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Mattress 4 U

by Marjorine

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“Mattress 4 U” was written and recorded between March 2020 and June 2021 in various locations. I had originally set out to make a more minimal, groove oriented electronic rock record and ended up making something more akin to dream-pop and shoegaze. You can read more about each song below.

“See What You Want To See” is more or less a result of listening to Fela and drinking gin, kombucha, mint and strawberry cocktails. While we were out in California I was working on EST hours which resulted in me waking up very early on Saturday and Sunday mornings. One particular morning after a night of blasting Fela and drinking the aforementioned cocktails I woke up early and made what became the core loop of this song. The drums were programmed in the Octatrack and evoke a serious Tony Allen vibe. You can even hear me playing my coffee cup with a drum stick as one of the many layers involved. Once the bass and guitar loops were there I knew I had something and started jamming over them with what ended up being that lead synth line. The first verse was probably the one element I spent the most time on across all four of these songs. What ended up on the record is actually a comp between two very different vocal melodies I had come up with. Once I combined them I felt like I had a proper fit for the transition that takes place in the verse.

“Sleepy Monsters” was the only song written and recorded in Ellicottville, NY. We had just arrived to our quarantine location in March 2020 and the world was descending into confusion and chaos. I brought my Octatrack, Minilogue and acoustic guitar with me and a small handheld sampler with a built in microphone. I wrote and recorded this song on one of those first few days of quarantine and labeled the project “I guess I make dream pop now?” Many months later while looking through old songs for inspiration I came across this and realized it fit well with the other three songs on this EP. It maintains pretty much all of the original elements from that first mix, including the poorly recorded vocals via the sampler. The title was something Sydney came up with, and you can hear her emptying the dishwasher in the background as I sing the vocal lines.

I honestly don’t even remember recording “Desert Princess.” This is likely the result of another early Saturday morning in Palm Springs. Desert Princess was the name of the community we lived in while we were there. Like “Sleepy Monsters” I came across this project while looking for new songs to feature on the EP. I can still remember the first time I listened back and how I felt when the feedback disappears and the fog over the whole track drifts away. For some reason it’s deeply emotional for me every time I listen and is a song that though I don’t remember recording it genuinely evokes a lot of my feelings from Spring 2021.

“Converge” was the last track written and recorded for the EP and came about during a weekend long jam session with Joe Borkenhagen when he visited us in Palm Springs. We had been mainly working on some house music when I picked up the guitar and started playing those opening chords. It was one of those moments where I knew I had something right away and took a video to ensure I didn’t forget. The next week I got to laying down the song and realized I needed another part. The second half was just a riff I came up with on the spot and jammed over until it was where I wanted it to be. I spent a lot of time trying to get the transition right, and bringing the tempo down really created this abrupt change that I felt was a fitting segway between the dreaminess of the opening and the harsher more direct nature of the latter half.

As always, thanks to everyone for your help and support throughout the making of these songs. A lot more on the way!

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released May 27, 2022

Recorded and mixed between March 2020 and November 2021 in Ellicottville, NY, Cathedral City, CA, Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY

Production and Mixing by Marjorine
Mastering by Greg Obis

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