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1.	Fortnight 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Talk is thin Word trial when I walked in One whole night I walk the fence Tongue tied and lost again Comfort carpet Under your bed I get something less Man is weak Raised my voice when you walked in Power might seem displaced They lied and lost again Comfort carpet Under your bed I get something less
2.	Central Heat Exchange, Living Hour - Tulips at My Bedside 03:04	lyrics	buy track
Long nights in June Our tires move in parallel Sing like you do Melancholic laughter like in Garden State Feeling kinda stuffed up Treat it with a lemon rind Pulling all the weeds out Growing all the time Tulips at my bedside Growing all the time Never on my good side Always on my mind Go ahead of me, I’ll be following Memorizing the back of your t-shirt Feeling kinda stuffed up Treat it with a lemon rind Pulling all the weeds out Growing all the time Tulips at my bedside Growing all the time Always on my good side Never on my mind Frozen pixels on my television Was it nice to meet me Golden standard for a healthy living Was it nice to meet me
3.	Almost to You 03:17	lyrics	buy track
Too hot To be of much help To you or anyone else Choked up I should stay put Can’t help the feeling that I’m almost to you (almost to you) I’m almost to you (almost to you) There’s just a taste I can’t get rid of No matter how hard I try I try Almost to you (almost to you) I’m almost to you (almost to you) Choked up There’s just a take I can’t get rid of No matter how hard I try I try
4.	You Showed Up 03:51	lyrics	buy track
Friend of a friend But the kind that sticks around Hit me like a body high Vapor on a rooftop sky Didn’t even have to try When you tried your best Rewarded with a sinking chest You showed up Saw you with a bag That night at Rough Trade Can a homie tell a homie what it’s really like Are you doing fine Friend of a friend But the kind that loves Hit me like a body high Vapor on a rooftop sky Didn’t even have to try When you tried your best Rewarded with a sinking chest You showed up
5.	Central Heat Exchange, Varsity - Directly Down 04:22	lyrics	buy track
Hold your body to the light Like a memory caught in the tide You can turn back if you try To get to heaven It can happen Love A little wisdom from the ground I wanna spin directly down All I ever wanted… Fan the fire with a flower All I ever wanted… Perfect vision (uh oh) In your eye A little wisdom from the ground I wanna spin directly down All I ever wanted… A little last minute refrain A little mercy if you can
6.	Cold 02:23	lyrics	buy track
Better off without the noise Blue dream color map to fill the void I watched your blood turn blue As it rushed into you One sustained pulse effect Until it’s all designed Warm colors faded A little complicated Water in the basement Unprepared statement I wanted to (cold, cold, cold, cold) Powder lifted into the storm To reconstitute (cold, cold, cold, cold…) Warm colors faded A little complicated Warm colors faded A little complicated
7.	Help Me Understand 03:35	lyrics	buy track
It’s been long enough Didn’t sweat it much, I acted tough Luck got the best of me Baby can’t you see We could spend a few Take the time to talk more about you You, give yourself a chance Help me understand Waking up too late Guess I thought I had some time to waste These days are really gonna make me Get myself a hobby Get myself a hobby Cold air flows through my window Warm draft brings me out for once We could spend a few Take the time to talk more about you You, give yourself a chance Help me understand
8.	Central Heat Exchange, Fran - Dusty Glass 03:29	lyrics	buy track
It’s late, you say to the window Head takes all day to get up though Friends leave, kids scream on the pavement You think where am I gonna be landing I know it feels like you’re just stuck in some malaise A dusty glass on all your days You wonder how long it’ll take It doesn’t matter what you think or what you do You’re gonna catch life on the move You’re gonna bite off more than you choose {instrumental break} I know it feels like you’re just stuck in some malaise A dusty glass on all your days You wonder how long it’ll take It doesn’t matter what you think or what you do You’re gonna catch life on the move You’re gonna bite off more than you chew So get the haircut make the purchase At the store, drop your dollar on the floor Run back home and wake up sore Or don’t do anything you don’t really wanna do Mean who am I to tell you You’re on a roll just push on through
9.	Horsey Cop 03:28	lyrics	buy track
It bit like the dog when it bit hard I move like a child into the night Must be so exciting to shit on your friends So delighted to make your son go to school again You sit til the sun turns To horsey sauce I lit my cigar The silly walk Must be so enlightened to live in your loft So inviting Under the icy falls We live for life
10.	Tomatoes (Breath of God) 02:08	lyrics	buy track
Pick up on the little things A squash in ink A toothpick with an olive end Happens in the evening When the wine is free Glasses dirty You pick the next record please Turn into a hobbyist A garden plot Tomatoes are the breath of god Step into a brighter light A change in hair Better motto Needles on a human fur
11.	Drumless 02:53	lyrics	buy track
Always show up late Never time to explain Lifes just a passing lane Practically a jet plane Travel drumless Always show up late Parties almost over Why show up at all Practically all sober Travel boundless Travel drumless

about

SUN004

A collaboration between Sunroom Records, Citrus City Records, & Birthday Cake Media.

Order a copy of the limited edition green vinyl here: citruscityrecords.bandcamp.com

People don’t talk on the phone all that much anymore. When we’re apart, we text and DM — ping ponging back and forth, sending and replying. A perfectly rendered circuit. But if you call someone, and you get their voicemail, there is no certainty that you will ever get a reply. You may go on forever, missing each other, etching thoughts and ideas into the ether—having a conversation without speaking, directly, to anybody. This kind of liminal conversation is the essence of Central Heat Exchange - a new band of close-but-distant friends.

Central Heat Exchange is the sound of four co-writers and a deep list of special features (Sun June, Lala Lala, Fran, + more) scattered by distance, time, and circumstance. Their self-titled debut — out September 10th via Birthday Cake Media/Citrus City Records/Sunroom Records — is a pastiche of dream-like memories and rich melodies, unabashedly harkening back to the sounds of early-aughts indie heroes like Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Broken Social Scene, and Neutral Milk Hotel. Recorded in separate bedrooms across North America’s central time zone and mostly mixed together by Ben Lumsdaine (Major Murphy, Varsity, Kevin Krauter, Amy O, EZTV), the album reconstructs a sense of communal possibility during a time when the very idea of community—especially in music—was dislocated, wrenched from its foundation in venues and practice spaces and, like so much else during this pandemic, deposited online.

The members of Central Heat Exchange met at shows over the years. They were friendly but not really close friends. They didn’t live anywhere near each other and it seemed like this pattern would continue: do some shows sporadically and reconnect every few years. But in the spring of 2020, after being locked down for the better part of three months, Jake wrote and recorded a piece of a song, sent that song fragment to Santi who recorded some vocal melodies, which were then passed to Adam and Paul to thicken it up with keys, bass, and guitars.

This happened ten more times in different iterations—each track recorded remotely, at home, using whatever gear and personnel was handy. Lumsdaine took all their rough-edged ideas and stitched/mixed them together into a cohesive collection of rockers, feelers and in-betweeners. “For most of the songs,” Santi writes, “it was a refreshing experience to build songs as instrumentals first, taking a texture-forward approach to songwriting before figuring where the lyrical content would go. Each blank track file felt like a new and refreshing place to escape to creatively.”

Whether you’re looking for an anthemic driving jam to listen to on a trip, or a midtempo acoustic bop to cry yourself to sleep to, Central Heat Exchange is the batch of fuzzy indie pop we’ve all been missing in our lives for the last decade.

credits

released September 10, 2021

Central Heat Exchange is:
Adam Soloway - vocals, guitar, banjo, percussion, keyboards & synth
Santiago Dietche - vocals, guitar, bass, drum machine, piano, keyboards & synth
Jacob Stolz - vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, drum machine, keyboards & synth
Paul Stolz - bass, guitar, saxophone, drum machine, keyboards & synth

Featuring:
Ben Lumsdaine - drums and keyboards on "Fortnight", drums on "Almost to You", "Horsey Cop", "Tomatoes (Breath of God)"
Abby Black - drums on "Tulips at my Bedside" and "Directly Down"
Gilad Carroll - group vocals on "Tulips at my Bedside"
Sam Sarty - vocals on "Tulips at my Bedside", trombone on "You Showed Up"
Dave Vettraino - omnichord on "Almost to You", mixing on "Tulips at my Bedside"
Dylan Weschler - tape loops on "You Showed Up"
Annie Stolz - keyboards on "You Showed Up"
Sarah Schultz - drums on "You Showed Up" and "Dusty Glass"
Stephanie Smith - vocals on "Directly Down"
Brent Penny - synth on "Cold"
Brian Gluck - drums on “Cold”
Sam Houdek - guitar on "Cold"
Maria Jacobson - vocals on "Dusty Glass"
Zack Wiggs - pedal steel on "Dusty Glass"
Jason Tait - keyboards and vibraphone on "Drumless"
Julie Penner - violin on "Drumless"

Recorded 2020-2021
Mixing by Ben Lumsdaine
Mastering by Cory Allen
Cover painting by Nina Stolz Bellucci
Design by Clare Byrne

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