Chicago's PROBLEM PEOPLE have quietly slummed in the ranks of numerous debauched bands while kindling this debut album for Tic Tac Totally Records. Sonically a range of melodic rock fronted by the poetic lyrics carried with a visceral and raspy delivery. Their brief catalog of human issues...er...album does the trick of a solid debut; it conjures a sense of uniformity out of disparate influences, turning the potential energy of each track into a cohesive, almost Husker Du like album. Good praise! But deserved. These are the boys that slouch behind the rank and file rows of the scene, looking up at it all from a whiskey haze of bar stools and then write an album from that perspective that ironically contributes a strangely absent voice to Chicago's unique way of tottering between art school pretense and anti-art-school pretense. FUCK IT ALL BRO. These are just some dudes. Some PROBLEM PEOPLE!
Released March 25, 2016
Chris Clark – Vocals, Bass, Words
Michael Petrucelly – Drums, Vocals
Aaron Turney – Guitar, Vocals, Piano
*Synthesizer on "Prom Song" by Cooper Crain
All songs written by Problem People (ASCAP)
Recorded by Cooper Crain at Minbal
Mixed by Stephen Turney
Mastered by Shelly Steffens at Chicago Mastering Service
Art/Layout by Mattt Clark
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lyrics
Haha, “paradise”
Haha, “real life”
Listen to philosophy, listen to the scripture
Listen to anything that makes your mind move faster
Haha, you’re alive. I guess you’re found.
I need, you need, they need something tangible.
Nothing no one nowhere gets in digital.
Staring at an empty page, it never moves faster
Set to hypocritize our own little disaster.
Haha, you’re online. I guess you’re found.
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