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
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
about
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.”
credits
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.
supported by 6 fans who also own “He Was in the Father b/w ODE”
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