Creative Writing - Baby Did This
€12.00 - €18.00

  • Creative Writing - Baby Did This
  • Creative Writing - Baby Did This

Creative Writing - Baby Did This
€12.00 - €18.00

Creative Writing is the latest musical endeavor from members of Huevos II, Luxor Rentals, Sore Eros, Jeanines and Estrogen Highs. Formed in late 2023, the group builds upon their previous experiences with songs that buzz, roar, and chime in ways that anyone of any gen – X or otherwise – with an ear for indie guitars would plead nolo to. Their self released True 90s EP "serve[d] as a nod to the decade with a bit of a hangover from the late 80s college contingent holding on as well, swerving through SST, Homestead, and Matador catalogs like a shopping list," according to online music zine Raven Sings The Blues. At the same time, principal songwriters Wes Nelson and Patrick Battleship avoid overly stylized genre exercises with songs that are direct yet lyrically elliptical, tongue always implanted firmly in cheek.

Creative Writing's first full length, Baby Did This presents ten songs that vary widely in mood and intensity, from the opening track "I Love You," an ode to solidarity in dark times, to the lucid dreaming of "Rain" which closes the album. In between we find allusive examinations of alienated mundanity Memory Light, Sister, Feel and Glass Days each cover this territory in their own offhand ways. Nelson's songs Hallway (a reworking of a song previously recorded for Luxor Rentals' Burn Your Trash EP) and Slice & Dice enter darker areas of surreal angst, altogether. Can't Thank You Enough's Chilton-esque chords chime over a loping rhythm section and backing harmonies that spread like sunshine on an open highway. "I'm growing up, I'm heading out / I follow signs and leave the south." The song acts as an oblique homage to the wisdom of passion as it matures, casually eliciting an unnameable essence, the je ne sais quoi of that object of one's desire -- "it's how you got your la la la la la la la..." Pop nonsense signifying a gratitude that words can't quite name. A cover of the Peter Blegvad's paean to narcolepsy, "Just Woke Up" rounds out the collection. Self-recorded by the band and engineered/mixed over a span of 18 months by guitarist Jeff Morkeski, the album emphasizes structure and discipline over more spontaneous gestures.

FFO -- Big Star, The Chills, Game Theory, Wipers, For Against, Felt

credits
releases October 3, 2025

Self-recorded by the band
Engineered/Mixed by Jeff Morkeski
Mastered by Álvaro Lissón

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Track Listing

  1. I Love You
  2. Hallway
  3. Sister
  4. Slice & Dice
  5. Can't Thank You Enough
  6. Just Woke Up
  7. Glass Days
  8. Feel
  9. Memory Light
  10. Rain

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