"Hope he finds you between the crosswalk lines / And wants to buy you clementines / In the rain / What a shame not to make it down from that island where your family’s at..."
Sometimes when I hear a brand new song that, for whatever reason, taps me on the shoulder or slaps me across the face, I have odd flashes, something between an epiphany or my musical life flashing before my eyes. I think it is the way I am wired after writing about so much new indie music since 2009. Trust falling into the dense beauty of "Clementines", the debut single and video of Brooklyn's beloved Ancient History's current new album "Zero Dollar Consolation Prize", and I am smiling broadly, taken aback by the sadly wistful glows of sounds that cause those aforementioned sonic flashes to blind me like light through tree branches.
There are many such flashes but the most prominent is a synaptic spark, an amalgam of "Let Down" by Radiohead and Los Campesinos!' "What Death Leaves Behind", not in a direct way mind you but in the feelings I get, the flutters in the stomach as I am smitten by "Clementines". In this way, the track feels cast in 90's amber and I adore that.
The all important LINER NOTES (bracketed):
[Ahead of the new album, on Feb. 23, Ancient History has released the debut track and accompanying music video for "Clementines" — a melancholic love song about accepting goodbyes and the changes that accompany them. Taking place at the end of a relationship, the subject finds himself reflecting upon his early-life move to NYC, when the world felt full of possibility, as his now ex prepares to embark on her own journey to The Big Apple years later.]
[In the spirit of looking back fondly on things that once were, "Clementines" features dreamy vocals, fluttering synths and great guitar work from Pittsburgh's Dane Adelman all recorded via an '90s-era ADAT.]
Hope he finds you between the crosswalk lines
And wants to buy you clementines
In the rain
What a shame not to make it down from that island where your family’s at
And stay up late
Stay up late
I guess I was your lover just the same
Hope you’re ordering champagne on a patio
At a cafe, the morning after, with your man
I hope that he understands
Your fragile heart, your fragile heart
And wants to buy you clementines
In the rain
What a shame not to make it down from that island where your family’s at
And stay up late
Stay up late
I guess I was your lover just the same
Hope you’re ordering champagne on a patio
At a cafe, the morning after, with your man
I hope that he understands
Your fragile heart, your fragile heart
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/_ancienthistory/
https://www.facebook.com/AncientHistoryPGH/
https://ancient-history.bandcamp.com/
https://ffm.bio/n34k1b2
Ancient History is the brainchild of Pittsburgh artist and musician Don Ducote, whose music connects effect-driven, lo-fi experimentation to straightforward songs rooted in tried-and-true indie sensibility. The artist made waves with early LPs Tracks (2013) and Good Friend Electrical (2017), earning accolades in MAGNET Magazine, No Depression, AltSounds, IMPOSE Magazine and more. In 2024, Ducote returns with his third LP, Zero Dollar Consolation Prize, set for release March 15, 2024.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/_ancienthistory/
https://www.facebook.com/AncientHistoryPGH/
https://ancient-history.bandcamp.com/
https://ffm.bio/n34k1b2
Ancient History is the brainchild of Pittsburgh artist and musician Don Ducote, whose music connects effect-driven, lo-fi experimentation to straightforward songs rooted in tried-and-true indie sensibility. The artist made waves with early LPs Tracks (2013) and Good Friend Electrical (2017), earning accolades in MAGNET Magazine, No Depression, AltSounds, IMPOSE Magazine and more. In 2024, Ducote returns with his third LP, Zero Dollar Consolation Prize, set for release March 15, 2024.
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