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He Was in the Father b​/​w ODE

by Lonely Pirate Committee

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The walls are painted DayGlo It won’t even show, though I don’t wanna say that You’ve run out of data It’s made up (Mm Hmm) Turkey and tomato Buy a Winnebago You can take the wheel And I’ll pick a fight with Cato In a Winnebago Kitchen knives and church clothes Catch a tiger by the toes We’ve all got a joy to ode The laundry has another load Kitchen knives and church clothes Catch a tiger by the toes We’ve all got a joy to ode The laundry has another load Oh? What was that you said? Oh no… I went and wet the bed Oh? You really think he’s dead? Oh well… just pump him full of lead! Oh (and what was that you said?) Oh, oh Just pump him full of lead! Oh, oh, oh Just pump him full of lead! I am on my own, am on my own I am on my own, am on my own Kitchen knives and church clothes And catch a tiger by the toes We’ve all got a joy to ode The laundry has another load Kitchen knives and church clothes Catch a tiger by the toes We’ve all got a joy to ode The laundry has another load
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ODE 04:50 video
I saw the least Of the first release I want to disbelieve Your only regret Sewn into thread You’d trade it all I was up in the air Couldn’t bring me down Then I’ll meet you there When you come around I don’t agree With the make believe I’d rather rest in peace Swept off your feet With the sweet release I love the way it breaths It won’t take You’ll never make it Won’t you take your time There’s not a way To easily take control I know Every step is losing balance My own two feet Shouldn’t think too much about it Act naturally Finding out what out of bounds is Faster than me It always wants to work out better Than I can believe Let me down Do it over again It’s just the sound Of a regular man But you never want to wait around There’s not a way To easily take control I know Everything is held in balance Securing me Shouldn’t think too much about it Act naturally Finding out what lasts the longest You get it for free It always wants to work out better Than I can believe

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In an age of never-ending genre caveats, there’s something refreshing in a band simply referring to themselves as a rock band, plain and simple. Lonely Pirate Committee define themselves in such a way, and while their music encompasses a number of different strands and influences, they like the openness of that descriptor, the space it leaves for exploration and experimentation.

Moving through various iterations over the years, Lonely Pirate Committee remains in 2021 as the musical project of childhood friends Pearce Gronek and Fletcher Barton. Together, the pair has guided the band’s studio work, before bringing varying members to flesh out LPC’s high-volume and high-intensity live performances that juxtapose the more mellow and laid-back sound that mostly defines their recordings to date, save for the band’s occasional moments of skewed eccentricity. 

Formed in Cleveland, the pair work both together and apart, splitting the band’s songwriting down the middle, working on their ideas at home before bringing them together under one defined vision. In early 2020 LPC released their second album, Everyday Ordinary, and it showcased a more refined version of the band than what had come before, the pair’s songwriting drifting into creative and hazy new textures across the album’s ten songs.

In early 2022, Lonely Pirate Committee release their first new work since those album sessions in the form of a brand new 7” single for Saddle Creek’s Document series. Formed of two new tracks, both recorded in late 2020, the release is led by “He Was in the Father”, a song which should be seen as a caricature of Middle-American suburbia; a white picket fence daydream through a shadowy lens. The track began simply as a sonic experiment but soon evolved into the full song we hear today – albeit one shaped by AI. “The track is partially written using AI music generation technology, in direct collaboration with the human composer,” the band explain. "We recorded a brief performance of banjo and guitar, then fed it into an AI algorithm that then attempted to continue the recording. This resulted in the outro sequence of the song.” 

It’s backed by “ODE”, a surreal and somewhat twisted celebration of the American dream. "It went through many iterations over the year and was almost scrapped multiple times,” the band say of the track. “The chaotic, bouncy harmony drove us both to the brink of insanity during the recording process, but ultimately led to further sonic exploration.” 

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released February 11, 2022

Written, recorded, & mixed by Fletcher Barton & Pearce Gronek
Lyrics by Fletcher Barton & Pearce Gronek

Mastered by Michael Preston

Cover Art by Sean Dolohanty
Layout by Fletcher Barton

Additional Credits:
ODE - violin and cello by Aaron Wolff

We’d like to thank: Geoffrey Bywater, Aaron Wolff, Sean Dolohanty, Alex Akins, and the crew at Saddle Creek for making this all possible.

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