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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Kalbells - Max Heart ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Kalbells ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Max Heart ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Synthpop CAT#....[ NNA135 ████ ████ LABEL...[ NNA Tapes ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 38:07 REL.DATE[ 04.11.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 10 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 87,45 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Red Marker 03:29 ████ ████ 02 Flute Windows Open in the Rain 02:56 ████ ████ 03 Purplepink 04:16 ████ ████ 04 Poppy Tree 03:30 ████ ████ 05 Hump the Beach 04:11 ████ ████ 06 Pickles 03:51 ████ ████ 07 Bubbles 03:56 ████ ████ 08 Big Lake 04:08 ████ ████ 09 Diagram of Me Sleeping 03:43 ████ ████ 10 Max Heart 04:07 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 38:07 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://kalbells.bandcamp.com/album/max-heart ████ ████ ████ ████ KalbellsÆs sophomore album Max Heart opens with ████ ████ the process of regeneration. ôIÆm rotting and ████ ████ IÆm never coming back the way you knew me ████ ████ then,ö Kalmia Traver sings with a combination ████ ████ of buoyancy and resilience on the opener ôRed ████ ████ Marker.ö From the beginning, Max Heart is an ████ ████ illustration of death and rebirth; letting go ████ ████ of what doesnÆt serve us in order to leave ████ ████ space for the blessings that do. With Max Heart ████ ████ as their next chapter, central to Kalbells work ████ ████ is the process of creativity giving space for ████ ████ vulnerability and radicalismûcontinually ████ ████ practicing decolonization work and fighting ████ ████ against white supremacist, heternormative, and ████ ████ patriarchal models. Take their pre-show vocal ████ ████ improv practice of tintinnabulation (introduced ████ ████ by sometimes-drummer and honorary member Dandy ████ ████ McDowell) which Traver explains is ômore about ████ ████ listening than it is about vocalizing; it's ████ ████ more about creating that ecosystem together of ████ ████ trust and respect and interplay and play and ████ ████ joy. I think that that practice is definitely ████ ████ at the center of our work together.ö Angelica ████ ████ Bess, Zoδ Brecher, Sarah Pedinotti and Traver ████ ████ used this collection of ten tracks to embody ████ ████ prosperity and reciprocity. ████ ████ ████ ████ Kalbells began as a side project for Traver, ████ ████ who also contributes to the joyous, rocking ████ ████ chaos of Rubblebucket. Three years after the ████ ████ debut album Ten Flowers, a more ambient ████ ████ invocation of untapped self-creativity, the ████ ████ sophomore LP was designed to maximize the ████ ████ synergy that Bess, Brecher, Pedinotti, and ████ ████ Traver manifest. Over the course of 2019, ████ ████ Traver planned several week-long intervals of ████ ████ writing a song a day, and, surprising herself, ████ ████ she was writing a lot of love songs. That year ████ ████ she experienced acute heartbreak, but her heart ████ ████ organ ôfelt bigger than it had ever been.ö ████ ████ Similar to energy conservation, it seems that ████ ████ the lost love that influenced TraverÆs writing ████ ████ was transferred elsewhere. Rather she invested ████ ████ in the formidable love with her touring band ████ ████ turned bandmates, and they birthed songs that ████ ████ capture the vibrancy of their collective. ████ ████ ████ ████ A prime example of Kalbells furthering their ████ ████ sum energies is the effervescent funk of ████ ████ ôPurplepink.ö Co-written between Bess, ████ ████ Pedinotti, and Traver, a hyper synth bass darts ████ ████ around elongated keyboard sighs. Although the ████ ████ three recorded their vocals in their bedrooms ████ ████ between 2019 and 2020, Bess remembers the day ████ ████ when the lyrics and rhythm came in sync. ôI ████ ████ came over to KalÆs house with my bass, she had ████ ████ a cluster of lyrics scattered. I sort of mushed ████ ████ them together and came up with a melodic hook ████ ████ for the verse. The chorus we wrote was based ████ ████ off a run Kal took that day. I also remember ████ ████ coming up with a part of the chorus bass line ████ ████ and Kal took the bass from me and finished it. ████ ████ We kinda just came in there and boom a song was ████ ████ made.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ At the beginning of 2020, the band escaped to ████ ████ Outlier Inn for two weeks in upstate New York ████ ████ to record songs with the studio assistance of ████ ████ the prolific Luke Temple. Kalbells crafted and ████ ████ co-produced ten bright, layered tracks of ████ ████ psychedelic synth-pop. It was also TraverÆs ████ ████ first time mixing an album. The result is a ████ ████ prismatic display of experimental pop. From the ████ ████ soft flute touches on opener ôRed Markerö to ████ ████ the fluttering saxophone on ôFlute Windows Open ████ ████ In The Rain,ö each song holds a delicate ████ ████ surprise. Brooklyn-based rapper and multimedia ████ ████ artist Miss Eaves hops on ôPicklesö for witty ████ ████ wordplay. On the elastic closer ôMax Heart,ö ████ ████ sprinkles of piano and bouncing percussion lock ████ ████ into each other. Brecher reveals that the band ████ ████ was grooving so hard that she felt like she ████ ████ wasnÆt even drumming. ôI was just watching us ████ ████ move along with the beat. It was kind of ████ ████ trance-like. Of all the songs on the album, ████ ████ this, to me, was the most fun to record.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ TraverÆs visual songwriting is part of what ████ ████ gives Max Heart its whimsy. On ôBubbles,ö ████ ████ Traver envisions that oneÆs fears ôtake flight ████ ████ on a destination vacationö where later theyÆre ████ ████ fed peaches beside a fire. Later, weÆre invited ████ ████ into her subconscious on ôDiagram Of Me ████ ████ Sleeping.ö Her voice is low and sleepy with ████ ████ sand as she sings, ôI woke up with a fishtank ████ ████ in my hips/tropical clouds of neon floating ████ ████ little dreamy fish.ö TraverÆs image-focused ████ ████ lyricism is a way of tapping into her emotions. ████ ████ ôI feel like the visual for me is really ████ ████ generative,ö she says. ôThat's just a way to ████ ████ get me talking about my feelings more, and I ████ ████ think it can be hard to talk about your ████ ████ feelings. The little visual things are little ████ ████ entry points.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Max Heart is a portrait of these badass women ████ ████ harnessing their improvisational magic. They ████ ████ dispel any sexist assumption about jamming. ████ ████ ôWhen we play grooves together itÆs like some ████ ████ spiritual experience. It's really empowering,ö ████ ████ Traver says. ôI think, there's an unspoken ████ ████ thing that women don't groove. That men groove ████ ████ and women are the singers and that our groove ████ ████ would be not viable or not as cool,ö Traver ████ ████ explains. ôOnce we're all together it's like ████ ████ frickin sparks fly.ö Common groove language is ████ ████ a rare medicine to happen across, which is why, ████ ████ as a group, playing with each other has been ████ ████ not only exciting, but restorative. ôKalbells ████ ████ is a living, breathing, healing, grooving ████ ████ movement,ö Pedinotti beams. Max Heart harnesses ████ ████ this magnetic power for a collection of songs ████ ████ that are packed with inspired tension and ████ ████ daring surreality. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. 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