21/08/2023
Telemarket
Ad Nauseum
out August 25th, 2023 on Cloud Recordings | Science Project Records
ad nauseum /ad-’ nô-zē-ǝm, -am/ – adverb:
to a sickening extent
to go on endlessly
Athens, Georgia’s Telemarket emerges with force and finesse on its debut full length, Ad Nauseam, due out August 25th on Elephant 6 label affiliate Cloud Recordings. The record by turns navigates loops of existential quandary, heartache, and hilarity in a world gone awry. Running at 34 minutes and 34 seconds, this thirteen track odyssey discovers itself through bouts of exuberant feedback and snappy hooks, and ultimately finds resolution surrounded by good friends in its musical home of Athens. Among these friends is John Fernandes of Cloud Recordings, a former member of projects Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System and longtime Elephant 6 collaborator, who teamed up with Telemarket to release and distribute the group’s LP. Fernandes is now a member of the group, playing clarinet alongside the 5 piece band. Ad Nauseam features artwork from late Georgia artist Patrick Dean, to whom the record is dedicated. Dean’s piece ‘Welcome to Athens, Y’all’ was featured on Athens GA publication Flagpole’s cover in August of 1999, and now adjourns the Telemarket cover reflecting the themes of repetition, redundancy, and relief.
Telemarket provides a distorted vessel for the shape-shifting songcraft of songwriter and vocalist/guitarist Adam Wayton, and features collaborations with many of his talented Athens friends. Wayton together with guitarist and engineer Will Wise hunkered down in their Odd Street home studio for much of 2021-2022—a piece of time many would just as soon forget—and managed to create something memorable together in Ad Nauseam. Vocalist/keyboardist Josie Callahan, bassist Hunter Pinkston (who Wayton plays alongside in New West Signed - The Pink Stones), and percussionist Jack Colclough round out the group’s personnel, bringing counterpoint and consummation to Telemarket’s work.
Lead single “Who Was In My Room Last Night?” kicks off Ad Nauseam with a jangle-psych stomper and VHS-fried music video, released April 20th, 2023. Inspired by a pre-pandemic house burglary at Wayton and Wise’s residence, Telemarket’s single takes on its own life through this analog drenched video caper featuring a myriad of masked burglars and plenty of petty theft. This trivial Whodunnit, shot entirely on 8mm VHS tape and edited by local filmmaker and Odd St Resident Isaac Johnson, accompanies the trudging track “Who Was In My Room Last Night?”, following each sonic turn with an equal dose of fuzz and texture. Telemarket teamed up with local friends and emerging act S*x Cells for the video, enlisting the group to don a colorful pallet of ski masks and commit their best break-in. Telemarket celebrated the release of this lead single and showed their new music video on April 20th at Athen’s mainstain Flicker Theatre, joined by Savannah's Basically Nancy and Athens act S*x Cells that night. (WHO WAS IN MY ROOM LAST NIGHT PREMIERE AT IMMERSIVE ATL)
The group's second single "Anything To You" arrived June 23rd, just in time to find and subsequently lose a summer love. This pop song gone awry features a fuzzy guitar hook, twin vocals from Wayton and Callahan, and plenty of snap indicative of early Neutral Milk Hotel and other E6 projects. "'Anything to You' is a tale of heartache and humor wrapped in a pretty pop song package. It's about falling so head-over-heels for someone that you fail to release how bad of a person they actually are." Songwriter Wayton explains. "Sometimes you lose sight of yourself when you throw your heart at something and you'll ask yourself 'Why did I care so much when they didn't care at all?'. This track is about dodging that bullet and being able to laugh about it after the fact". Telemarket celebrated their heartache and new single with their hometown of Athens release day as an official Athfest artist, playing the city wide festival alongside Fire Records artist Immaterial Possession and Blunt Bangs at Flicker Theatre the night of 6.23.23. More details at athfest.com. (ANYTHING TO YOU TRACK OF THE DAY AT NORTHERN TRANSMISSION)
To beckon in the August 25th release, Telemarket have planned a myriad of shows and spectacles that week and beyond. The day before the release, Telemarket will play an acoustic set at Athens record store Low Yo Yo Stuff August 24th, trading mostly acoustic sets with John Fernandes and Nuclear Tourism. On August 26th, Telemarket will play the legendary 40 Watt club for their hometown record release show. Atlanta act Wieuca don the watt lineup reuniting for the occasion, as well as skate-punk-heartthrobs Nuclear Tourism and Atlanta avant-pop act Karaoke (Irrelevant Music). Release week closes out with an Atlanta show Sunday August 27th at Boggs Social and Supply alongside Atlanta acts, Oceaneater, Made Up, and Floral Portrait. In September, Telemarket will tour the east coast with Baltimore post-punk act Powerwasher, making stops in Maryland, and across New York.
Remaining ever true to form, Ad Nauseam does not relent in delivering a record full of defiantly catchy tunes apt to take root in your ear, repeating over and over and over again.
https://cloudrecordings.com/artists/telemarket
Telemarket Ad Nauseum out August 25th, 2023 on Cloud Recordings | Science Project Records ad nauseum /ad-’ nô-zē-ǝm, -am/ – adverb: to a sickening extent to go on endlessly Athens, Georgia’s Telemarket emerges with force and finesse on its debut full length, Ad Nauseam, due out August 25th ...
