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Friday, August 7, 2020

Stablemate on the emotional and tempo shifting "San Francisco"












"cutting holes in our chests"

Stablemate as a musical outfit and family has had their share of dysfunction, however mild, that fueled a separation. Comprised, at it's core of musicians / songwriters Conor Larson and Mitch Gilbert, the two went their separate ways after years of making music together with Conor enlisting in the Navy and Mitch off to college to pursue a business degree. 

More years passed and Mitch would receive rough demos from Conor recorded on his IPhone while deployed in the Persion Gulf. Mitch would shun the corporate life after school and set off on an adventure driving his 4Runner from Seattle, Washington to Argentina. All the while more demos would arrive in his email and end up blaring through the speakers of that 4Runner as he trekked about. Those demos have become the songs that Stablemate have fully realized after adding Anna who adds her beautiful vox and Daniel who glues the songs down with his drumming.

San Francisco is one of those songs on display on their first full length called "Shapeless". The track has a folk lilt and indie rock movements that rush and slow down at the right moments. Conor's vox, pristine and driven, soar at unexpected times. The track is sort of indie pop forward but with bedroom pop affections making it feel cross genre'd, catering to emotional shifts (and time shifts) all at once. At one point, as the track literally takes off in a full folk indie ascension and feels so anthemic along the way, I find myself happy that those demo songs were sent from so far away. 

-Robb Donker Curtius












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Thank you for checking out our music. Feels quite insane to know that someone out there could be listening. Been holding onto these records for some time now...just nervous to ever put it out there.

My deepest hope is that it makes you feel something. Growing up as kids, music used to hit like an emotional tidal wave. I think we’ve spent our whole lives just trying to unlock, excavate, and harness just a fraction of that.

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