I’m bored. we're all bored. we wrote and recorded a song during this boring time. Here is exactly what it sounds like as a waveform. It's about falling in love and not knowing exactly how to say it yet. This concept of shared love-'you say you love me but what does that mean?' It's like...does love mean the same thing to both of us? Can it ever entirely mean the same thing, being different people who experience life so differently? Maybe that's why they invented the 5 love languages, to reconcile with these little differences in how we give and take and feel love? Maybe this expression that you're listening to now is as close to an understanding of love as anything else. Everything on this track is the first take, meaning we only recorded each part once. It was home recorded, right after SXSW was called off by the covid. It was meant to be a demo and then we were like...actually this sounds more genuine than it would if we just sat in a studio and hacked away at different takes, trying to make it perfect. The result is organic and cage free, but may contain soy and tree nuts.

'Fury was inspired by acknowledging a suppressed crush, and how scary and exciting that can be. Confronting that truth is the most important thing, despite the difficulties, I definitely learned that the hard way. It feels like our most unhinged song yet, I think you can really get that energy from the layers of guitars and doubled bass line.

I wrote the chord progression for Fury during a soundcheck, feeling pretty pent up after a long drive and wanting something entertaining to play. The lyrics also got written in one go right after we recorded the drums, bass, and guitar tracks, so it feels really untampered with to me. Now that I think of it, the synth hook also happened spontaneously while we were recording, with no rehearsed part written. It's nice to have a song tumble out into the world like you're throwing dice, just seeing what you'll get. That's the general life strategy for Mamalarky lately!!!

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Inspired by Throwing Muses, Helium, Pale Saints, and Brix Smith-Start’s work with the Fall, Hanging Garden, the debut album from Philadelphia based Corey Flood  reflects “a reckoning with internal discord.” From the surface, its nine tracks appear to break through the dark fog of the Wish You Hadn’t EP, but just below lay themes of ambivalence, uncertainty, and anxiety, layered elegantly in fuzz. Soft melodies, lush guitars, and churning rhythms shroud relatable tales of gaslighting and self-doubt. Playful surprises also abound, like 70s krautrock guitar work and samba-influenced drum parts. 

On the trance-inducing “Slow Bleeder,” Gray-Klein’s chronic anemia becomes a metaphor for her fear of getting too close to people. "Bands of light cross my room at night / drinking my own poison again,” she sings on the intimate and delicate “Park Deli 7.” As she experimented with writing lyrics for the very first time, Gray-Klein found herself “stuck on a lot of self-destructive, cyclical thinking.” Hanging Garden was recorded at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia, PA by Jackie Milestone, mixed by Natasha Jacobs and mastered by Sarah Register and will be out September 4th 2020 on Fire Talk.

1st Pressing
300 Light Pink Vinyl
200 Black Vinyl