Corey Flood Announce Debut Album Hanging Garden Out September 4th !
Fire Talk is excited to announce the debut record from Corey Flood entitled Hanging Garden Out September 4th on the label. Inspired by Throwing Muses, Helium, Pale Saints, and Brix Smith-Start’s work with the Fall, Hanging Garden reflects “a reckoning with internal discord.” From the surface, its nine tracks appear to break through the dark fog of Wish You Hadn’t, 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.
Today you can hear lead track “Heaven Or” and pre order the record on limited edition light pink vinyl below. Gray-Klein says of the track "This song touches on themes that ripple throughout the album, like getting stuck in cyclical thoughts and struggling to articulate emotions. There was a period when I was disassociating a lot and just felt so numb and passive to everything happening around me. To try and counteract this I experimented with reckless choices just to try and feel something or "wake myself up,"which was really at odds with my natural inclination towards caution. The refrain "I know what I saw" is a sort of an internal monologue in the face of others' shifting narratives. It's an affirmation to myself that my experience is real, my knowledge can be trusted, I know what I saw”
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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
