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Expose The Reptiles

by Expose The Reptiles

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1.
100 Years Of Solitude [live@atwoodstock] 03:50
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2.
December Again [live@winterfest2017] 02:43
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3.
Kelly Clarkson [that was then, this is now Spring 2017 demo 3] 04:21
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4.
Song For Guy 01:32
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Temperate Interlude [solo demo August 2018] 05:45
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Living Under A Rock 03:33
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Oof [solo demo September 2018] 03:41
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Fare Well & Good Nite 04:50
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[Bonus Track] Oof [live@atwoodstock] 04:05
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about

Logan: This album has been so long in the making and has gone through so many changes and I was so young when I started planning it w/ Jackie and Sarah that I just don't even know what to say about finally putting it out. It feels more like a historical document that I'm willing to release as a nostalgic curiosity thing rather than some monumental lost masterpiece that I'm genuinely proud to release. I don't know how I feel about it. Emo, (and especially the kind of older-ish emo that I listened to in high school when we were writing/recording this) is a genre characterized mostly by nostalgia- but it's a nostalgic genre which is also run and dominated by young people who don't have much to be nostalgic about other than their fairly recent childhoods. You end up with a strange effect of using it to look back on moments that you are currently living through, you form a sort of christmas story or "Stand By Me"-esque narration in your head about the life you are currently leading, you value every moment based on how impactful of a memory you think it will make one day, and not as it serves you here and now. I think that that's all I was thinking about when I wrote the first draft of one of these songs here, Fare Well & Good Nite, when I was 15 or 16 or so. I don't remember it perfectly. I think I wanted to make music about this weird feeling of being nostalgic for your present. It's a feeling that I'm afraid that I won't be able to relate to anymore very soon, I felt a huge dropoff in its frequency after graduating high school anyway. But even if one day I can no longer understand what I was going for in writing most of these songs, it's still an encapsulation of that "now-stalgia" in a different way. Art that you enjoy when you're young eventually becomes more of a historical document than something you really feel for its own sake when you're older, and maybe I'm just trying to anticipate that in releasing this more as a time capsule than an album with a particularly large amount of work put into it. I don't know. Enjoy the emo I wrote when I was like 16/17.

credits

released August 20, 2021

Logan- guitar/vox/the wacky stuff on "Fare Well & Good Nite"
Jackie- drums/vox on "Living Under A Rock"
Sarah- bass/backup vox

Album Art by Abigayle Blue Pusz

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Atwood Tapes Mohegan Lake, New York

was: small label dedicated to recording the small DIY acts of the lakeland/panas high school scene.

is now: just a place for logan to put whatever he happens to be working on now.

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