Bug Eyes, by Shoreside Records

Bug Eyes

by Shoreside Records

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Enjoy the album Bug Eyes with 3 brand-new signature scents by Oswald & Ari Soy Candles! Taken from pivotal narrative moments, you can enjoy the herbal, fruity, and earthy aromas of Bug Eyes, Amanda Creighton, and Blueberry Poundcake. To complete the experience, you'll also receive a download code for the album and a full-color manuscript with artwork by Elizabeth Noble.

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1.	Bug Eyes 02:38	info	buy track
2.	Blueberry Poundcake 04:58	info	buy track
3.	Lemon Pop 03:03	info	buy track
4.	Don Quixote 01:54	info	buy track
5.	Brown Bag Lunches 03:48	info	buy track
6.	Amanda Creighton 01:55	info	buy track
7.	Hot Copper 06:22	info	buy track
8.	"Adjustment Period" 02:49	info	buy track
9.	Dust & Dandruff 05:06	info	buy track
10.	Compound Imaging 02:24	info	buy track
11.	Deviated Septum 06:27	info	buy track
12.	Cervantes 02:24	info	buy track
13.	Wherever Flowers Grow in Europe 03:04	info	buy track
14.	Beatrice Ann 02:27	info	buy track

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Written over the course of 5 years and recorded in a continuous take during a quarantine afternoon, Bug Eyes is the combined efforts of author Bailey Merlin’s lush storytelling and guitarist Richie Smith’s synesthetic sound painting. In this spoken word, ambient jazz hybrid, live the life of Beatrice Ann (or “Bug” as her mother would call her) who sees the world unlike any other. Complemented by Smith’s baritone guitar—chosen for its full spectrum of sound—Merlin’s dramatic reading invites audiences to completely cocoon themselves in this 45-minute scentscape.

“While Mama cooked supper, I pressed my nose to mesh crisscrosses to inhale heated oak and fresh-cut grass, trying to live in a world that I was not often allowed to wander. My own orbit was made of sweet, mildewed wood, smooth-smelling olive oil in a Teflon pan on the edge of burning, vanilla beans, wet tea bags, kosher salt, freshly-cut oranges, and captured rainwater.”

The sensuous, playful, and occasionally heartbreaking improvisations of Bug Eyes presents listeners the chance to get lost in perfumed impulse; to feel frustration through the sharp sting of pepper; to experience adolescent jubilation in rolling pitches that conjure up late nights with best friends, the bittersweetness of first loves, and the quaking breath that comes from the freedom of growing up.

Fans of The Moth, minimalism, Brian Eno, Julian Lage, Noveller, and Robert Fripp will enjoy this experience.

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released November 17, 2020

Bailey Merlin - author, narration, design
Richie Smith - baritone guitar, production, mixing, mastering
Elizabeth Noble - artwork
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Bug Eyes

Nov 2020
Fallout

Apr 2019
Elegy

Mar 2018

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