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small town sunday

by summersets

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Dan Zenga totally great, totally beautiful. I grew up in the country, riding country roads on my bike at midnight from town to home, this reminds me of those nights! it's not all nostalgia though, it's just good.
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1.
reciters 03:22
One Sunday morning I’ll be miles away One Sunday morning I’ll be miles away Floating like a memory Falling for yesterday So long surrender, forget me when I’m gone So long surrender, forget me when I’m gone Just a liar reciter In-between the dark & dawn When good old days get older, & lost just can’t be found When good old days get older, & lost just can’t be found I’m a river with no ocean A highway without a town If life is a puzzle, corners & sides If life is a puzzle, corners & sides Well there’s a hole in the middle & we never can get it right One Sunday morning I’ll be miles away One Sunday morning I’ll be miles away Floating like a memory Falling for yesterday
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pass me by 02:33
I was born by the edge of town & I swore I’d be somewhere long gone by now But every morning begins the same Just another day older with a different name No I never really could explain Cause I wait for the end Then do it over again But I won’t mess it up this time You won’t pass me by From the moment I saw your face Small town summer on a Saturday Every word I said was true Spent my life chasing what was passing through No I never met someone like you By the night I walked you home I’d follow you anywhere you go Cause I was tired, wearing thin Forever waiting for something to happen & when I see you tomorrow “Free Fallin’” Silverado Every memory, regret & why Was before you & I
3.
Before the end of a small town summer Before I waved goodbye Before we stood under streetlight cover Liars for the very last time Before I joked that you’ll soon forget me Before you said don’t go Before we drove in your brothers Chevy For hours without coming home For hours without coming home Now I wait & wonder is there only one? Are our days all numbered down to none? After all this time & after all we tried Before our hope went hiding & before you & I Before the sound of a Sunday morning Before our overnights Before the future finds out its warnings Were suckers falling for a fight Before you said “hey there I’m sorry…” Before that Saturday Before I saw you at the party Before I’d throw it all away Before I’d throw it all away Before the years & the words I’m writing Before I moved to town Before I saw you stand up smiling Before I’d turn it all around Before I’d turn it all around Before I’d turn it all around Before I’d turn it all around
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afterthought 03:49
So is this how it ends? A wave in the night As you’re driving in your car Left at the bend, then two taillights Shrinking slowly in The dark, the dark Take me back to the start Before, before All the lies that we swore When there’s so much to say But it won’t matter anyway No you’re not, you’re not Ever my afterthought As I look behind, at your face glowing red I fake a smile just a little too hard & run every line of words that you said Hits me flying through The dark, the dark Take me back to the start Before, before All the lies that we swore When there’s so much to say But it won’t matter anyway No you’re not, you’re not Ever my afterthought When I saw you at the party, when you asked me for the time When you held me in the morning, when you kissed me in the night When I’m crying in the doorway, when I’m begging please don’t go When you’re driving down the highway, when I never even know So is this how it ends? Halfway from home I guess they say it happens that far Followed the bend right off the road Sirens ringing in The dark, the dark Take me back to the start Before, before All the lies that we swore When there’s so much to say But it won’t matter anyway No you’re not, you’re not Ever my afterthought
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only you 02:53
Sunday morning & I’m walking Wasted Garden Avenue Last night I remember nothing Except only you Oh my my like a hurricane Oh la la when you call my name Only you Ouu ouu wee how you held my heart Oh my god then I fell apart Only you Said she was moving to the city & there was nothing I could say Why does everything look pretty Before it goes away Now when you change your number Now when you move away I’ll be right here waiting Counting down the days When you can’t remember When you can’t recall That soft September I’ll tell it all
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Far away from here & a long time ago All my memories are clear All my dreams, all my hopes I was running from a future You were playing rock and roll We should’ve seen it sooner We should’ve never lost control But I’ll love you Today tonight and Every sunrising Every ending Every horizon Today tonight and Everywhere that I go For every tomorrow Maybe nothing lasts forever We were never growing old Somewhere you & I are together Somewhere our story’s being told Cause I’ll love you Tonight and Every sunrising Every moment Every light dying Today tonight and Everywhere that I go For every tomorrow Far away from here

about

summersets want to tell you a story. More specifically, the story of how two people met on a Saturday night, and how that chance encounter lead to a series of events that changed the course of each others lives. No, this isn’t the origin story of summersets the band, but rather the narrative lore told over the course of an album that spans a fabled union from conception to conclusion. This initial idea was the inspiration behind Kalle Mattson & Andrew Sowka’s new duo project summersets, and is the driving force behind their forthcoming EP small town sunday (out August 6), a collection of what the duo calls “story songs”.

small town sunday arrives as the companion EP to the acclaimed 2020 release small town saturday. The 6 new songs follow the same two characters the duo have been chronicling throughout their work, and sheds new light on their story arc: tracking a car crash, a break up, a reconciliation, a new beginning and ultimately an end. “When we started summersets almost a year & a half ago it came from a very natural place for Andrew & I, we were inspired by a lot of the same music from the late-60s/early 70s & I was writing all these songs that weren’t autobiographical for the first time. Once we wrote “never love another” (from small town saturday), we had the blueprint of the story we wanted to tell across our songs & these EPs: the story of a relationship from the moment two people meet until one of them passes away.“

The 30-year old Mattson first gained public attention by writing the Polaris Prize-nominated 2014 album Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold, that dealt with the death of his mother who passed when he was 16 years old. It was during the recording and touring of that album that Mattson and Sowka began their longtime musical collaboration that eventually led them to form summersets in 2020. “Starting a new project that coincided with a global pandemic wasn’t exactly how we planned for this to go, but writing & recording about these fictional characters in the midst of so much uncertainty has brought us a lot of comfort & escapism” says Mattson.

Once again produced by frequent collaborator Jim Bryson (Kathleen Edwards, The Weakerthans) small town sunday expands the scope of the duo’s musical palette from the breezy strummer “pass me by” to the midnight ballad “every tomorrow”. “Our first EP was an experiment in a lot of ways, not only in the narrative-based character songs, but in the instrumentation we used and the speed with which we recorded everything. We still wanted to reference a lot of the same music we grew up on, but also broaden our influences more this time” says Sowka. The blending of Mattson’s boyish vocals with Sowka’s melodic harmonies remains a high point throughout small town sunday, and conjures up the feeling of what a modern-day Simon & Garfunkel might sound like.

Set in fictional Northern Ontario (where Mattson & Sowka are both from), small town sunday begins with a character’s daydream, “one Sunday morning I’ll be miles away” on “reciters”, then leads into the other characters longing for somewhere else in the Tom Petty-influenced “pass me by”, “I was born by the edge of town, & I swore I’d be somewhere long gone by now.” The focal point of the album is the trio of afterthought, only you and before you & i, chronicling the two characters’ breakup & reconciliation years later from both perspectives, along with a car crash thrown in for good measure. “So is this how it ends? A wave in the night, as you’re driving in your car” one character trembles in “afterthought”. “Why does everything look pretty, before it goes away” the other character wonders, looking back in “only you”. “Before the years & the words I’m writing, before I’d turn it all around” sing both of them, foreshadowing their reconciliation in “before you & i”.

As the second part of a three EP trilogy, small town sunday ends with a fitting conclusion to the story of summersets, but also the album’s two characters. “Somewhere you & I are together, somewhere our story’s being told.” More to come…

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released August 6, 2021

Production/producer info
Produced by Jim Bryson
Mixed by Daniel Ledwell
Mastered by Ben Leggett

Songs 1-6 written by Kalle Mattson & Andrew Sowka

All songs performed by Kalle Mattson, Andrew Sowka & Jim Bryson

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

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