+ SEPTEMBER 2023 PART I

Not The Name You Say

Lemonade

Stop at Nothing

Dramatic

everything is alive

alife

chained to a cloud

Souvenir

Brick Heroin

Stop Talking

Lyrics:

Heading for the coast
Driving down the freeway
Everything can go wrong but I know
I'm gonna catch a new wave

Oceanside, sunny skies
And every moment feels so right
Can't deny that life goes by
Why don't we stay like this forever?

When the sun burns low, tell me where you wanna go
Where you wanna go, go tonight
We can take it slow, tell me where you wanna go
Where you wanna go, go tonight

Where you wanna go, where you wanna go, go tonight
Where you wanna go, where you wanna go

Tryna feel the road
I'm rolling down a window
All I know is time is on our side
Anywhere that we go

Oceanside, sunny skies
And every moment feels so right
Can't deny that life goes by
Why don't we stay like this forever?

When the sun burns low, tell me where you wanna go
Where you wanna go, go tonight
We can take it slow, tell me where you wanna go
Where you wanna go, go tonight

Where you wanna go, where you wanna go, go tonight
Where you wanna go, where you wanna go

When the sun burns low
Tell me where you wanna go
Where you wanna go, go tonight
We can take it slow
Tell me where you wanna go
Where you wanna go, go tonight

Where you wanna go, where you wanna go, go tonight
Where you wanna go, where you wanna go

Written by: Nir Tibor, Sandro Cavazza, Robin Stjernberg

Oceanside

True

Discoproof

The Interrogator

I Love the Sound of Structured Class

Back To The Water Below

Waves

I Don’t Mind

Worn Out Buildings

Let's Get To Work

In Between

A group of black and brown teenage boys wait in line for a club, surrounded by beautiful art school dropouts in “tiny jackets and borrowed nostalgia”high on cheap cocaine and cheaper vodka— the average Saturday night scene in 2007 London. Behind the club doors are all their hopes and dreams: love, sex, rock’n’roll, and the fantasy that one day it’ll be their music that will pour out of the PA over the leather-clad, shoulder-dancing masses below. But as they approach those doors, the smile of the Jarvis Cocker clone playing gatekeeper begins to turn sinister— just for them— and they know why. The power has shifted. They know the truth before it’s spoken: “Not tonight, boys... we got enough of your type already.”

The fourth and final single from Teenage Sequence’s debut self-titled
album, ‘Tell Me Your Name,’ is the based-on-real-life story of an event that serves as a microcosm of Soomary’s experiences in the music industry and the bleak realities that come with being an artist of colour. The track showcases another side of the multi-instrumentalist Soomary’s songwriting prowess and skill in writing a chorus with an undeniable hook— in this case, a plea for the listener to tell him their name, so that they might not forget it in the face of prejudice.

Soomary says:

“On ‘Tell Me Your Name’ I wanted to create a pastiche of a pastiche and
leaned heavily into sounds and arpeggiators that one might find on a mid 2000s indie-disco record that itself was trying to replicate that post-disco pre-dance late 1970s sound. I wanted to create something familiar, comfortable, and then juxtapose this really bleak story against, I tried to create something that upon further listens becomes quite uncomfortable - because to me that is what 90% of racism is, every day normal events having the potential to turn into something uncomfortable due to someone else’s prejudice and us being powerless to do anything about it. Like, I have experienced more visceral and violent forms of racism, that goes without saying, but for some reason its stuff like not getting into a club for no other reason than skin colour that stays with me the most. I really hope that this song does the other people who were with me justice. I personally think it’s the best song I’ve ever written, but really in this my opinion doesn’t matter.”

+ SEPTEMBER 2023 PART I

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