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071: SSPILLS'S Narcin On Heavens Door

by CIVILS

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The latest CIVILS (Drew Kirby) release, "NARCIN ON HEAVENS DOOR", is another themed mixtape hot on the heels of june's cowboy cuts -- this time it's from fictional poppin' punk band SPILLS! NARCIN (narcan?) employs a certain batshit approach to powerpop and punk, emulating fellow home-taping luminaries like The Coneheads, R. Stevie Moore & Jay Reatard while also channelling some honest2god classic rockerz like The Cars & CCR.

Songs about killing rock and roll (again), hot guy behavior, and the absolutely true story of Scott Foster the amateur "emergency goalie" & accountant from Chicago who, when forced to fill-in for his first & only professional hockey game, pulled off a perfect performance & stole the show with 7 stops in 14 minutes. A feel good story and tape for a sweltering summer.

From Kirby: "Having taken the summer to reapproach writing music after touring duties with the group Mothers ate up most of my time between 2015 and 2017, i decided the most useful & pragmatic course of option was to arrange & demo every song i had written during that period - while also attempting to document a dearth of new songs as they materialized. [Narcin'] is the 3rd consecutive mixtape of tracks culled from these "Autumn Worktapes" sessions; particularly between august 2017 - october 2018, I lived in self-imposed creative exile, working a screenprinting shop full-time in watkinsville outside of athens, ga while living in rural winterville, ga (and operating a home recording studio in limited free time).

So in a steady frenzy, I recorded every type & kind of song possible. the first batch came out as BIRDS INERT (2018) which is heavily dub & rap influenced. next came the RAINBOW COWBOY COLLECTION (2019), which culled all the country/folk-inflected numbers from my home tapes under the guise of imaginary country-hunk BIRCH RICHMOND. this latest release, "NARCIN ON HEAVENS DOOR", is probably the grownup extension of a warped tour adolescence. next is probably the last themed release for awhile, GARY MASSAGE'S HUGE TEA - hard disco and glitch n' screwed - though i'd love to give birch & spills & gary followups someday!"

credits

released August 2, 2019

mastered by jesse mangum
"I Saw The Light" written by Andrew Gold & Lisa Angelle, as performed by Wynonna Judd
everything performed by Kirby
everything tracked @ Small Recordings - winterville, ga
except "I Saw The Lite (cover)" recorded January 2019 in grant park, atl
photo of arian & cooley, mexico beach circa 2014
voice clips (in order): 89.3 fm atl, birds @ sargent recorders los angeles, larry david, avril lavigne
"Nervewrecker" previously appeared on "Birds Inert" (2018)

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Marching Banana Atlanta, Georgia

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.

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