ILL PEACH - 'THIS IS NOT AN EXIT'

Formats

• HAR171 - LP (COLOURED)

  098787317107

• HAR171CD - CD

  098787317121

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**First Pressing on Blue Curacao Coloured Vinyl**Here’s the thing about ill peach: this band exists because they are too weird to not exist. The seed of ill peach was first planted in the recording studios of New York City where Pat Morrissey and Jess Corazza were working together as professional songwriters, collaborating with artists like Icona Pop, SZA, Weezer, Pharrell, Big Freedia, and others. Then came the day they were offered their own publishing deal. Cool, right? Well, about that: “Everyone kept saying, ‘The stuff that you’re writing is slightly too left-of-center—weirdo stuff,” remembers Morrissey. “Why don’t you start your own project?” Thus ill peach, a pop band with a punk streak and a taste for both the rotten and the sweet, with an approach to making music that goes something like: “Do you want to pick up a guitar and do you want to be on this water jug and we’ll record it on the iPhone and create some weird drum pattern?” Following a series of well-received EPs on their own Pop Can Records (a record label and artist collective Morrissey and close collaborator Jesse Schuster run with friends), a digital single for Hardly Art’s 15th anniversary series, and some colorful music videos that crystallized the band’s visual aesthetic along with their sound, ill peach’s “weirdo stuff” comes to fruition on first full-length THIS IS NOT AN EXIT: a collection of anthemic songs built out of bright pop and gritty experimental elements (Morrissey names the sculptural use of distortion on the final albums by Low as an inspiration), punctuated with hooky choruses ready to be screamed along to in the safety of your own bedroom or with a bunch of friends at one of ill peach’s intense live shows. If ill peach first blossomed in New York, it took quarantine in Los Angeles for the project to ripen. The end of the world turned out to be what ill peach needed to get real with themselves. “It helped us creatively to zone in and removed us from the [industry] side of things to where we could just be like: this is our new identity, let's jump with both feet.” THIS IS NOT AN EXIT’s title is a reflection of something Corazza realized during a period of personal and familial crises. “I kept walking into buildings and I’d try to exit somewhere and the sign would be like, ‘This is not an exit,’” she says. “It just felt like a metaphor for a hopeful thing—don't give up yet.” This combination of hope and anxiety is all over THIS IS NOT AN EXIT, reflected in a sonic palette (Alternative! Electronica! Indie! Radio pop! Coldplay!) as eclectic as it is unpretentious. Ultimately, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT is a record about healing, a process often spoken about in New Age-y terms but one that in reality can be really confusing and, yes, weird. But it is the beautiful strangeness of being alive that ill peach capture so well on THIS IS NOT AN EXIT. 

Tracks

1. BLOOM
2. BLAH BLAH BLAH
3. TORNADO WEATHER
4. HUSH
5. CAPILLARY BED
6. 17
7. SOFT (intermission)
8. HEAD FULL OF HOLES
9. SOUR LIKE LEMONADE
10. THIS IS NOT AN EXIT
11. COLLIDING
12. HEAVYWEIGHT
13. SIGH

Press

Corazza and Morrissey have worked with Icona Pop, SZA, Weezer, Pharrell, Big Freedia, and more.

Audio & Video

PAT PATTERSON - 'MOST REQUESTED COUNTRY SONGS'

Formats

• SMR003 - LP

  7350107320345

Details

Just over ten seconds in, Most Requested Country Songs sets itself apart. It’s quickly clear this is an album with its own flavour, one placing country music archetypes in a fresh setting. It’s the voice which hits home so soon after the record begins. Keening and lilting yet melodic, with a passion belying an ease of delivery. The vocal edge is a little like that of Willie Nelson, and the music has a honky-tonk forthrightness. Above all, an intensity telegraphs sincerity. Yet Pat Patterson’s March 1969 album slipped between the cracks. Original copies barely ever come up for sale. When they do, they are instantly bought. Awareness of its distinctiveness isn’t widespread, but this first-ever reissue will amend that. Sweden’s Sweet Mental Revenge Records -who previously gave you the highly acclaimed Rodger Wilhoit and Richard Gibbs deluxe reissues- now set full focus on Pat Patterson. Hardcore honky-tonk rarely hits harder or comes finer than on original tracks like “Wait Just A Minute” or “Life Can Go On With A Heartache”. “She’s Not You” will instantly make you hit honky tonk hardwood floor while Pat Patterson’s take on “See The Big Man Cry” is monumental sadness. This magnificent album is as American as the music in its grooves – booze, pills, hate and aggression. In the extensive liner notes the full story of Pat Patterson is finally revealed. Deluxe packaging and remastering – no expenses saved – in true Sweet Mental Revenge style

Tracks

1. I?ll Walk Alone
2. It?s Such A Pretty World
3. Wait Just A Minute
4. Touch My Heart
5. Take Me Home
6. She?s Not You
Sid B
1. The Fugitive
2. Life Can Go On With A Heartache
3. See The Big Man Cry
4. You Gave Me Your Hand
5. Streets Of Baltimore
6. Release Me

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