Name: Sands by Summer Underground
Duration: 3 min 41 s
Description: Sands from More Than a Friend, Less Than a Lover

From forthcoming new album CARRIE & LOWELL
Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:
Now that I fell into your arms
My only lover
Give out to give in
I search for the capsule I lost

Drag me to hell
In the valley of The Dalles
Like my mother
Give wings to a stone
It’s only the shadow of a cross

I slept on my back 
In the shade of the meadowlark 
Like a champion
Get drunk to get laid
I take one more hit when you depart

I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart
Lonely vampire
Inhaling its fire
I’m chasing the dragon too far

There’s blood on that blade
Fuck me, I’m falling apart
My assassin
Like Casper the ghost 
There’s no shade in the shadow of the cross

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross"

From the new album CARRIE & LOWELL by Sufjan Stevens
Get it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:

I should have known better
To see what I could see
My black shroud
Holding down my feelings
A pillar for my enemies

I should have wrote a letter
And grieve what I happen to grieve
My black shroud
I never trust my feelings
I waited for the remedy

When I was three, three maybe four
She left us at that video store
Be my rest, be my fantasy

I’m light as a feather
I’m bright as the Oregon breeze
My black shroud 
Frightened by my feelings
I only want to be a relief

No, I’m not a go-getter
The demon had a spell on me
My black shroud
Captain of my feelings
The only thing I want to believe

When I was three, and free to explore
I saw her face on the back of the door
Be my vest, be my fantasy

I should have known better
Nothing can be changed
The past is still the past
The bridge to nowhere
I should’ve wrote a letter 
Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing
The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination

Don’t back down, there is nothing left
The breakers in the bar, no reason to live
I’m a fool in the fetter
Rose of Aaron’s beard, where you can reach me

Don’t back down: nothing can be changed
Cantilever bridge, the drunken sailor
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination 

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Sufjan Stevens, "Should Have Known Better"

Recorded at Anchour Studios in Windham, ME (anchour.com). Engineered by Josh Ray, Karl Anderson, and Zach Laskowski. Kat's vocals were tracked at BIRDNOSE audio in Queens, NY with Grant Carey (grantcarey.xyz). Produced by Josh Ray and Dreamt. Mixed and Mastered by Jason Staniulis in Brookyn, NY.  

Album art by Gregory Hammond LaPierre (gregoryhammondlapierre.com)

Aidan Boardman - acoustic guitar, vocals
Damien Scalise - electric guitar
TJ Schaper - trombone
Emmett Scott - nord, radical solo
Sam Shuhan - electric bass
Will Sigel - drums
Matt Venora - trumpet
Kat Wallace - vocals

dreamt.xyz
dreamt.bandcamp.com

Comfort

Recorded at Anchour Studio in Windham, Me and at BIRDNOSE in Queens, NY. Produced by Dreamt, Joshua Ray, and Grant Carey. Engineered by Joshua Ray and Zach Laskowski. Violin solo engineered and recorded by Grant Carey. Mixed and mastered by Jason Staniulis in Brooklyn, NY. Design by Greg Lapierre.

anchour.com
grantcarey.xyz
gregoryhammondlapierre.com
dreamt.xyz

Aidan Boardman - acoustic guitar, vocals
Damien Scalise - electric guitar
TJ Schaper - trombone
Emmett Scott - nord
Sam Shuhan - electric bass
Will Sigel - drums
Matt Venora - trumpet
*** Kat Wallace - vocals, violin ***

Thank you!

River Song

Recorded at Anchour Studios in Windham, ME, June and August, 2014. Then at BIRDNOSE Audio in Queens, NY, February 2015. Produced by Dreamt, Josh Ray, and Grant Carey. Engineered by Josh Ray, Karl Anderson, Zach Laskowski

Image and design by Gregory Hammond Lapierre.

dreamt.xyz
anchour.com
grantcarey.xyz
gregoryhammondlapierre.com

Aidan Boardman - electric guitar, keyboard, percussion, vocals
Grant Carey - vocals, mini Korg
Damien Scalise - electric guitar
TJ Schaper - trombone
Emmett Scott - nord
Sam Shuhan - bass
Will Sigel - drums
Matt Venora - trumpet
Kat Wallace - vocals

Follow Me (feat. Grant Carey)

Recorded at Anchour Studios in Windham, ME, June and August, 2014. Then some more at BIRDNOSE Audio in Queens, NY, February 2015. Produced by Dreamt, Josh Ray, and Grant Carey. Engineered by Josh Ray, Karl Anderson, Zach Laskowski. Mixed and mastered by Jason Staniulis in Brooklyn, NY.

Image and design by Gregory Hammond Lapierre.

dreamt.xyz
anchour.com
grantcarey.xyz
gregoryhammondlapierre.com

Aidan Boardman - acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals
Damien Scalise - electric guitar
TJ Schaper - trombone
Emmett Scott - nord
Sam Shuhan - bass
Will Sigel - drums
Matt Venora - trumpet, tasty solo
Kat Wallace - vocals

The Harp

Release date: May 6, 2016
cecile@teamclermont.com

Self-released
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Private Victories is the recording moniker of musician and songwriter Grant Carey. The self-titled debut album was recorded in the summer and fall of 2015. Private Victories weaves together Carey’s personal songwriting with a hifi-meets-lofi production aesthetic. Often matching the emotional highs and lows of each song, Carey’s vast vocal range calls to mind singers like Anohni, James Blake, or Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz. Spanning several different genres and styles, Private Victories is glued together by a central theme: healing.
In early 2015, amidst a separation from his longtime college girlfriend, Carey suffered a devastating neck injury that saw him begin to battle constant feelings of dizziness, anxiety, pain and fatigue. Naturally, Grant turned to music during this difficult time. During the summer of 2015, he immersed himself in daily marathon solo recording sessions in his family’s basement in Pittsburgh. This cathartic period of recording and writing has led to some of his most honest, bare, and visceral songwriting to date.

Amongst heavy observations on love and life, Carey’s sense of humor often wrings out some light from beneath the darkness: “I got so high / I almost died / but I didn’t die! / after you.” Similarly, Carey often finds joy in singing total-bummer lyrics over bouncy, stoner-pop melodies: “Put a bullet in a gun / hold me down so I can’t run / I have never loved someone / like I love you.” It’s this very dichotomy – light and dark, joy and sadness, humor and morbidity – that permeates the entire record.

Private victories are small, quiet moments often spent alone. Moments of clarity, recognition; small, soulful celebrations of love, sadness, and the relentless march of time. On “Fine Corn Maze” Carey sings, “if I could rewind and repave / erase the errors that I made / were our love a fine corn maze / might we find the end some day.” Private Victories doesn’t celebrate the crossing of the finish line, but rather the struggle and vitality of the race itself. Often the record feels like a maze, winding from punchy indie rock choruses to gentle, somber ballads. Throughout, Carey’s warm, glassy voice invites the listener on this journey to perhaps reflect upon their own “private victories.”

The album was recorded with an old Kawai upright piano, a cheap Craigslist drum kit and some terrible guitars. Other things, like the work of Aidan Boardman, Alyssa Magarian and Zachary Stewart, were recorded in Grant’s apartment in Queens, NY. Iris Garrison-Driscoll sent her vocals via text message from London. Some of the drums were recorded at Valley View Studios in Ligonier, PA. Self-recorded and mixed by Carey, the record was mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio in Cleveland, Ohio. The cover photograph was taken by Sara Edwards.

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