It’s been a busy year, I’ve had 6 new songs come out on 4 different releases and I uploaded them all on Bandcamp for any price you want. I bet there’s at least a song or two you haven’t heard:
I want to use my stuff, I don’t like back-lining. I brought my stuff because I know how it sounds. I didn’t bring it on tour to have it sit in my van.
I don’t want other people to use my stuff out of connivence. I’ve had shit broken or lost this way and who ends up paying? Me.
I hate that I have to type this so much. Last Friday, the world lost an incredible talent and I lost an incredible friend.
@MatHalliday
passed away at the age of 39. Mat started recording my music in 2010 and has recorded pretty much everything I have released since then.
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As of April 1st, Spotify has demonetized any track on the platform that receives less than 1000 streams per year. That’s an estimated 86% of tracks on the platform. This new policy will impact small artists the most — the same artists that Spotify claims to support.
Been playing a lot of drums to get ready to fill in for
@camp_trash
this weekend. I think the last time I played drums live for a show has been like 14-15 years ago, lol.
Did anyone know I played drums, even?
Thanks to everyone for still listening to this record! Still hope to play it again live when the
@Lions
win the Super Bowl and
@eeiwale
gets back together ❤️❤️❤️
Super exited to announce we are now joining the amazing
@benquadok
for their spring tour! Check out the dates on the flier and we can't wait to get back out and see you again 🧡🧡🧡
I think I'd like to talk about what I've been up to this fall. I went into the studio with 15 songs and will come out with 25. That is by far the most that I have ever recorded at once. I have a few more days in the studio and a lot of vocals to write and record. I do all the
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Hey, I've been sad as heck lately and not felt like talking about talking about my record but also I kind of want to start doing that again so I am going to attempt it later this week. But I did buy way too many board games as a coping mechanism, lol
So unbelievably happy to announce my debut album "Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again" will be out on 10/21 on
@cylsrecords
. First single and pre-order information coming soon!
I have dropped nearly 3000 listeners per month on Spotify in like a month or so. Those metrics are exhausting to monitor. I haven't been posting much lately because I've been super busy recording new material and it's just proof that so much depends on constant output on socials
We hit 25K streams on Spotify for my new LP already! Ahhhh, thanks so much for listening 🧡🧡🧡
This is my first full length since the last
@eeiwale
LP in 2014 so I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect and it’s only been out a few days, so this makes me so happy. Thank you!
Something that I find interesting is being in a newer band after being in a semi-popular band and seeing if I can get more people to care about my new band than my old band.
Last Friday, my album "Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again" came out and it feels amazing to finally be able to share it with the world. It took over 4 years of off and on again effort (lots of both) to finally have this out and many times it felt like it was 1/
Excited to announce our tour dates for "Then the Lightness Leaves" tour with
@Warrenfrankln
this coming January! Check the poster out to see where we will be. Tickets available at the respective venues.
See you super soon!
In truth, the album has been done for a long time but things didn't line up for it to come out until now (October, for the release). Running a label means putting your own stuff on the backburner so it feels really good to be able to finally get this out. The response has been 1/
I took nearly a year to finish songs for a split for people who were very kind and understood my circumstances. I am now 99.99% ready to send it to them and I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@phoebe_bridgers
hello, I put a new album out today, I love your music (although my stuff sounds very little like your stuff) and I know you probably won’t listen but maybe you might so here it is:
Do people like it when I go on long twitter talks? I always have so much to say and it feels excessive when I do. I've grown uncomfortable with talking about my own art and I'm trying to change that and give it the time and respect all art deserves. That's a hard habit to break
What labels out there feel like putting out a split 7" with us and another band? I am planning on doing a lot of these this year and am starting to write for them!
We are going on tour in January! Attached are show dates and fliers/info for every show in each tweet. Some of them still have Warren listed, but he had to drop.
We are also playing a show next Friday on 12/30 in Ypsilanti, MI. Details on that in first tweet.
I still haven’t gotten a chance to properly talk about this yet, but just wanted to say thank you so much for everyone listening and talking about it. I am totally floored by the response so far 🧡🧡🧡
songs aren’t poetry and it drives me crazy when these unrelated words for different creative products are used interchangeably… i don’t have to die on this hill because it is just a normal fact
I wanted to thank the numerous people that reached out when I tweeted that I've been having a tough time lately. It means a lot. I think it is easy to forget that people are out there and care and help and we are always the worse for listening to our own advice. I'm working on it
HOLY CRAP, YAY! “If This Is Sadness, I Don’t Like It One Bit” was added to the official
@Spotify
Fresh Finds Rock playlist. Thank you, Spotifyyyyyy!
Listen here:
Flight Mode are the best new emo band that I've heard in years and they approach songwriting in such a unique, fresh way. I love them and hope all of you fall for them as much as I have.
Back home from tour and wanted to say thank you to everyone one involved! It was great to see so many old friends and make so many new ones. We had a blast and are looking forward to getting back out again soon.
I'll get the leftover merch back up on the
@cylsrecords
soon too!
OUR TOUR WITH
@benquadok
STARTS IN LESS THAN A MONTH! Check out the flier for all the updated shows, including a new Buffalo show!
Reallllllyyy excited to see you all on the road!
You can listen to the first single 'If This is Sadness, I Don't Like It One Bit' featuring vocals from
@JoieDeVivreBand
and
@Warrenfrankln
from my debut LP "Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again" on all streaming platforms:
I'm so excited!
This might be stupid, but my goal is to have a bigger discography than
@eeiwale
someday
There were over 50 Empire songs & ::checks Wikipedia:: (some of it is kind of inaccurate, but still):
I need more than
2 LPs
4 EPS (3, Summer Tour EP doesn't count)
2 Singles
12 splits
lol
You can now hear my cover of
@jimmyeatworld
's "The Most Beautiful Things" on the Jimmy Eat World tribute comp 'Are You Listening?':
All proceeds to go
@TransLifeline
. Thanks to
@emdashreed
for putting this whole thing together (and the cover art!)
so kind and I feel super invigorated to keep this going. I went through a very typical (at least for me) feeling of loving and hating and loving this record and the extra time just prolonged that. Happy to be in the loving phase still and can't wait for everyone to hear it.
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It’s pretty wild to actively know when people are listening to your band on Spotify. It gives me warm feelings to see it. It’s even more wild to see how often people are still listening to
@eeiwale
. I check that to refresh the ones I see at Mt. Oriander and there always people 1/
Thanks for caring about the new music I make! It’s wild to be active again, haha. It makes me so happy to be doing it again and just as happy that people still keep up with me 💙💙💙
Next year, minimum new LP 😇
Our EP is now up for free download/pay-what-you-want at
@cylsrecords
for Bandcamp Friday! We also put up some limited hand-stamped/numbered CDs up too! Limited to 100!
Bandcamp:
Store:
As many of you know, I run a record label called
@cylsrecords
. All my socials for those accounts have a much greater reach than my Mt. Oriander ones. I intentionally space out the posts between the two when I have news regarding both of them.
That's why it is always so
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YAY! Listen to my first single 'If This Is Sadness, I Don't Like It One Bit' from my new LP "Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again" at
@brooklynvegan
. and then pre-order vinyl at
@cylsrecords
and tapes at
@friendclubrecs
!:
I don't like writing songs with mean lyrics anymore, and I am halfway through a song that is mean and so I am taking a break to not keep this up so I can start again
Lol, recorded drums as I wrote a part on the spot and that brings the total song count to 20.
Which will DOUBLE the amount of songs I will have released when they are out
Announcing our January tour dates with
@Warrenfrankln
tomorrow! We have one date we need left that we could use some help for on 1/9. Looking for a show in NY/CT/NJ area. Hit me at at mtorinader
@gmail
.com ASAP please!
Can’t wait to see everyone!
I am anxiously awaiting the masters for the LP that has taken like 5 years to come into existence.
Insane I knocked out a 5 song EP from start to finish in like a month and a half and this has taken like half a decade