Artwork by
Standard Design

Ascent

from Hiatus

June 4th, 2021
10 tracks
33:35
Hiatus
Hiatus
Ascent
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2:16
Ascent
The Demographic
The pilot’s light has gone out He watches from the wing He sets the course and does the math And subtracts everything Sitting still as a spinning top He flips a switch, the pressure drops He holds the cans up to his ears And cannot hear a sound Forty thousand feet tall The pilot banks, withdraws it all A canopy of broken glass A slow exhale to make it last Buttoned up we chase the day A ghost haunts the heads-up display Let it go, let it go Upon it’s merry way Nothing to fix Nothing to do No way to calculate the things that we might lose Nothing to fix Nothing to do No way to calculate the sum of me and you
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“More bombastic fun from this duo from Northampton, MA – both a full-length and an EP!”

— John MacLeod, Comic Rawk Top 21 Albums of 2021

Hiatus (2021) was recorded and mixed in Easthampton, Massachusetts by Grant Wicks at Uncanny Audio — mostly in 2019, with sporadic overdub and mixing sessions before/during the pandemic. We brought aboard bass powerhouse Marc Seedorf (Mark Mulcahy sideman, engineer, Dinosaur Jr. guitar tech, and a woodworker t’boot) to turn us into a trio. Whoa!

Hiatus covers a lot of territory, shifting from the mountain-crushing “Wolves” to the rusty coffee can filled with spoons that is “Hole In The Sea,” from the Bob Mouldiness of “Descent” to the Nirvanishness of “Everybody Leave,” from the wicked evil “Sad Satan” to the storm-battered coast of “Clear Them Decks.”

Credits

Tom Pappalardo: guitar, vocals

Sturgis Cunningham: drums, percussion, backing vocals

Marc Seedorf: bass

Recorded and engineered by Grant Wicks at Uncanny Audio

Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering

Album artwork by Standard Design

Music: The Demographic

Lyrics: Tom Pappalardo (Object Recording, ASCAP) except for "Sad Satan" (written by either the devil or Led Zeppelin, depending on who you ask)