"feel something inside my soul / a version of me / I think I know..."
Oh yes, the heaviness. Fucking heavy, HEAVY, yet dreamy music. There is nothing like it for restarting the existential computer in your head. Not the politico feargach punk pummel kind of heavy or the brain numbing demon conjuring heaviness of sludge metal but, instead, the dreamy heaviness with some level of a shoegazey aesthetic, that kind of heaviness. The kind that has vox with harmonies, maybe girl / boy, maybe high register / low register somewhat buried instead the haze where you have to eagerly pick the lyrical gems like apples and deal with those lyrics and the meaning of them later. The kind of heaviness when the high hat is never clamped down tight but sweetly swishy and the guitar sound comes courtesy of a Big Muff distortion pedal and not just any BM but a Big Muff Pi V4 and then quite possibly doubled up in the mix. The kind of heaviness that feels darkly romantic like misunderstood youth or youth lost. The kind of heaviness that feels like a coarse emotional loofah sponge to wipe your body clean of all the muck you are dealing with leaving a stinging sunburn on your skin.
LINER NOTES (bracketed):
['Graduate' is our leading single accompanying the release EP LEMON FICTION, which came out in full on May 8th. New territory for CASP, the EP was written primarily on acoustic guitar (to start) with an idea of exploring current feelings and themes in CASP's life and projecting them onto somewhat fictional scenarios. Graduate thematically captures the rush and anxiety of a big change: the vacillation between feeling things are impossible and also totally open, but no matter the feeling, a need to move forward. In many ways the track mirrors CASP's own desires and dreams to move forward musically. Accompanying these feelings are a wall of sound and stream of conscious lyrics that we hope nudge the boundaries typically found in the shoe gaze genre.]
['Graduate' is our leading single accompanying the release EP LEMON FICTION, which came out in full on May 8th. New territory for CASP, the EP was written primarily on acoustic guitar (to start) with an idea of exploring current feelings and themes in CASP's life and projecting them onto somewhat fictional scenarios. Graduate thematically captures the rush and anxiety of a big change: the vacillation between feeling things are impossible and also totally open, but no matter the feeling, a need to move forward. In many ways the track mirrors CASP's own desires and dreams to move forward musically. Accompanying these feelings are a wall of sound and stream of conscious lyrics that we hope nudge the boundaries typically found in the shoe gaze genre.]
After at least a dozen listens I feel so clean.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://conflictatserenitypools.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/casp__88/
Conflict at Serenity Pools, or CASP for short, is from Venice Beach California and resides in Los Angeles, with a few collaborators elsewhere.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://conflictatserenitypools.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/casp__88/
Conflict at Serenity Pools, or CASP for short, is from Venice Beach California and resides in Los Angeles, with a few collaborators elsewhere.
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