North Elementary - Skull with Meaning

from Blood Vibrations: 8 (Blood Work Mixtape) by This Is Our Musics

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BIO: Some projects are labors of love. They are what we do when we have an intrinsic pull to create something, and refusing that feeling leaves us empty. But for the fortunate, some projects are just destined to become main gigs. Such is the case with Chapel Hill mainstays North Elementary. Originally started by John Harrison as a solo outlet while drumming in The Comas, North Elementary began as a way for him to explore his inner space with a hazy eye cast toward the sky. Over the past decade and a half, however, North Elementary has morphed into a triple songwriter machine that mines all aspects of left of the dial indie rock.

The current line-up of Betty Rupp (guitar/vox/keys), Sean Parker (guitar/vox), John Harrison (guitar/vox), Jimmy Thompson (bass) and Chad Coward (drums) coalesced around 2011 while recording the "Soft Couch Tremolo" EP. What began as another group of friends and musicians coming together to help bring Harrison’s vision to life on wax and the stage eventually became a communal outlet for supporting one another’s musical passions. Since then the quintet has churned out three albums and counting of off kilter, pop sensible, indie rock.

The mood of North Elementary is positive, guileless, curious and celebratory. It’s uncommon for a group of grown ass adults to consistently hold on to those adjectives, ones we associate with the days of our youth, and to espouse them aurally and actively record to record and gig to gig. But that’s just what happens when these five people get together to make music. North Elementary is now old enough to have a driver’s license. Do you remember what that freedom felt like when you first got it? Let 'em take the wheel and remember.

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from Blood Vibrations: 8 (Blood Work Mixtape), released October 29, 2019
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☀Recorded and mixed in October 2018 at Track and Field Studios in Durham, NC by Nick Petersen ☀ Mastered by Jamie King at The Basement Recording in Winston Salem, NC ☀

☀ Song/words by John Harrison at Rocktropolis Music BMI ☀

☀ North Elementary: John Harrison (guitar/vox), Betty Rupp (guitar/vox/keys), Sean Parker (guitar/vox), Chad Coward (drums), Jimmy Thompson (bass) ☀

☀ Track art collage by Jphono1; design by Regina McCoy ☀

☀ "Skull with Meaning" was originally released on the album "Lou Takes" by North Elementary ☀

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