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Cassette + Digital Album
SINGLE RUN, LIMITED TO 20, translucent blue cassettes features exclusive artwork and b-side(s) unavailable anywhere else online or on physical media.
The b-side of the cassette features a sound collage of modulated field recordings from my hometown of Pueblo, Colorado. In the summer of 2019, while shooting footage for the Pueblo Nights video, I spent three days gathering sounds from locations significant to my life. I ran the recordings through a vocoder and layered synthesizers and samples from a faux radio show I recorded with a boombox as a kindergartner. Other samples include moments from rehearsals and writing sessions with my high school punk band I formed with a long lost friend. Miss you, Luke. Call me.
Includes unlimited streaming of Oldies (Single)
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I wanna talk about it but don't know what to say
I think I forget about it but then I doubt it and it never goes away
There's a memory of a door that I open to greet you
Your eyes telling me more than your heart would ever let you
The memories of then don't feel old
Like crying in your car
or standing in the road
kissing
What is left of what you love but always thought you'd lose
How tight a grip is tight enough to squeeze and leave no bruise
You deleted all your posts but your avatar's still there
You're in some kitchen eating pasta with someone who doesn't care
The memories of then don't feel old
like driving in the dark
or walking in the snow wishing
Right here, this spot on the map
on summer vacation
that year, remember that
when the oldies used to play on a different station
about
Featuring ethereal lap steel from Margo Price and Orville Peck sideman, Luke Schneider, “Oldies” exorcises the memories that we’d rather forget but can’t escape.
The track blooms with hazy guitars and keyboard pads that nod to the 90s heyday of Bonnie Raitt. On top of it all, Berkley connects listeners to impressionist and detailed scenes ranging from the last encounter with a lover to looking up old friends online: "You deleted all your posts but your avatar’s still there/you’re in some kitchen eating pasta with someone who doesn’t care."
Each track from Berkley’s album deals with what comes and goes through the passage of time, but “Oldies” was specifically inspired by his favorite hometown radio station, KDZA Oldies 107.9. Berkley threads his memories to the decline of locally owned radio stations: "Right here, this spot on the map on summer vacation/that year, remember that, when the oldies used to play on a different station?"
With elements of 70s country and modern pop production, the song’s textures and intimate vocals position it somewhere in time between early Emmylou Harris and the latest Ethan Gruska. Berkley grounds listeners in the song’s lyrical and musical trip through time with a revelatory chorus: "What’s behind you is closer than it appears/future facing staring backward in the mirror."
The single’s b-side, available only the physical release, is a sound collage of modulated field recordings from Berkley’s hometown of Pueblo, Colorado. Berkley spent three days gathering sounds from locations significant to his youth, then ran the recordings through a vocoder. Over those recordings, he layered synthesizers and samples from a faux radio show he recorded with a boombox as a kindergartner.
credits
released August 21, 2020
Vocal, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums: Berkley
Piano: Bob Cummins Jr.
Vocal: Aryanna Gil
Guitar: Justin Weed
Pedal steel: Luke Schneider
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at The Nest, Denton, TX by Andrew Jones
Additional recording at Huge Planet, Nashville, TN by Jake Davis
Cover photography: Lauren Carey
Cover art: @glitchybb
Layout and design: Danno
Manufacturing: Spencer Kenney
Born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado, now residing in Portland, Oregon Berkley took to the American songbook and pop
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