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ON041 - Subpar Lovers

by The Sons Of Montana

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Fault lines on letterhead read "nothing mends a broken heart like breaking a new heart". There is nothing like being really bad at "goodbye", or at least that's what I've surmised, but don't take my advice. Every hopeless romantic seeks a harlot with barbed wire braces, and breath like the plague, fly paper legs. She is disarming. She is sweet static speech. She is disarming.  She is the one with the beard of bees. She is lady luck. The bearer of everything. She is for me. The mercy among thieves. She'll lead us astray.
2.
Dead Asner 02:07
With heavy harrow and wooden skin, these collapsed hearts have shrunken slim, and coffin nails don’t want to bend. Funerals make memories of men, furnaces heat and then burn them. Show your grain, not just the bark well worn. Let me litter your pretty future. You can’t sleepwalk on this regret. These miles leave a hurt you can’t walk off, so I drag on. These trials leave a hurt you can’t shake off, so I writhe on. These miles leave a hurt you can’t walk off, so I crawl on. I crawl on. I crawl on
3.
Saint Banger 01:57
When Kings become cannibals with food under feet, we’ve become the animals now, even salt tastes sweet. Wooden teeth Powdered wigs Wage wars with drones They love brittle bones Long live you, last gracious host Protest these old, broke ghosts The art of poor has been oversold, by suits draped in black and lined with gold. We’ve been underfed. Worn thin, told to stand up straight, and suck our sunken cheeks in. The art of poor has been oversold, by suits draped in black and lined with gold. Long live you, our last gracious host Long live you, we are so baroque Long live you, our last gracious host Long live you, we are so baroque Wooden teeth Powdered wigs
4.
Drunken ships and Sunken sailors seldom speak of anything but the days of old and those who could stop, stood long enough to listen. Through the mumbles and code to learn little more than tall tales of the heartless, hellbent, heading headlong for heartbreak screaming  "Don't take this to heart, but take it far, far from here." Knowing we spent everything for nothing. Knowing we spent everything on nothing.
5.
Sit back, Strap in. A car bomb jihad joyride down a one-way street. Our last hallelujah, for the restless, for the meek. We're going to make some news tonight. We're going to make it "all right". Or at least that's what I said, kissing her goodnight. And you can blame it on what you will,  but the smell of her perfume always gets me high.  Always. I kid you not, I've hung myself for a hell of a lot less than this before.
6.
Here we are again, In a parking lot. You know the drill. Smile and lie. Please don't ever, let me see you cry, in this parking lot. Bare on sex-soaked seats. Barely in. Barely on me.  With our clothes around our feet, this anticipation, we can barely see. Baby please, this is exactly what we need. Unphased by my taste, thick in your smile.

about

ON041 is a 6 track 20 minute double EP for fans of late-90s early-00s post/metallic-hardcore vibe of Refused, Cave In (all eras), Glassjaw, Shai Hulud, Drowningman, Boysetsfire, even reaching as far out and dissonant as Deadguy, Torn Apart, Botch and 108 in a few torridly chaotic shards.

TSoM have both sinister and upbeat sides to their personality. I think they balance the two excellently. These songs are damn infectious; truly. There are hooks, there are riffs, there are fantastic dynamics throughout, and the well-written songs punch hard and individually amongst a powerful complete anthology.

If you're intrigued by that initial intro, figure in an all-star cast of engineers/production staff across the two EPs that make up this release (see below), and then sit back, strap in and give this a blast; twice (or more) for optimum results.

Go support the band in the following places.
thesonsofmontana.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/thesonsofmontana
www.facebook.com/thesonsofmontana

credits

released March 30, 2023

The band speak of their journey, which started in the mid-00s as such: "The Sons of Montana's story is far from romantic. We are professional procrastinators, wading in the tides between risk and regret. We make noise and crooked smiles. Four socially inept misfits brought together by their desire to wage a rock and roll jihad, armed with high-gain feedback, lonely teenage hearts, and middle-aged debt."

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Video for 'Beard Of Bees' (made by me, for those who like skateboarding, Simpsons, trippy things, in-jokes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f35tdA70TI

Album on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLdHslKJCJc

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Tracks 1-3 are the brand new Subpar Lovers EP
Recorded at Radar Studios, Clinton Connecticut. Engineered by Daryl Rabidoux (Drowningman, Cancer Conspiracy). Mixed and mastered by Will Benoit (SOM, Caspian, Rosetta, Constants).

Tracks 4-6 are the Songs To Seduce Your Future Ex EP
Recorded at GodCity Studios, Salem Massachusetts. Engineered and mixed by Kurt Ballou. Originally released May 30, 2021

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