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Going To My Brother's House

by maxwell stern

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this song had to do a lap around the world before i figured out what it was supposed to be. i started writing it in Philadelphia, finished the lyrics in Pittsburgh and then tried it out on an east coast tour with the great Chicago band Mother Evergreen in August 2017. i then worked on it some more, played it a bunch while touring Australia in March 2018, and tracked what i thought would be a demo version in my friend Nick Van Breda's apartment in the Sydney neighborhood of King's Cross. Nick lives on the second floor, and every so often while I was recording, I'd make eye contact with some passing tourists on the top level of a double-decker bus.

from there, I sent it to Adam Beck in Chicago - purely as a demo just to get some feedback. what Adam sent back to me a few days later was a fully arranged, fleshed-out version of the song replete with a rhythm section, synths and keys. unbeknownst to me, Adam, Danny & Evan (3/5 of Mother Evergreen) had spent a day building the song out and vastly improving upon my half-passable living-room creation.

so, yeah - what you're hearing here took several cities and two hemispheres to make. huge thanks to the Mother Evergreen crew for making this happen. I'm endlessly flattered and so grateful to know y'all.

lyrics

she says my name but it's not my name
she was talking to a dog as he was walking away
he sees a path
she follows through
moving faster than either of them meant to

catch local stares, they can tell i'm not from here
backlit neon silhouettes all drinking cheap domestics
and they scoff & size me up
but they clearly do not give one single solitary fuck
chasing abstract-impressionistic lines of tar
outside the orbit of the dive-bar commissars

faith in future seasons bittersweet
where our tributaries momentarily meet
indiscrete and wavering but strong

and every hill in this half-built Rust Belt town
is more than slightly overgrown
and so i navigate around
and the debris spell-sings a command
but i was way too busy playing in a band
and so distracted by the daunting day-to-day
to let it register in any deeper way

faith in future seasons bittersweet
where our tributaries momentarily meet
indiscrete and wavering but strong

she says my name but it's not my name anymore

credits

released April 10, 2018
Maxwell Stern - guitar, vocals
Adam Beck - drums, engineering, mixing, mastering, arrangement
Danny Radovanovic - keys
Evan Loritsch - bass, Casio SK-1

Guitar & vocals recorded at Nick's apartment in Sydney, AUS
Everything else done at Type 1 Studios in Chicago, IL

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maxwell stern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hailing from the post-industrial shores of Cleveland, OH, Maxwell Stern has been writing music and touring since the early 2000s. He has released a slew of LPs and 7"s, and has played shows pretty much everywhere including an abandoned restaurant in Wyoming, a mall in China, several squats in Germany and a pretty nice bookstore in Australia. He is definitely not the person writing this. ... more

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Apr 26

Mercury Lounge Nyc

New York (NYC), NY

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