"why are you standing here?"
Cleveland, Ohio alt rock band Timeless Brides existed once upon a time (and forever). The track Nervous Summer from their just released self titled "EP" is from songs that were committed to tape back in 2012 and is a trippy song that feels like an amalgam of garden rock, country, psyche rock and a genre that might not even exist like hippie punk. However you want to describe it, it is smile inducing. The lovely bending picking chords, the surprising spins while dancing and Sammy Sizemore's vocal aesthetic that feels excruciatingly artful, pained and high at the same time (I fucking love it). This is the same guy who considers this EP as unfinished and as he puts it "a stain on an objectively great band.”
Personally, I like stains and scars for that matter. Very cool, interesting track that makes me wish the band had not dissolved some time ago. Oh yeah, I had left that part out but they live on in this record. "EP", production wise, feels a bit uneven in terms of fidelity but not uninspired, not at all. Salt Of Her Sweat has the same kind of twisted psyche folk art rock tones that I have not felt since MGMT's first studio album, Oracular Spectacular. The last song, Sheets Covering Truth Unsuspecting, is mind bending and interesting. It feels like the vox are a bit buried but that doesn't matter really. This entire collection of songs feel kind of buried too, like some special unearthed gems to revel in.
Timeless Brides were Sammy Sizemore, (Guitar/Vocals), Malcolm Regan (Guitar/Vocals), Matt Green (Drums) and
Sargent Regardsman (Bass).
The Timeless Brides’ self-titled EP will be released as a 7” on Flavour Rite Foods Records on 19 June 2020 after lying in wait for many years. It is currently available for pre-order at https://timelessbrides.bandcamp.com
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Timeless Brides were a band from Cleveland, Ohio during the late 2000s/early 2010s who wrote songs to investigate, process, and destroy emotions that no one wanted because they didn’t make any sense. The band had and needed no scene but themselves and those who happened to be within earshot. Their only recorded work was put to tape during the disquietingly warm winter of 2011/2012. Beyond this work being merely a collection of recorded songs, it is documentation of human beings acting as surrogate to the higher whims of the moment; the band had earned the universe’s respect such that it trusted its own fleeting, impossible sentiments to sound through them. The single bout of snow that year had a dank, eerie, sea-watery aroma. Eventually, Timeless Brides dissolved as mysteriously as they coagulated. All the winters are like this now.
The Timeless Brides’ self-titled EP manifests an authentic amalgam of the youthful alternative of the ‘90s, the lo-fi magic that makes good punk good, and the subtly perfumed sleaze that permeates the misogynistic romance of early ‘60s love songs. Until recently, the EP was considered unfinished by most of the group and is still considered by the Brides’ own Sammy Sizemore to be a “stain on an objectively great band.” However, it should be no surprise to anyone at all that a band—objectively great—could have a stain on it that is really fucking good. Great bands are great and stains are cool.
“Will I like this EP?”, you ask?
- If you have a deep appreciation for well-crafted songwriter-y songs and also like what used to happen to punk albums after they were dubbed, redubbed, and redubbed again as they were traded by the grubby hands of drug-addled youths, you already do like this EP.
- If you take naps just to get those weird pre-nap psychic baby feelings, but also manage to successfully project the image and aura of a complete hard-ass when you leave the house, you will like this EP very much.
- If you daydream about violence when alone but are, in social situations, preoccupied with coming off as reserved and polite, I gotta feeling you gonna likey, my fren.
If you whimpered “Why yes, that IS me!” and a single tear fell from your eye while reading the above statements, then yes, not only will you like this EP, but liking it – and owning it – will accessorize your identity tastefully.
Flavour Rite Foods Records – The end is not nigh; the end was a while ago.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Timeless Brides were a band from Cleveland, Ohio during the late 2000s/early 2010s who wrote songs to investigate, process, and destroy emotions that no one wanted because they didn’t make any sense. The band had and needed no scene but themselves and those who happened to be within earshot. Their only recorded work was put to tape during the disquietingly warm winter of 2011/2012. Beyond this work being merely a collection of recorded songs, it is documentation of human beings acting as surrogate to the higher whims of the moment; the band had earned the universe’s respect such that it trusted its own fleeting, impossible sentiments to sound through them. The single bout of snow that year had a dank, eerie, sea-watery aroma. Eventually, Timeless Brides dissolved as mysteriously as they coagulated. All the winters are like this now.
The Timeless Brides’ self-titled EP manifests an authentic amalgam of the youthful alternative of the ‘90s, the lo-fi magic that makes good punk good, and the subtly perfumed sleaze that permeates the misogynistic romance of early ‘60s love songs. Until recently, the EP was considered unfinished by most of the group and is still considered by the Brides’ own Sammy Sizemore to be a “stain on an objectively great band.” However, it should be no surprise to anyone at all that a band—objectively great—could have a stain on it that is really fucking good. Great bands are great and stains are cool.
“Will I like this EP?”, you ask?
- If you have a deep appreciation for well-crafted songwriter-y songs and also like what used to happen to punk albums after they were dubbed, redubbed, and redubbed again as they were traded by the grubby hands of drug-addled youths, you already do like this EP.
- If you take naps just to get those weird pre-nap psychic baby feelings, but also manage to successfully project the image and aura of a complete hard-ass when you leave the house, you will like this EP very much.
- If you daydream about violence when alone but are, in social situations, preoccupied with coming off as reserved and polite, I gotta feeling you gonna likey, my fren.
If you whimpered “Why yes, that IS me!” and a single tear fell from your eye while reading the above statements, then yes, not only will you like this EP, but liking it – and owning it – will accessorize your identity tastefully.
Flavour Rite Foods Records – The end is not nigh; the end was a while ago.
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