Microwave- Let's Start Degeneracy (Indie Exclusive)

Format: New Vinyl/Rock

Release Date: 4.26.24
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Microwave- Let's Start Degeneracy (Indie Exclusive)

Microwave- Let's Start Degeneracy (Indie Exclusive)

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UPC: 810540036410
  • (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Pink, Purple, Splatter)
The fourth full-length record from Atlanta’s Microwave is a trip. It all begins with the misty synth strikes and cosmic transmission warbles of “Portals,” before hazy, dripping-wet guitar chords settle in. The song, an adaptation of the traditional Christian hymn “Softly and Tenderly,” is true to its new name, as liminal and fleeting as it is gripping and emotional. It’s an enormous, gentle, enveloping introduction to what will be explored: life and death, happiness and freedom, the real and unreal. This is Let’s Start Degeneracy, the long-awaited new album from Microwave, releasing on April 26 via Pure Noise.
 
It's an emo record, but perhaps only categorically speaking. It contains multitudes: ambient, pop, R&B, punk, and experimental sounds float in and out of one another as the record moves through scenes, experiences, and feelings, all of them rippling with a purity of intention and translation that mark the best artistic works of “psychedelia.” Vocalist/guitarist/producer Nathan Hardy, bassist Tyler Hill, and drummer Timothy Pittard have created something that resembles a concept record, but it’s the sort of concept that’s impossible to contain in just one phrase or word or sound. 
 
The record’s title, taken from a conservative politician’s take on drugs in 1970, captures this liberated spirit. There are no rules, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. “It’s about letting go of attachments and behaviors that aren’t serving you, and trying to shake off your programming and not be motivated by fear and guilt and shame,” says Hardy.
1. Portals
2. Ferrari
3. Circling the Drain
4. Bored of Being Sad
5. Straw Hat
6. Let’s Start Degeneracy
7. Omni
8. Strangers
9. Concertito in G Major
10. Huperzine Dream

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