All compositions by Monika Khot and Adam Wolcott Smith
Drums by Raymond McCoy IV and Thomas Whiteside
Cello by Will Smith
Upright bass by Abbey Blackwell
Recorded and Mixed by Adam Wolcott Smith and Monika Khot
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photos by Lauren Rodriguez

I Was Made To Be Like Her

04 - Mantra

The sun is love
Lovers circling the sun
A secret turning in us
I'm small with a lost love
There's there's no one to talk to 
I mouth my secrets down in a well
My eyes are full of star lights 
The spring wind moves to my knife 
Could've got lost 
When I got up to cross

When you break out of the ghostly forest
I'll watch the flying patterns change
I'll run on lakes to get across closer to you 
And wash the grime seeping through 
The dance in your blood 
Dance in your blood

Come back, lover 
Let me drink from your spring
Keep knocking down the wires 
Climb out of the fires
Could've gone on 
But trapped under frost

When you break out of the ghostly forest
I'll watch the flying patterns change
I'll run on lakes to get across closer to you 
And wash the grime seeping through 
The dance in your blood 
Dance in your blood
Dance in your blood
Dance in your blood

Credits:
Written, produced, engineered and performed by Omniflux
Mixed by Josh Boardman
Mastered by Michael Iurato

Dance In Your Blood

Written by Phil Doran, Mark Batch and Dave Collier

Vision (DEMO)

Nomad Soul

Avers – 'Omega / Whatever' – Out July 29th via Egghunt Records
Order: po.st/AversOW

With four songwriters, four singers, and 11 tracks of guitar-saturated rock & roll, Avers' second album, Omega/Whatever, is proof that there's strength in numbers.

The record shines new light on a band that made its first splash with 2014's Empty Light. Avers supported that debut release by leaving their hometown of Richmond, VA, and crisscrossing the country on tour, opening for bands like Foo Fighters and J. Roddy Walston along the way. They made a national splash during the 2015 SXSW Festival, too, with everyone from Esquire Maga-zine to The Daily Beast listing them as one of the week's breakout bands.

Two years after Empty Light's release, Omega/Whatever finds them returning to their unofficial headquarters — Montrose Recording, a modern studio located on a historic Richmond plantation and operated by bandmate Adrian Olsen — and creating another self-produced album of rumbling rock, shot through with pop hooks, layers of percussion, and coed melodies from four different vocalists. It's a mix of old and new, much like the studio that birthed it.

It's an album about balance, too, centered around the struggles of living in the modern world. There are songs about divorce, technology, late nights, corrupt politicians, and societal norms, all delivered by a group of songwriters who share their creative duties equally. Olsen, Alexandra Spalding, James Mason, and JL Hodges trade off vocal duties, too, with multi-instrumentalist Charlie Glenn pitching in on keyboards, harmonies, and swells of electric guitar. There's no consistent frontman, no singular leader, no main guitarist. Those roles are fluid, which makes Omega/Whatever very much the product of a band, not just one bandmate's vanity project.

Like the album that came before it, Avers' second release came together during a series of in-spired sessions at Montrose, with each song beginning as a fledgling idea brought to the table by one of the band's four writers. The entire group would then pitch in, turning that idea into something nuanced and layered. Avers would ultimately finish each song as a collective unit, recording the track the same day it was written. The result is an "infectious" and "ebullient" (The AV Club) sound that not only reintroduces the band, but not also offers an insider's look at their creative process.

Mixed by Peter Kadis (The National, Kurt Vile) and mastered with Greg Calbi, Omega/Whatever is a battle cry from a band that's fighting the good fight.

www.aversmusic.com
www.facebook.com/aversrva

July 29 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry (Album Release Show)
Aug 3 – Washington, DC – DC9 Nightclub
Aug 4 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
Aug 5 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda's

Everything Hz

Watch the video at
  https://youtu.be/rTsye_1p3s8
This track was included in Jul's Progkast Episode 9, September 2016, 
on SoundCloud at
  https://soundcloud.com/progkast/juls-progkast-9
as well as iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Player FM
and broadcast on Undiscovered Rock Radio, October 2016
  http://undiscoveredrockradio.com/

December 2016: Jul's Progkast - 12 - Top Ten 2016
 - in at number 10 in the top ten songs played on Jul's Progkast in 2016 as voted by listeners.
  https://soundcloud.com/progkast/juls-progkast-12-top-ten-2016
and played on Undiscovered Rock Radio December 2016.

Played on Prog Rock Nation, KTAL 101.5FM, July 2018.

Played on Eclectic Storm Radio 12th December 2018
  https://youtu.be/E7m37nhrhCs

I think I know what you want 
You want me to say it
I've got a problem with night
But why do you care?
It's my low down, down
Low down

Broken bottles by the trash can
I cannot deny 
That I was wasted as hell 
Waiting for your reply
How am I to have a good time 
when I know that you're looking at me 
I know that you're looking at me
I know that you're looking at me 

With one eye open 
And one eye on the door 
You count the days 
To get me insane

"Hey look, they're gone
 Looks like I've got the medicine cabinet on my own" 

They sold our world
To a demonic Mask
I'll sober up when the time will pass

Wasted

Into The Unknown (DEMO)

Taken from the EP 'Slow Vessels' available on 130701 / Fat Cat Records, May 5th, 2017

Purchase this record here:
https://fat-cat.co.uk/release/slow-vessels

03 Ian William Craig - A Single Hope

From the album Everything Out of Tune, out Friday, October 13. Recorded by Steve Albini.

Lyrics:
Come and see all the rage
Better show couldn’t be expected
Networked harder than all those evolved
Bitterness takes hold
Ripped away my youth
Currency delivered with a bow

Take a bow
Raise a stage
But just for us
I can see that red door in your
Label gown
Just one more sordid out 
Of all the wailing 
And the drone intentions
Ever-gaping red door in your head

Stole my magic
Hard work pageants
With non-combatants
Sold you whole

I suppose you don’t know

Take a bow
Raise a stage
But just for us
I can see that red door in your
Label gown
Just one more sordid out 
Of all the wailing 
And the drone intentions
Ever-gaping red door in your head

Everything Is Out Of Tune (My Only Victories are Others' Failures)

Parallel World

theoxfordcoma.bandcamp.com
Everything Out of Tune, recorded by Steve Albini ft. guest guitar by Sacha Dunable of Intronaut available now. Limited edition vinyl available at theoxfordcoma.bigcartel.com.

Progressive psychedelic grunge rock band from Phoenix, AZ, USA.

FFO Tool, Primus, Nirvana, Deftones, Mastodon, The Mars Volta, and anything else mathy and weird.

Everything Is Out Of Tune (My Only Victories are Others' Failures)

The Oxford Coma

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