This is the debut album by surf rock is dead
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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

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Figure Two

Fehlt - Withdrawal

Storm Queen

Fly A Kite

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PSYCHIC WAVE - "Get It Right"

Brother

Surf Rock Is Dead - Away Message

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)

Always Learning What Not To Do

Say what you want to 
Can’t take it anymore
That’s for sure

Let me 
Slide some space in
Separate the sides
You and I

Sometimes
It’s no insult
It’s an existential cry
Oh I tried

If I
Won’t go the distance
Who’ll go the speed

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

always learning what not to do

Watching the Dead

I’m in the sun whenever I’m around you
Things are all the same; you were something so new
Every single day I’m walking away

We are watching the dead
We are watching the dead

You seem to see everything you need in me
Only we can be another thing and we are free

We are watching the dead
We are watching the dead

It’s what you know
That takes its toll
The peoples’ gaze
They’re all 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

Watching The Dead

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

Pre-order/Pre-save our debut album "Existential Playboy"

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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

Days by CIEL, second single taken from the upcoming EP 'Movement'. 

Released on March 4th 2020.


Produced by Jack Wolter
Mixed by Iggy B
Mastered by Neil Pickles

Days

From Deeper's Sophomore LP "Auto-Pain" out March 27th on Fire Talk.

What do you do when pain blots out joy? How do you learn to take care of yourself? What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm? 'Auto-Pain' is the Sophomore album from Deeper, a record that finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would’ve blocked out the sun. The group — singer and guitarist Nic Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti — were all graduates of Chicago’s rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire, Devo, Gang of Four, and Television. While the new record is still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn’t as insular as its predecessor; it’s less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he’d heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack. The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy.Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago capturing the band’s rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage. The record was recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly).

Auto-Pain

Deeper - This Heat

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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

Diabolik

Swine Tax - Johnny (2020)

Written & performed by Swine Tax
Produced by Barry Hyde
Engineered & mixed by Jonny Burgess
Mastered by Jason Mitchell
Artwork by Oli Heffernan

Swine Tax - Johnny

Out April 9, 2021 on Slumberland Records/Tough Love Records.

From the many musical lives of artist Glenn Donaldson emerges The Reds, Pinks and Purples, a project that sifts out the purest elements of pop music and in the process chronicles the point of view of an assiduous songwriter. His new album "Uncommon Weather" is both an elusive portrait of San Francisco -- during one of its fluctuations as an untenable place for musicians and artists -- and also a self-portrait of a songwriter who has dispatched another treasured collection of timeless sounding DIY-pop songs.

Self-recorded and mostly self-performed, the music on "Uncommon Weather" continuously reckons with the influence of The Television Personalities' Dan Treacy, whose own forays into drum-machines, echo, and reverb in the early 1990s is an important reference point. Paul Weller, Robert Smith, and Sarah Records also come to mind. The album arrives with grateful timing, quick on the heels of the recent EP "You Might Be Happy Someday" and alleviating, for a brief window at least, whatever it is that keeps us coming back to this elemental music. Donaldson imagines his listeners are just like himself: fascinated and addicted to the spiritual power of uncomplicated pop classics.

Watching The Dead

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