Q: Are fingers and trees only temporary? A: “Fingers and Trees Are Only Temporary,” new single from The High Water Marks out now.

Band led by Elephant 6 Recording Co., The Apples In Stereo co-founder Hilarie Sidney drops latest album “Proclaimer of Things” Feb. 4^th.
 
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The High Water Marks (L-R): Logan Miller, Hilarie Sidney, Per Ole Bratset, Øystein Megård.
 
Photo credit: Self-Portraits, Illustration by Per Ole Bratset.
 
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[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheHighWaterMarks-FingersAndTreesAreOnlyTemporary
 
The press calls The High Water Marks “pulse-raising mega-pop,” (UNCUT), with “sugar-coated melodies to spare” (Pitchfork), that offers “garage pop for the masses” (Paste).
 
The upcoming Proclaimer of Things album is the second full-length in just over a year from The High Water Marks, following a (too long!) 13-year hiatus.
 
The Grøa, Norway and Lexington, Kentucky-based band fronted by Hilarie Sidney, the co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording Co. and one of its core bands The Apples In Stereo, maintains and extends the high-energy fantastic fuzz of those sounds.
 
In its premiere coverage of the latest single by The High Water Marks, Beats Per Minute says, “Known as the home of bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, and dozens of others, the Elephant 6 Collective was a refuge for popsters who enjoyed the more psychedelic aspects of the genre. As one of the founders of this musical sanctuary (and of The Apples in Stereo), Hilarie Sidney has long spent time in the company of musicians whose creativities were slightly askew from their peers.
 
“On ‘Fingers and Trees are Only Temporary,’ the band digs deeper into the psychedelic side of their work, bringing out some fuzzy guitar theatrics, thumping percussion, and sweeping vocals that come at you from all angles. The song feels like it’s drawing back to those early years within the E6 hivemind... There’s plenty of lovely nostalgia here, but that’s not why the song works so well. This is its own thing.”
 
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The High Water Marks
Proclaimer of Things

(Minty Fresh Records)
Feb. 4^th, 2022
  

 
Track Listing:
 
01. The Best Day
02. Fantastic Machine
03. Jenny (STREAM | VIDEO)
04. I Told You Before
05. Fingers and Trees Are Only Temporary (STREAM)
06. Proclaimer of Things (STREAM | VIDEO)
07. Spectral Roommate
08. Origin of Names (STREAM)
09. Dust and Guitars
10. Devotee to The Chemist
11. Someones’s Song
12. Reason vs. Truth
13. We Are Going to Kentucky
 
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The High Water Marks | “Proclaimer of Things”
  

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBKF-9xq98
 
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheHighWaterMarks-Proclaimer-Single
 
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The “Proclaimer of Things” single, featuring lead vocal by Sidney’s bandmate and husband, Per Ole Bratset (along with a boyhood photo of Sidney’s great grandfather on the cover!) is out now and  MXDWN has premiered the video for the song, saying it “is catchy and upbeat and has the potential to be on your favorite playlist on repeat.”

Under The Radar rings in with the premiere of the track, calling “Proclaimer of Things,” “an irresistible power pop gem.”
 
The full 13-song Proclaimer of Things album arrives Feb. 4^th, 2022 via Minty Fresh.
 
Bratset says, “The title comes from an inside joke Hil and I always play around with. If we catch ourselves being a little preachy or pompous, we add ‘I am the proclaimer of things!’ at the end. We picture this guy with a crazy mustache and top hat going around ‘proclaiming things,’ while holding up a scroll and wearing a monocle. It always makes it weird and hilarious!”
 
Sidney elaborates on the appearance of her great grandfather on the cover of the single, saying, “His dad owned a roller rink in the 1880s in Iowa. My great-grandpa was so good at skating and doing tricks on both the bike and the skates that he started performing around the Midwest, and as far west as Colorado. He earned an insanely good chunk of cash for doing this, thus supporting the family. He went under the moniker, Little Willy Sidney, and Wee Willy Sidney, hahaha.”
 
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The High Water Marks | About
 

“I am so lucky to have been a musician throughout my life,” says Hilarie Sidney, currently fronting The High Water Marks, and best known as co-founder of the revered musical collective Elephant Six, and one of its three core bands The Apples In Stereo.
 
Based in her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway, Sidney and The High Water Marks are prepping to release Proclaimer of Things, the band’s second album in just over a year, following-up the 2020 album Ecstasy Rhymes, its first album in 13 years.
 
Coming back after such a long stretch of being off the scene with a critically and commercially welcomed new album, and then quickly coming in hot with another batch of 13 songs, isn’t an accident. In this case, it’s a coping mechanism.
 
With the United States reaching a milestone of 1 in 500 people having succumbed to COVID-19, it’s tragic news that this statistic hits home for Sidney. Her mother, half a world away, passed from the virus earlier this year.
 
“Not being able to see her and knowing that she was alone, dying in a nursing home, still haunts me daily,” Sidney courageously reveals.
 
Sidney knew that when she began to build a life in Norway with her band mate and husband Per Ole Bratset and their son, that she would be just a 12-hour flight from the rest of her family, but that 12 hours became something completely different under lockdown.
 
“I never factored in a pandemic,” she says. “At least my mom got to hear our record before she passed away. That means a lot to me because she was always really supportive of my music.”
 
The thirteen songs that comprise Proclaimer of Things are just a drop in the bucket, considering how much Sidney has leaned on songwriting to take her mind off things.
 
“I feel like I can’t pick up the guitar without writing a little melody. As therapy, we decided to keep recording. We dove into the project to keep us sane, focused, and from going down the rabbit hole of depression and self-pity.”
 
Through it all, The High Water Marks made an album that is positive, light, happy, and meaningful.
 
“I think my mom would approve of my method of dealing with the grief of losing her.” Sidney says with trademark optimism.
 
Proclaimer of Things, the latest album by The High Water Marks, is scheduled for release on Feb. 4^th, 2022 on Minty Fresh.
 
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Linda Draper gets buzzed in selfie acoustic performance of “‘81 Camaro” single; Anti-folk songwriter’s roots show off in intimate version of her classic country sound.

New album produced by Jeff Eyrich (Tanya Tucker), mixed by Dae Bennett (son of Tony), strings by David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams)
 
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Linda Draper as photographed by Jeff Um

 
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Linda Draper | “‘81 Camaro”
 

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTB2rV1ij_A
 
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/LindaDraper-81Camaro
 
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“Nostalgia is instantly triggered... Carrying feelings of longing, in a delightfully blended brew,” says Americana Highways in its premiere coverage of the video for Linda Draper’s latest single “‘81 Camaro,” streaming now. The song was also added to the publication’s recently launched “New Americana” playlist.
 
“I have never had more fun making a video,” Draper says. “We shot in Orlando, partially at Fun Spot amusement park and as the scene turns to night, I dip my toes into country line dancing.
 
“I will forever be changed by witnessing authentic country line dancing in person,” Draper continues. “Everyone instinctually just knew all the moves, it was so beautiful and graceful. If these beautiful folks at Cowboys (the club where the line dancing footage was filmed) one day develop a country line dance for “‘81 Camaro,” all of my dreams will have come true.”
 
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[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF3BeqBKukk
 
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While “‘81 Camaro” is an authentic country number from the anti-folk pioneering Draper, the sentiments are straight from her iconoclastic downtown NYC roots.
 
And NYC is in full effect as Draper’s intimate selfie acoustic performance of the tune is literally interrupted by the door buzzer to her apartment being pressed at the moment she sings the lyric “I’m ready to go.” Draper doesn’t miss a beat, but ultimately has to jump.
 
Draper explains, “It’s a song about longing for the days of innocence, all the while knowing that those days are behind me, but still living for the joy that each moment has to offer, even if I have nothing but gratitude and the holes in my pockets to give in return.
 
“It is really the current state of life I find myself in now as I gear up for a move from New York, where I have lived my whole life, to the North Carolina coastline.”
 
“You said money can’t buy happiness, Well then give away your money, Now tell me how it feels to be free, Are you happy now?,” she sings.
 
The tune is the latest single from Draper’s upcoming Patience and Lipstick (Jan. 21^st, South Forty Records).
 
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Linda Draper
Patience and Lipstick
(South Forty Records)
Jan. 21^st, 2022
  

 
Track Listing:
 
01. ‘81 Camaro (STREAM | VIDEO)
02. Tether (STREAM)
03. All In Due Time
04. Begin Again
05. Patience and Lipstick
06. I Surrender
07. Detroit or Buffalo (STREAM)
08. Roll With You
09. The Undertow
10. String
11. I Go
12. Tether (Acoustic Version)
 
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Linda Draper | Live
 

 
01/21/2021: Brooklyn, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St., Record Release Show, 9PM, RSVP)
 
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Linda Draper | About
 

 
Linda Draper grew up in a musical home as the daughter of a classical guitar virtuoso who studied with Andres Segovia. She began playing guitar and writing songs as a child and eventually became a fixture in the downtown New York City’s anti-folk music scene on the Lower East Side.
 
Since 2001, Draper has released numerous albums, toured the US and UK, and opened for acclaimed musicians such as Teddy Thompson, Melissa Ferrick, Luka Bloom, and Eilen Jewell. Draper has also seen her songs licensed for commercials and television.
 
She is now embarking on her biggest challenge to date with the formation of her own label, South Forty Records.
 
Patience and Lipstick,” Draper’s upcoming new album, was produced by Jeff Eyrich, mixed by Grammy®-award winning engineer, Dae Bennett, and features performers David Mansfield (Strings), Jeff Eyrich (Bass), and Doug Yowell (Drums and Percussion). It is the inaugural release on the artist’s own label South Forty Records.
 
Linda Draper is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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Linda Draper | Links
 
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Psychedelic side of The High Water Marks comes out on deep cut from upcoming “Proclaimer of Things” album; Hear “Origin of Names” now.

Band led by Elephant 6 Recording Co., The Apples In Stereo co-founder Hilarie Sidney will release second album in just 18 months on Feb. 4^th.
 
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The High Water Marks (L-R): Logan Miller, Hilarie Sidney, Per Ole Bratset, Øystein Megård.
 
Photo credit: Self-Portraits, Illustration by Per Ole Bratset.
 
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The High Water Marks drummer Øystein Megård takes over on vocals on “Origin of Names,” a deep cut from the band’s upcoming Proclaimer of Things album, out Feb, 4^th, 2022 via Minty Fresh. Hear it now via It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine or the link below.
 

[STREAM]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/the-high-water-marks-origin-of-names
 
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The High Water Marks | “Proclaimer of Things”
 

 

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBKF-9xq98
 
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheHighWaterMarks-Proclaimer-Single
 
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The press calls The High Water Marks “pulse-raising mega-pop,” (UNCUT), with “sugar-coated melodies to spare” (Pitchfork), that offers “garage pop for the masses” (Paste), and now Under The Radar rings in with the premiere of the title track of the band’s upcoming new album, calling “Proclaimer of Things,” “an irresistible power pop gem.”
 
The upcoming Proclaimer of Things album is the second full-length in just over a year from The High Water Marks, following a (too long!) 13-year hiatus.
 
The Grøa, Norway and Lexington, Kentucky-based band fronted by Hilarie Sidney, the co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording Co. and one of its core bands The Apples In Stereo, maintains and extends the high-energy fantastic fuzz of those sounds.
 
The “Proclaimer of Things” single, featuring lead vocal by Sidney’s bandmate and husband, Per Ole Bratset (along with a boyhood photo of Sidney’s great grandfather on the cover!) is out now and today, MXDWN has premiered the video for the song, saying it “is catchy and upbeat and has the potential to be on your favorite playlist on repeat.”
 
The full 13-song Proclaimer of Things album arrives Feb. 4^th, 2022 via Minty Fresh.
 
Bratset says, “The title comes from an inside joke Hil and I always play around with. If we catch ourselves being a little preachy or pompous, we add ‘I am the proclaimer of things!’ at the end. We picture this guy with a crazy mustache and top hat going around ‘proclaiming things,’ while holding up a scroll and wearing a monocle. It always makes it weird and hilarious!”
 
Sidney elaborates on the appearance of her great grandfather on the cover of the single, saying, “His dad owned a roller rink in the 1880s in Iowa. My great-grandpa was so good at skating and doing tricks on both the bike and the skates that he started performing around the Midwest, and as far west as Colorado. He earned an insanely good chunk of cash for doing this, thus supporting the family. He went under the moniker, Little Willy Sidney, and Wee Willy Sidney, hahaha.”
 
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The High Water Marks | “Jenny”
 

 

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzPT8Xdc3M
 
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheHighWaterMarks-Jenny
 
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“Infectious hooks, crashing drums and guitars, and delicious harmonies... Punk energy... Music that is made for jumping around to.” — Glide Magazine
 
Based in her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway, Hilarie Sidney and her band The High Water Marks have just released “Jenny,” the band’s first new music since the 2020 release of Ecstasy Rhymes, its first album in 13 years. Check out “Jenny” now via Glide Magazine or the links above.
 
“Jenny” kicks off a series of singles that will culminate in another all-new album Proclaimer of Things on Feb. 4^th, 2022.
 
“That’s a song that came out super fast,” Sidney says. “I sat on the couch playing the chord progression and immediately singing, ‘Jenny’s got herself a friend and she wants to stay out late.’ Per Ole (Hilarie’s husband and band mate) said, ‘Hey, I have a chorus that suits that.’ Five minutes later, we’re playing the entire song, with almost all the lyrics.”
 
And who is Jenny?
 
“Jenny isn’t a real person,” Sidney explains. “I had heard of Jenny, but I never met her. She was known as somewhat of a legend around these parts. Everyone talks about what she did and acts as if they know her. The truth is, it’s hard to know Jenny, but I’d like to.”
 
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The High Water Marks | About
 

 
“I am so lucky to have been a musician throughout my life,” says Hilarie Sidney, currently fronting The High Water Marks, and best known as co-founder of the revered musical collective Elephant Six, and one of its three core bands The Apples In Stereo.
 
Based in her adopted home town of Grøa, Norway, Sidney and The High Water Marks are prepping to release Proclaimer of Things, the band’s second album in just over a year, following-up the 2020 album Ecstasy Rhymes, its first album in 13 years.
 
Coming back after such a long stretch of being off the scene with a critically and commercially welcomed new album, and then quickly coming in hot with another batch of 13 songs, isn’t an accident. In this case, it’s a coping mechanism.
 
With the United States reaching a milestone of 1 in 500 people having succumbed to COVID-19, it’s tragic news that this statistic hits home for Sidney. Her mother, half a world away, passed from the virus earlier this year.
 
“Not being able to see her and knowing that she was alone, dying in a nursing home, still haunts me daily,” Sidney courageously reveals.
 
Sidney knew that when she began to build a life in Norway with her band mate and husband Per Ole Bratset and their son, that she would be just a 12-hour flight from the rest of her family, but that 12 hours became something completely different under lockdown.
 
“I never factored in a pandemic,” she says. “At least my mom got to hear our record before she passed away. That means a lot to me because she was always really supportive of my music.”
 
The thirteen songs that comprise Proclaimer of Things are just a drop in the bucket, considering how much Sidney has leaned on songwriting to take her mind off things.
 
“I feel like I can’t pick up the guitar without writing a little melody. As therapy, we decided to keep recording. We dove into the project to keep us sane, focused, and from going down the rabbit hole of depression and self-pity.”
 
Through it all, The High Water Marks made an album that is positive, light, happy, and meaningful.
 
“I think my mom would approve of my method of dealing with the grief of losing her.” Sidney says with trademark optimism.
 
Proclaimer of Things, the latest album by The High Water Marks, is scheduled for release on Feb. 4^th, 2022 on Minty Fresh.
 
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The High Water Marks | Links
 
ASSETS : FACEBOOK : INSTAGRAM : SPOTIFY : APPLE : MINTY FRESH
 
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
 
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