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False Comforts

by Max Blansjaar

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1.
Saturnia
2.
One moment on the eyes, a lifetime on the frontal lobe, there’s So many old mistakes I can’t be bothered to atone for So many victims of my innocence that never will come back For each I scratch a prayer with care into the bathroom mirror And now my face looks like I spent the night with Freddie Krueger Well even he would run a mile from the morning I’ve just had There’s another eyesore coming up ahead There’s another spaceship coming in to land There’s another place we tried to hide in where The walls are caving in You took me to the bar to drown my solace in tequila All metaphorical, but at the time felt pretty real so We drank and drank and drank until it couldn’t breathe and didn’t move A throwback to the time we vandalised that Dalí painting The same relief, the same lack of remorse, the same adrenaline The same idea that we were doing something someone had to do There’s another eyesore coming up ahead There’s another spaceship coming in to land There’s another place we tried to hide in where The walls are caving in Caught up in a maze of hedonists and lies Putting all our faith in devils in disguise Just trying to escape when everything’s on fire And burning in our name I had a dream that you and me had reached the Western border Under illusion we could overcome the liberal order It wasn’t easy throwing caution to the wind, I fed you Lies, lies, lies, don’t say goodbye A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the legal papers I think we’ll never bore of sleeping with our own dictators I think I’ll never find a reason not to live under my Lies, lies, lies, don’t say goodbye to me At night I like to watch the spiders dancing on my ceiling They do the paso doble, I wonder whether they’ll hurt me I never know if it’s the teeth or if it’s eyes that I can see There’s another eyesore coming up ahead There’s another spaceship coming in to land There’s another place we tried to hide in where The walls are caving in Caught up in a maze of hedonists and lies Putting all our faith in devils in disguise Just trying to escape when everything’s on fire And burning in our name…
3.
Anna Madonna 02:34
Anna Madonna, don’t pull the plug on me Don’t make me the victim, cuz it’s been a hard few weeks I know they pull you in every direction I know the music gets a little loud I know that life’s a pretty pricey vacation But don’t take it out on me It’s nothing to do with me Anna Madonna, don’t shut the door on me Don’t block all your windows, so nobody knows you’re here I know you’re sick of the political climate And every day you fight a hopeless war I know you think your girlfriend hates you in secret But don’t take it out on me It’s nothing to do with me Anna Madonna, you best walk away from me You’re killing me slowly, I’m finding it hard to breathe I know you see me as a shoulder to cry on But I could never carry so much weight And Mother Earth is an indefinite pronoun So don’t take it out on me Don’t pull the plug on me Don’t take it out on me It’s nothing to do with me Don’t place the blame with me Don’t pull the plug on me
4.
Like a Bad Dream
5.
Song Against Love
6.
Red Tiger
7.
Life On Earth
8.
On Beyond Eden
9.
Pieces of the Sun
10.
I Will Not Be Forgiven

about

Anna Madonna featured in Brooklyn Vegan!
www.brooklynvegan.com/our-favorite-songs-of-the-week-playlist-148/

And Various Small Flames!
varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/03/08/max-blansjaar-anna-madonna/

And a great interview in MusicNGear!
www.musicngear.com/blog/interview-indie-pop-artist-max-blansjaar

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I started writing the first False Comforts songs in early 2020. It felt like a lot of talk happening around me was generational—the news covered generational challenges, my friends professed generational anxieties over Web 2.0, table service, and global crises they did not cause, I gave in and read Spotify’s apocalyptic ‘Who is Gen Z, Really?’ report in the search for self-knowledge—yet I struggled to ever identify with that category, which always struck me as more of a buzzphrase than as a genuine connection. At the same time, I was at the threshold of what was, for me, a new world: just finishing school, between two states of being, all the freedom in the universe suddenly feeling somehow like less freedom that I’d ever had before. I felt the need to assert myself, to make music that reflected where I actually fit into the world of rituals and allegiances that was unfolding around me. Or, at least, that reflected the powerlessness of not knowing my place.

I challenged myself to get straightforward. Stop chasing complexity and Follow Your Nose! Amongst others I owe a debt of gratitude to The Velvet Underground and to Elephant 6 for teaching me the power of the harmonically simple, to Beck and to Cate Le Bon for lyrical inspiration, and to a couple of experimental music groups I started playing with that got me to be bolder in my choice of sounds. It all made sense, finally, partway through our two weeks of recording the album. I came across Brad Liening’s poetry collection ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Whitney Houston’ at a bookshop in Dumbo one day (one of the last copies out there, he’s since told me), and when I opened it, there was the line: some explanations / last forever and never / answer a thing. Yahtzee! There doesn’t always have to be a solution, or a resolution; it can be rewarding, even necessary, to linger in a snapshot of a feeling for a while. In that sense, I knew these songs would be False Comforts. They wouldn’t fix anything, they wouldn’t give me answers, they wouldn’t help, they were pointless, unproductive hideouts, explanations lasting forever. And I found a strange comfort in them for that. Maybe someone else will, too.

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releases June 21, 2024

All tracks produced by Katie von Schleicher and Nate Mendelsohn at Shitty Hits Recording Co.
Recorded at Shitty Hits Recording Co. in Brooklyn, NY
Mixed by Katie von Schleicher and Nate Mendelsohn at Shitty Hits Recording Co.
Mastered by Dean McCarthy at A Thing Called Music

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Max Blansjaar Oxford, UK

Born in Amsterdam, raised in Oxford. Signed to Beanie Tapes. Reasonably clean.

Début album “False Comforts” coming soon. June 2024.

“Deadpan, lo-fi pop tunes delivered with buzzsaw accuracy” – Clash Magazine

“Lo-fi wonder... a warming take on indie-pop” – Born Music
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