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Nobody Knows

by Problem People

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Gabe McDonough Ripping guitar music in 2018. Does the Dü and the Shü in equal parts. Opener "Heat" almost feels like a punker take on early Oasis. HUGEST THANKS. Favorite track: Heat.
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1.
Heat 03:41
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Hello? Hello. It’s nice to meet you. If you were a home. I’d like to heat you. Goodbye, good guy. You’re really trying. If you were a home, nobody’s buying.
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New Thing 02:22
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I got this new thing Thought I had nothing, baby Follow you outside daily You get me to do things Like trust my instincts, baby Loved ones have fallen lately Count My Savings I got this true thing It’s really something, baby Walk with you outside daily You get me to do things Like buy a new ring, baby Yeah, we’ve both fallen lately Now, We’re Swaying
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Strange Shape 03:08
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I still sleep hands over chest on my back like one day I won’t rise I wonder if these habits are the nightly caskets keeping me alive Oh the strange shape of your dreams
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747 03:14
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Woke up at 747 with the feeling in my head, I wanna take off Last night she told me it was over (and over) she was gonna take off Though I haven’t disappeared I’m not so sure I’m still here How many little pieces of my heart, soul and reason will this take off? Got home around 420, with little to no money to get high My mind continues reeling, so numbness might have feeling to-night But I don’t even smoke that shit Got bottles, bottomless pits How many little pieces of my heart, soul and reason can I get high? Now its 11:11 and the muddy midnight heavens taunt me Its her I must get over, the ghost of being sober, always haunting There’s a blurry black sky truth A new face in the honey moon But how many little pieces of my heart, soul and reason even want me?
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Ladder of Which 05:15
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Autumn fell tonight Gravity on my knife Crystal in my sight Some stories take a life I’ve broken promises To fathers, living and dead The latter of which, the ladder of which Lingers in my head Opening up a single stitch I was married in a ding dong ditch And every empty doorway Is now celebratory Once again I’m watching Trick or treaters knocking Visions through the window Division and a widow Opening up a single stitch I was buried in an open ditch And every empty doorway Is now celebratory
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Nobody Knows 04:37
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Nobody knows if they have a similar fate To the innocent ones whom they choose to hate And the guilty ones whom they choose to love Decide the fates of almost everyone Nobody knows. It’s too late Nobody knows the minute they’ll go Blown to pieces, put back together on a nightly news show I don’t want to know, but I’ll do my best with the role Test my soul, come on and test my soul. Nobody knows. It’s too late
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Delete History 03:25
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Subatomically Evil bubbled up within a gene Particle comedy Or the greater part of me Delete history Happily insert dopamine Chemical irony Capable of atrocity Macro or microscopically Delete history Division happens passively If everything is not, what anything is Inside this triumphant magnetic hiss Blips on the grid, lights across the plain Release my soul from this chemical stain
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Nowhere Fears 03:16
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It should come as no surprise People are the real natural disasters Winds and weather nowhere fierce, what with what they’re after Marginalize who they can’t kill Breaking souls for the thrill With the news on every channel silencing the laughter, what with what we’re after We are nowhere  We are nowhere fierce at all
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Pale 03:28
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Pale white sheets and autumn underneath You’ll break my broken heart Clever in the middle of a family’s individual start A primrose altar, a half-dosed offer You’re a bride in a crimson disguise Slide into the pages of a failed engagement alive A century is every afternoon. Seventeen years electedly endeared to a dream unconsciously wise You’re the night walk mare in the first stable where I opened my eyes Break the partition from this act of contrition No walls can bind my heart I’m a cemetery city weary person with a purpose to start So let me start with this. Begin with you. A century is every afternoon. And when I bleed it won’t be so blue. A century is every afternoon.
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Letter Unsent 05:33
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Set the table count to three put down your cards stare at the sea its been this way time over time i misappropriate my love giving others every dime but no one’s cup is filling up i’m at my worst, i’m at my worst with those that deserve all i have, and first familiar terrain washed away our possessions become sand ankles overtaken by an ocean of demands we ignore this end and its vacuum of weather for one final dinner friends and family together grownups filling old cups with cold dust i'll tell you all that my love was never hidden its been filling up the insides of this shelter i've been building and i'll drain it out for you against this pale storm weathering my devices for those still on the shore but the beach is submerged the streets are flooded this house may one day freeze but we’ll drown hot blooded holding hands sitting down as waves taste the porch we’ll tell each other everything we must and then laugh a little more set the table count to three put down your cards stare into me i'll swallow the abyss so you can breathe

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‘Hello? Hello. It’s nice to meet you.’ opens Problem People’s sophomore LP Nobody Knows amidst a relentless, exhilarating siren drone of fuzzed out guitar, frenetic percussion, and a probing bassline that has come to characterize their sound. The Chicago-based trio of Chris Clark, Michael Petrucelly and Aaron Turney first introduced themselves with their 2016 self-titled debut (which the Chicago Reader felt "should've been an instant classic of Chicago punk") but their return finds the band shapeshifting their heavy melodic rock into the realm of psychedelic drone (“Strange Shape”), brooding dark wave (“Ladder Of Which”) and pummeling hardcore punk (“Nobody Knows”). Nice to meet you, indeed.

Inspired by raucous, raspy yet poetic greats like The Replacements, Jawbreaker and Husker Du, Nobody Knows offers several strong, recurring themes amidst the frenetic energy. Both “Delete History” and “Ladder Of Which” contain multiple nods to the division of interpersonal relationships, but also the cross street of the principle lyricist, Clark’s, now former Wicker Park home where the album was written (‘Visions through the window / Division and a widow’). While the lyrics slide from heartbreak (“747”) to newfound love (“New Thing”, “Pale”), the sense of place is firmly rooted in this neighborhood, with multiple references to the classic artist dive, Rainbo Club. The album closer even combines piano recorded at the Harold Washington Library with a phone recording of the bar-room din at Rainbo on Clark’s last night living across the street.

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released July 20, 2018

Nobody Knows will be released digitally on 7/20 via Tic Tac Totally. The album was recorded at Minbal Studios in Chicago, IL by Stephen Turney, who also mixed the full album at his studios in Nashville. Mastering by Dave Vettraino and Public House Sound in Chicago, IL. Publishing administration by Arts & Crafts Publishing. Problem People Songs 2018 (ASCAP).

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