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Somewhere Back There [single]

by Spelling Reform

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Somewhere Back There 03:54
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Somewhere back there my Dad is smoking cigarettes with his friends and playing basketball. Skipping church and sleeping late. Studying to be a weatherman and running marathons. Somewhere back there my Mom is hanging out at a McDonald's with her friends after school. Learning to write in shorthand. Coming home to find her Dad dead... I can never know them. I can never speak to them. Somewhere back there my Grandmom went to Egypt with my uncle. Taking care of my granddad wilting in a hospital bed…
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What's So Hard About Pretending? (demo) 03:40
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“Make it a double” — that’s something I’ve never said to anyone. I’m up in the morning with the best of them. Who are these people who can go forever? I’m tied up tight with moss in my sweater. I’m never throwing my things away … OK, I could come around. What’s so hard about pretending? I’d like to have a panic attack in the stairwell but I can’t — the inside’s locked for security reasons. I’m always three drinks away from a good time but three drinks in, I’m hating every season. I’m always making it about me … OK, this one’s actually about me. What’s so hard about pretending? I have made believe that everybody thinks of me. Every once in a while I think, “OK, maybe it’s time to stop thinking.” What’s so hard about pretending?

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On Stay Inside, the second full-length record from Philadelphia indie rock group Spelling Reform that was released in April 2019, the band unveiled 10 introspective, mature and quiet-loud missives and character studies.

Purposefully left off that record was "Somewhere Back There," lead singer Dan Wisniewski's rumination on his parents as 20-somethings. Finding release as a standalone single in November 2019, "Somewhere Back There" adopts an energetic power-pop backing as Wisniewski reflects on what he's heard about his parents' young lives among a series of distorted guitar solos.

The song is backed by a demo of Stay Inside track "What's So Hard About Pretending?" On Stay Inside, the song is a showcase for drummer Mark Rybaltowski's kinetic drumming and a dynamic ebb-and-flow- arrangement, but here, the song's multiple, intricate synth lines shine, as does an ear-splitting guitar solo.

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released November 7, 2019

Spelling Reform is:
Jim Gannon
Tom Howley
Mark Rybaltowski
Dan Wisniewski

Songs written by Dan Wisniewski. © 2019 Spelling Reform.

Photograph by Dan Wisniewski. Artwork and graphic design by John Cassidy.

Say hi at spellingreformband.com.

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Spelling Reform Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nasal indie rock, stutter-stop power pop, pleasantly bent indie pop.

New LP "The Real Giving Up" out now.

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