Tracked and mixed by Phil Manley (Life Coach, Trans Am) and Eliot Curtis at El Studio, located in San Francisco, CA. 

Mastered by Mark Kramer (past clients: Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese, Will Oldham, Galaxie 500, etc.)

lyrics
I've had my share of Hollywood / and I want to leave this place for good / it turns out I don't have what it takes / I let myself down / I let myself down / I want to leave this dream for dead (2x) / I've wasted so much of my time / killing my liver and my mind / and now I feel so fucking numb / I'm disappointed in the person I've become / I want to leave this dream for dead (4x)

credits
from Dead Dream EP, track released June 6, 2016 
Matthew Hable: vocals, tenor guitar 
Eliot Curtis: bass 
Fred Jennings: drums

Dream

Tracked and mixed by Phil Manley (Life Coach, Trans Am) and Eliot Curtis at El Studio, located in San Francisco, CA. 

Mastered by Mark Kramer (past clients: Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese, Will Oldham, Galaxie 500, etc.)

lyrics
Walking down the sad city lane / in the frigid pouring rain / all alone I have no one to call / on my own but walking tall / no control I have nothing to lose / I can choose to die / no I refuse / I will survive another day / I'm never looking back at that alley way / because it's empty / empty / empty / empty / Passing by the dim boulevard / shoot the moon that floats afar / I'm at the bar drunk by myself / and nobody knows that I need help / but look abroad the sun is coming up / stars are fading / my mind is stuck / where I'm at is where I need to be / never in my life have I felt so free / and empty / empty / empty / empty

credits
from Dead Dream EP, track released June 6, 2016 
Matthew Hable: lead vocals, tenor guitar 
Eliot Curtis: bass, background vocals, synthesizer 
Fred Jennings: drums, background vocals, percussion

Empty

Tracked and mixed by Phil Manley (Life Coach, Trans Am) and Eliot Curtis at El Studio in San Francisco, CA. 

Mastered by Mark Kramer (past clients: Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese, Will Oldham, Galaxie 500, etc.)

lyrics
I offer you my heart / and you spit in my eye / you try to make me laugh / and I make you cry / Why do we hurt each other? / You make me hit the bottle / I drive you crazy / You say I try too hard / but I think you're lazy / Why do we hurt each other? / Why?

credits
from Dead Dream EP, released June 6, 2016 
Matthew Hable: vocals, tenor guitar 
Eliot Curtis: bass 
Fred Jennings: drums

Tracked and mixed by Phil Manley (Life Coach, Trans Am) and Eliot Curtis at El Studio in San Francisco, CA. 

Mastered by Mark Kramer (past clients: Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese, Will Oldham, Galaxie 500, etc.)

lyrics
Life is a drag / come to terms with it / and you will know what it means to be happy / life is a drag / my friend, don't you forget / learn how to laugh when you're stuck in a rut / life is a drag / happiness is what we all want / but we always have to fight for it / life is a drag / I can imagine a perfect world / but I guarantee it's never gonna happen / no, no, no / life is a drag / there is beauty in sadness / all you have to do is open up your mind / life is a drag / we are all doomed to die / and when we do / that may be it.

credits
from Dead Dream EP, track released June 6, 2016 
Matthew Hable: lead vocals, tenor guitar 
Eliot Curtis: bass, background vocals 
Fred Jennings: drums, background vocals 

Special guest: Tom Chandler on lead guitar

Life

Tracked and mixed by Eliot Curtis at Tones on Tail Studios in Oakland, CA. 

Mastered by Mark Kramer (past clients: Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese, Will Oldham, Galaxie 500, etc.)

lyrics
Woman, I can't sleep at night / because I can't stop thinking about you / I have so much love to give / and I want to give it all to you / but I know / fools rush in / and I don't want to lose you / Do you remember / the road-like reflection of the moon on the sea / that one night / we spent together? / I can't hold back my love for you / but I know / fools rush in / and I don't want to lose you.

credits
from Dead Dream EP, track released June 6, 2016 
Matthew Hable: vocals, tenor guitar 
Eliot Curtis: bass 
Fred Jennings: drums

Fools

It kicked off in the summer of 2013 like a rabid wildebeest: Primitive folk singer-songwriter Matthew Hable launched his latest musical vision, Strange Ideas, and hasn’t looked back. Later that year, Hable enlisted Eliot Curtis on bass guitar and Fred Jennings on drums, quickly establishing themselves as core members of Strange Ideas. 

The Monterey native cites his influences in legit, record store-geek fashion: “psych folk (Kurt Vile, Syd Barrett), garage rock (The Velvet Underground, The Kinks, Thee Oh Sees), oldies soul (Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Fats Domino) and some traditional country influences (The Carter Family, Hank Williams).”

For its first live performance on Jan. 25, 2014, at Pierce Ranch Vineyards in Monterey, Strange Ideas opened for Jake Bellows (Saddle Creek Records). The show sold out. The buzz was on. Since then, the trio has performed regularly throughout the Bay Area and Central Coast, including The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, supporting Sparrows Gate (Rat Palace Records), and The Starry Plough in Berkeley with The Tomb Weavers (Burger Records). Additionally, Strange Ideas has toured the Pacific Northwest and performed on two radio programs: KWVA in Tacoma, WA and KRML in Carmel, CA. 

In the summer of 2015, Strange Ideas began recording their first album with Phil Manley (Life Coach, Trans Am) at El Studio in San Francisco. The EP, released on June 6, 2016, was mastered by Mark Kramer, whose past clients include Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham, and Half Japanese.