Mild Myopia by Best of Feelings
Mild Myopia is a collection of songs that convey the state of blurriness one gets by moving from the outside summer light to a dark room. The album’s lyrical themes reflect this dizziness, covering gratefulness and thanksgiving, indifference to inner-city political upheaval, unfair distribution of wealth, mind-altering substances, distance in relationships, dreams of video game consoles, painful doubts, freeing your mind, conscious breathing, tavern drunkenness, and attraction to darkness.
The album was originally intended to be a messy collection of B-sides and outtakes but turned out more cohesive than expected. The magic is that all these disparate leftovers fit together almost by chance, like musical meatloaf. The band structured the meatloaf into three equal slices. The first slice is a selection of experimental home demos impossible to recreate in the studio. The second slice is a few digestible songs recovered from an overtly ambitious studio session in Barcelona. The third slice is composed of fresh off-the floor studio outtakes recorded in a garage on the outskirts of Seville. Any layer of the meatloaf can be swallowed first or last. Each leftover has pieces from the others as they were baked out of the same mould. This mould is Best of Feelings.
Tracklist
| 1. | When The Air Cools | 1:30 |
| 2. | Down In The City | 2:48 |
| 3. | Rabbit Hole | 1:56 |
| 4. | Seven Pants | 1:56 |
| 5. | Xtra Vrgin (Coca Cola Kisses mix) | 2:16 |
| 6. | N64 | 1:03 |
| 7. | Zancadilla | 1:43 |
| 8. | Cuantas Dudas (Mono mix) | 2:49 |
| 9. | Nowintomorrow | 2:20 |
| 10. | How To Be Free | 2:14 |
| 11. | All Kinds | 2:39 |
| 12. | The Darkness In You | 3:39 |
Credits
Tracks 1, 2, 10, 11, 12: engineered, recorded and mixed by Santi Biel & Zef Racek at home
Tracks 5, 6, 7, 8 9 recorded at Pancake Studio (Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, Spain) Engineered, recorded and mixed by Fernando Zambruno
Tracks 3 & 4: Recorded at Aclam Studio (Barcelona, Spain) Engineered and mixed by Jose Cattaneo and Ismael Salces
All songs mastered by Jakub Racek (Pocket Writer) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
pocketwriter.bandcamp.com
All songs written and performed by Best of Feelings
Guest performers: Nawal Lamrini (1), Jakub Racek (4), the members of Karavana band (6), Alexia Lasala (10)
Album artwork by Matus Racek (5443 Productions)
vimeo.com/5443mtl
