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080: And The Noise And The Haste Smooths

by CIVILS

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1.
No Alibi 02:49
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2.
One Nite At A Time 04:36
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3.
Breeze Surge-Blur Lower Chaos 02:20
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4.
A-Porn 03:59
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5.
Love Will Find U 03:45
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6.
New Ksubi's 02:07
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7.
Just Lie 03:27
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8.
Tabloids 03:36
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9.
Everything Erased Overtime ft. Delorean Gray 03:26
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10.
Passages: Winterpiece 03:56
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11.
Lifted (Bop Optimizer) 02:30
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12.
Lullabye 04:32
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13.
Rock And Roll Makes Me Wanna Die 03:13
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14.
Bunko Wayward 02:47
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15.
Ratboy Fugue and the Noise and the Haste Smooths 02:49
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16.
Hella Touched by the State ft. By George! 03:17
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17.
Vibrant Regulation (Youth On The Loose) 04:23
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18.
Passages: Know Beauty 02:10
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19.
Surface Envy For Rattle Strategy 01:59
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20.
Clue Loom 03:47
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21.
Exit Theme (Sure Do Luv U) 03:39
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bonus: Luxury Housing (unmastered) 02:33
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about

"...ATNATHS" is the FINAL double-album of original home-recorded dangerous pop music & hard disco from Drew Kirby ((Mothers, New Wives, O Key as well as local engineer//recordist for groups like Meth Wax, Kudzu Kids, Jianna Justice)).

This is the proverbial "covid quarantine album", though it features a wide breadth of sessions and collaborations from 2 years in the top floor of the Grant Park-adjacent 543 BLVD in Atlanta. This is the first release from Kirby to primarily feature keyboards & synth -- there is a notable lack of guitar on especially the front half of the album, framing CIVILS' typical emphasis on the interaction between bass guitar, drum machines, and voice.

Inspired by the early Chicago house of Steve "Silk" Hurley, quiet storm lite-rockin of Sade & Brenton Wood, disco revivalist Todd Terje, and Mcgruff the Crime Dog's shockingly adept 80's P.S.A. synth album "Smart Kids" -- perhaps the ultimate over/underground classic. CIVILS is ultimately pop music & noise, the challenge of clashing opposites!

Never one to sit stagnant, and after about a dozen tapes in ~5 years, this is the purported "final" Civils album as all Kirby's songwriting capacities have been redirected towards new turbopop band SUNSET HONOR UNIT (2021)!

credits

released June 25, 2021

"one night at a time" originally performed by george strait, written by Roger Cook, Eddie Kilgallon, and Earl Bud Lee.
track 9 features jake flowers (jacob chisenhall) programming the samplers
track 17 features georgie huntington on guitar + loops
recorded entirely in the upstairs apartment at 543 boulevard se in grant park, atl between january 2019 and september 2020
special thanks for speaking clips (in order): steve earle, sam morril & mark normand, anna fantastic/purple one, JPEGmafia/peggy, "know beauty" poem

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MARCHING BANANA represents a loose coalition of artists based between Atlanta & Athens, Ga. with a tendency to meld outsider pop with a modernized DIY home-recording ethic.

POP & NOISE. FOUNDED IN 2011.

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