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SECRET CITIES | Pink Graffiti Pt. 1

Secret Cities began with tapes flying through the mail back and forth between the Easternmost to the Westernmost borders of North Dakota. MJ Parker and Charlie Gokey were barely 15 when they met at band camp, but a shared love of psychedelia and scads of secret, unheard songs between them drew the pair together. They passed cassettes back and forth across the tundra of their home state, each manipulating and adding to the other’s work via 4-track. Slowly they built up a catalog of sound collage and darkly romantic pop. Those songs might not have made it beyond the UPS had a friend not put them in contact with Baltimore based Fall Records three years and about a dozen cassettes in. In 2005 they released Zurich, an album that embraced both the weirdness that grows in rural isolation and the psychedelic music that had initially brought the pair together. Following the addition of Alex Abnos (aka Kansas City’s Tut Tut) on drums and a whirlwind tour of Midwest, the three went back to the drawing board. Over the next four years, they tore down and rebuilt their sound, sometimes woodshedding in an actual wooden shed on the prairie. Eventually, Secret Cities emerged with a cocktail of Spector-esque doe-eyed romanticism, electronic flourishes indebted to minimalist composers like Terry Riley, the noisy, art damaged sensibilities of late psych groups like The United States of America. All that, plus their own persistent weirdness.

To add on this, this song has such a good summer vibe. Let yourself go to this track while you drive down the highway this summer. Make sure you let your friends know about this track because we totally recommend it.

…a fractured piece of music made from just about every possible sound under the sun, probably not too far off from what [Brian] Wilson’s been attempting for his entire career.”“
– FADER

“…intimate and immediately likable…It gets better and better the more you listen to it.”
– Stereogum

“…alluring electronic psychedelia, shedding the usual brittle tendencies of synth-pop in favour of far stranger sounds, perhaps more akin to the Flaming Lips’ recent output rather than more conventional electronic fare. ‘Pink Graffiti, Part 1’ is a little more organic sounding with its pianos and overdriven drums, but it’s no less unusual and impressive. Very good indeed.” 
– Boomkat

This album is coming out July 20th! Go get your hands on it then!

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