Waiting For Oblivion, by Nylon Smile

Waiting For Oblivion

by Nylon Smile

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It's like a phone call~late at night.

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NEW ALBUM FROM CC LEGEND, NYLON SMILE! Follow up to his EP 'Angel of Doubt'

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1.	Chemical Burn 02:43
2.	Only You Know 02:45
3.	Conduit 03:10	lyrics
Burning all my candles, i'll just wait for oblivion Lighting up my photos, i can’t wait to start again Yes it’s a bitter pill, too sharp to ignore, when the body is begging the mind Sad things start to resonate, yea, when the romance washed away This is the only way, you’re gonna have to eat your heart out Too late, I realize, I’m just a conduit for the pain it's like a phone call late at night, its burning up your life I’m dying just to give you any broken part of me you’ll take Just us - two stupid kids, burning up our place, how’s anyone supposed to live here now? Skipping through the street and singing “this is not my life...” Burning all my candles, i'll just wait for oblivion Lighting up my photos, i can't wait to start again Is it enough? To be alone, in all we feel? It feels too real The empty space is harmony - it’s just a conduit for the pain This is the only way, you’re gonna have to eat your heart out Too late, I realize, I’m just a conduit for the pain it's like a phone call late at night, it’s burning up your life I’m dying just to give you any broken part of me you’ll take
4.	We Don't Need A Reason 02:39	lyrics
There must be a reason we’re still hanging on to this We know that love’s naive but it was easy to forget Walking to the car and it’s already on your lips Amy are you listening to me? Is this too far out of reach? Amy are you listening to me? Is it better left unsaid? There must be a reason we’re still hanging on to this Crying in the car yea love can be so obvious Whispered secret histories in everything we said (Can we just forget everything that we ever said ) Something on the radio that we could not forget (Lying to ourselves and unconvinced by all the help) Amy are you listening to me? Is this too far out of reach? Amy are you listening to me? Is it better left unsaid? We don’t need a reason to be alright, fools have more fun, you were right Young and so naive but even still, empty is waiting to be filled
5.	Rumor 02:50
6.	Painless 02:38
7.	Supreme Loneliness 02:50
8.	I Don’t Dream 03:23
9.	Must Be Changing 03:55
10.	Teenage Phase 04:11

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CCR135 ~ NEW RELEASE FROM CC LEGEND NYLON SMILE

“There’s a part of me that can’t believe this album exists”, says Nikolas Soelter, “It feels really euphoric to be letting go of these songs”. After the dissolution of his band Never Young, Soelter relocated from Oakland back to Los Angeles, where he grew up. “I spent a long time focused on my own music, and when I got back to LA, I dove into supporting other people”, he explains, having spent the last three years performing tender folk with Boy Scouts, goth tinged post-punk in Fashion Club, and dissonant hardcore with Ghost Spirit. In late 2019, he carved out time to revisit a collection of songs he’d been amassing throughout his twenties, and push them across the finish line.

Once again teaming up with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, who produced and engineered his 2018 EP Angel of Doubt, the 10-song collection that comprises Waiting For Oblivion is a complete evolution, expanding Nylon Smile’s shimmering indie into a dark and brooding tour de force. Opener “Chemical Burn” builds out a moody acoustic track into a cinematic, synth laden revelation. There’s a murky urgency to “Conduit”, it’s pounding drum samples pushing forward a kaleidoscope of sounds, effected into a glittering maelstrom. The driving dissonance of “Painless” builds to the album’s haunting centerpiece, “Supreme Loneliness”, a pitched down piano ballad whose outro sounds like it was pulled right out of The Shining’s ballroom scene.

Though Soelter performed almost every instrument across the dense record, he invited a cast of close friends to contribute backing vocals, synth flourishes, violin, and keys. “Making an album by yourself can be isolating, you start to lose sight of whether it’s any good or just shit”, he laughs,”having Melina to bounce ideas off, and hearing everyone’s additions come to life kept the magic alive”. The gauzy production hangs like a curtain over the nostalgic emotional content, reflecting on lost love, creative dissolutions, and breaking up with old versions of yourself. The title is inspired by a bleak headspace he got into while reading David Berman’s Actual Air, “when you’re struggling with your mental health, it can feel like you’re just drifting through a lot of emptiness”, he says, “looking back at my twenties, I feel really lucky to have had some good people to lean on.”

Moody atmospherics aside, there’s a sunny optimism that shines through on the record's closing track, Soelter resolving to “play the game we know we’ll lose”. With Waiting For Oblivion, he’s charting a decade of change, striving to find meaning in the crush of modern American life, and coming out the other side holding tight to the people who made it worthwhile.

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