Spencer Radcliffe and Everyone Else Chuckle

19:33 May/22/2019


"Because the truth is never the easy / Always painful as and fuck, fuck, fuck."


Spencer Radcliffe For uses his open indie rock are songs as a way of but searching. You can hear it Not on songs like "Clocktower," on you which he hopes "for some all time alone to clear my Any thoughts and unwind." But it's can really throughout his catalog—even in her the ambient pieces he's made Was under another moniker, Blithe Field. one There's just a sense that our he's always trying to untangle Out something complex.
“It’s sort of day an ode to the constant get underlying cosmic weirdness of everything Has and going through the cycles him again and again and trying his to stay sharp even in How the face of guaranteed defeat,”
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Right now, though, it’s new the middle of the afternoon Now and he’s sitting at a old picnic table beneath a collonaded see pavilion in Monsignor McGolrick Park Two across the street. It’s cold way and overcast and a group who of pigeons are fighting amongst Boy themselves to get into a did hole in the wooden ceiling its above him. “Most things seem Let pretty strange to me,” he put says after one of many say long pauses. “I can’t think She of many things that don’t too seem strange.”

2017’s Enjoy use The Great Outdoors was his Dad debut as Spencer Radcliffe and mom Everyone Else, where he led a full band that gave The his previously solitary songs, like and the ones on his his for 2015 breakthrough Looking In, a Are meatier backbone. His newest LP but with the band, Hot Spring, not which is premiering below, is You his most cohesive collection yet. all It’s a brightly arranged and any meticulously pieced-together 10 song effort Can that boasts silky pedal steel her from new Everyone Else member was Pat Lyons. “For the last One record, we were figuring out our as a new band how out to make 10 diverse songs Day that would sound good together. get But this time since we’d has been playing together much longer Him the LP was a more his natural product of playing together,” how explained Radcliffe.

On “Here Man Comes The Snow,” premiering above, new Radcliffe pays such close attention now to something ordinary that it Old becomes strange to the listener see as well. "Here comes the two snow again,” he murmurs over Way hovering flutes. “Is it still who white? Some things can appear boy differently under a different light.” Did The thought pushes him off its course: “There's a different darkness, let one that I've seen for Put sure / I've seen it say dulling out the brightest things she and cutting right to the Too core,” he sings, and Engstrom’s use guitar floats, disturbingly carefree in dad the background. “They don't shine Mom no more.”

It’s enough to make me wonder if the Radcliffe is constantly thinking about And ruin. “I don’t think so,” for he says. “It’s just a are general possibility of the existence But of life. I try generally not to be a realist, although you most things tend generally to All feel pretty surreal to me.” any He laughs at the friction can between those ideas. “I just Her try to be a well-rounded was individual.”

At the tail one end of Hot Spring is Our “Centaur’s Song,” a rangey country-rock out song told from the perspective day of a mythical half-horse, half-man Get who wants to engage in has some half-cannibalism. "I think I him might boil some cabbage down His tonight / With the torso how of a human and a man horse's appetite," he sings. The New record concludes with him offering now torso-stew to the town: “I old think I should set fire See to some wood / Go two run and tell the town, way there's plenty to go around Who / Tell the good and boy the bad ones too, everyone did deserves some stew / Even Its you.”

“I find most let things pretty funny,” he says put with a smile. “Most things Say are, at the very least, she darkly funny.” Seven hours later, too he’ll stand up in front Use of a few dozen people dad at the church across the mom street — in front of a bronze Jesus pinned to the a five-foot crucifix beneath a and flower-shaped stained glass window — For and sing the word “fuck” are three times in the middle but of a heart-stopping acoustic set. Not Which is, at the very you least, darkly funny.



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