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outtakes from "bad summer"

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wait i don’t think you can relate i won’t give you the option to wait right when you start feeling safe some new shit will be knocking loose waiting around is all it takes playing it down to play it safe stop baby stick around and watch you’ll see that’s the spot give him a prick with something soft and he’ll bleed waiting around is all it takes playing it down to play it safe
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can’t wrap my head around it it makes no sense that what you had said about it is what you meant i’m sorry for how it sounded for throwing fits i can’t keep my cool around it i wanna see it freak you out it’s gotta bleed if it’s what you need i wanna see it leave no doubt it’s gotta burn if it’s your turn i wanna see it try not to think about it but it’s on my tongue try not to talk about it when there’s someone to bounce off my doubt about it when i think i’m alone don’t know how to stop without it
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eating in an old blockbuster car park brushing my teeth at the kitchen sink i had fun in hindsight. now i’m tearing down the turnpike back to somewhere i have room to think waking up in unfamiliar houses walk outside in unfamiliar clothes looking down at unfamiliar hands doing unfamiliar work, driving unfamiliar roads can’t explain the first thing about it we don’t share a head like we once did separate the brain and the stem is what remains but my instincts felt insane since i was just a little kid i don’t know the first thing about doing what feels right i just need a second but it ends up taking all night don’t get it twisted just cause you won’t see me around just somebody going blind with their ear to the ground
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vyvanse winter melatonin spring i lost myself i wasn’t anything graveyard of culture feeling left for dead no form no context just something someone said meltdown market shame economy you smell blood start swimming tasting scarcity losing my patience losing sympathy i lost myself another casualty holding back when you’re punching up til you’re black and blue who do you think that you’re talking to notice something gone but you don’t miss it not sure that you needed it at all don’t know what it was but you resent it never met a problem you can’t solve
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thought that i could take it in stride felt like i was rolling with the punches but nothing’s feelin like a surprise knocked out by a hit i saw coming you said that there’s a difference or something (between) feeling free and just running well baby i know both took the train for somewhere to sit tried to swallow something you coughed up started it for something to end saw it all the moment i walked up but you put it somewhere you keep locked up now you’re looking at me like i’m hot stuff well you and me both talk me down i don’t wanna grit my teeth no more waiting at the platform tuggin at your coat stick around we’re only getting started, what’re you bored you wanna get me me alone yeah you and me both i forget how easy it is to chain smoke waiting at the bus stop you forget how easy it is to talk shit when you could just not i was thinking maybe we could just not you were hoping everything would just stop yeah you and me both
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bad summer 03:25
same space finding different ways to obscure my face overthinking it no phase baby things been bad in boring ways overthinking it up all night again can’t get the picture right in my head no frame no resolution things just blur the same

about

In his previous work, avid and prolific home recordist Nathan Tucker never put much effort into exploring the depths of music production software, relying more on simple mixing techniques and the happy accidents that sometimes occur in home studios. But with more time on his hands due to pandemic lockdowns, the cool original bandleader set out to learn more about computer production in order to enrich his work with the compositional sophistication afforded by working in a digital audio workstation.

Owing to this newfound recording knowledge, there is a distinct, refreshing current that charges outtakes from “bad summer”, the latest full-length album from Philly-via-Portland’s cool original (FKA cool american). What under other circumstances might have been a string of homespun indie rock songs is instead an energized pop-focused collection of tracks born from what Tucker describes as “the contrast between total formlessness and rigid claustrophobia”.

As heard almost immediately on album opener “monad, no windows”, an electric atmosphere envelops outtakes from “bad summer”. Pitch-shifted vocal samples and previously-scrapped drum recordings fill out the overture, setting the table for a patchwork of repurposed, resampled ideas shaped into songs that rarely end up in the same place they started. The unhurried and sentimental “i just need a second” boasts the full spectrum of cool original’s songwriting prowess: foregrounded, infectious melody over subtly chopped and screwed drums comprise the foundation for Tucker’s own take on a classic road song—a marked contrast to “breaking my own rules”, an experimental pop number unlike any previous cool original work. Similar contrasts abound throughout outtakes, making for a listening experience that’s equal parts rejuvenating and unpredictable.

credits

released May 18, 2022

all songs by Nathan Tucker
all instruments and vocals by Nathan Tucker; except
slide guitar on track 5 by Tyler Bussey
samples from drum performances by Asher Groh and Elian Conroy
recorded and mixed by Nathan Tucker
additional drum engineering on tracks 1, 10, and 11 by Andy Rusinek and track 8 by Mac Pogue
mastered by Dylan Howe (tape machine) and Andy Rusinek
art and layout by Mac Pogue, jetski photo by Georgia Cary

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