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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition 12" Vinyl - A.B.R. Orange Cover Variant of Flower Festival's "Age"

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    artwork and layout by Micah Dailey
    hand dubbed and assembled
    2 color Gelli printed j-cards on sand grain mix media paper
    each cassette is unique
    ONLY 25 AVAILABLE!

    released 26 January 2024
    released by:
    Moone Records & Anxiety Blanket Records
    release/catalogue number:
    MR060 & ABR064

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1.
Predictify 02:32
2.
Too Far 04:14
a charismatic leader caught stumbling through deep waters oh what a surprise we’ve heard that a million times did you ask me for a smoke? i’m kidding, that’s a joke it’s honestly quite refreshing you’re becoming quite depressing i think it’s time for new friends it’s not you, it’s your sins sure you can still keep in touch but you won’t see me all that much oh - I’ve- gone - too - far i feel intimidated by you debilitated by you (you can cry to me) (but don’t lie to me)
3.
stolen land locked family help me help you darling apo calyp tic dream for you and me honey save your fear and trembling please just take my sorry i am incapable but you already know tell the truth a bout me please just spare my history now we’re making progress
4.
don’t know how to be don’t know how to behave if I could I would call you but I wonder what there is to say bound to your mind nothing is real tonight lost to a shadow with your eyes open wide i dreamt I was before you and it caught me by surprise what a silly dream to keep alive stayed too long and too far gone what a way to love me but still I played along bound to your mind nothing is real tonight lost to a shadow with your eyes open wide
5.
Lunatic 03:36
pack your bags and just leave forget who you ever were you’ve got too many needs cut your losses and run along i’m a saint, I’m a freak make up your mind, you lunatic its the strangest thing i was nude but no one cared you should start your own thing give it your all until you don’t you’ll never be pleased with me or with anyone it was you, now it’s me i’ve become my worst nightmare let it all float downstream for a moment of tranquility ahh
6.
Pedestrian 03:31
pedestrians pediatricians porn stars and the priest orphans optimists opportunists and the obese it’s a dream and it’s a vision but, my God, it may cause some division sponsors scammers servants and the sleeze widows white saviors wise-asses and the week that’s a bold move i’ve heard denial is the best form of flattery blood sweat and gin God is not a -mer-i -can ahh uh ah ah i’ve got a word for you i’ve got a smile for you i’ve got a gift for you i’ve got some news for you will you sign my petition i’m gonna start my own nation
7.
Get Over It 04:29
puzzled please make it all make sense sins sins don’t chalk it up to sin thirsty you just feed me all my tears angry just get the hell over it shame shame it’s a shame you hide away quiet i can’t hear you anymore
8.
how wonderful you are how wonderful you are to be here but my lovin’ is poor and my shoulders are sore it’s a shame it’s a mess hold my ear to your chest simply swallow my words cause tonight is for the birds a balm to my wound is salt poured on yours how wonderful you are how wonderful you are to be here a flower in a pot is an oxymoron i’m a moron i’m a joke unloving love richly broke can you tell me its all right so I can feel alright a sunburn and scraped knee will heal in due time
9.
and the land and the bomb shelter what’s your plan? when shit hits the fan the trousers and turtle neck and fruit basket turned basket case we’ll never be the same the perfume and the hair and the tears life’s not fair you don’t really kiss me anymore the bread and the wine votive candles Jesus Christ that’ll have to suffice? somethin’s gotta hold some things have to break i know I’m a push over and boy it’s a shame you told me that I could but maybe I can’t my shins might splinter from blazing a path on the prayers of our mothers we make it through the pain on the shoulders of our fathers we see another day in the faces of our babies our hearts take shape my sisters and brothers keep singing me forward

about

Flower Festival’s latest album ‘Age’ offers up an invitation to tilt your ears between jittery analog texture and elegantly fluid drumbeats. But it’s the inward-looking songwriting that makes the best case for Flower Festival’s relatability from his professions of self-hatred to an overall detachment from common culture.

Having created an album in a way that both embraced and let go of significant restraints, a reconciliation derived from Flower Festival’s examination of his artistic ego. “Spending almost 10 years on an album is a long time, but as a musician I know I’m in no way prolific... and I’m making art that provides closure for the young artist I was. I had to go back to the places where hurt happened- like examining the darkest parts of marriage, losing close friends, the stuff you have to endcap to process.” Thankfully, Flower Festival’s way of creating art lent itself to a freedom found only when the external and internal pressures of making music “the right way” have all but gone- and from it came an album that was worth waiting for.

credits

released January 26, 2024

All songs were written and performed by Micah Dailey
Produced by Micah and Janie Dailey
Mixed and Mastered by John Dieterich
Album art design and layout by Micah Dailey
Album art inspired by "Songs of Film Badaweya Fe Paris" by Samira Toufic on El Ahram (1970)
Song order by Timm Barnett
Photos by Ben Peck

JOHN DIETERICH - Guitar solo on track 3, synth on tracks 2 and 4, drum machine on track 4.
QAIS ESSAR - Rabab on track 9.
NICHOLAS KRGOVICH - Vocals on track 3.
MICHAEL KRASSNER - Percussion on track 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
AARON M OLSON - Piano on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 9. Harmonica on track 7, Guitar on track 8.
CALEB DAILEY - Acoustic guitar on tracks 3 and 7, electric guitar on tracks 2 and 6, additional piano on track 2.
LONNA KELLEY - Co-wrote and sang track 4.
JAY HUFMAN - Trumpet on track 7.
SAM WENC - Pedal steel on tracks 4 and 8.
SETH KASSELMAN - Clarinet on track 9
JANIE DAILEY - Piano on tracks 1 and 8, strings on tracks 8 and 9, backup vocals on track 2.
ETHAN DAILEY - Electric guitar on track 2.
TAYLOR DAUKAS - Vocals on track 6.

*Vocal sample on Predictify (track1) is from Timothy Snyder’s YouTube video titled “LESSON 9: Be Kind To Our Language”

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