High On The Glade, by Little Wings

High On The Glade

by Little Wings

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releases June 7, 2024

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Limited Edition Cassette of “High On The Glade”.
Pro-dubbed, pro-printed audio cassette w/ fold-out j-card.

Includes bonus Perpetual Doom Sticker.

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T-shirts available here: store.perpetualdoom.com

Includes digital pre-order of High On The Glade. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around June 7, 2024

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited Edition Cassette of “High On The Glade”.
Pro-dubbed, pro-printed audio cassette w/ fold-out j-card.
Includes a double-sided 11" x 17" lyrics insert, a 3.5" x 5.5" postcard featuring a photo ("Kyle Field on 6’1” Steve Huerta, Channel Bottom, 1988") taken by Bob Field, and a bonus Perpetual Doom sticker.

Includes bonus Perpetual Doom Sticker.

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T-shirts available here: store.perpetualdoom.com

Includes digital pre-order of High On The Glade. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around June 7, 2024

Purchasable with gift card

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1.	Bubbles Go Pop 04:20	lyrics	buy track
I sing for my meal froggy lost a wheel Better than he was ten times before But the dazzle’s got a different deal Staring at the ceiling from the floor The bubbles go pop the laughter doesn’t stop Effervescence grows into a roar The thoroughbreds are whinny The multitudes are many The bums upon the lam are slight and poor Back at the top the tack is so sharp They come from all around just to adore When the chorus lands the legs kick up the sands And shatter every window in the store The bubbles go pop so bubble up my friend For every now and then we all must blow And what was a flop is now a score again And what was wearing thin begins to grow Back at the wheel rubber air and steel Gasoline’ll help the spokes to go The monument was covered in meal But by summertime the melting of the snow Sonny boy was hot he downed another shot Side by side he lined them up to show His ribs were all a tattered flag He stuffed them with a paper bag And rolled the kind of grass you could not mow His tail ripped a toot we all said please don’t shoot The clock struck noon without a sec to spare But the second hand was covered in hair Time flies when the moment’s unaware The bubbles go pop so bubble up my friend For every now and then we all must blow And what was a flop is now a score again And what was wearing thin begins to grow I sing for my meal
2.	Brutal North Pillow
3.	Green Grass of Spring
4.	Handful of Earth
5.	Squire's Locker
6.	Coconut Tree
7.	Garbage
8.	They Sunk to the Bottom
9.	Ha Ha Blues 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Ha ha blues what can I do you for? What did you choose before a door in your distance My what news mining persistence How many wishes once the floor falls through? Hey there glove how about Neptune Fork napkin knife spoon and it’s all boiling over Be there soon down at the crab pot Fungus and flab rot in a mold so blue Just say cheese gleaming and gooey Early and dewy and that’s just the kitchen Morning breeze horsepower brewing Chimney is doing what the chimneys do Ha ha blues missing in action What a contraption with its loop de loop Ups and downs holding attraction A gushing reaction when the game is through Seesaw sings still in the blanket Maybe we wank it if you stay real still Harder please only beginning The pillow is grinning as we take that hill Gobbledeegoo golly gee willikers Pink wadded wet knickers if we could just find them Hey that’s new bent at the waist again You’ll take a taste again and I’ll get behind them Ha ha blues laughing already Holding it steady where the sun shines through How we do maybe it’s petty Unless I’m forgetting how the gasket blew Time for two doors at Laserium Rat piss aquarium talking dimension Iron bru give or I’ll snog you Birdnest and log you in the afternoon Ha ha blues what can I do you for? What did you choose before a door in your distance My what news mining persistence How many wishes once the floor falls through? How many wishes once the floor falls through? How many wishes once the floor falls through?
10.	Goatshead Soup

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Releases on June 7th

Perpetual Doom is proud to present the latest full-length album from Little Wings: High on the Glade. Kyle Field, the Golden State’s mercurial troubadour, is back with a vengeance—songs of vaudeville and villainy, renewal and rebirth.

Open all the doors and windows, let the air out and the spirits in. That is the ritual that Field developed between takes at the Dry Gulch Ranch in Malibu, California, the old set of Gilligan’s Island where the S.S. Minnow still lies wrecked on the cracked earth. This observance, like taking a long, deep breath after holding it again, felt necessary. With a Fall breeze blowing in over distant vistas and Camarillo State Hospital merely miles away, the atmosphere was tense. Engineer Kyle Mullarky had only a half hours’ worth of tape to capture ten songs, and Field aimed to get it all down in an afternoon. But constraints of this kind can also be a creative blessing. There’s a reason Field chose to record on tape: in his words, “Limitations make me chuffed, it lit me up.”

In the case of what would become High on the Glade, those attending spirits urged him to play faster. Little Wings has made its reputation on West Coast folk that ambles at a wanderer’s pace, but Field took to playing his new tunes slightly allegro, quickening his leisurely strum into a lively, Gaelic air. Indeed, Field thinks of this as being his most Irish record, full of heartbreak and violence. It is a fitting description for tracks like “Brutal North Pillow” and “Squire’s Locker,” which evoke a long tradition of mud-splattered balladry from 18th century tales of bandits and rovers to The Pogues’ down-on-their-luck romantics.

The characters Field embodies on this album share his distinctive eye for comic detail, but they are not afraid of exploring the underside of a dark age. Take the buccaneer narrator of “Squire’s Locker,” who tells us that “to run a man through to the base of a sword, and watch his eyes bulge, is a pleasure.” There is a bitter sense of justice running through this Roger’s account, a desire to get back at the idle and comfortable, the “Lord Fontleroys” hoarding the world’s Treasure. Much of the album explores the uneasiness that comes with living through a decadent era, what Field describes as kind of new Roaring Twenties, a farcical return to a Digital Jazz Age. Even the less bloodthirsty perspectives on the album share this conviction: album opener “Bubbles Go Pop” details a raucous party where the “laughter doesn’t stop” although the “bums upon the lam are slight and poor” even as the sing-song melody, evocative of so many classic Little Wings tunes, becomes buried in a chaotic bed of percussive noise.

After a day of drums and percussion, Field airlifted the recording to Jonny Kosmo’s compound to add additional flourishes. The album, mixed by Bongwater’s Kramer, resonates with unexpected collisions of sound. If it is Field’s plaintive voice that still defines Little Wings, he sounds less alone than ever. Kramer surrounds him with a pocket-sized orchestra to match the diverse landscapes that the lyrics evoke. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than on the stunning album closer “Goatshead Soup,” where lush strings add a sweeping and tender touch to Field’s account of a Satanic neighborhood poisoning. This track, a haunting and darkly humorous murder ballad, pushes Little Wings into undiscovered territory. It helps define High on the Glade as somewhere between the new and the old—a record of rebirth. A chance to clear the air.

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credits

releases June 7, 2024

Stuart Johnson - Drums, Foley, Percussion
Tim Ramsey - Pedal Steel
Jeremy Phan - Accordion
Adam Moss - Violin
Jonny Kosmo - Additional Drums
Kyle Mullarky - Bass, Mandolin
Kramer - Keys, Strings, Bell
Kyle Field - Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Melodica

Mastered by Kramer
Recorded by Kyle Mullarky
Additional Recording by Jonny Cosmo
Creative Consultant - Peter McLaughlin
Produced by Kramer and Kyle Field

For Aya

Cover Photo: K. Field
Back Photo: S. Falk

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