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Two Circles

from Heavy For A While by BYLAND

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    Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear frosted glass vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!

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    SIGNED with a lil message from Alie - Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear frosted glass vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!

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    We partnered up with local (Everett, WA) tape label, Palmer House to create a short run of Limited Edition tapes and they even are translucent pink, which is bad ass. This doesn't come with a tape player, so good luck listening to this in 2024. You might wanna hit up a thrift store for this.

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    This shirt is 100% Cotton, and printed in Everett, WA by our friends from Screen Printing Northwest.

    Designed by our friend, Andrew Martinez, a fellow New Mexican who also has migrated to Seattle. Us New Mexican's find each other out here in the wild.

    The idea behind this shirt was to bring to life a piece of all ten songs. We love it - we think you will too.

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    "Gray" was the best thing Byland (hi, it's me alie) had made up until that point.
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    You get the new record, "Heavy For A While" in Clear Glass + the "Byland" Tote + The "Heavy For a While" Shirt.

    THE VINYLS SLIDE IN PERFECTLY to the tote.

    This shirt is 100% Cotton, and printed in Everett, WA by our friends from Screen Printing Northwest.

    Designed by our friend, Andrew Martinez, a fellow New Mexican who also has migrated to Seattle. Us New Mexican's find each other out here in the wild.

    The idea behind this shirt was to bring to life a piece of all ten songs. We love it - we think you will too.

    YOU SAVE $7!!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear pink vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 50 

      $25 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    SIGNED with a lil message from Alie - Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear pink glass vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

Alie: It was an honor to help usher this song into what it is today. I helped write the melody, but really, this is a “Jake masterpiece”. It carries a full myriad of ideas and emotions, and feels like it changes meaning each time I get to sing it. I see myself in this song. I see others. I see love, pain, anger, frustration, joy, shame, angst, everything and nothing - a fullness in duality.
Jake: While writing the album and this song in particular, I was very inspired by bands like The National and the War On Drugs, who seem to write with sentiments rather than ideas. You feel what the song is about regardless of whether or not you know what the words mean. I wrote the words, but still feel like I’m able to get lost in the song and discover meaning within it.

Jake: We all know this person and many of us have been this person - the one that never grew up.
Jake: To me this song feels like meeting another version of yourself at the bar and experiencing for yourself the curiosity and compassion that you might lend a stranger.
Jake: After writing the words, I was afraid that they might be to “Poppy”, but what Alie did with the melody brought it into a whole other world. It's melancholy yet brutal. Overwhelming yet comforting.

lyrics

I am yellow
You are green
Just two circles side by side
I don’t think that you know me
We have have that in common
I hate my handwriting
And nothing about you
Wish I could see you like a stranger
Can I bum a piece of gum

You wear the same clothes
You tell the same jokes
You just got older
You just got older
Don’t make you wiser
You never grew up
You just got older
You just got older

Yesterday I was twenty five
Tomorrow I am terrified
I’m not good at small talk
I was born with crooked teeth
You’re a chorus I’m a verse
But I don’t have any words
I hum and I hope
You understand what I don’t

You wear the same clothes
You tell the same jokes
You just got older
You just got older
Don’t make you wiser
You never grew up
You just got older
You just got older
You wear the same clothes
You tell the same jokes
You just got older
You just got older

credits

from Heavy For A While, track released February 16, 2024
Writing: Alie Byland, Jacob Byland
Production: Nathan Yaccino
Engineer: Nathan Yaccino
Engineering Assistance: Jacob Byland
Mixing: Brandon Bell
Mastering: Pete Lyman (Infrasonic Mastering)
Mastering Assistant: Daniel Bacigalupi (Infrasonic Mastering)

Performers:
Alie Byland: Vocals
Nathan Yaccino: Guitar
Skyler Mehal: Pedal Steel
Jessica Dobson: Guitar

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BYLAND Seattle, Washington

Byland is the moniker and last name of Seattle-based, Albuquerque-raised, Cinematic Indie Rock artist, Alie Renee. Her dynamic sound is often characterized by arrangements full of intriguing time signatures and unexpected chord changes, tethered by timeless lyrics and vocal vulnerability. For her, music is about taking time to create space to process emotions. ... more

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