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released May 1, 2020

Music by surf rock is dead
Produced by surf rock is dead

surf rock is dead is Kevin Pariso and Joel Witenberg

Drums by Jake Robert Beal on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9.

Recorded at Diamond City Studios and Joel’s apartment
Mixed by Brandon Bost with the exception of “Away Message” mixed by Joseph Visciano
Mastered by Joe Laporta @ Sterling Sound

Art direction by surf rock is dead
Illustration and text artwork by Sabrina Mai
Management by Sky McElroy + Bear and Owl

Existential Playboy

COOL HEAT - Levitate

From the album 'Bloom Off The Rose,' out July 16, 2021
Pre-order digital/vinyl:
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Lyrics:
Your fickle eyes are casting shadows on the door
In darkened rooms with silver marbled floors
Your leopard coat it dangles weary on the stairs
Your body’s posed but you’re not there

Then your daddy came home while your head came undone
And your temper
Said i don't need for you to validate my life

Mother mary's old dress is caked in blood and oil
And unfettered

You'll regret those creature comforts in your life
Now i don't care what you do, and i don't care what you do
Just have it your way

Your hardened lines they shake the boy inside of me
Upon your back without a want to be
Envision all the things you'd do but wouldn't dare
You kiss her cheek and say a prayer

Then your daddy came home while your threads came undone
And you better
Say i don't need for you validate my life

You’ll be just like the rest if you can't save yourself
So you better
Ignore your sense when plucking people from your life
And i don't care what you do, now I don't care what you do
Just have it your way

Bloom Off The Rose

Have It Your Way

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When You Know Its Alright

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Whitney - No Matter Where We Go

'Sister Sadness' is the new single from Kidsmoke, released 5th Feb 2018.

Written and performed by Kidsmoke. Recorded with Russ Hayes at Orange Studios, Penmaenmawr and mastered by Gethin John at Hafod Mastering, South Wales.

Artwork by Mike Payne and Andy Garside

"Delightfully melancholy" - Steve Lamacq, BBC6 Music

Sister Sadness

Surf Rock Is Dead - Away Message

"Passing Ships" is the second single from our debut album Morningside, out 24th May.

Pre-order Morningside : https://smarturl.it/morningside

Tickets / Music / Merch : https://www.swimmingtapes.com

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Upcoming tour dates:

Tue 2 Apr GUILDFORD, Boileroom
Wed 3 Apr WOLVERHAMPTON, Slade Rooms
Sat 6 Apr LIVERPOOL, Sound
Sun 7 Apr EDINBURGH, Sneaky Pete’s
Wed 10 Apr LONDON Oslo
Thu 11 Apr BRIGHTON, Prince Albert
Fri 12 SOUTHAMPTON, Heartbreakers
Sat 13 Apr LEICESTER, The Cookie
Sat 4 May LEEDS, Live At Leeds
Sun 5 May NEWCASTLE, Hit The North

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Produced by Paddy Baird
Mixed by Tom Schick
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian
Artwork by Paddy Conn

Morningside

Passing Ships

From Film School "EP", coming summer 2019 on Hauskat Records.

Written by Film School
Produced by Film School and Dan Long
Mixed by Headwest Studios
Mastered by Howie Weinberg

Greg Bertens - vocals, guitar
Nyles Lannon - guitar, backing vocals
Justin LaBo - bass
Jason Ruck - synths
Adam Wade - drums
Guest backing vocals by Noël Brydebell.


Lyrics:
I don’t know what’s inside of her, it glows at night
I can be beside of it and feel it’s alright
All alone I cared about some thoughts I couldn’t hold
Figured out I’m a part of it that keeps me tight

Go, but not too far
Be, but not a star
Sing, but nothing more
Than we can be

There’s a side a side of this that I keep alive
It’s a break from the rest of it that you know I hide
Out tonight I found the same fare that’s bought and sold
Just another sentimental take that’s sounding right

Go, but not too far
Be, but not a star
Sing, but nothing more
Than we can be

And you know the way I go
The music's changing
And you know the way I go
Nothing's changed

Go (But Not Too Far)

Solid Ties

Whose to say we’re gonna stay in touch
It doesn’t mean much
Maybe to you
The city is so fitting all your friends
They’re barely hanging on
Hanging by a thread 

List of things to do
Is how I view
Keeping with the times
Set the scene aside
Who would stick around?
Beer buddies never die

Everyone tries 
On city time
All that I want
True solid ties

Music by surf rock is dead
Produced by surf rock is dead

surf rock is dead is Kevin Pariso and Joel Witenberg

Drums by Jake Robert Beal on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9.

Recorded at Diamond City Studios and Joel’s apartment
Mixed by Brandon Bost with the exception of “Away Message” mixed by Joseph Visciano
Mastered by Joe Laporta @ Sterling Sound

Art direction by surf rock is dead
Illustration and text artwork by Sabrina Mai
Management by Sky McElroy + Bear and Owl

Solid Ties

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Immaculate 

Is it really in our hands?
Bring it back where it began
Words like laser beams that cut you to your core
We’ve all seen our better days
The human age is never tamed
I can feel the wind blowing down

Do you feel the same?
Who is there to blame?
Do you feel the same?
The one thing free from decay
This moment….

One move forward two steps back
The whole and part share epitaph 
One by one our bits are broken down and down
If you feel your days before ya
I can feel the wind blowing down

Do you feel the same?
Who is there to blame?
Do you feel the same?
The one thing free from decay
This moment….

Who is there to blame?
Do you feel the same?
Who is there to blame?
Do you feel the same?

Music by surf rock is dead
Produced by surf rock is dead

surf rock is dead is Kevin Pariso and Joel Witenberg

Drums by Jake Robert Beal on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9.

Recorded at Diamond City Studios and Joel’s apartment
Mixed by Brandon Bost with the exception of “Away Message” mixed by Joseph Visciano
Mastered by Joe Laporta @ Sterling Sound

Art direction by surf rock is dead
Illustration and text artwork by Sabrina Mai
Management by Sky McElroy + Bear and Owl

Immaculate

For more info about the SLR30 Singles Series:
https://slumberlandrecords.com/slr30singles

Formed by friends in 2014 during a summer spent obsessing about the Sarah Records catalog, Michigan band Failed Flowers quickly developed into a shadowy, high speed pop vehicle. Drawing at first from the wistful sighs of Sarah, the group grew more of an edge as they progressed, evoking elements of C86 granularity and shoegaze blur. The original lineup of bassist Erin Davis, drummer Miles Haney, and dual guitarist/singers Fred Thomas and Autumn Wetli played around the midwest for about a year, releasing an eight song demo before Wetli left the band. Close friend and collaborator Anna Burch stepped in during the spring of 2015, amplifying both the harmonies and the disquiet. This new lineup recorded a nine-song mini album of sharper material that saw release on the 25 Diamonds label before Thomas left Michigan for Montreal and Burch began a solo career with her own pristine indiepop tunes. The band remained sporadically active, playing the occasional gig, doing a short run of shows with Protomartyr in 2017 and getting together to write and record in the increasingly rare moments when all parties were available. The two songs on this 7" are the fruits of Failed Flowers' most recent sessions and represent some of their most evolved work.

"Faces" is the first song Anna brought to the band, a wash of guitars and vocal harmonies that are somehow both quick and ambling. More melodic than most of the band's recorded output, it walks in the same remarkably catchy territory as Anna's always glowing solo work, though swimming through more waves of distortion.

"Broken Screen" was described as "The Strokes in a bar fight" seconds after the lead vocals were put to tape, and the song zips along nervously with just that energy. One half jumpy, self-conscious punk and one half Flying Nun grey skies pop.

Faces

Failed Flowers - Faces

Produced/Mixed by Dylan Adams
Mastered by Andrew Edgson

Waiting

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Our Time

They saw you for what you were
A thief in disguise no more
I rode into the blur
You try to stay in your bed
But everyone’s in their head
 
Our time is the night time
Waiting for no one
 
Deep in the cold we stay
No money there either way
When will be the day
The sun is still rolling round
And no one there hears a sound
 
Our time is the night time
Waiting for no one
 
Where’s my certainty
The fire that’s within me
It’s all I’ll look back upon
Before we’re dead
 
Oh I feel it in my bones
Can’t make it on my own
The fear within
Comes through again
 
Our time is the night time
Waiting for no one

Our Time

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Diabolik

Time can put you in the dark, you refuse to see
Charlie takes you to the mark, it’s not where you want to be

I feel it too
I’ve had enough of it
Try to tiptoe
Round the fire
It’s on

You are now the enemy
Walking on my own

Come home
Find you
On the 
Bathroom floor
You won’t ever see the light
You said everything’s alright

I feel it too
I’ve had enough of it
Try to tiptoe
Round the fire
It’s on

You are now the enemy 
Walking on my own again
Something says you’re dead to me
Walking on my own

Immaculate

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