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Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're the one that should be worried. You're a freak.
You're reading for Big trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What's up, loyal podcast listener, whether you're lying on the
beach in the backyard, or on a slab at the morgue.
Well maybe not that last one. Thanks for stopping into
the clinic to take your monthly medication. Eleven new songs
made by independent artists from around the globe. I am
your host, Doctor Ron Scalzo, MD. You'r chrome domed, middle
(00:33):
aged taste maker. You're perennially listening to music pot Brownie Baker,
and I just placed a fresh batch on the window sill.
So while those cool off, let's heat things up with
some warm introductions from the artists who created these eleven
freshly made confectionery delights.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Five six seven. Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
If you think the only good music to come out
of Jersey a Sinatra, Springsteen and John Bonjiovi, then you're
either my dad or you've never heard of Bergen County
bred indie band Real Estate, who've graced us with some
great platters over the past decade plus, including twenty fourteen's
Atlas and last year's Daniel, and now the long time
Domino Artists have released some leftovers from those and other sessions.
(01:23):
Pink Sky is the best of those songs, and the
new video features founding member Martin Courtney strumming his guitar
and a spooky forest dressed in full wizard regalia. Here's
Martin to kick us off with some words about the
making of Real Estate's Magical News single.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I like pink Sky because it reminds me of something
that we could have written. I think, you know, when
we were a younger band. It has this like simple
power to it. I remember writing the lead guitar part
and thinking like, hey, I love how kind of dumb
but enormous it sounds like. I wanted it to be
really like well, once we went into the studio, I
wanted it to be really big, like a sound like
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a we di were going off or something. I wrote
it for Daniel and we went into the studio in
Nashville with this song and then ended up not recording
it because it just felt like it was its own thing,
Like it didn't really feel like it belonged on a record.
It wanted to be its own single.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Passenger sounding the spiral track, the banked.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Curves soundst recordings, bring.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Me back, Scouts.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Yell Austin here instead instea s.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Expect from s and.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
That listen.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Passinger, Rakith Lift, Divider clumsed.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
Sometimes I pres nothing moment, what's up thrown? I have
seen all that is to say, not show what should
expect me?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
So go in around and.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Listen us and Moss live. Let's see.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
I have seen all the things.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
To say, not showing what of that spots.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
So call around.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
And love that.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
The slops.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Have seen, rass.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Have seen.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Thous and Laso.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Slops one, two, three, four, five, six, seventy God, Jenny Lin, Loving's.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
The number for me, don't you see?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He Living's the number for me.
Speaker 10 (05:31):
When I go.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And the going gets hard.
Speaker 11 (05:38):
Click your heels and feel love.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Bounce house baby, We're.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
So proud you.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Hals to get get it up.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
He really tricks me. I let him touch me.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Where we wanted it.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Didn't know the difference.
Speaker 12 (06:11):
Between love and and waunted.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
And that was just so cold at first.
Speaker 12 (06:24):
But after all that moving around, that such a warm
up to the feeling. I really put my back into it.
I really put my back into it. I really put
my back into it. I really put my back.
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Into it.
Speaker 12 (06:57):
God, when I'm a crown up, I want to have
a cold cup, a true heart job.
Speaker 13 (07:10):
I I want to work hard.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
So I could do in Alan.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Set fire to the ones eyelng.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
I want to.
Speaker 12 (07:25):
Save them, get back to my celium.
Speaker 13 (07:30):
I thought we knew what we were doing, and I
was just so cold at first.
Speaker 10 (07:37):
But after all that moon around, I.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
Start to warm up to the feeling. Really put my
back into it. I really put my back into it.
I really put my back into it.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
I really put my back into it.
Speaker 14 (08:12):
Eleven Flow, the expeditions, request, the flow, the freedom of conscience.
Speaker 15 (08:47):
Is there some form of justice fusible for so long?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Pami's like, you know the truth.
Speaker 16 (09:01):
Guy smuzzled by the.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Colt and the stat.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
And then go to.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
My best funer movie and to bid.
Speaker 15 (10:08):
Snuff out the very ideas of claristic tremble you along
to a trust book choke with the music and sense prudence,
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the warm.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And violent book vilns.
Speaker 15 (10:34):
He suppresses bol intelligence, that conflict, boy testing of those
food drave.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And this we.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Melo d is a Wound is the first new music
from Indie Legend Stereo Lab in fifteen years. They're the
latest in a long line of bands of a certain
era who have recently reunited and who's complaining. The new
album Instant Holograms of Metal Film is out now on
Warp Records. Before that, Indigo Desuza gets her back into
(13:05):
the new single heart Throp I've been enjoying Indigo's infectious
indie rock since twenty twenty one's Any Shape You Take.
Indigo's fourth album, Precipice, is out July twenty fifth on
Loma Vista, and we kicked off eleven with Real Estate
and Pink Sky from the new collection of B sides,
The Wee Small Hours, out now on Domino.
Speaker 16 (13:28):
What we do is if we need that extra push
over the cliff, you know, we do put it up
to an event exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Tom York is the lead singer of one of the
greatest bands on the planet. His solo material ain't no
slouch either, nor a side project, The Smile. Mark Pritchard
never heard of him until now. Why York Dirkiness sparked
an obvious curiosity about the new collaboration between Tom and
English electronic musician Prichard. This is called the spirit.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
O.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Nobody's fool. You can't bring me down. I am not.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
The fool.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
That you think, guy, I will be revealed.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I keep the spell.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Line a line.
Speaker 17 (14:49):
I wish you well, pray for peace, a magic spell.
Speaker 16 (14:57):
That sends you a to sweep shadow surround your RYE.
Speaker 17 (15:11):
Keep the spills line.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Spilling.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Line, keep marble time.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Time. I keep my spelling line. It is a brain.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Sting this, but you can pray men.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
That goes where it goes.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I will keep this spin.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
A bitch, pray for me for you.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
So the gold, the jurney and.
Speaker 16 (17:09):
Shining ex n to.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
Xperen fading star, the little inn, the nice sky, and
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my heart. Let everybody enough who you are, and the
pick through like the faithful crowd waits your every word.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Time to shine. Put on that show.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
The fading start shifted from the constellations. Far of bard, Lady,
is your own trail in the beddok.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
In your twilight.
Speaker 13 (19:33):
Get your bestess Bobby behind you, so you say, But
everybody feels less spoke.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
So comes to bad the light The mind.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Is almost stove, and you have a BT to.
Speaker 13 (20:02):
Where's the coming reflected.
Speaker 18 (20:10):
Justice to the ones You have.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Their ride.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
Fading start, the light of solver, racing with their covers
through the city to your house and when the curtain
fast the.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Event that not even rides.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
You.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Oh shame lip this.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
God so cut to bed to the lad then a lost.
Speaker 19 (21:15):
So if you little he things to prove to me,
where's the one? And then you can't say reflected that
justice to once you love? Get aroud, scuds.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Of gold, the.
Speaker 13 (22:18):
Nis almost and bettle things of grease. Where's the see reflecting?
(22:38):
Listen to What's Your.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Land?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Some dream hoot from New Zealand. Phoebe rings with a
sparkly new single Fading Star from their forthcoming album AZERI
And I'm sure I'm pronouncing that wrong, but it was
worth a try. And this is a band, not a Phoebe.
Their debut LP is out June sixth on car Park Records.
(23:14):
Before that, Mark Pritchard and Tom York with the Spirit
from the album Tall Tales, out now on Warp Records.
We've featured a few Geezers so far in this episode,
so why stop now? It warms my heart to know
that the vets of the scene are all still doing
the thing. This fella is no exception. Pop punk icon
(23:34):
Peter Murphy returns with a new album called Silver Shade,
produced in Spain with killing jokes Youth, plus guest spots
from the rhythm section of Tool and from my personal
hero Trent Resner. The former Bauhaus frontman is sixty seven
and his reckoning has never sounded better. Here's Soothsayer.
Speaker 20 (24:00):
Sho it's me in the center either artist, the wooing
and hoot and none to say. I'll pull back your head.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
As you tell another.
Speaker 20 (24:30):
You would away the fruit over a good Deli ship.
Speaker 21 (24:38):
Artist, never walk away to against who say, artist, I'll
never tell your bagga, so said.
Speaker 20 (25:08):
From the Dance to the Star. We drink from the schools,
we dip all we stand, we devot, we stand.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So whatever for love.
Speaker 20 (25:24):
You pull back by.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Cool of the food.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
We're going in the shape.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Artist stand live on away against, so said.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Artist.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Sup. Now I'll tell you about I get so say.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Auntsister you No, I's on your back on again, so.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Said Aunts and.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Peter Murphy with Soothsayer from the new album Silver Shade,
out now on Metropolis Records. I got five more coming
out of the Break, including a rare appearance by a
banjo player on this podcast, a triple shot of buzzworthy
hard rock, and a bittersweet ballad from Bergen County, New Jersey.
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Speaker 16 (27:42):
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Speaker 3 (29:02):
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Speaker 2 (29:07):
When I'm not making independent minded n indie music of
my own, I make my bones nowadays. As the host
and producer of a happy little podcast called The Joy
of Bob Ross, one of the famous TV painters enduring
quotes is we don't make mistakes. We just have happy
accidents and music. Happy accidents happen all the time. And
for Minneapolis based indie folk trio The Last Revel, it
(29:31):
was a literal accident that ignited the idea for a
new single. Here's the band's banjo player Ryan Aker to
tell us more.
Speaker 23 (29:39):
I wrote Solid Gone Back in early twenty twenty three.
My wife is a touring musician as well. Her and
her band got in a somewhat serious car accident in
January of twenty twenty three when they were out on tour.
They were driving through eastern Montana. Fortunately everybody involved was okay.
(29:59):
She came home from that tour pretty rattled. I couldn't
get this idea out of my head of like, well,
what if you know, one of these tours that she
goes on, or that I go on, whatever, Like what
if one of us doesn't come home? And this kind
of idea that like just because you found your person.
Just because you found your soulmate doesn't mean that you
get to keep them. Song came out really quickly, which
(30:21):
is kind of rare for me. Usually it's a long
process of trial and error, and this one kind of
came out really quickly, and I knew right away that
it was something special. And I had this idea for
like the instrumental section that main like instrumental hook, for
the song to be kind of like these two ships
in the night kind of feeling. I like to think
that it kind of gives this like ungrounded feeling to
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the instrumental section, and then when you hit the chorus,
it kind of all locks in and everybody's on the
same page. So yeah, thank you for giving it a spin.
Hope you enjoy solid gone, and uh, thanks for listening.
Speaker 19 (30:53):
Cheers.
Speaker 22 (31:03):
Cannot speak a holy face.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
It haunted by the ghost I'm chasing shed all in
the night.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
She found a light.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I couldn't shed it.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
How here umpty bells?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Who hit her?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
How your prayers?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
You can't forget her?
Speaker 22 (31:30):
Couldn't throw blood red morning mate?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
The darkness seemed to lift.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
But you all gone, And it's not easy.
Speaker 22 (31:44):
Salid gone, and it's not easy e long before ever
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knew you.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
What's the Spirit's beIN?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Ride through you?
Speaker 22 (32:10):
What's the bun fire?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Burn and burn and burn.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
Of every word?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I knew right there that.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
I would follow down the Steve and Dotty Bird howls
to hell.
Speaker 24 (32:26):
And bed ride as if there was another.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Say grigkeet, but your gone.
Speaker 22 (32:37):
It's not easy, salid gone.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
And it's not easy he easy, he'say, what's your gone?
Speaker 22 (33:32):
It's naught easy, Sally gone.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
It's nart easy easy.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
You're gone.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
It's not e.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Sally gone.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
It's not easy peasy.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
The last revel with Solid Gone. The new album Gone
for Good, is out July eighteenth on thirty Tigers, and
the band's on tour throughout the US pretty much the
entire summer and fall. Basically, if the Last Revel are
not coming through your town this year, then you live
in Switzerland or Narnia.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
If you can see, yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I was certainly of age when new metal briefly invaded
the mainstream, but with few exceptions, it was the macho, bullshit, misogyny,
and mediocrity of many artists from that era that turned
me away from the genre. Entirely. A quarter century later,
I can hear the influences and a lot of the
stuff that get sent my way, and I gotta admit
(34:57):
there are a few diamonds in the rough. Texas banned
nothing more as one of those gems, but DIY Dynamo,
led by Leonine lead singer Johnny Hawkins, who was my
guest on episode one twenty two of the podcast, A
(35:17):
great conversation had backstage prior to the band's show at
Nashville's Marathon Music Works.
Speaker 23 (35:23):
So we got passed on by pretty much every label
that was relevant at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
They just said, yeah, we're just rock.
Speaker 23 (35:30):
Bands are not doing well and we're only signing a handful,
so we're just like, you know what, fuck it, let's
make our own album.
Speaker 25 (35:38):
Right on, we moved into a house together.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
This is why you're on the podcast and this story
right here, we just dy man. Johnny's been moonlighting as
a guest vocalist recently on tracks from peers like Ron
Scalzo lookalike, Chris Daughtry and now with this cat underground
hip hop artist Do Be. In true new metal spirit,
the Columbus rapper has been building buzz by adding more
rock and metal elements to his music. A new single,
(36:03):
Stone Cold, turns the volume up on that mix with
the big assist from Hawkins. Lyrically, the songs are spit
track about marijuana, suicide and internet trolls, but the production
is great and I've gotta admit when the ship is catchy,
it's catchy.
Speaker 26 (36:28):
First off, fuck you, I ain't trying to be a friend.
I fuck around and cuts you with the razor in
my wrist. I fuck around and jump from a cliff
in a hip before I ever give a fuck your
damn or sheet, because are they doing cat sucking that
would never popubody? Don't want to bully then myself good.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I ain't gotta talk. Do we smoke a lot? May
I wanna look?
Speaker 20 (36:46):
We smoked dusty a little Bessie Casey.
Speaker 22 (36:50):
I'm a little insane.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Why am I test case taking art of a lonely
place like a mad old off?
Speaker 27 (37:00):
These last I tell my sad times throw my don't right?
I got that small, But they're not a day that
I'll bet you.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
What's that? Make down to.
Speaker 28 (37:16):
Snore coke?
Speaker 5 (37:21):
I'm a dinner run like.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Snoe coke.
Speaker 29 (37:36):
Play don't my right?
Speaker 6 (37:39):
I right?
Speaker 27 (37:40):
I got down footfect nothing out like a mother freaking effect.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
That I played.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I gotta switch because you watched for you in a ditch,
he said on that smooth bring little ships.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
You want to play nameless think should.
Speaker 27 (37:58):
Have no no mass hypocrite whiting a Channing swiple in
my shirt.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Sh right, frash range shall.
Speaker 22 (38:05):
I'm gonna just a little bit crazy.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Here is the world just strange.
Speaker 20 (38:10):
All of these guys are.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Remember of the place I'm.
Speaker 23 (38:15):
In.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
The fun come out, I says mom. I'm just wasting
time trying to screw up.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
He come away the small running out things out come.
But what is coming down to?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I don't about kill the pool store coke.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
I'm gonna kill inside.
Speaker 18 (38:42):
Snore coke, im my card fast bat that summing let
them out like I'm out the fucking know at that.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Oh my lord, that's right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Outa turn in a phone like a man who know
says mad.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
I'm just ma see.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Time trying that s made o a you gotta be.
Speaker 27 (39:12):
That's mad money out to gay that I'll be don
the wst I made down too, uncles out too boom.
Speaker 9 (39:20):
A stone coat.
Speaker 10 (39:26):
I'm gonna get three did.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Stone coat? What's your name son eleven.
Speaker 24 (40:30):
Ould but I'm glad that so saying I am reading
now bright bright bright bright bright bright, No let them
blast bris bright bright god brost our brother.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
Mother dies go hand and had pay five.
Speaker 24 (40:44):
When you want to stand in your bride bright bright
bright bright bright, don let them back god by bright
bright bright father lay bright bright bright bright bright bright.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Don't say the back bay.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
By bright by by doing your side right.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Right fally, you can't see yes. The bos stop.
Speaker 29 (41:31):
Benzeliser fally, I can't see yes. The bars stop penzil paiso.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Hardily you can't see.
Speaker 29 (41:53):
Yes stick bostop bizlser finally get the way.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
The eleven eleven.
Speaker 28 (42:12):
Eleven just got back from olderseas, spent a lot of
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time there, lately.
Speaker 16 (42:37):
Went out bless my my voice as.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
Messby had thoughts of unfamiliar or a county.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (42:46):
I met a guy in Copenhagen.
Speaker 25 (42:51):
And he was gay but had a girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
I met a guy and the unswer down, the botdown,
and then I catched him with my material. What do
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you watch my ship?
Speaker 28 (43:23):
What I said, If we're not great, you can get
the next One'll be back.
Speaker 16 (43:31):
Kinda said, but I'm grateful.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
What's what it's to me versal.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
I'm such a fucking.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
Girl you don't even know.
Speaker 28 (43:52):
Just imagine me absolutely sobbed, dripping head to toe and
proudest sport yell.
Speaker 9 (44:00):
You could call me a small business owner living in
America while trapping the body of.
Speaker 16 (44:09):
An operatic deb m hm, I'm such.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
A soprano material. Will you watch my ship? While I
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said on.
Speaker 16 (44:40):
If we migrate, you can get the next one.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
I'll be back in a second.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
I'm grateful.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
It was what didst bring one?
Speaker 3 (44:50):
I saw? But you will apply.
Speaker 16 (45:07):
A perfect source.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
I'm looking for.
Speaker 6 (45:16):
Something more that you'll apply.
Speaker 25 (45:24):
A perfect sauce.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
I'm okay four something more. Oh, how did you take
you home to.
Speaker 10 (45:42):
Be?
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Oh? How long do you think you're home to it?
Speaker 25 (45:51):
You know?
Speaker 6 (45:55):
Oh that you're home to.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Model Act trees with Diva from the new album Pirouette,
out now on Troop, Panther and Dirty Hit. Before that,
we heard birds from Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile, a group
that any long haired twenty four year old you encounter
would call fire, as in Turnstile is fire. The much
anticipated fourth album, Never Enough, is out June fourth on
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Roadrunner Records and Doobie Kicked off a set of heavy
hitters with Stone Cold featuring Johnny Hawkins off the fourth
coming album Give Him Hell Until You Get to Heaven,
out May thirtieth, on one rpm.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
If you can see, yeah, the numbers will go to eleven.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
We started in joys. Let's end it there too with
some calm after the heavy metal thunder and a lo
fi acoustic guitar, plus some cool reflection from After Hours
the musical numda plume of Jersey native Kayla Janowitz. Here's
Kayla to complete the circle and take us to eleven
with the closer from her new album Imaginary Friend.
Speaker 30 (47:42):
Hello, It's Kayla from After Hours. So the song was
the last song I wrote about a week before it
went to Nashville to record the whole album Imaginary Friend,
and I knew the record needed a grand finale like
Final Boss Moment. The songs are in chronological order, written
from ages twenty two to twenty seven, and I just
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knew I wanted the last song to be a song
that I wrote like minutes ago, you know, like I
wanted to feel like the most present, current version of myself.
And I didn't realize how crucial the song was going
to be until I listened to the whole project full
in one go, and I was like, oh my gosh, Like,
of course it ends on this song like the invisible
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string that ties up all the loose ends.
Speaker 23 (48:30):
You know.
Speaker 30 (48:30):
It answers all the questions, it validates all the experiences,
it finalizes any lingering feelings.
Speaker 17 (48:37):
It's just.
Speaker 30 (48:39):
The last episode of a series, if you will. This
is the last song in a very intentional way, like
having it start out with just me and a guitar,
and then it builds up and then you know, like
little things like the kick drum creeping in when I
sing about how my heart is beating different now, and
then it kind of just explodes and it's like screaming
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into your pillow explosion. And then it closes right back
up in a way that makes you feel like you've
experienced all stages of grief in four minutes.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
In three seconds.
Speaker 25 (49:14):
Hard different now. I used to bounce right back now,
kissing macra. I never learned powder one till I jumped
in the deep bud my heart. It's just different now,
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my hard Feastffena, I can't run, Batsy. You saw sit
with myself, not go in your sins out at least
to still talk like myself. Yeah, I'm a hard just
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different now and that's hard when you're old.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Friend.
Speaker 25 (50:23):
No, thank god, I am the friend my how my
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hard be different now? Walk away figured it out. I
think the world. I want to think of you though,
all deserve to see things through. Yeah, the hard, it's
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just different now. It's all just different now, and that's
hard when you're days.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
Now.
Speaker 25 (51:40):
But thank god, Oh de Fens, different halls, jostif No.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Big thanks to the artist who shared stories and music
with us on eleven got a shout out Zoe at
Grandstand HQ, Sophia at iv p R and Shane A.
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Speaker 3 (53:50):
Freak bald