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Artist......: Absent City
Album.......: Continue Normal Living
Label.......: Homing Instinct Records
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: HI001
Source......: CDR
Rip.date....: 2020-11-18
Str.date....: 2020-10-09
Quality.....: 800 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://absentcity.bandcamp.com
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1. Inner World 4:42
2. California Afternoons 4:54
3. Ticker Tape Parade 3:48
4. Tomorrow 5:03
5. Beam of Light 3:47
6. Empire Line 3:41
7. No Harm 4:12
8. Modern Art 5:14
9. Solid Ground 3:59
10. Strike 4:30
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,: Absent CityÆs debut full-length, Continue Normal Living, is an :,
: album of tender dreams and precarious schemes. In glimmering, :
:' intricate guitar pop that brings to mind Yo La Tengo, Luna, the ':
,: Clientele, Electrelane, or the Go-Betweens, the record reveals :,
: itself to be many things at once: prophecy and lament, :
:' declaration of hope and survey of self-limitation, a course ':
,: toward an inscrutable future and a spotty odyssey of unexpected :,
: return. :
:' ':
,: In 2014, following the fracture of his Brooklyn dream pop band, :,
: Tiger Dare, Bay Area native Henry Freedland found himself :
:' generally wrecked: working an impossible job, romantically ':
,: marooned, isolated by anxious inaction. But late at night in his :,
: tiny apartment, he kept writing music that sought answers amid :
:' chaos. Songs about fighting anhedonia and dizzying insomnia and ':
,: financial despair and a sense of abject failure. About imposter :,
: syndrome (ôfor years IÆve tried / to feel normal in their eyes / :
:' so IÆll fake it fine tonight,ö in ôBeam of Lightö) and a ':
,: heartsick experience of a cruelly inequitable world (ôthe terms :,
: of love / with the lands IÆm of / have torn apart,ö per ôSolid :
:' Groundö). ':
,: :,
: Soon Freedland joined with drummer Liz Maynes-Aminzade and :
:' bassist Sam Bloch to realize these songs and more as Absent ':
,: City. LifeÆs promises slowly fell into repair, tooùhe fell in :,
: love, got engagedùbringing an uplift to the scene, a refound :
:' sense of wonder and possibility. ':
,: :,
: In 2018, the band began recording at BrooklynÆs Four Foot :
:' Studios with Tiger Dare engineer and producer Gabriel Galvin, a ':
,: maestro of warm atmospherics. Late-night session by session, the :,
: album emerged, as Maynes-AminzadeÆs expressive percussion and :
:' BlochÆs scooping bass lines shored up interwoven layers of ':
,: dreamy guitars and lush arrangements full of organ, strings, :,
: woodwinds, and more. With Galvin at the helm, the songs took :
:' dynamic formùbuilding and retracting and then building back ':
,: again twice as strong, earning their roiling bridges, bounding :,
: solos, and outros of thundering, grand release. :
:' ':
,: Then, as recording sessions neared completion, life again began :,
: leading Freedland to new places. He and his wife found out they :
:' were expecting their first child. They began planning to move ':
,: back westward, to Oakland. And all of a sudden, it became clear :,
: this was the story the record had been foretelling all along. :
:' Notice had been lying in wait on songs of imagined plans, ':
,: frantic escapes, journeys from city to fields of greenùon the :,
: woozy, half-speed, surf-at-night anthem ôCalifornia Afternoons.ö :
:' ôIÆve been searching for a future me,ö Freedland sings on that ':
,: track, ôheÆs been dreaming of his past with you.ö :,
: :
:' So itÆs only fitting that Continue Normal Living should be the ':
,: first release of new Bay Area collective label Homing Instinct :,
: Records. It is, after all, an album that gives the sense of :
:' somehow being nostalgic for tomorrow, a record of putting the ':
,: pieces back together and finding they were more than they :,
: seemedùa new old endeavor from a strange familiar place. :
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