: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Cut Worms : Album.......: Hollow Ground : : Label.......: Jagjaguwar .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: JAG310 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2018-05-24 Str.date....: 2018-05-04 Quality.....: 256kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://cutworms.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. How It Can Be 3:36 2. Coward's Confidence 3:36 3. Don't Want to Say Good-bye 2:51 4. It Won't Be Too Long 3:17 5. Till Tomorrow Goes Away 4:22 6. Like Going Down Sideways 5:24 7. Think I Might Be in Love 4:21 8. Cash for Gold 3:35 9. Hanging Your Picture Up to Dry 3:05 10. Mad About You 4:02 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 38:09 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 73.77 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Despite a .300 batting average and a 63 mph curveball from the :, : mound, Cut WormsÆ Max Clarke was the black sheep of his : :' baseball-centric, Midwestern family. He was drawn to the ': ,: creative shadows, drawn to the basement 4-track and late nights :, : in the art studio as much as he was the dugout. He had a born : :' knack for conjuring warm sounds and fine images. His songs in ': ,: particular crackle with the heat of a love-struck nostalgia: :, : golden threads of storytelling, like visceral memories, woven : :' together with a palpable Everly BrothersÆ influence and 50s/60s ': ,: naivetΘ. But the kid still has a pretty mean curve. Like one of :, : his creative pillars David Lynch, Clarke's songs and artwork are : :' also curveballs with a curious underbelly. ': ,: :, : A Cut Worms song may impress an innocent summer stroll across : :' fields of tall grass and lavender ù but thereÆs undoubtedly a ': ,: severed ear out in there in the grass. Some unseen dark forces :, : are always lurking at the edges of songs' sunbursts. Bright, : :' beautiful lap steel or a cheery harmonica accompaniment often ': ,: belie an impending doom or crestfallen narrator. :, : : :' Clarke didnÆt necessarily seek out a life as fulltime musician. ': ,: Before releasing music under the moniker of Cut Worms, Clarke :, : went to school for illustration with the idea of a sensible : :' career in graphic design, then took on a string of handy-man ': ,: type odd jobs. Still, songwriting û that semi-secret practice :, : Clarke had been cultivating since the age of 12 û kept gnawing : :' at him. It was the only sort of work that didnÆt feel like ': ,: work. Plus, if thereÆs ever a time to do something as :, : unreliable, unrealistic, and imprudent as throwing yourself : :' wholly into music, might as well be done when youÆre in your ': ,: twenties. :, : : :' A number of songs that make up his LP, Hollow Ground, bloomed ': ,: from his time in Chicago during period of driven creativity. In :, : particular, ôLike Going Down Sidewaysö and ôDonÆt Want To Say : :' Good-Byeö find new life on Hollow Ground, polished from their ': ,: initial appearances on Cut WormsÆ 2017 introductory Alien Sunset :, : EP. Both still fizzle with a lo-fi 60s sound, but cleaned up, : :' they gleam. ': ,: :, : The remainder of Hollow Ground was written in ClarkeÆs current : :' home in Brooklyn, where he still home-demos songs. The record ': ,: was recorded partially in Los Angeles at the home studio of :, : FoxygenÆs Jonathan Rado, and partially in New York with Jason : :' Finkel at GaryÆs Electric. Clarke, who plays keyboards, bass, ': ,: and lap steel in addition to his main guitar, handled most of :, : the instrumentation across the set. He explains heÆs always : :' strove toward a specific musical aesthetic, and Hollow Ground ': ,: marks the closest heÆs gotten to hitting it thus far. :, : : :' Hollow Ground is imbued with a sharp, self-aware lyricism; as ': ,: strong as the music is here, Clarke shows an affinity for :, : evocative storytelling, striking the balance between cerebral : :' and simplicity. Look no further than the chiming, rollicking ': ,: standout ôCash For Gold.ö For a song with so much sock hop :, : energy, itÆs actually about being trapped in oneÆs introvert : :' head ù stuck on the couch or against the wall at the edges of ': ,: the dance floor. :, : : :' Sometimes, on Hollow Ground, we find characters impossibly ': ,: lustful, sometimes brooding, while in other parts they fumble :, : along, hopeful and painfully self-aware. If the music can be : :' said to have any sort of through-line, it revolves around ': ,: ClarkeÆs obvious delight in singing his heart out through :, : varying degrees of agony. His songwriting both evokes and : :' explores the raw realm of youth, its weightlessness and ': ,: possibilities, but channels it through the lens of someone more :, : restrained, whoÆs been through it all before. Someone whoÆs old : :' enough to know better but still gets drawn back in to the ': ,: romanticism of teenage feelings û and knows how to take the :, : listener along, too. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / 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 1 8 \/