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You too could stand next to a small eye-level disco ball in June at a Runnner Show ™️ Update: Night one is sold out! Nights 2 nnn 3 poised to go so scoop em while you cannn!

Thank you @atwoodmagazine for the lovely write up on our record!

#anyhowtherecord 5/11 🎙️ The Breaker The Breaker is a reminder that when life feels out of control, at least we’re still sitting in the driver’s seat (for better or worse). I wrote the first idea for this song when I was coming out of a year-long rut, realizing that I was self-sabotaging and blaming my sadness on other people in my life. When I brought it to Nick, I actually never thought it would go anywhere (a common theme👎), but he insisted we that try recording it (another common theme🤘). After several sessions with Nick and Noah, I still hadn’t finished the lyrics. I called @alexcrosslandmusic , one of my favorite writers. I rambled about the song and listened to his wisdom. Ultimately, I finished the lyrics later that night. Turns out, talking about it does help. -Dan

#anyhowtherecord 4/11 🎙️ Magical Madge ‘Madge’ started out as a homage to Elliott Smith that was mainly a joke until Dan insisted we cut it live to hear how it sounded. After a couple takes, I went back and rewrote the lyrics. I’m gonna choose to allow for some room for mystery re: who—or what—Madge is, but I will say that it’s a song about diving into your art unapologetically and accepting all of the consequences that might come with that choice. Because otherwise life is so boring? We all need Madge in our lives— the artist / entertainer who is willing to epically fail so that we can all feel a little deeper, laugh a little harder, and make contact with the things that make us human. -Nick

#anyhowtherecord 3/11 🎙️ Perfectly Honest Another song born out of an old riff that my friend recently admitted “you’ve been trying to fit into a song for 8 years.” Guilty as charged but also it would have remained in musical purgatory had Dan not picked out the cooler parts of it and set it on a path to be Perfectly Honest. This song is about feeling incapable of opening up fully to someone, despite how desperately you both want the truth to come out. Getting to the heart of the matter can sometimes feel as invasive as open heart surgery, or a task only a miracle could perform. And then once it’s out, you somehow have to make it feel welcome in the room, which can be an even heavier lift. We had to wear earplugs on top of our headphones to record the guitars because the amps were so loud. Likely the angstiest moment on the album. -Nick

#anyhowtherecord 2/11 🎙️ Harder Than Before Harder Than Before, The Breaker, and Daggers are kinda like this “unholy trinity” to me—this little cluster of songs about not knowing how to help yourself out, so you just dig yourself deeper into the hole. I wrote this song at a time when a lot of my friends were really going through it, and whenever I’d talk to any of them about it, they would describe in detail how deeply they were hurting, then somehow undercut it at the end of the conversation with a comment like “but I’ve been through worse before, so whatever haha.” I hate that it’s human nature to downplay our emotions when we’re hurting, but I’m just as guilty as the next guy. This song is about that—how we brush off our issues until there’s a mess at our feet. -Dan

#anyhowtherecord 1/11 🎙️ Anyhow Theme Gonna try and post one of these a day to chat a little bit about the record we dropped earlier this month and give each song its due diligence. ‘Anyhow Theme’ was a song that popped up about mid way thru the writing/recording process. I was kicking around the main guitar line and melody for nearly 6 years, and when I played it for Dan he immediately started adding to it. It took a while to nail lyrically, but eventually we settled on this little prelude to the work as a whole. The narrator is probably the same guy who is singing in all the songs that follow—someone searching for the grand prize of whatever it means to be human, which I guess is inner peace or total tranquility. You can run after it on a number of paths; redemption, solitude, falling in love… and failing miserably, yet still believing it’s accessible somehow, some way. Noah Pope brought it to life with his otherworldly sounds. It’s our little zoomed out, existential appetizer for a record that simply gets louder when the big questions start to feel too large to tangle with. -Nick

Thrilled to announce we are supporting @runnner_music at Purgatory on 6/12… ticket link in our bio!

What a night. Big thx to @lauren.cianci for capturing some footage of our ~sold out 😳~ album release show at Union Pool last Friday. The big question is, what’s ur fav track from ‘Anyhow’ ?? Do u guys prefer when we rock or when we wistfully mellow

‘Anyhow’ the record drops at midnight. Cannot wait to share these 11 songs with you. 🎥: @lauren.cianci #indie #band #brooklyn

Swipe to reveal the opener for our show at @union_pool Friday night… hint before you swipe: he produced our record and played drums on it and is also playing in the band. And he’s also our fav musician and artist. STILL TIX LEFT GO GET SOME! ‘ANYHOW’ out FRIYAY

1 week out from dropping our debut LP ‘Anyhow’ and playing our release show at Union Pool. Pre save record and get your tix in bio! Who’s gonna celebrate with us?? 🎉🍾