I Hate Myself

Huff

Taken from the album "Dissed And Dismissed," out now on Slumberland Records.

Constantly juggling hardcore and pop projects, veteran Bay Area musician Tony Molina has won over fans in both camps. Since 2002, Molina has played in several bands including Dystrophy, Ovens, Lifetime Problems, Caged Animal, Violent Change and his current solo work. In all of this projects, Molina values lyrical simplicity, structural concision, and the emotional impact of gnarly guitar riffs.

Most recently he released the "Six Tracks EP" through Matador Records’ Singles Going Home Alone series. Featuring five brief power-pop originals on the A-side and a stellar cover of Metallica’s “Orion” on the flip, it contains a bona-fide pop hit in “Breakin’ Up,” a tuff tune that recalls the best of Dinosaur Jr and Teenage Fanclub and sounds for all the world like a great lost 70s radio hit. Pure magic.

Two other recent releases — the wistful riff rock of his first solo album, "Dissed and Dismissed," and his hardcore band Caged Animal’s barbaric debut EP — illustrate the striking dichotomy that has run throughout Molina’s discography over the last eleven years. As music critic Sam Lefebvre wrote, “On Dissed and Dismissed, Molina intensifies the slacker clichés and self-deprecation of 90s indie rock into absurdist hyperbole. He expresses vulnerability and melodrama through bizarre truisms while referencing his forebears: Thin Lizzy leads, Radiohead lyrics, Replacements sneer. Molina appropriates unapologetically (openly paying tribute to Guided By Voices with a sterling cover of their “Wondering Boy Poet”), but distills the past into bursts of reverence less than a minute long.”

"Dissed and Dismissed" was released earlier this year on San Francisco’s Melters label. The album struck a chord with savvy listeners. gathered some great reviews and rapidly sold-out of its initial pressing. Slumberland Records is proud to bring you a reissue of this fine album on March 25, 2014 on red vinyl LP, cassette and as a digital download. Dig its indelible tunes and shredding leads while we wait for the new Tony Molina full-length, to be released on Slumberland later in 2014.

Tony Molina - Nowhere To Go

Once again it's five in the morning and I'm stuck on your porch couch
'cause I ruin fucking everything
An angel opens up their upstairs window and beckons down to me
"What's your fucking problem and why the fuck are you always like this?
 You're so bent about the past but you've got nothing good to miss"
Oh no!
I thought that there was way more to this, but I'm just getting over something.
I never took it personally; all the hardcore "don't believe you"s
No more concrete confidence, no more lying to you through your kitchen window
I can't help it if I lose control
I'll just keep lying to myself and say it's my dad's fault
Oh no! I thought that there was way more to this, but I'm just getting over something,
and of course I'll think that a couple words could fix this and one day you'll be saying
"I don't hate you, we just don't talk that much anymore"

I Don't Hate You

Ogbert The Nerd – Get in the Robot

Lost Time

Summertime Vertigo

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Ghost

When did our heart
Stop beating?
Used up all the heat
When did it start?
Our meeting
It’s been on repeat
I know there's a full moon every night
it’s just not always bright
but it’s been so long since I saw the light
maybe I haven’t been looking at the sky

Maud
Now you’re gone

Sweetheart please love me too long
My heart’s too strong
Love me too long
Sweetheart please let me hold on
To these old songs
I’ve loved too long

When I’m in bed
I’m dead
No one to check my pulse
And so instead
My head
Begs not to be so full
and when I fall 
asleep
which part of me writes the dream
and which part falls
asleep
who's running the machine?

I know theres a full moon every night
When I dress black it snows white

Maud
Now you’re gone


Maud Gone

My Back Is KIlling Me Baby - Car Seat Headrest

nouns - conch

Speed Trials

Meth Wax- Stay Out Of The Basement

Gravity Bong

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