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Buddy Junior - Portal

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  • Cherub Dream Records 2020

  • Home-dubbed limited clear yellow cassette

  • Each tape hand decorated by the band

The songs that appear here on Portal were selected because they all reference spaces in which one moves through, either literally, or more often, as allusions to imagined portals into the spaces of the body that feel hollow, yet at the same time, are filled with a complicated spectrum of emotions. I would not call this a conceptual record, because the songs here were not written with any concept in mind. I would say however, that at a very specific time of my life, I became obsessed with this idea of portals, going so far as to paint one in my room. I told people that I stared into it, and found a place to exist where I was centered and calm, but really, I didn’t feel much of anything, and would bang my head into the wall when no one was looking. The songs here are very much so a reflection of that time.

I think this record is our weirdo take on garage rock? We will probably never make a record that sounds quite like this again. The songs here, for the most part, are older than the songs that appear on MARIETTA, our first release. I wanted to give people an opportunity to say that they liked our first record better, while also widening our appeal. The oldest fragment that appears here, are the lyrics to NORMAL, which mostly come from a poem I wrote eight years ago before I gave up poems for the rocker lifestyle. - Buddy Junior

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