbearing call center job which I despised and a result I had become a stranger to both my friends and my family. I had fallen behind creatively due to my worsening mental health and because I had fallen behind creatively It was worsening my mental health... A bit of a catch 22.

I was trapped. My days became so predictable, Conversations felt scripted and my life  predetermined. I had been battered into this inescapable complacency to the point where I began to dissociate and became emotionally numb. This got so severe at one point that I managed to  convince myself on a lunch break I could extinguish a cigarette on the back of my hand and not feel anything. I definitely felt something and looked like a total tit!

In the weeks that followed I lived my life as some kind of hairy autopilot. WORK, SMOKE, EAT, DRINK, SHIT AND REPEAT. I continued this pattern right up until I had a particularly shitty day at work. On the walk home that night I came to the rather deflating revelation that I couldn't possibly be emotionally crippled because I could feel that my depression was worsening. When I got home I face planted on to my bed and passed out almost immediately. I awoke the next morning fully clothed and mildly asphyxiated by my lanyard. After what felt like a fifteen minute nap I quickly came to the horrible realization that it was once again time get ready for work. My eyes began to fill with tears at the thought of returning to that toxic environment for another shift. I rolled over to face the window and started to cry. 

Catastrophizing, I wondered if I would ever feel normal again? If I had any purpose in life other than to be a walking disappointment to those closest to me. At that point sunshine began to fill the room, I heard the birds singing outside and school kids playing in the distance. To this day, I'm unsure what happened in that moment but for the first time in months I felt optimistic. I felt I had a reason to persevere and hope that there was a potential solution just around the corner. I bounced out of bed and decided to pull a Ferris Bueller. I called in sick and took a day out just for me, I did nothing special. I mostly looked around some of the local charity shops for cassettes and took sometime to smell the roses. When I returned home I sat down at the studio and that track just poured out, almost as if I had it memorised. 

To this day it acts as a reminder of why I want to be here."


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Ｉｔ＇ｓ Ｖｅｒｙ Ｓｕｎｎｙ

you shouldn't start
i know who you are
when you're behind his back
you take it too far

but you say
we all reach a point
where we get too tired
and it all just goes away 

and i wanted to
be here next to you  
when our bodies all decay

we can act like it's the end of the world

I made two new songs; one is about not coping, the other is about breaking down, so I guess they're both about not coping. I hope you like them.

breaking down

slowsmog

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