When all this fades away
Where do we go
Somewhere spiritual
Dimensions and beings
Outer body feelings taking hold
Home is the only motive
How to get back to her
Tectonic shifts
Not enough oxygen
It's hard to breathe in here
There's a hallway and lights and open door
And I hear voices and they call me forward

We’re so close to kamikaze
Let's just kill ourselves
Create mass destruction
To medicated to function

Over the limit
Over
Na Na Na
Over the limit
Over

The transcendental law
The unwritten law
Something spiritual
Connection to beings
Devoid of reason
It’s cosmic
It’s written on the wall
Home is the only motive
How to get back to her
Tectonic shifts
Not enough oxygen
It's hard to breathe in here
And there is a reason that we got this close
Snap back but we still hear ghosts

We’re so close to kamikaze
Let's just kill ourselves
Create mass destruction
To medicated to function

Over the limit
Over
Na Na Na
Over the limit
Over

Written & Performed by Spray Allen
Guitar Solo Written & Performed by Paul Leary
Produced by Paul Leary
Mixed by Stuart Sullivan & Paul Leary
Recorded at Sonic Ranch with Jerry Ordonez

Needful Things

World Ends Everyone Dies (feat. Paul Leary)

Moving Into Tucson is basically the side effect of the COVID epidemic. Why, you will ask. Well for the simple reason that the band was formed during the pandemic. Can you call Moving Into Tucson a band? Well, yes as in, it's a band, with a singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer etc. But also no because it's not a band as usual. Band members do not come from the same city or even country, but from different parts of the world. When the world was in lock-down and many were forced to stay at home, there wasn't much left for musicians to do other than work from home. But, how? And better, with whom? Like for many, Zoom video brought a solution. Fortunately, we live in an advanced digital world and a lot is possible without necessarily having to be somewhere. Only someone who arranges it. This is where the label TCBYML, the label of the various artists in the band Moving Into Tucson, stepped in.  

Result, twenty songs composed over a period of 18 months. These have now been brought together, mixed, mastered and provided with artwork. In 2023, five of them will be released as singles and together with eight more songs will form the album "Distraction" that will see the light on November 24 of this year. A great initiative that may be followed up in 2024. Who's to say.  

Moving Into Tucson's music is comparable to that of the early 90's. The sound that all who participated could very much agree on. Moving Into Tucson is therefore for fans of: REM, Lemonheads, Sugar, The Posies, Buffalo Tom, Teenage Fanclub and the Counting Crows but also reminiscent to bands as U2 or The Police. Recognizable indie pop rock, sometimes dark, sometimes mysterious, or vague, but with depth in the music and certainly in the lyrics.

Distraction

Never Gonna Be Easy

Moving Into Tucson - Never Gonna Be Easy

Moving Into Tucson - Without A Warning

HALF CAB has its roots in punk and hardcore music. With their new songs the band is ready to engage a wider audience without losing their underground ethos. The result is music that is said to have "the energy of punk and the catchiness of pop". 

HALF CAB coming from The Hague, Netherlands is set to release their new EP in May 2024. Pete Maher, UK’s No1 independent mastering engineer gives the songs the power they deserve. Upfront, three songs from the EP will be released as singles. 

First single Rearview is about looking back on things in life. “It all looks simple in the rearview” is the recurring phrase in the song, and somewhat of a summary idea of the EP. Don't worry too much about the past, but focus on the future, no matter how dark and hopeless it may seem.

Rearview

HALF CAB - Rearview

Rik Elstgeest – bekend als frontman, schrijver en componist van Eckhardt And The House (goed voor meer dan 5 miljoen streams wereldwijd) – stapt uit zijn comfortzone. Op de aankomende EP Altijd Ergens Een Feestje, die dit najaar verschijnt, zingt hij voor het eerst in het Nederlands.

De EP telt vier verhalende liedjes die ieder een ander facet van het leven belichten. Van een nachtelijke zoektocht naar verbinding (Feestje), tot een vrouw die haar leven overziet op de loopband (Gym). Van een man die net te laat is om zijn dromen waar te maken (Te Laat), tot een liefdevolle boodschap aan een dochter die haar plek in de wereld nog zoekt (Duik). Eckhardt And The House zoals je ze kent – maar dan in het Nederlands, rijker in laag, intiemer in toon, urgenter dan ooit.

De tweede single Gym verschijnt op 19 september en zet deze nieuwe fase met melancholische dadpop voort, geproduceerd door Ruben Samama (o.a. Gabriel Rios, Jonathan Jeremiah). Bezongen in licht ironische poëzie : Dit keer over een vrouw die in de sportschool,liggend op haar yogamat, reflecteert op haar leven …een beetje ingehaald door de tijd en een beetje onthecht. Je zou het een lichte midlifecrises kunnen noemen. “Ze rookte ooit nog shag, dat vond toen niemand gek en ze danst nog steeds het liefst ... op Fleedwood Mac "

Laat je verrassen. Laat je raken. Luister Te Laat – en ontdek Eckhardt And The House zoals je ze nog niet eerder hoorde.

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Rik Elstgeest — frontman, writer, and composer of Eckhardt And The House (with over 5 million streams worldwide) — is stepping out of his comfort zone. On the upcoming EP Altijd Ergens Een Feestje, out this fall, he sings in Dutch for the very first time.

The four narrative songs each shine a light on a different facet of life: from a nocturnal search for connection (Feestje), to a woman reflecting on her life while running on a treadmill (Gym). From a man just missing his chance to realize his dreams (Te Laat), to a loving message for a daughter still finding her place in the world (Duik). It’s Eckhardt And The House as you know them — but now in Dutch, richer in layers, more intimate in tone, and more urgent than ever.

The second single, Gym, out September 19, continues this new chapter with melancholic “dad pop,” produced by Ruben Samama (Gabriel Rios, Jonathan Jeremiah). Told with lightly ironic poetry, it follows a woman lying on her yoga mat, quietly coming to terms with a life slightly overtaken by time, slightly detached. You could call it a mild midlife crisis: “She once smoked roll-ups — back when no one thought twice — and still prefers to dance… to Fleetwood Mac.”

Let yourself be surprised. Let yourself be moved. Listen to Gym — and discover Eckhardt And The House like you’ve never heard them before.

Eckhardt and The House - Gym

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Eckhardt and The House - Gym

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