MTN-35 "hey there flower" (2022)

by Tony Jay

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	1.	the rain drops 01:32
	2.	another time 01:49
	3.	melted car (feat. Karina Gill) 03:19
	4.	deep in squalor (feat. Griffin Jones) 02:15
	5.	hey there flower 02:53
	6.	cliché (feat. Kati Mashikian) 03:21
	7.	say it now (by François Hardy) 02:38
	8.	uneasy 02:15
	9.	ode to little bird (feat. Alexis Harper) 01:26
	10.	september skies (feat. Karina Gill) 03:32
	11.	the portal 02:54
	12.	the word 00:51
	13.	unled lives (feat. Hannah Lew) 02:09
	14.	saint matthew 02:27

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Mostly recorded between Christmas and New Year's during a window of isolation at home, “Hey There Flower” preserves Tony Jay’s prowess at making beautifully eerie lo-fi pop; like a hazy memory where your favorite Sixties girl-group melody is perpetually slowed down. Without a band to practice with, Tony Jay recorded the music alone, but recruited a slew of friends to remotely record backing vocals: Karina Gill (Cindy), Griffin Jones (Galore), Kati Mashikian (Mister Baby), Alexis Harper (Al Harper), & Hannah Lew (Cold Beat).

"Hey There Flower", the most recent release from the prolific and mysterious Tony Jay delivers real melodies -- both lacey with vocal harmonies and dusty with layered guitars -- as fans have come to expect. This release also carries forward and elaborates on Tony Jay's tradition of songs that express a kind of naked honesty about things we all know -- love and loneliness and all that -- while communicating at the same time a wry edge of skepticism, so that the songs are like coins spinning on edge before landing heads, tails, or lost under the couch. Tony Jay brings us into a nostalgia where we recognize moods from music of the past -- Marc Boland definitely comes to mind, as well as Velvet Underground of the Nico era, and Tony Jay even covers Francoise Hardy on this collection -- but the songs create a three dimensional space with what feels like a thousand layers so that instead of being thrown back in time, it's like stepping into a little world with its own laws of nature, of which the listener gets just a few hints. - Karina Gill, Cindy/Flowertown

Release date: May 6th, 2022.
Distributed worldwide by Revolver USA & Cargo UK.

All songs by Tony Jay © 2021

Except “Say It Now” by Skelton + Hardy

Backing vocals:
#3+10 Karina Gill, #4 Griffin Jones, #6 Kati Mashikian, #9 Alexi Harpe, #13 Hannah Lew

Collage by Karina Gill
Interior photo by Kati Mashikian
Mastered by Mikey Young
Thank you: Cindy, Galore, Mister Baby, Al Harper, Cold Beat, Paisley Shirt Records, Mt.St.Mtn.

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released May 6, 2022

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