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The Chicago Board of Trade

from Stay Inside by Spelling Reform

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Breezy, patient, measured — these are not words to describe the 11 barn-burning songs on “No One’s Ever Changed,” the acclaimed 2016 LP from Philly indie rock/power pop band Spelling Reform that was recorded with Hop Along’s Joe Reinhart. But those adjectives do adequately describe “The Chicago Board of Trade,” the second single from the band’s new LP “Stay Inside.”

Across four wide-ranging minutes, the group masterfully plays with dynamics, adding and removing banjo, church organ and electric piano in creating a rare (for the band) mid-tempo amble that nimbly moves toward a gear-shifting denouement. Like many of the songs on “Stay Inside,” the song ends far from where it began — in this case, amid a series of massive Drop D riffs.

Lyrically, lead singer and songwriter Dan Wisniewski explores two disparate memories (including one involving the iconic architectural masterpiece of the song’s title) before a bitter reveal. “There’s a joy in reliving specific thoughts and feelings, and there’s a sadness in realizing how common those seemingly unique memories can be,” said Wisniewski.

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The Chicago Board of Trade seemed like maybe it had changed. In my mind, it grew between now and when, to me, it was new.

But that’s how memory goes — building up something bigger than it was.

Richard Manuel sung to me on my wet walk home about Independence Day and the long-gone Chicago Board of Trade.

And with generations crossed, I’d never felt so lost.

Every feeling’s the same feeling everyone has had before me. I am not something new. I’m living in the most common way.

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from Stay Inside, released April 5, 2019

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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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