You’re Always On, by Other Houses

You’re Always On

by Other Houses

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	1.	Stock Character 01:45
	2.	Lukewarm Frogs 02:20

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The last few years have marked the least amount of music I’ve released since high school. A jarring loss took me out of it. Reshuffled my priorities. So I threw myself into journalism out of necessity. When I got the impulse to make music in stolen moments, it mostly resulted in me thrashing through Logic (a new-to-me program; I’m a four-track guy) and timing my takes so the train wouldn’t rattle by and ruin them. Listening to a lot of tacky ‘90s new age to salve my grief, I started a Windham Hill-style acoustic album and scrapped it.

Anyway, I eventually got in the groove, and now I have a new single called You’re Always On. Both songs date back to a period in which my bandmate Reuben and I reconnected and filled a SoundCloud playlist with odd country-pop songs we made together over email. They had a playful quality, true to the YouTube links we were shooting back and forth — Paul Simon, the Slits, the Clean, Arthur Russell, GBV. It was freeing to write jovially and sarcastically; life had felt so serious and I was sick of seriousness. In the end, we emptied out the playlist for our own projects and took a different approach for our next record.

So then I had a bunch of songs without homes; these are two of them. “Stock Character" is a power-pop song about how the internet enables people to affect stilted academic language and leverage it to act cruel to each other. “Lukewarm Frogs” began as an attempted ripoff of Paul McCartney's "Hand in Hand" until that song's warmth and tenderness hardened into aridness and desertedness. I tracked everything with the exception of Chad Peck of Kestrels, who played guitar and sang on “Stock Character” while quarantining at home in Halifax.

Thanks, Chad, and additional thanks to April Golden for a great mastering job, Reuben for his input on the arrangement of "Lukewarm Frogs", Julien Fernandez for the cover photo, and my wife Brenna for her daily encouragement. 100% of the income from this release will be split between the Louisville Community Bail Fund and the family of Breonna Taylor.

—Morgan, Other Houses

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released July 15, 2020

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Other Houses Hackensack, New Jersey

The songs of Morgan Enos. Also seen writing about music for various places. I did this before I did that. Still do it.

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