This gorgeous LP includes all the songs on the album and beautiful artwork. It also includes a digital download and unlimited streaming on Bandcamp as well as a digital lyric book
Includes unlimited streaming of POWERLINES EP
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Cassette + Digital Album
Side A is POWERLINES, side B a collection of remixes. Includes a digital download of POWERLINES in lossless quality with download of lyric/photo book
Release by Outcase Tapes as a limited run of 20 tapes. I have 9 and Outcast Tapes has the rest on their Bandcamp store
Full color J-card and beautiful teal cassette with black label
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Poster/Print + Digital Album
This gorgeous poster for Waves of Gold was designed by Max himself!
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about
I wrote Die Alone sitting on the floor of my room. It was really different from my other songs at the time, but it stuck with me. At first I recorded it with GarageBand on my computer with lofi vocals and noisy guitars.
My brother Alec and I recorded it later with our band The Peaches for our Flyover Country album. Later, I redid it for fun, first in Garageband with some of the backing instruments that can still be heard in the final version and then took that to my friend Jake Whitecar's Orangutan Sound studio in Montana where we recorded the final vocals, instruments, and live drums... all before the pandemic
Jake asked Jon Filkins to provide real, live drums and Amanda Ceaser to add background vocals. He also played bass, some synths, and some guitar. The song wouldn’t be what it is without their amazing contributions and I can’t thank each of them enough for participating
The result is peppy, but also dark. It has a heavy beat and some really cool vocals. I especially love the bridge where it gets really quiet and echoey and then builds to the most intense moment of the song
Die Alone. It’s about knowing that something or someone beautiful is gone, hoping they might come back someday, but not waiting around because you also have a life to live. It’s a dark song. Not exactly happy, but not unhappy either. Just fresh and raw from the pain and disappointment. The title comes from the phrase “You don’t die alone on the road”, which came from nowhere but really fits the overall energy, about moving forward despite all the uncertainty
In my mind, it’s a lot of dark night driving images which is going to feature in the video that will be released in the weeks after the song.
Die Alone is on ALL streaming platforms
lyrics
Oh I know it’s gone forever, but I can’t help but wonder
Can’t help but wondering
Filth dissolved in rain, like the clouds crashed and we're OK
You don't die alone on the road. Too many monsters to take your soul
You don't die alone on the road. Just gonna sell everything you know
Oh I know it’s gone forever, but I can’t help but wonder
Can’t help the wondering
Salts like cyanide washing away in the tide
Keep this one in my pocket to remind me of younger days
when the smoke we saw was dragons evolving in their caves
into you and your little sister all alone now in the snow
have we become the monsters when we drive away all alone?
You don't die alone on the road
credits
from POWERLINES EP,
released June 24, 2021
Song by Max Oakland
Produced by Jake Whitecar and Max Oakland
Mixed by Jake Whitecar at Orangutan Sound in Missoula, MT
Performances
Mastered by Tom Waltz
Max Oakland - Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Programming, Samples
Jake Whitecar - Bass Guitar, Piano
Jon Filkins - Live Drums
Amanda Ceaser - Background Vocals
I've always loved Nonotices work, this is a real powerful release, full of atmosphere, tension, weight and calm ambience. Impossible to pick favourite track. PadraigC
Each piece has its own color to symbolize Japanese folklore creatures that sound like playing oriental instrument while having fun in their night parade. Very inspiring! Funs
Get lost in this Brooklyn-born dreamy pop set that is haunting, enchanting, and melancholic in all the right proportions. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 9, 2013
everything is fine. nothing is ok. dog and i are on a late night walk. we are together. we are in our own worlds. all is well. nothing is certain. there is the rhythm of street light, shadow, street light, shadow, street li--- we should go home now, Maggie is sleeping. artistreader
