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Postcards

by Mariana Rivals

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1.
Postcard 03:56
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2.
Chance Favors 03:32
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3.
Get You Down 03:05
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4.
Take Me Back 05:05
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5.
Couldn't Say 05:14
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6.
Relativism 02:24
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7.
A Younger Me 04:36
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8.
On My Wave 05:03
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Over the last 5 years, the multi-instrumentalist duo Mariana Rivals (Brett Middleton & Chris Spada) have been honing and evolving their sound through the release of 3 EPs and a handful of singles.

Recorded during a span of 2 years across the US and Europe, the band’s first LP, Postcards, emphatically leaps ahead from where the band last left off. These songs feel like a band with a new sense of ownership over their sound. The title track, “Postcard” lays a foundation of warm yet delicate ambience with floating guitar riffs and string arrangements that seem to swell in perpetuity.

There is a level of brutal honesty on the songs “Get You Down”, “Take Me Back” and “Couldn’t Say” both in the straight ahead instrumentation and irrefutable hymns. With lyrics like “I’ll give you something better, someone else to blame” or “I want you to stay / I will stop nothing / all things I couldn’t say”, the band seems less concerned with evasive wordplay and more focused on not being misunderstood.

The last song on Postcards, “On My Wave” serves as a Marcel Proustian postcard for the album…conjuring up fond memories from years ago set to the sounds of a distant saxophone and soft jazz like guitar chords.

Postcards establishes a musical destination to send letters from.

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released July 16, 2019

All songs & lyrics by Chris Spada & Brett Middleton

Chris Spada - Vocals, Guitars, Synths
Brett Middleton - Bass, Synths, Drums, Guitars, Vocals

Joined by:
Nathaniel Wolkstein - Violin, Viola on Track 1
Joe Di Fiore - Saxophone on Track 7 and 8, Clarinet on Track 7

Produced by Chris Spada & Brett Middleton

Mixed by Brett Middleton
Mastered by Steve Carrao

Made over months and in and out of years in Switzerland, California, Connecticut, Nashville, London and Italy.

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The Mariana Rivals operate like a collective surrounding it's core members, Chris Spada and Brett Middleton. New sounds, ideas and directions come from the desire to make the music they want to hear.

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