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So Far, No Good

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1.
Missive 00:48
i want every week to be over as soon as it starts every phone call from mom to have at least one good part i'm so sick of feeling like we're just waiting to die swallowed whole after standing in a very long line feeling hopeless again as i stare at the leaves that i know with the drought'll just never stay green trying to tell myself that we've still got a chance while thinking only of me and my lack of romance is it so much to ask? to get the feeling back? is it so much to ask? to get my feelings back?
2.
JO Bud 02:51
i dont wanna be your JO bud i dont wanna be your bottom slut i dont wanna look in the mirror and always feel like im not good enough but i dont really know what i can do when im always thinking about you in some imaginary world where things work out i install all these apps (just as a test) but they end up making me depressed i just want to meet someone i like i dont want to watch you get undressed but i dont really know what i can do clubs just arent my thing and i cannot choose between the vomiting and loneliness tonight and i don't think i can do this anymore this culture shakes me to my very core when you don't feel like you belong and youve never been very strong you think about how much it hurts you really do believe youre cursed when youre alone again in bed the thoughts that rush into your head you wish you didn't feel this way is this just part of being gay?
3.
who's got time for self improvement? you're too tired to cook yourself dinner; nose to the grindstone and when you're alone spend your time marinating in regret about all your friends, and the student debt all my problems are so simple i'm so god damn afraid of failing i'll never win where do i begin to pick up the shards of my awful broken brain and build it back up to destroy once again but who's got time for second chances? shitty friends and high school dances we aren't on this earth so long to let me sit back and be proven wrong who's got time for life's romantics? they say if you stay on the bench you never score and if i want more i gotta say im a sorry sight i don't have the guts to live my life i don't have the guts to live my life i don't have the guts to live my life
4.
Hadley 03:41
hadley, mass the stars shone bright above the van that we all slept in and i dont know if i should be here. days before, i heard the news you broke it when i met you at kate's house over in fenway but i had nothing to offer you. no comfort, no kind words, no solace; i'm so anxious just me, sitting there, alone. so never in my life, it seems have i known sorrows quite like these and i hope that i can stay afloat no never in my life it seems have i known sorrows quite like these and i hope to god i stay afloat.
5.
Bodybag 03:43
katie hates her job, yeah she cant stand it everyone's annoying and bad and bland it kills her every time that she walks through that door i ask her what shed do if it were her call and she told me shed rather be doing nothing at all she says "there has got to be more than this i'll spend my life in an office watching the days slip by." lookin in the future makes me nervous everyone'll leave and ill lose my purpose i cant even tell you where i want to be the choice between my friends and a secure job but it doesn't matter what i pick 'cause either way i get robbed i swear there has got to be more than this i'll spend my life chasing promises of an ideal life we're talking dream jobs and fairy tales romance and shoddy light rail cold mornings in the fall accepting ill hardly see you at all now we live in different states the problems that we create and everything leading back to when i said that this is what being in your 20s is all about yeah, this is what being in your 20s is all about we put our weeks in a bodybag and get teardrop tattoos but the part that hurts is missing you.
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7.
i remember when i was a kid and summer didn't leave me sick i thought about stuff like magic, and my dog now i'm saddled with existence terrors in all their persistence its so frightening being anything at all i feel small
8.
Good Dogs 02:06
iona: i miss you bad you're the only one i talked to; the best friend i ever had and when our parents were furious cause of something that you did we'd hang out in my room because we were just stupid kids i can't stay mad at you i never wanted to when i saw you, you could barely lift your head you lost about 10 pounds and then you couldn't leave your bed and i can't stress enough that i was alone as a kid now that you're looking grim i think of all the good you did i wish you could pull through but you're not going to and everything you did for me reminds me what a friend should be all the times i was depressed you'd stay with me; id feel your breath on my skin i want you back again. i guess i wish that nothing died at least, nothing i ever liked but bad things seem to stick around while good dogs end up underground
9.
this city is all that i have this apartment is all that i need and nothing you say, and nothing you do will bring me back home to you "home" is a nebulous thing i lost it a long time ago the hollow construction still stands but i hate it there, no i will not go and i can't stand it anymore i've hit rock bottom, the ocean floor teems with regrets, anxieties the guilt for people i had to leave they try to say "don't blame yourself for looking out for your mental health" but i know that i've let you down because i just can't stick around i'm not coming home for christmas i'm sorry if that makes you blue i just need some time to process and figure out what i should do maybe i'll feel better someday maybe - i'll try not to doubt i'll do what i can, and i'll find a way to finally make something work out
10.
Whole Again 03:43
it's been a year or so and i took for granted what i had it's sad, but too late to go back the days keep sliding through my hand like a hundred grains of sand but hey, this wasn't what i planned and i know that there's more to life than this working every day, coming home to dishes but i'm so sick and tired of all the loose ends! even as they go away, it's hard to forget your friends and i dont know what it will take for me to feel whole again if i was gone, if i was gone, would you miss me? i don't think that you ever knew my name. and when i'm gone, yeah when i'm gone, will you miss me? i don't think that you ever knew my name but sammy moved to philly aaron's still in nyc audrey doesn't talk to me anymore i don't think i can get used to friends stepping in and out of view and i'll miss singing on J2 and when our time's so limited it makes me wonder why we drift daydreaming of a world in which we all could stay together for now i'll text you on most days play d&d every tuesday and worry that i cant do this forever.
11.
when i walked in you looked so pale i swear you stared right through me the desperate shuddering of your body as you held me i knew right then the you i knew had died and left your body as my heart raced my mind, displaced, you told me i had a strong heartbeat
12.
i fear what lies ahead i'd give up if i could i'm filled to brim with dread all my life: so far, no good.

about

hello! my name is owen! welcome to so far, no good - this is a record that has been in the works for like 8 years, which is wild. i wrote it when i was going through some really tough times and felt like everything is falling apart, and writing the album was my way of processing that! i asked my friend joey dussault of the band (T-T)b to talk about the album because the man simply has a way with words:

It’s hard for me to imagine a stranger listening to this album. Maybe to the point of being overprotective, a little bit. These are my friends! I was there for the basement shows and the D&D sessions and the dogs who died and the friends who moved away. I was even in the band for a while, before I became another friend who moved away. But there’s a lot here for you, too. You’ll hear glockenspiels, melodicas, and straight up guitar heroics — sometimes in the same tune! A frenetic blend of punk, folk, emo, and jazz that belies how carefully crafted these songs are. It totally whips ass.

Most of all, So Far, No Good is a fantastic record about loss and survival. On “Missive,” the chorus asks: “Is it so much to ask / to get the feeling back?” When the future looks like shit, where else can you go but to an idealized past? What else can you cling to and make it through another day? I didn’t find an answer here. But if you’re like me, you’ll take part in the commiseration. There’s some comfort in that. And then maybe we’ll all start again tomorrow, the tiniest bit stronger than we were the day before.

credits

released March 4, 2022

bass: fenn macon
drums: nick dussault
lead guitar, piano on "Anthony's Theme": jake cardinal
rhythm guitar, vocals, melodica, glockenspiel: owen harrelson

guest vocals on "bodybag": rae fagin
piano (except for "Anthony's Theme"): joey cardinal
mixing: jake cardinal
mastering: nick dussault
album art: shan horan (go check out shan's work on their twitter: twitter.com/shanhorandraws)

bonus thank yous to everyone who supported us over the years: joey, aaron, rae, carly, dylan, sami, dustin, dave, and one million more people!!! if you thought "am i one of the one million more people" the answer is yes! i couldn't have done this without all of your love and help - so thank you!!

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