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Look Up

by drunk uncle

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    The forceful debut LP from Drunk Uncle is finally here!

    Drunk Uncle's debut album "Look Up" draws on catharsis. Picture yourself in a grimy basement surrounded by your best friends, watching a band as music washes over you and you feel like everything is in the right place. You smile as frantic guitars fill the room and gruff vocals push out every emotion you could possibly feel. Drums and bass slow down and speed back up as the music moves from anger to regret to hope. You feel it all- every note, every hit, every strain. It feels good to feel.

    You open your eyes and you are in your room alone. You flip the record back over and you are back in the basement. All is right.

    Available on Black or Pour One Out vinyl, comes with download.

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1.
Tiny Sounds 02:58
Fuck these little things That keep catching my ear I didn't ask for these subtleties If I had it my way They'd be gone completely Bright specks that distract from a silence Like a dirt that peppers A trash bag drumhead Arrhythmia Ooo I don't see the art in it (Do you see it? I don't see it I've been trying really hard And frankly it doesn't make any sense) They'd be gone completely So I place white teeth into the Centers of my ears Until the rhythms become clear I'm a distracted audience member There's no heart in the mundane And it doesn't mean a thing Ba da ba da ba da Fuck all these little things They'd be gone completely Ba da ba ba da
2.
Depakote 02:19
Conceding variety For a bi-weekly thirty-five dollars So come over next week for bland pasta The messy graphite of my reused grocery list Next to a paper prescription script I'm running really fast, leaned forward Tall, sharp grass cutting my arms and legs I don't care really My shoes are too small and they hurt my feet We could never afford new ones I don't care really It was good to see you then It's hard to see you now Pills and figure eights In a blank stare In an argument Cause at this point honestly I don't care (Hah, hah, hah) Honestly (Hah, hah, hah) I don't care really (Hah, hah, hah)
3.
Patching up apartment walls Another lease, another season Cardboard compartments for it all One more excuse, another reason Hole in the door reminds me that They all tend to keep a secret That Wüsthof was from your dad Stained with more than one regret And I can't seem to let go of the things I hold That faded mug was on display Farmer's market with my mother Wrap the glass so it won't break They say the clay reflects the potter Empty the ashes from the tray The smoke it complements the bottle Our vices tangled in that way Sometimes two heads just makes it harder And I can't seem to let go of the things I hold And I can't seem to let go of the things I hold It's everything I ever said and everything I ever did It's everything I never said and everything I never did It's everything I ever said and everything I ever did It's everything I left unsaid said it's everything I left undid It's everything I ever said and everything I ever did It's everything I never said and everything I never did It's everything I ever said and everything I ever did It's everything I left unsaid said it's everything I left undid It's everything I ever said and everything I ever did It's everything I never said and everything I never did It's everything I ever said and everything I ever did It's everything I left unsaid said it's everything I left undid
4.
I'm begging for A northern wind to come And blow from my ears the plastic Subject myself to a randomness I've become a slave to the part of my mind that demands shortcuts to pleasures Therefore I Have allowed myself to become abandoned by the people that I could have loved And could have loved Me I could have loved And could have loved Me The initial serotonin release of a success We're ecstatic for sure But it's quickly sobering By the thought of "oh shit All I have to look forward to now is varying degrees of this!" Cue the worthwhile moments Ba ba da ba da ba da da Ba ba da ba da ba da da Ba ba da ba da ba da da Ba da da da da da da da So somebody shoot me while I'm happy! Before I ever want it so bad But this'll never happen again So somebody shoot me while I'm happy! Ba ba da ba da ba da ba Ba ba da ba da ba da ba
5.
Blue Skies 01:57
I hope there's a blue sky Hope there's a blue sky I hope there's a blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) I hope there's a blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) I hope there's a blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) Hope there's a blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) In hopes of a blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) I hope there's a blue sky (Biggest of blue skies)
6.
I've been Having trouble trusting The sounds coming out of my mouth There's no sun behind anybody's lips I've been swimming in a cold sweat Trying to find it I've been (Trying to find it) Having trouble trusting The sounds coming out of my mouth (Trying to find it) There's no sun behind anybody's lips I've been swimming in a cold sweat Trying to find it I've been (Trying to find it) Having trouble trusting The sounds coming out of my mouth (Trying to find it) So don't take it personally when I say I don't feel comfortable sharing one skin We both know I'm having trouble moving in the one that I was given I've been (Trying to find it) Having trouble trusting The sounds coming out of my mouth (Trying to find it) Having trouble...
7.
Punch 05:32
Sitting still In cold water Getting chills Blurring out For six hours Just tugging at loose ends Oh I'm lost in thought ('Cause how am I supposed to get outside of my head When I find my mouth so unreliable? And I know how it sounds Cold rhetoric and excuses Studying one another's features Lost papers in time) Dial tone Or her vitals One by one Spilling out And pour over Spread across the floor Oh I'm lost in thought Oh I'm lost in thought A chain, a padlock Past mistakes weigh me down An ocean, decisions Full bathtub, I could drown A blade, an exit Sharp objects, call in sick A pen, and paper Disappointment, red lipstick A chain, a padlock Past mistakes weigh me down An ocean, decisions Full bathtub, I could drown A blade, an exit Sharp objects, call in sick A pen, and paper Disappointment, red lipstick Red lipstick
8.
Sun rays They wake me up The angles in blinds leave shadows In dark valley sheets across the length Of your body I love how eight hours of sleep makes you Smell so Human I love how eight hours of sleep makes you Smell so Human I wanna run away From sunsets Despite I've learned this kind of warmth Never lasts Taking preemptive steps To compensate for a rotation that's too fast to see A rotation that's too fast to see A rotation that's too fast Ba da ba ba da da Ba da ba ba da da I loved how eight hours of sleep made you Smell so Human I loved how eight hours of sleep made you Smell so Human I loved how eight hours of sleep made you Smell so Human I loved how eight hours of sleep made you
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10.
Counter clockwise turn ourselves back And like babies out with the boring From everything Revisiting old thoughts with new friends A chorus of warm bugs soft brag and Outroars of laughs Then comes that itch reminding you that there's a future But our noses peek from the weeds I refuse to say we pursued this I'm feeling down looking up I think that I've had enough Stop and say There isn't any sense in it if it's got an end to it We've been drowning in the thickness Cause how am I supposed to enjoy this moment If I can't convince myself of it's efficacy But in the present we feel happy So that that itchy grass doesn't bother anybody We've been Tricked into thinking that every tall piece of grass is weeds Beautiful things but useless outside of intent So address the person in charge of defining all things Laugh it all off when it's you pointing right back at yourself
11.
Look Up 03:38
My pride preys for Amplification and real big wide lenses But mortality disagrees The heart counts down its beats My heart counts down its beats You can choose To scrape away the patterns from your shoes Because you know that eventually Those patterns will wash away So lose yourself In the maze that fits in the space where the second hand starts And finishes (Wooh!) The shortest interval on your wrist I guarantee you that down the line You will come back to it Therein's your blue sky Therein's your blue sky Therein's your blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) Therein's your blue sky (Biggest of blue skies) Therein's your blue sky (Biggest of blue skies / In a smell, in a smile, in a sound) Therein's your blue sky (Biggest of blue skies)

about

Songs about calling it quits, starting back up again, winning, losing, and staying sane despite the bullshit.

Written by Peyton Heinig, Will Gore, Jacob Rhodes and Tyler Miller. Recorded mostly in Peyton's garage/bedroom and a few things at Tyler's house, Summer – Winter 2020.

credits

released March 11, 2022

Peyton Heinig - Vox, guitar
Jacob Rhodes - Drums
Will Gore - Bass
Tyler Miller - Guitar, vox, keys, synth, trumpet

List of instruments and gear for curious musicians:

DAW
— Reaper (www.reaper.fm)

Interfaces
— Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820
— Tascam US-1800
— Presonus Audiobox USB

Mixers
— Yamaha MG10
— Behringer Xenyx 802

Peyton's chain
Fender Telecaster > Boss CS-3 > Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive > Dunlop 7-band EQ > EHX Canyon > Bugera v55

Tyler's chain
Squier Telecaster > Xotic SP Compressor > Pedal Monsters White Lightning V2 > Strymon Sunset > Boss CH-1 > ( Strymon DIG > EHX 720 Looper only on "Blue Skies" ) > Fender Hot Rod DeVille III

Will's chain
Yamaha TRBX174EW > TC Electronic Hypergravity > Digitech Whammy Ricochet > TC Electronic Mojomojo > Black Mass 1312 Fuzz > Source Audio Programmable EQ > Mooer Ensemble Queen > EHX Oceans 11 > TC Electronic Flashback 2 > Red Panda Particle Granular Delay > Boss DD-6 > TC Electronic Ditto x2 > Fender Rumble 100

Jake's drums
— Tama metal snare, rack tom and legless kick
— Pearl floor tom
— Zildjian Hihats
— Zildjian A Custom Crash 20"
— Zildjian A Custom Sweet Ride 21"
— Remo heads
— Iron Cobra kick pedal

Mics
— Cascade Fat Head BE on guitar amps, drum overheads, room, trumpet, percussion, acoustic guitars
— Shure SM57 on drums (snare top/bottom, rack tom, floor tom)
— Shure Beta52A on kick drum and Rumble
— Rode NT1 on Peyton's vox, room, Bugera
— Rode M5 on percussion
— AKG C214 on Tyler's vox, acoustic guitars, Deville

Synths
— microKorg > MXR Carbon Copy Deluxe > EHX Cathedral
— Korg Volca Drum

Keys
— Yamaha Clavinova CLP-170

Acoustic guitars
— Art & Lutherie Roadhouse Parlor
— Art & Lutherie Americana Dreadnought

Trumpet
— Bach TR300

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drunk uncle Austin, Texas

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Peyton, Jake, Will, Tyler

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