Patio Share B Side "Reality State" From "Essentials" Sessions

Today Patio share a B Side entitled "Reality State" from the "Essentials" sessions. The New York City group (Alice Suh, Lindsey-Paige McCloy, Loren DiBlasi) have crafted a signature sound of minimal post-punk that radiates throughout their debut record and this cut while not making the record serves to close the door on Patio's "Essentials" & opens a new one for new music in 2020. 

Here's what the band has to say on the track...

"Reality State" takes its title from a long and winding conversation with a cab driver on my way to band practice about his previous life selling real estate in Dubai and all of the artifice that accompanied it - fake names, glamorous backstories, renting a Rolex for an hour to wear to the client meeting to help seal the deal.  Due to some sort of linguistic mix-up, he used the beautiful and compelling phrase "reality state" instead of "real estate" throughout his 23-minute Wild West tale.

This song is the older cousin of "New Reality" from Essentials and presents a different take on the cognitive dissonance of living in a world on fire.  "Reality State" is more concerned with personal dynamics - identity construction and performance, building and maintaining connection, and making space for worry about small and big things at the same time.  It's a snapshot of summer 2016-era simmering discomfort.   As we dive into writing more and more new material, we're releasing this remaining track from the 2017 Essentials sessions as a bookend or a final celebratory balloon."

Tour Dates: 
12.31 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory *
01.17 - Los Angeles @ Hi Hat
01.19 - San Francisco @ The Laundry

* w/ Cloud Nothings