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Gardens EP

by Sedgewick

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1.
Ease your mind, darling Ease your mind, darling It's far from making sense In your eyes, darling Is a fire and wind Spreading innocence So listen to that train brake Think of all the places that wait for you When you are awake Let the dreams inside your day come true And I'll fall into The world in you The world in you The stars are higher than All the promises We throw into the night Ease your mind, darling Ease your mind, darling They're falling from your eyes
2.
Nostalgia 04:16
Nostalgia is creeping in Hoping that tomorrow will last Moment by moment, soaking it in Reeling in the line Holding on to people leaving fast Telling myself I’ll be fine Missing memories of friends Leaving in due time—grasping at vines Held by what I’ll leave behind Future is knocking on my door Telling me what to do Forcing me into this land of the poor Gone to gather my tears Ask my father what happens next? And he tells me a decision dawns—one I fear
3.
I remember the breeze And the weight of the world Falling off of me, when I found You on that Friday night You danced and I made you laugh We forgot about the past But loving me was the last thing on your mind I danced and you made me laugh Wondered what would come to pass But loving you was the last thing on my mind I remember alarms On the plane ride to Spain When you slept on my arm I remember losing sleep All the nights we couldn't talk All the nights I couldn't walk Out your door without kissing you once All the nights when we would walk Down La Rambla and talk When leaving you was the last thing on my mind I remember the words You said beneath the fireworks But I barely heard And I’ll remember you As I pack my bags to leave And I'm carried overseas With the weight of the world now underneath I know when you're set free You might not return to me But now I'm dancing and I can't explain just why Now I'm dancing You're the first thing on my mind
4.
See the river? suffer the consequences Silver streams of places going at a furious pace, a furious pace Doesn’t stop for anyone Give your graces For the lost faces Please, sit with us Peace be with us Take a load off, John Untie these laces; put up your feet and take a seat Golden beams are soon to follow you, to follow you But for now, borrow my sorrow Borrow my sorrow Borrow my dark heart Borrow my dark art But don’t stay long March on, John So long, so long

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Hear: a steady upright bass singing low—over the sounds of kids laughing and playing; soft, intricate vocal harmonies that melt together like cream; the hum of strings like a soft swarm of bees; a gratifying rhythmic shift. Take these elements (among others), add lyrics that feel almost-familiar, not because you’ve heard them but because you’ve felt them before, and you have Chicago-based folk group Sedgewick.

The multi-dimensional songs of Sedgewick's debut EP "Gardens" offer gentle arcs and motion (both moving forward and pulling back, in semblance to the tide) and call forth history, a bittersweet nostalgia (as if there is any other kind of nostalgia). Members sing of nostalgia that it is an act of “grasping at vines.” At times, the listener is situated in a park-like public space, or perhaps by a river. At other times, more organic sounds are infiltrated by the buzz of something mechanical like a heart monitor in a hospital, or the glitch of a subtle malfunction of one of the many devices on which most of our daily lives rely.

These tunes echo a circular trajectory, evoking present, past and future. This uncanny comfort doesn’t occur just because the artists who comprise Sedgewick have been making music together for many years now or because this music sounds like the craft of old friends—but because the many layers of each song guide listeners through an experience of time on a loop. And because this experience of time is, in fact, a reflection of life, there is joy and relief to be found in these songs, a kind of sonic sympathy.

It’s as though the young, talented musicians, artists who come from the west, east, and very center of this diverse country, are making some kind of map key together. Their directory speaks of the novice of walking, paving a new path beside an old road that is sometimes buckling, sometimes regrettably sturdy.

--Annie Pittman

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released April 20, 2015

All songs written and performed by Samuel Brownson and Oliver Horton
with Alice Kraynak - Violin, Alison Gaines - Cello, Nicholas Gunty - Drums on “The World in You”, Danielle Davis - Background Vocals on “So Long, John”
Strings arr. by Samuel Brownson
Produced by Nicholas Gunty and Sam Brownson
Engineered and mixed by Nicholas Gunty at Fluke Studios in Chicago, IL
Mastered by Steve Corrao at Sage Audio, Nashville, TN (sageaudio.com)
Artwork by Dorey Kronick (doreykronick.com)
Copyright 2015 Jig Dance Music
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Sedgewick Chicago, Illinois

Sedgewick is a Chicago dream-folk trio formed in 2014 by three multi-instrumentalists. Their unique live set up of guitar pedals, synths, upright bass, and vocal harmonies combines alt rock, electronica and their roots in folk music. In their first year, they earned the title of “Best New Folk Music Act” from Newcity, and Obscure Sound called them “masters of emotionally stirring songwriting”. ... more

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