: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Absent City : Album.......: Continue Normal Living : : Label.......: Homing Instinct Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: HI001 . ' Source......: CDR , ; Rip.date....: 2020-11-18 Str.date....: 2020-10-09 Quality.....: 250kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://absentcity.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Inner World 4:42 2. California Afternoons 4:54 3. Ticker Tape Parade 3:48 4. Tomorrow 5:03 5. Beam of Light 3:47 6. Empire Line 3:41 7. No Harm 4:12 8. Modern Art 5:14 9. Solid Ground 3:59 10. Strike 4:30 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 43:50 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 82.71 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Absent CityÆs debut full-length, Continue Normal Living, is an :, : album of tender dreams and precarious schemes. In glimmering, : :' intricate guitar pop that brings to mind Yo La Tengo, Luna, the ': ,: Clientele, Electrelane, or the Go-Betweens, the record reveals :, : itself to be many things at once: prophecy and lament, : :' declaration of hope and survey of self-limitation, a course ': ,: toward an inscrutable future and a spotty odyssey of unexpected :, : return. : :' ': ,: In 2014, following the fracture of his Brooklyn dream pop band, :, : Tiger Dare, Bay Area native Henry Freedland found himself : :' generally wrecked: working an impossible job, romantically ': ,: marooned, isolated by anxious inaction. But late at night in his :, : tiny apartment, he kept writing music that sought answers amid : :' chaos. Songs about fighting anhedonia and dizzying insomnia and ': ,: financial despair and a sense of abject failure. About imposter :, : syndrome (ôfor years IÆve tried / to feel normal in their eyes / : :' so IÆll fake it fine tonight,ö in ôBeam of Lightö) and a ': ,: heartsick experience of a cruelly inequitable world (ôthe terms :, : of love / with the lands IÆm of / have torn apart,ö per ôSolid : :' Groundö). ': ,: :, : Soon Freedland joined with drummer Liz Maynes-Aminzade and : :' bassist Sam Bloch to realize these songs and more as Absent ': ,: City. LifeÆs promises slowly fell into repair, tooùhe fell in :, : love, got engagedùbringing an uplift to the scene, a refound : :' sense of wonder and possibility. ': ,: :, : In 2018, the band began recording at BrooklynÆs Four Foot : :' Studios with Tiger Dare engineer and producer Gabriel Galvin, a ': ,: maestro of warm atmospherics. Late-night session by session, the :, : album emerged, as Maynes-AminzadeÆs expressive percussion and : :' BlochÆs scooping bass lines shored up interwoven layers of ': ,: dreamy guitars and lush arrangements full of organ, strings, :, : woodwinds, and more. With Galvin at the helm, the songs took : :' dynamic formùbuilding and retracting and then building back ': ,: again twice as strong, earning their roiling bridges, bounding :, : solos, and outros of thundering, grand release. : :' ': ,: Then, as recording sessions neared completion, life again began :, : leading Freedland to new places. He and his wife found out they : :' were expecting their first child. They began planning to move ': ,: back westward, to Oakland. And all of a sudden, it became clear :, : this was the story the record had been foretelling all along. : :' Notice had been lying in wait on songs of imagined plans, ': ,: frantic escapes, journeys from city to fields of greenùon the :, : woozy, half-speed, surf-at-night anthem ôCalifornia Afternoons.ö : :' ôIÆve been searching for a future me,ö Freedland sings on that ': ,: track, ôheÆs been dreaming of his past with you.ö :, : : :' So itÆs only fitting that Continue Normal Living should be the ': ,: first release of new Bay Area collective label Homing Instinct :, : Records. It is, after all, an album that gives the sense of : :' somehow being nostalgic for tomorrow, a record of putting the ': ,: pieces back together and finding they were more than they :, : seemedùa new old endeavor from a strange familiar place. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/