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Flood Season

by Talel McBriar

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1.
Talk With Friends 04:39
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Sometimes I need to sit In this cold house in February and Watch the planes fly down south I hear Dreams play a fifth time In the restaurant That’s okay I like a familiar sound I’ve talked with friends About what’s fucked up And what needs to end And I have not Figured it all out It's all Do this for them and that for Him and what you're told And hope things Sort themselves out But this is how we live now You can’t mend everybody anymore Stay mad through the evening And you'll grow happy Come the morning hour Just think about June and all those Paris towers Another three to four On another Saturday Another racing time Only one more day is what I always Seem to say But I don’t want to waste away Before I die Another talk with friends About the state that they are in And how they think they're gonna Pull themselves out Well, I thought that it may be Just the time of year But it’s all anyone Could ever talk about But this is how we live now You can’t mend everyone anymore Stay mad through the evening And you’ll grow happy Come the morning hour Just think about June and all those Paris towers Sometimes I need to sit In this cold house in February and Watch the planes fly down south I hear Dreams play a fifth time In the restaurant That’s okay I like a familiar sound
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I'll Give It Another Day 05:03
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It’s not a revolution If you still sit In the backseat Dreamt of an institution Now I can’t get Back to sleep Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Yelling in the park Down by the lake This has got to be Some stupid mistake Just need oxygen to my brain Said I can’t wait until Saturday Blame the weather Blame the screen Blame the first person you see I saw heaven But I screamed Didn't look like on TV But I’ll give it another day I’ll give it another day I’ll give it another day I’ll give it another day I see the lights differently now Not like last winter Or ten years ago Take what you want Leave nothing at all I like that best It’s more comfortable Now the ghost He comes around the bend Does he think that we can’t be friends But I guess it's how the story ends Well, I guess it's how the story ends Blame the weather Blame the screen Blame the first person you see I saw heaven But I screamed Didn’t look like on TV But I’ll give it another day I’ll give it another day I’ll give it another day I’ll give it another day Running up that hill Thought back to May I have deja vu Of all the things that you say The street lamps light up the highway It looks like hell But I’m not afraid Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh
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Flood Season 05:44
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I can be who I want In this dirty city Change my name and the way that I talk But I don’t want to wait for A song to save me Lift me up like a mourning dove If I cry and I scream into the telephone Maybe I could wake you up Break the lines And break all this conscious Build a boat for the growing flood I’ll run until I can see straight All through the waters, I wade With my face up To the leaky skies My weezy heart sings a lullaby I try to write a formula And solve it in my sleep But the paper, it's too clean So I write the letters out nice and neat I built a fire in my backyard Built out of old tables and chairs Let the smoke burn the open sky And I threw in All of my letters I’ll run until I can see straight All through the waters, I wade With my face up To the leaky skies My weezy heart sings a lullaby Oh the operator He never woke up Cause he was in a lucid sleep With "don’t disturb" nailed To the kitchen wall Far below the water, it seeps But I won’t knock this down I’m afraid of this mess The clouds hang low like a life sentence No sleep at all There’s no ashes If you keep this fire so small I’ll run until I can see straight All through the waters, I wade With my face up To the leaky skies My weezy heart sings a lullaby
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Little Hell 04:44
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I thought of something smart to say But I should keep that to myself Because by the end of the day You've caused a little hell And I like to take the long road around At the​ last light hour just sick and tired of talking to friends Through a radio tower Ooh But I’m not Worried no more Ooh I just got to get out of this house Ooh And walk down past the dam site What would you do To be somebody​ ​else? Well, the days they fall behind you now But things fall to place at night Because by the end of April You’ve seen friends through a different light Will I still hear that three chord song When I live in the cemetery? Just sick and tired of all this news It’s always been a little scary Ooh But I’m not Worried no more Ooh I just got to get out of this house Ooh And walk down past the dam site What would you do To be somebody​ ​else?

about

Flood Season is a collection of four alternative folk songs written by singer-songwriter Talel McBriar. With haunting vocals and lucid instrumentals, Talel’s lyrics are introspective and cathartic as her lyrics speak to the natural inclination to connect with others, while simultaneously finding comfort in solitude. Flood Season confronts the trivialities of change and growing up through stirring lyrics and harmonious melodies.

Flood Season was written over the past four years, as a way to distill my ideas and experiences into something tangible such as words and melody. I wrote this collection of four songs while visiting new cities, performing on trains, and attending music school. The lyrics from the songs off Flood Season draws from the discomfort of growing up, accepting change, and finding independence. Writing and creating music is incredibly therapeutic and I aim for my audience to have a cathartic experience listening to my songs.

During the beginning of 2020 while in lockdown, I spent a lot of time listening to rock bands of the ’60s and 70’s such as Crosby Stills & Nash, The Allman Brothers, and The Grateful Dead. Listening to these bands instilled a need to create musically with others and develop my song ideas into full-band arrangements. A year later, in 2021, my six-piece band and I performed the four songs that make up Flood Season for the showcase of my graduation from music school. It was such a cathartic feeling to finally have these songs come to life with a full band that I wanted to capture in a recording to share with others. In September of 2022, my band and I recorded Flood Season at Becoming Sound Studio in Ymir BC with sound engineer Shawn Stevenson. My first recording experience was with Shawn at Becoming Sound Studios when I was 17, so it felt full circle to record my debut EP here.

"Talk With Friends" was written in February 2020, right before the pandemic. It is a song about taking a minute to just sit with the feeling of being worn out from constant social stimulation and from absorbing other people's emotions so often. I wrote it about the need to just “sit and watch the planes fly down south” when everything else is overwhelming.

The song "I’ll Give it Another Day" evolved from abrupt changes and transformations in relationships with people who are close to me. It speaks to the feeling of being disoriented from navigating changes.

I wrote the title track "Flood Season" on a visit to New Brunswick. It was Spring, a time when the floods rose over the roads and backyards. Flood Season talks about being alone but not being lonely. It is about finding the ability to rely on yourself when relying on others is more familiar.

I wrote the closing track "Little Hell" in April of 2020, when I would take long walks “at the last light hour” and the sun would send long shadowed patterns through the trees. It is a song about being frustrated with trying to communicate with others, how messages can get warped in writing and result in a misunderstanding.

credits

released July 8, 2022

Vocals: Talel McBriar
Harmonies: Grace Clark
Guitar: Cole Senger
Keyboard: Siji Olunuga
Drums: Em McArthur
Bass: Sam Hobeyn
Fiddle: Grace Clark
Violin: Don MacDonald

Written by Talel McBriar
Produced by Talel McBriar & Shawn Stephenson
Mixed & Mastered by Shawn Stephenson
Photos & Artwork by Sophia Lewis

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

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