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The Pressure Kids
The Pressure Kids
no pressure, kid
Nashville-based indie rock band The Pressure Kids is a group of 5 best friends who have been together since freshman year of college. At the height of creativity and determination, pairing evocative melodies with rich instrumental textures, they have a wise-beyond-your-years youthfulness that only strikes when you really are twenty-three. Listening feels like forever scoring an invite to the party, and never wanting to leave. Reminiscent of all of us in high school.
For fans of: Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Death Cab for Cutie, Local Natives
Featured Placements:
"Fever" - Chicago Fire (NBC)
"Untitled (Pick Me Up)" - Teen Mom (MTV)
"Mint", "White Room" - Teen Mom 2 (MTV)
Watch The Pressure Kids' new music video for their single "Milk":
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 30.20% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 9.80% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 12.10% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 35.80% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 12.10%
Description
Steady indie rock tune that tells a story of different people you come across in life, in work, how they affect your personal life. Emotionally driven and easy to get lost in, pensive but carefree. BPM - 135
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Janette, Janette
Ginger dreaming, I bet.
She’s sipping blackberry wine
Just to try and forget.
She’s in the backseat, trying to come down.
Behold, behold
Lovely lady of gold
She’s got lies in her pocket that Miss America sold
If you sold it, you cannot get it back.‘Cause I got away with it…
Mr. Fox
Holds his heart while he talks
He’s spitting little lies with every step that he walks
But I paid him
Oh, I paid him to do his job.
Marie, Marie
Shivers wonderfully
She wore her purple shoes for everybody to see
And when the flash came
The silence rang as it came down.‘Cause I got away with it…
Little lady
you were my kind of crazy
I thought everybody was on the backstage waiting
But you were not
and I regret it from the second I said it.
‘Cause you sold it
‘Cause you sold it, ‘cause you came right back and you sold it.
I thought I told you, I thought I told you
But I guess not.And I got away with it…
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 26.40% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 8.90% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 10.50% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 43.80% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 10.40%
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Acoustic guitar driven track that builds with each verse and breaks out into a carefree breezy vibe. About rethinking your decisions and how your perspective determines your outlook on life itself. BPM - 122
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Stupid
I was stupid
In your apartment yesterday.
Important, it’s not important,
I’m not important anyway.
But I’m overcome by the light of the day.Chicago
was hollow
As I followed you around.
Losing, I was losing
I’m always losing what I found.
Overcome by a beautiful sound.The trumpets
And the trombones
They parade around my house alone.
Leaving
I’m never leaving.
No I’m never leaving
Overcome by the light of the day.Candle wax
I was singing with a heart attack
I’m never going back
I’m never going back
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 30% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 7% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 16.80% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 35.70% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 10.50%
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Contemporary Americana indie rock tune describing what deception looks like, how we can sometimes be blind our emotions and the intentions of others. BPM - 118
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Asleep on the ocean
A silent commotion
Oblivion stolen
I never knew what it wasIn awe of the power
Of a criminal hour
Wait til it sours
I never knew what it would becomeIn the bronze of the evening
Laid awake while you were dreaming
The seconds redeeming
I never knew what you had doneit was pure revival
As thin as the anger
That I use to contain her
Unsteady as a stranger
Oh god I knew where this was fromYou better get your story straight
Rearrange what you can’t fabricate
Camouflage what you can’t radiate
Oh god I knew what I’d becomeit was sweet survival
This was no coincidence
Another sip to kill the vigilance
A perfect view of our deliverance
Oh god I was the other oneAsleep on the ocean
Inspect what's been broken
The signals are smoking
I never thought it would comethere was no denial
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 39.80% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 7.72% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 13.72% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 36.40% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 2.23%
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A breezy and percussive alternative indie folk/rock tune about how to compromise the truth and the unsaid emotion behind our decisions. Moving forward from the past and mistakes you may have made. BPM - 136
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Tuesday came
I was feeling just about the same
I drove all night long to keep from dreaming.
Your undertow
Took me where I never thought I’d go
The things I did not know only took a few days to fake them.Jesus knew
Just what you and him would do
But he was singing all day long while you were still grieving
So how could I leave your body as it’s lying next to me?
I’m screaming
“How could I leave your body?”We tried compromise
To find a little sun behind your eyes
But you were gracious with your sighs
And I was unforgiving.
Now it’s a threat to you, you only turn a darker shade of blue
Each follow through
Took a little longer to shake it.You can’t take that back
We become the only thing we lack
If I keep singing to your back while you are drinking honey.
Our long reprise
Surely came to you as no surprise
But there was something in the signs
We should’ve been reading.How high, thin skin
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 20% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 20% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 20% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 20% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 20%
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BPM -120 Steady Indie rock tune reflecting on the process of someone slipping away from you, the ending of a relationship. How it looked and felt before versus what it means to you now.
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It was a party of five
That you tried to keep alive
But it was harder to survive without a friendIt was the 12th of july
That we tried to say goodbye
It lasted longer than a road without a bendThis door remains closed
We split two bottles of wine
As we tried to compromise
Between cutting all the ends we tried to tieAnd as october crawled away
It got harder to behave
And now there’s no one left behind you anywayThis door remains closed
One sunset sister died
I dropped you off and took a ride
Which way will you go, what will you hide?Easy come and easy go
Easy, shimmy off your coat,
Killing daylight till you’re rolling down the roadThis door remains closed
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 29.50% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 8% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 13.75% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 36% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 12.75%
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Slow building cinematic indie rock song describing what it looks like to watch someone go through pain and how you try to help them. Atmospheric and rocking, musically and lyrically giving the listener something to think about. BPM - 80
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Crimson and gold magazine
Perfectly captured your scream
Tore out the page and watched you bleed
I watched you bleed.Immaculate, thin and gray
I tacked you up where I lay
And waited for you to speak to me
You speak to me.A darkness crept into the room
Like blackening bulbs you consume
The walls and I can’t believe it’s true
Is that really you?Frayed are the edges around
The corners of your crooked crown
And I can’t escape your silent sounds
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 23.60% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 76.40%
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Slow, acoustic piano ballad about the passing of time and the emotional pain that builds musically and swells as it moves. Simple and soft but impactful and pensive. BPM - 61
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We got caught up in a reverie, didn’t we?
We thought no one was looking for us
I can’t write another elegy, Ellen, please
Just have another cigarette.Marianne was playing dead on the other side of the bed
She lost a tussle with the sunshine.
I was feeling kinda hollowed out watching her chase it down
And you were singing like you’d already won.Ellen, please
Sing it back to me?
This will not set you free,
You cannot hold it…We lost another summertime waiting for the wind to die
You were painting pictures of the harbor town
You dressed me up in pink and blue, didn’t you?
You said you only stole it but you broke it too.Ellen, please
Sing it back to me?
This will not set you free,
You cannot hold it…
We’ll sink like stone,
Like everyone we know
You cannot be alone
If you let me hold itWe got caught up in a reverie, didn’t we?
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 45% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 10% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 45%
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Trying to navigate life. BPM 130
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MINT
there’s a map in my mind
I pull my pencil straight through it
you were not easy to find
but I was easing into itthere’s a crack in my spine
I keep on moving despite it
through this map in my mindit’s been a long a time coming
there’s a wolf at my door
I zipper down to greet him
there are no waves on the shoreit’s been a long time coming…
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 32% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 10% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 15.60% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 32.40% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 10%
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BPM - 122 Appreciating the little things in the long run of a relationship.
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FEVER
fever where I’ve already been
flicker with coincidence,
“don’t spill it on the carpet.”
you’ve been keeping your door locked
I get this fever every time I knock
we’ve been keeping it together without it
I’m coming over…fever your confession instead
spend another minute in bed
march it like the days ahead.
we could bend it till it’s ready to break
we could make another honest mistake
we could spend another summer without it
or we could start it over.
let’s start it over…there’s fever in your rhythm and rhyme
I’ve been thinking about you all the time
you’ve been dancing down the blue line.
there’s fever when you knock me down
there’s fever when you’re breathing me out
keep it from spinning around
because it’s already over.
it’s already over…fever where I’ve already been
flicker with coincidence
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 30.20% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 8.30% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 16% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 34.80% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 10.70%
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BPM - 147 Knowing you are right with someone but they don't want the relationship the same way you do.
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TEAM
oh you gotta give it up
this lovely little lesson was not enough
the costume in the corner is coming offwe were living up on top of the hill
drinking every evening so it stands still
filling up the cup until it spillsI wish you were on my team
we spin in circles endlessly
you’re coming inside my head
to stay instead of reciting endlesslyoh you gotta let me know
if you plan to take it further or if you’ll go
the costume in the corner collecting snow.oh you gotta let it be
‘cause I’m keeping every question so you could see
that nothing was as easy as you and me.I thought you were on my team
we spin in circles endlessly
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 35% / Justin Bavier (BMI) 10% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 10% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 35% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 10%
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BPM - 125 Someone chasing after something that they're not just so they can be seen a certain way, but ultimately they aren't happy about it.
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WHITE ROOM
lightly stepping out
of your hospital gown
you took the record off the table
and flipped it aroundto say to me
how you wanted to beand if pleasing the crowd
only’s been bringing you down
take a long hard look
at how this reveille soundsand pray to be
how you wanted to be seenit’s a centerpiece
that’s kept us running around all over town
as we try to slow it all down…he can take half your home
and your poor mama’s loan
but he can never take away
how you’re holding your ownit’s a fire escape
down to the car you could takeand it’s never one and two
it was never me and you
now there’s so much less to be
and there’s so much more to doyou would die to be
how you wanted to be seen
stomped out since sundown
i prayed to California she was story boundit’s a centerpiece
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 31.60% / Andrew Conner (BMI) 11.30% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 11.70% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 34.20% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 11.20%
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BPM - 151 *EXPLICIT* Watching from the outside as a relationship falls apart.
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*EXPLICIT*
AND ANOTHER ONEit was just a Sunday morning
making my way from a holiday
and I don’t quite have the cards to play.
was feeling kind of washed out
holding both your palms and your bracelet there
because everybody’s gonna talk about itbut it’s alright now…
tangled in a myth he was caught red-handed
all fucked up on Saturday
and there’s not much more for him to say.
he apologized on his own volition
for the past few months he’s felt out of commission
and you’re not gonna talk about itbecause it’s alright now…
I saw you having lunch out on 12th
you were tapping your thumb on the tabletop
and I can’t be the one to make it stop
everybody loved that you were so demure
but if anybody asks it was “all a blur”
and I don’t want to talk about itbecause it’s alright now…
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Allan Cuva (SESAC) 45.25% / Katharine Carmichael (BMI) 10.50% / Zachary Bodman (BMI) 10.50% / Nicholas Johnston (SESAC) 33.75%
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BPM - 73 Starting a new relationship and knowing things are going to be good.
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UNTITLED (PICK ME UP)
when I see your shining face
I know it’s gonna be different for us from now on.
when you’re sleeping next to me
I don’t have the time to worry
I don’t have the time to fearany darkness that comes our way
will surely be a gift to commemorate our stay
because you know that we’re in this together
and I know I’ve found the one and our time has just begun.pick me up baby I know you can
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