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Main Street Lights

from Main Street Lights by Vicious Petals

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    Enjoy the full-length album, mastered for vinyl, on two deluxe 180-gram LPs. Full color gatefold jacket with insert.

    Main Street Lights, Vicious Petals’ first release, was recorded on two-inch tape at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA. In this span of songs, Smith brings his powerful and earnest voice forward with an equally deep range in his guitar. Both are wonderfully complemented, anchored, and (at times) put on a leash by Okano’s heartbreaking, virtuosic, and frequently fierce piano.

    The record is an ambitious full-length album recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile) and engineer Jerry Streeter (Secret Sisters, Brandi Carlile). The arrangements are broad in their instrumentation, reflecting the duo’s ease working across genre and style. Painting with a broad palette of tone and arrangement, Okano and Smith give each of their compositions the perfect framework for eloquent expression.

    Produced by Ryan Hadlock
    Additional production by Jerry Streeter
    Recorded and mixed by Ryan Hadlock and Jerry Streeter
    Additional engineering/mix assistance by Taylor Carroll
    Assistant engineers: Taylor Carroll, Tye Hastings, Brighton Pruss
    All songs recorded and mixed at Bear Creek Studio, Woodinville WA
    Mastered by Lurssen Mastering, Los Angeles CA

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lyrics

"When ya coming home?"
His mama said to him
"You’ve been gone so long."
And you know I ain’t ever been…
Never been the type
To rest on laurels and lies
But it’s been too long

You can call me in the morning
You can forget your nightfalls
We can pour over the ashes
Your kettle black and your kettle calls
You can tell me all your secrets
And I’ll tell you my lies
Troubled truths that are passing
Little hopes that died
Little hopes that died, yes.

'Cause I’ve never been the type
To lay it on the line
Lover’s pain and pride
Aching inches with
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile

This city’s always weeping
It carries me like a stray dog
I wonder why I’ve been taken
To this stretch for so long
Hold my hands while I worry
I’ll hold yours while you fret
Take me down your forgotten alleys
Give me all your regret
Give me all your regret, yes.

'Cause I've never been the type
To lay it on the line
Lover’s pain and pride
Aching inches with
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile

I see your gutters and ash swept walls
Red bricks, black splattered paint and all
Orange lights just a glow of rain
Pain aflood just the same
Dead vendor stalls with the stain of loss
Cluttered trash sex crimes in your dark
The buildings felled like a forest of grief
Looking over all I see is
There’s a light going down over Main Street tonight
There’s a light going down over Main Street tonight

Bring your love back home
Beg the sunshine to stay
On that main street of sullen stone
Pave yourself a better way

'Cause you’ve never been
The type to lay it on the line
Take your pain and pride
And your aching inches with
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile
The feel of falling mile by mile

credits

from Main Street Lights, released August 26, 2016
words by C. Smith / music & arrangement by C. Smith & A. Okano

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Vicious Petals Seattle, Washington

Led by songwriters Cooper Smith and Ayako Okano, Vicious Petals plays songs full of grit and beauty, darkness and light, love and loss.

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