Welcomer – Calendars (Vinyl)

Calendarsis an album that immerses you in a world, in that familiar struggle of being in a blurry middle between failure and growth.Produced in collaboration with producer Jesse Austin-Stewart, this debut album brings a fresh lushness of sound and vividness of narrative toWelcomerthat allows the intricacies of the songwriting to shine.Across 10 tracks,Welcomerdissect the pieces of a life and put them back together as a record that is intentional, ornate and affecting.Gladly, while Miles spent the intervening years since the group’s self-titled EP honing hissongwriting, the raw vulnerability has not been lost in the process.In many ways it is aSaturn return album, a coming of age to where you feel things slipping away and the need to start catching them.Miles songs are brought to life by his band and collaborators; Eddie Crawshaw (Lake South), Ox Lennon, and Shannen Georgia Petersen (Sports Dreams).Calendarsis out June 12th, digitally and on vinyl, with preorders available now.Magazine Clippings, like many of the songs in the world ofCalendars, is a story set at the brink, with characters working hard to hold it together. The instrumentation is all warmth;Rhodes, strings and pedalled organ are layered carefully over steady drums. Over thelilting instrumentation, lead songwriter Miles details candidly friendships in disrepair. Humour, as always withWelcomer, is present when you know where to look, with wry descriptions of a New Zealand that young people inhabit outside of the centres:“you went to like four festivals in a town without festivals/ whatever its flexible/ the definition is flexible.Lontaliuscontributes a voice for the friend, completing the conversation with a verse that lifts the song up for air. Lyricist Miles says, Ive had people interpret the narrative differently and I like that. I never felt that details weigh a song down.While the song alludes to the heavy, it really centres on faith in community. Miles sums it up as, “a heavy but hopeful exchange and I think Eddies [Lontalius] verse completes that conversation.

Tracklist:
01. Opal02. Impossible03. Magazine Clippings (feat. Lontalius)04. Scam05. Rafters06. Nothing of You Remaining07. Aisle08. Sister City09. Crescents10. Daniel Song