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Access To The Lonely

by Rid of Me

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1.
Rid of Me 03:20 video
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I don’t like it / Drag me in your rut, while you’re making these rounds / Triple upper cut, show while taking me down / I don’t like it / You don’t take care of me, like some memory / You just get rid of me / Lies to make you nut, just like owning downtown / Easy fucking luck, show while taking me down / You don’t take care of me / You just get rid of me
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I'm So Lonesome I Could Die 03:10 video
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I hear you baby, I got some needs of my own / I see you fading, I can’t take nothing at all / We talk on the phone til 4 am, I confess where I’m at and where I’ve been, but all the while you’re still fucking them / I fear you hate me, you hum and drag me along / You dig and bait me, some sort of nuclear song / I mean it fate me, go ahead and drill me for that test / Cruise bending maybes, I can’t take nothing at all / We talk on the phone til 4 am, I rail thanks pleading delusion, cos all the while you’re thinking of them / I see you baby / We talk on the phone at 8 am, no sleep, no means of coming off a transfer of noise that you always win / Yo bring me death or leave me alone / You don’t know, so now I go I’d rather be dead than pick up the phone / You don’t know, now I go / There is no further trying to mend the hyper extension of being friends, you are holding on to a rope at its end / I’d rather be dead than pick up the phone / You don’t know, now I go
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Cut 03:28 video
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This sense of meaning, sure cut me up just a little bit / I bleed to see in, after all this time / I just want some clean space and cargo my own / A safe place, unfazed that knows me alone / Cut me up just a little bit, after all this time / I beg to see in, cut me off just a little bit / I want to be him, after all this time / I don’t want a big dick, drip, voice dropping tone, I just want a safe place that knows me alone / Cut me up / I want to be him, cut me up just a little bit / Some sense of meaning, after all this time
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Pavement 04:40
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How You Say It Is 02:25
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Gutted 04:06 video
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Clean me out / Dream of making drought / Leaves careening drenched / Deep end roots entangled, lie, please bring me there / We get off the same way, I dream of dying every day / But I don’t, I don’t / Clean me out / We get off the same way / My tree is gutted, please lie me down / But I don’t, I don’t / My tree is branchless, please clear me out / I don’t / No air, no leaves, I can’t imagine out / My tree is branchless, please lie me down
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Hell Of It 01:36 video
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I get by on the edge and flip, some excuse for irreverence / I get bent for the hell of it, and it shows / Riding sunrise with them slow eyes and the homies / Devil knows, where I’ll end up washing makeup in the morning / I slip by with no evidence, cause upset for the hell of it / Try and die high while we’re leveling, Devil knows / Got this feeling choking absence will you hold me? / I’m the Devil made of access to the lonely / I get bent for irreverence, I’m so sick of intelligence / I’ll get high til I make amends with god
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Paid In Prayers 04:25
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Libertarian Noise Rock 02:00
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Feel You 02:54
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The Weekend 04:49
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I am a creature that’s wearing your habit, crude version of a pay to play / I am a melody meant for the weekend, long gone when Monday morning breaks / I want to consume all of your sad and map it for the next one to navigate / I just can’t make this, myself good enough / I am a creature that’s wearing your habit, you move for me to celebrate / Exist in the crime of getting to know you, punished by time and better days / I just can’t make this, myself good enough / I bury myself to give life to convenience so you can have an easy stray / I am a melody meant for the weekend, 20th stop to better days

about

‘Access To The Lonely’ is the sophomore LP from RID OF ME, the heavy melodic noise punk outfit hailing from Philadelphia. Written on the heels of the band’s first LP ‘Traveling’ and carefully crafted throughout the strange times of 2021 & 2022, the album sees the band grow in every way possible. From the production, to the songwriting twist and turns, to maintaining the best of what makes them unique, the band has reached a heightened level of maturity. ‘Access To The Lonely’ is like a prolonged sigh followed by a rushed scream after a weekend you’d rather forget.

Recorded at Gradwell House Studios with Matt Weber (Sweet Pill), mixed at Antisleep Audio by Scott Evans (Thrice, Kowloon Walled City, Yautja) and mastered at Chicago Mastering Services by Matt Barnhart (Metz, Pissed Jeans, Bob Mould), the 37 minute album sees significant sonic development beyond anything the band has done to date. The once-core trio (Itarya Rosenberg, Mike McGinnis & Mike Howard) added longtime friend, co-conspirator and fellow musician from previous bands, Jon DeHart on second guitar and his addition shines. This is a two-guitar album through and through. McGinnis and Dehart’s melodies dance around the steady buzz-saw bass, Howard’s drums switch between immovable calming repetition to rapid changes from dance beats to blast beats and back again. The band’s previous foray into bludgeoning noise punk peaks with dynamic and moody post punk bummer valleys is pushed to a new limit on ‘Access To The Lonely’. All capped by Rosenberg’s brand of self-admonishing-yet-righteous personal storytelling that is frighteningly relatable to us all.
If these words weren’t enough for you to take a peek, let Kevin Whitley of iconic Austin psych noise rock progenitors CHERUBS reel you in a little further:

“Rid of Me is a rock band, perhaps a noise rock band, from Philly. You might guess they’re from Philly in a few tries... but when Mike Howard (drums) opens his mouth, you know. McGinnis and DeHart (guitars) can get you close, but with Howard you know. Philly is like an older brother (in this toddler of a country) protecting the younger siblings from the bullies - with a weary efficiency born of having slogged through all the bullshit first. Their Brotherly Love thing is real... as real as the Brotherly Punch In The Mouth. Their rock thing is very direct - not much mincing about. The song 'Rid of Me' starts... waltzing unadorned. The care is raw, and makes you feel a bit exposed... it’s a relief to be hit in the face when the chorus rolls up (when Itarya (vocals, bass) eats your heart). Thank you for hitting us in the face, because the sweet stuff was harder to deal with... and on it goes through 'Access To The Lonely' - Rid of Me's second full length release. These songs know they’re not letting you off the hook, because Rid of Me doesn’t let itself off the hook. Cut, Hell Of It and Libertarian Noise Rock are certainly not letting anybody catch a break... and by the time The Weekend rolls around, you'll be thankful for any salve you can get. Just like in real life.
Someone in the audience said, 'Damn, this is straight-the-fuck-up ROCK... where you been, friend?'. Every song is fed, watered, and cared for as if hard rock were still a real thing - and it’s nice to know it still is. Thx Rid of Me. Thx Philly.”

credits

released November 3, 2023

RID OF ME is
Itarya Rosenberg, Mike McGinnis, Mike Howard & Jon DeHart

Tracked April 2023 by Matt Weber
at Gradwell House Studios in Haddon Heights, NJ
Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio in Oakland, CA
Mastered by Matt Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service
Additional vocals and vocal production by Steve Poponi
Additional vocals on Paid In Prayers by Scott Evans
Guitar solo on Cut by Harry Lannon
Guitar solo on Libertarian Noise Rock by Alex Cheskis
Keys on The Weekend by Matt Weber
Album photos by Mark Diehl
Layout design and art direction by Kate Lowe

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