"I am nothing new but I'm out of view, out on display down to my D.N.A..."
The organ bathed 'Garbage Time' from Brooklyn based Attics moves like a 60's slow robotic waltz at a Sadie Hawkins dance where the boys wear their dads stoic suits. At least that is what I see in my head. Attics is the very melancholy experimental explorations of singer-songwriter, producer Meir Hamilton and his musical cohorts. Meir not only has a particular way of singing that sounds at once self reflective, acerbic, sometimes self deprecating (as he does here) and like a silent observer on society at large. Always a smart observer who will sometimes draw from historical perspectives and surreal ones, his words can feel metaphorical when they're not and vice versa. I always, always get drawn into his lyrical webs.
Done up straight, the music here with it's doo wop nature could be Chicano Batman but under the pink and blue lights of Attic's emotionally aloof aesthetic it feels mush weirder (and wonderful) like an amalgam of artist's like the aforementioned CB, Porches and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
Meir shares:
[A self-deprecating waltz, Garbage Time explores the shallowness of a life lived for public consumption. Spectral organ riffs float over an insistent 6/8 drum and bass vamp. The chorus layers in electronic drums and synthesized arpeggios while the vocals issue a resigned warning: “Hold your nose it’s garbage time / And I’m a garbage man.”]
His multi-leveled singular point is well taken, I feel like I am swiping through garbage on a daily basis when I somehow become a zombie flipping through Intagram reels while coffee is brewing. It is like I can't fucking stop and I feel so stupid for it.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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A group of friends who met in summer camp as the house band for a musical about Woodstock 1969, the members of Brooklyn-based Attics have been making music together for decades. In 2013, they released Time Is Falling, their first record as Attics. Since then they have continued to sporadically release music into the digital ether with little pomp and even less circumstance. Drawing inspiration from Brazilian Tropicalia, British Invasion, NYC art rock, and early electronic music, Attics makes music you can sing along to if you don’t mind odd lyrics and the occasional glockenspiel.
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