The Vaughns take us track-by-track via their sophomore album ‘Egg Every little thing,’ an impassioned, creative, and achingly emotive report that asserts their place as one of the authentic pop bands of their time.

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Us little people actually put up a combat – simply check out the dinosaurs, they didn’t stand an opportunity they usually have been triple our dimension…

The Vaughns candidly confer with their sophomore album as a sampler, however don’t let that description idiot you.

Whereas most samplers provide a taste-test or a light-weight tease, Egg Every little thing is the complete meal: A dynamic showcase of all that there’s to like about this Tri-State space band, delivered in twelve distinct but cohesive programs that go away listeners glad past perception. Dreamy indie pop and driving indie rock come coalesce on Egg Every little thing, an impassioned and achingly emotive report that asserts The Vaughns’ place as one of the creative and authentic pop bands of their time.

Let’s take a while off
Get pleasure from this life for all it’s
Been chasing diamonds
Now that you’ve got ‘em you don’t need them
Ain’t it humorous how we dwell?
You don’t must dim your mild in the event you shine…
shine shiny

Let unfastened you and all your folks making strikes
Nobody left to let you know what to do
Go on e-book a resort with a view (what a view)
Acquired 100 million folks all taking a look at you act cool

– “Bop Star,” The Vaughns

Launched September 29, 2023 through Equal Imaginative and prescient Data, Egg Every little thing is without delay gorgeous and soul-stirring. The follow-up to 2019’s debut F.O.M.O. deliberately highlights the highs and lows, ebbs and flows that the band – each as people, and as a collective – have gone via over these previous 4 very lengthy, very turbulent years.

“Egg Every little thing is our tackle a sampler – an ode to the traditional label samplers that may be handed out at music festivals like Warped Tour, Bamboozle, and many others.,” The Vaughns inform Atwood Journal. “The album is a group of songs all created in several methods, with completely different mixtures of contributors, completely different music genres, lyrical meanings, devices and instruments, besides they’re all Vaughns songs. That is our “toss stuff (egg?) on the wall and see what sticks”-report. It was the toughest factor that we’ve ever completed, however we’re all so extremely proud even after the thousandth pay attention.”

“Our imaginative and prescient didn’t actually change essentially however tailored and advanced with the entire curveballs that got here our manner. We weren’t capable of end the report with our scheduled studio time at Headroom, so we needed to self-record a lot of the vocals and keyboards and labored with our mates at Diner Studios to report piano and strings and at Dimm Studios to report the whole lot of ‘Day by Day.’ We have been re-writing and re-recording up till the final track was submitted for mixing.”

At the moment comprised of Anna Lies and Ryan Kenter along with guitarist Jordan Smith and bassist (and band photographer) Brian Hughes, The Vaughns have been delivering a charismatic mixture of indie pop and indie rock allure for the higher a part of the previous decade. Based mostly in New Jersey and New York Metropolis, their songs by no means fail to enchant hearts and minds alike – as we wrote in a observe premiere for his or her track, “Espresso Sundae.” 5 years in the past, “Vocalist Anna Lies has a powerfully mild voice that melts over our ears in candy, harrowing feelings.”

“It’s a must to listen, pay attention nearer than regular, and actually drive your self into the second to totally recognize what The Vaughns are doing, and whenever you get there, the reward is actually price it.”

Egg Every little thing brings extra of that magic spark to the fore as The Vaughns discover every thing from a looming sense of doom and humanity’s extinction (“Survive”), to permitting your self the area to have fun achievements and success (“Bop Star”), to pandemic-induced loss, longing, and isolation (“Mancala”), to supporting a beloved one via their chemotherapy and radiation therapies (“Day by Day”). The 4 songs described right here – a number of the finest on this new report – additionally spotlight the band members’ strengths as evocative lyricists, arrangers, and melody-makers: Not solely is the music on this album extremely catchy, nevertheless it’s cathartic as nicely, pushed by an unabating sense of uncooked humanity and unfiltered honesty.

For the band, who’ve been collectively in various types for practically ten years now, Egg Every little thing is the definitive “The Vaughns” report – a complete expression of their many sides.

“This report places every thing that we’ve completed and issues that we haven’t completed collectively on a plate for the primary time,” they share. “Songs like “Excuses” and “60s” sound just like the rock songs from our early historical past. “Day by Day” and “Mancala” are each iterations of affection songs like “Raina” from our 2021 EP rom-coms + take-out. “Dimes,” “Flip Round,” and “Gizzards” are tracks that take affect from pop, indie rock, or psych rock. “Survive” is an idea track that’s lyrically-focused about right this moment’s world points. “Nearer,” “Bop Star,” and “Dumb Sound” are the furthest experimentation that we’ve completed so far by way of manufacturing, programming, using obscure sounds, and pushing our boundaries outdoors something we’ve tried so far.”

“We tried every thing on this report, realized learn how to use a number of audio softwares, explored new songs, and drove ourselves to madness, however couldn’t be extra grateful of the end result.”

Effectively what the hell are you yelling for?
Us little people actually put up a combat
Come on simply check out the dinosaurs
They didn’t stand an opportunity they usually have been triple our dimension
So once they’re flying out this night
Some billie rocket’s gonna mild up the sky
I do know I’m watching from a budget seats
Hailing St. Mary praying we don’t die
On this chilly evening

If God can’t hear me
If Superman’s not so robust Bottoms up
Let’s pray the aliens come save us

– “Survive,” The Vaughns

The album’s title, “Egg Every little thing,” evokes a way of splat! – and deliciousness.

“We thought-about naming the report Sampler or one thing like that, however felt that it wasn’t catchy sufficient,” the band explains. “Nonetheless, the phrase “every thing” accomplishes the identical factor; we have been attempting to do every thing on this report. “Egg” was added for a bunch of various causes:

1. Egg Every little thing is a incredible NJ bagel
2. Egg Every little thing could possibly be an motion, like throwing eggs at every thing as a type of protest
3. So many issues come from eggs — there are such a lot of types. I’m certain there could possibly be a bunch of different meanings that we didn’t even consider.”

From the immediately ear-catching melodies and intoxicating grooves of opening tracks “Dimes” and “Flip Round,” to the intimate vulnerability of “Mancala” and “Day by Day,” Egg Every little thing is a rollercoaster of seductive sound and compelling emotion.

“Day by Day,” which premiered on Atwood Journal earlier this previous August, is an particularly highly effective standout: A gut-wrenching, soul-stirring reckoning with most cancers, the track is fantastically uncooked and brutally sincere – a no-holds-barred reflection on what it feels prefer to be bear witness to this terrible illness because it takes from us the one we love:

What number of occasions
Can they promise the tip
Whereas we sit by and want for one of the best
It’s manner too straightforward to get caught on the percentages
So what a time to belief in a god

I’m a talker, I make jokes
Typically they work proper now they don’t
I don’t doubt that we’ll make it via
‘Trigger I’d do something for you; I’d do something for you
I’ll rub your again and get all of the knots
I’ll make you dinner and I’ll scrub the pots
I’ll clear the litter and I’ll fold all of the socks
It’s true I’d do something for you
I’d do something for you

– “Day by Day,” The Vaughns

“Are two unhappy songs too many for a report, or simply sufficient? My spouse’s mother was sick with most cancers for 2 years and he or she handed away simply three weeks earlier than our marriage ceremony,” Ryan Kenter tells Atwood Journal. “There was not a day that Britt could possibly be completely happy whereas feeling helpless to make her mother higher. I spent every a kind of days searching for any little factor that I might do to deliver Britt only a single fleeting second of happiness. The unhappy fact is that there’s nothing that anybody can do moreover being there.”

“This one is particular,” vocalist Anna Lies provides. “Teared up a couple of occasions when monitoring it. We actually caught some magic on it. It felt so much like once we made [our song] “Raina.” It was a extremely intimate track to assist with lyrics on. As a good friend, I simply wished to assist Ryan inform this story as finest as we might. Right down to the wire we actually weren’t certain the way it was going to return collectively. After we introduced Jordan and Brian into it, items fell into place. It’s a troublesome one to hearken to on repeat, however we positively captured the which means and feeling. Nice songwriting. Nice honesty.”

“Day by Day” is only one of a number of highlights on an album that holds our consideration from begin to end. Whereas the band declined to focus on any favourite songs – “each single track on this report is a spotlight to us,” they confess – Ryan Kenter is fast to level out that “Survive” has “one of the best lyrics Anna has written for this challenge. I’m such a fan of this work.”

Leaning extra into the pop aspect of the band’s sonic id, “Survive” is yet one more plain standout on this album – a dreamy and buoyant upheaval introduced on by the turbulence we really feel from the world’s intrusion into our lives, and the ideas that wind up consuming our days and nights:

Get up, information is on some bullshit right this moment
Yeah robust luck, California’s on fireplace once more
I learn they’re flying out this night
Some billionaire’s rocket is gonna mild up the
sky I do know I’m watching from a budget seats
Simply as I’ve now for many of my life

If God can’t hear me
If Superman’s not so robust Bottoms up
Let’s pray the aliens come save us
On this chilly evening Who decides
Which of us survive?

– “Survive,” The Vaughns

“I had simply gone to a Brilliant Eyes present with Lucy Dacus opening,” Anna Lies recollects. “I had additionally simply watched the I Am Greta documentary. I used to be tremendous annoyed with local weather change and likewise pondering so much about how impactful lyrics will be. Brilliant Eyes and Lucy are each extremely nice lyrical artists. From the gang’s perspective you can inform it was the lyrics that introduced everybody there – so I used to be actually simply centered on the lyrics at first. After we confirmed Joe our acoustic demo, he thought it was a bit too espresso store. Particularly reasonable. We pulled out some guitars and have been passing concepts round and ultimately I plopped out that bass line. Joe was hype on that so we leaned into it. First Vaughns track I’ve tracked bass for! Took half a day. There have been many rewrites (a theme of this report) and one full model that Ryan rejected earlier than I landed on the ultimate course.”

“Joe completely crushed the manufacturing and turned it into one thing actually distinctive with pop sensibilities. The ten seconds earlier than the guitars kick in on the finish, is my favourite a part of the entire report. Someday I received actually obsessive over whether or not to say “die” on the finish or not, and annoyingly debated it with the entire band for half-hour as Ryan was coming down with a flu!” she laughs.

The great thing about Egg Every little thing lies in how a lot ardour, how a lot emotion, how a lot thought and painstaking care went into each second of its thirty-six minute manufacturing.

“Egg Every little thing means a lot to us, each artistically and personally. To our followers, mates, household, and all people: Thanks for the help all through the years,” The Vaughns share. “Now we have grown a lot within the 2+ years creating this report, and so many issues have modified. This can be a time stamp of our inventive progress and of issues that we have been feeling. If nothing else, Egg Every little thing is a extremely cool snapshot of our lives from 2020-2023. Give the report a full pay attention — we hope that there’s a track on there for everybody.”

Effectively I discovered your wooden mancala
There it was dusty in your shelf
Gram we use to play collectively
Now I can’t bear in mind how
Yeah I discovered Dad’s Mattel baseball
Oh God the way it’s bringing me again
To chocolate milk bowls with straws
Your Cap’n Crunch on CD-ROM
Nevertheless it’s not simply the stuff you left behind

It’s the recollections once we have been 5
Holidays and Sunday nights
2020 has not been proper
With out you right here…

– “Mancala,” The Vaughns

Once more, on this author’s opinion, the time period “sampler” doesn’t do justice to the depth and high quality of labor at hand, however we’ll allow you to be the choose. Expertise the complete report through our beneath stream, and peek inside The Vaughns’ Egg Every little thing with Atwood Journal as Ryan Kenter and Anna Lies take us track-by-track via the music and lyrics of their fascinating sophomore album!

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Dimes

Ryan: I tend to overplay an element that I give you and beat it into the bottom. One of many hardest elements of this track was determining how usually the marimba hook is available in. Because of Joe’s professional ear, we predict we discovered the correct amount. Since we’ve began taking part in collectively as The Vaughns, I’ve been looking for the steadiness between writing drum elements which can be attention-grabbing and likewise finest match the track. I believe this was one in every of my finest makes an attempt so far. Anna wrote a extremely nice defending melody that occurs after the verses – we determined to help it by laying the half with the vibes sounds constructed into my drum pad. After we have been nearly to complete the album I realized that my good friend was a vibes participant and we have been capable of substitute the substitute sounds with actual vibes. Thanks Joe!

Anna: “Dimes” was the primary track we recorded for the album and the primary of many songs on this report to kick my butt. It took me a very long time to piece collectively the vocals. Lyrically I re-wrote every thing from earlier variations, as a result of it was necessary to me to say one thing about long-term relationships; one thing about pushing via after the honeymoon. Being in a band is difficult on relationships. After I sing “Dimes” now, I consider Raina and Ryan’s spouse Britt, and the way affected person they’ve been with each of us.

Facet observe, we actually love the bass on this track. Brian and Joe locked in on the superb particulars, we love all the alternatives they made.

Flip Round

Ryan: Anna wrote a killer track. Insane hooks and a clean however driving bass melody. I wished to let the bass carry the track so I saved the drums within the pocket. One factor I used to be cognizant of was learn how to solely use cymbal crashes when they’re completely mandatory.

Because the rom-coms EP final 12 months, we’ve been experimenting with synths extra (each actual ones and MIDI synths in Logic). I had a lot enjoyable including elements to this track. I’m particularly pleased with the supporting synth melody on the choruses and the Dr. Dre impressed riff that occurs on the ultimate refrain.

Anna: This was a enjoyable one. “Flip Round” is all about worry; about the way it can take over and dictate our lives. A good friend advised me a narrative about her grandmother, Loretta, and the way they each don’t drive. It received me eager about how we cross on sure fears inside households. I used to be fighting a imply worry of subways and I assumed “oh gosh – I’m going to cross this on”. So though lighthearted, singing this track has been a bit therapeutic for me to poke enjoyable at my very own fears. The synth traces are sizzling. When Ryan began sending me these I felt like we made a monster.

Bop Star

Ryan: I believe we rewrote this track 10 occasions, or a minimum of 8. Anna wouldn’t hand over and I believe we landed on the best steadiness between pop and indie, actual drums and programmed ones. Ryan 8 years in the past would by no means have imagined that he can be programming drums on a report, however screw that man. This rocks.

Anna: It’s a bit corny, however so am I. I actually explored my voice on this track and I adore it for that. I tried the vocals 10 occasions earlier than I ended up re-doing all of them after shifting to a brand new condominium final June. Raina was exhibiting our landlord our condominium they usually walked in on me with wires all unfold out in my workplace closet monitoring vocals. Ryan was actually useful in serving to me land on instructions. The intro and outro riff was written on this Concord guitar my brother discovered within the rubbish. I felt it was necessary to have one thing like that to grind in opposition to the lushness of the synths and vocals. Ryan and I assumed so much concerning the drums and mixing actual and programmed drums. There was a extremely enjoyable demo session exploring that – Ryan received inventive utilizing a dwell equipment to copy what would sometimes be programmed sounds. You may hear a contact of that within the outro.

Mancala

Ryan: That is the primary track that I ever wrote for this band and likewise the primary track that I wrote that’s getting launched. It’s a little bit scary to open up your emotions to the world, nevertheless it’s additionally actually thrilling.

2020 was a foul 12 months – for most individuals I believe. 2020 was the beginning of the pandemic and a tragic and uncomfortable time for most individuals in some ways. This track is just not a COVID track, it’s truly about shedding somebody near you. Proper earlier than the world shut down my grandma died – somebody who had been round my total life and the closest and solely household dying that I had skilled at that time. Not solely do it’s important to be taught to deal with the dying of a beloved one, however then it’s important to cope with their stuff; their home, belongings, cash and many others. You kind via the stuff that was so necessary to them and resolve whether or not somebody will hold it or throw it away. What a troublesome factor to do whereas grieving! I had a realization whereas going via my grandmother’s issues that it’s not the stuff you permit behind however the folks at your aspect that matter. Not simply in life, however at dying. It’s the individuals who care about you, who bear in mind you and who share these recollections. There’s at all times mild with darkness.

Anna: This was one of many first songs we centered on for the report. I bear in mind being blown away when Ryan confirmed it to me. He simply sang it acoustically in his kitchen. Nonetheless offers me chills once I hearken to the bridge. We made 5 completely different variations and debated the tempo so much. I’m actually proud of the way it all got here out, and I believe it’ll endlessly be a particular track for our band. Watching Ryan’s reactions to Nicole (strings) and Pat (piano) observe their elements was a ravishing second.

Sixties

Ryan: I bear in mind once we have been getting nearer to recording we have been discussing sounds that have been a part of our repertoire that weren’t being represented on the album. Anna got here to my place with an acoustic guitar and performed 3 track concepts that she was engaged on and this was one in every of them and I beloved it. I don’t bear in mind if it was that evening however we received tremendous stoned and jammed on this track and added tremendous bizarre appears like faux timpani and random percussion devices and made the right demo. All we wished to do within the studio was to recreate this demo however clear it up. I believe we nailed it. It could possibly be enjoyable to launch the unique demo down the highway, who is aware of!

Anna: “Sixties” is a blast to play dwell. I used to be out to dinner at some point and was actually vibing with the 60s rock that was taking part in on the restaurant. Groovy, completely happy music. However then I spotted all of the teams that have been taking part in have been white dudes. I assumed it’d be enjoyable to take that vibe and put my very own, or a extra trendy spin on that. It began as a semi-joke that I might sing to myself. For some time I didn’t assume it will be greater than that, however the band actually preferred it. “This world’s product of fiction” has turn into a little bit of a motto for me for certain. One thing I catch myself singing in my head usually.

Gizzards

Ryan: So I’ve a Fb market gear shopping for dependancy. So what! I got here house with a crimson SG and wrote the guitar elements for the verse and refrain that evening, in addition to the entire drum elements and many of the construction. This one was caught for some time, however Brian actually helped iron out the best construction for the track.

Anna: I didn’t need to overthink this track lyrically and let it stream naturally. The general concept is to go forward and be whoever/no matter you need to be. After we wrote this track we have been listening to a variety of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. We figured why not be direct and simply title the track after them? It’s enjoyable to guess what artists have been impressed by once they wrote a track. Sorry if we took the enjoyable out of guessing!

Excuses

Ryan: The previous Vaughns are nonetheless right here! Perhaps a little bit older and hopefully matured. That is for the OG followers.

Anna: After rom-coms, I used to be excited to write down rock songs once more. I felt stress to write down some riffs to show we might nonetheless do this. So got here “Excuses”. The lyrics are kinda nonsensical and partly thrown collectively within the studio whereas attempting to make sense of the story. We had an excellent enjoyable session including the band’s backing vocals.

Survive

Ryan: All I need to say is that that is my favourite and I believe one of the best set of lyrics that Anna has ever written.

Anna: I had simply gone to a Brilliant Eyes present with Lucy Dacus opening. I had additionally simply watched the I Am Greta documentary. I used to be tremendous annoyed with local weather change and likewise pondering so much about how impactful lyrics will be. Brilliant Eyes & Lucy are each extremely nice lyrical artists. From the gang’s perspective you can inform it was the lyrics that introduced everybody there – so I used to be actually simply centered on the lyrics at first. After we confirmed Joe our acoustic demo, he thought it was a bit too espresso store. V truthful. We pulled out some guitars and have been passing concepts round and ultimately I plopped out that bass line. Joe was hype on that so we leaned into it. First Vaughns track I’ve tracked bass for! Took half a day. There have been many rewrites (a theme of this report) and one full model that Ryan rejected earlier than I landed on the ultimate course. Joe completely crushed the manufacturing and turned it into one thing actually distinctive with pop sensibilities. The ten seconds earlier than the guitars kick in on the finish, is my favourite a part of the entire report. Someday I received actually obsessive over whether or not to say “die” on the finish or not, and annoyingly debated it with the entire band for half-hour as Ryan was coming down with a flu lmao. Sorry Ry.

Day by Day

Ryan: Are two unhappy songs too many for a report or simply sufficient? My spouse’s mother was sick with most cancers for 2 years and he or she handed away simply three weeks earlier than our marriage ceremony. There was not a day that Britt could possibly be completely happy whereas feeling helpless to make her mother higher. I spent every a kind of days searching for any little factor that I might do to deliver Britt only a single fleeting second of happiness. The unhappy fact is that there’s nothing that anybody can do moreover being there.

Anna: This one is particular. Teared up when monitoring it. We actually caught some magic on it. It felt so much like once we made “Raina.” It was a extremely intimate track to assist with lyrics on. As a good friend I simply wished to assist Ryan inform this story as finest as we might. Right down to the wire we actually weren’t certain the way it was going to return collectively. After we introduced Jordan and Brian into it, items fell into place. It’s a troublesome one to pay attention on repeat, however we positively captured the which means and feeling. Nice songwriting. Nice honesty.

Thanks to Mike at DIMM Studios for recording this track and serving to us to make nice final second association tweaks.

Nearer

Ryan: I really like this track. Such a terrific collaboration between the 2 of us. The primary half of the track is fairly hypnotic and the second half is simply bizarre. One little enjoyable truth – not so enjoyable on the time once we made the choice – is that the drums are from the unique demo recorded in my basement. We ran out of studio time and had to make use of the demo drums. They sound distinctive – a minimum of for us..

My good friend Kevin stated the synth line on the finish of this track appears like my highschool band. I believe it’s extra Vessel by twenty one pilots. We knew this was the album nearer the second that we wrote it. We need to make a particular shout out to Nicole for making the MIDI string half I wrote into a ravishing layered string orchestra. Now we have an instagram reel of my face when Nicole recorded strings on the finish of this track. That’s an ideal illustration of her efficiency. One other shout out to Pat who listened to the track whereas hanging within the studio after he recorded the piano on “Sixties” and stated, “oh, I get it,” and recorded bass on the spot.

Anna: One among my favorites. It’s a visit, and bizarre. A second of escapism. Began with Ryan and I with an acoustic guitar and taking part in with synths. I believe we’ve got probably the most enjoyable once we are simply goofing round like that. One of many extra collaborative songs on the report. We didn’t push it an excessive amount of, it stayed tremendous true to the demo. The drums and synths are from the unique demo, recorded in Ryan’s basement on shitty microphones. Nicole (strings) and Pat (bass) took ‘Nearer’ to a different stage.

Whereas on a household trip I had my household sing the tip vocals. One among my favourite recollections from this report. My brother’s girlfriend, Tula, annihilated the harmonies. We knew it was the album’s final track from day one. I named it “nearer” early on and we dedicated to the bit to make it the album’s nearer.

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