pinegrove – audiotree live

Pinegrove is a twangy indie band who fuse Americana, emo, and indie rock into an insightful finished product. Singer and lyricist Evan Hall is a contemplative, serene frontman who possesses an intimate relationship with and an expansive knowledge of the human language. He’s acutely aware of the human experience and manages to pen astute observations about self and circumstance with genuine wonder. Though sonically somber, there is a kinetic forward focus in Pinegrove’s sound that lifts up each unconventional arrangement and unfettered chorus.

Watch and listen to the band performing tracks from their discography here on Audiotree Live.

Band Members

Evan Hall – Lead Vocals and Guitar

Zack Levine – Drums and Backing vocals

Josh Marre – Guitar and Backing vocals

David Mitchell – Bass

Release Date
May 27th, 2016

• Need 2
  lyricstabs

  i’m out
  there’s nothing here to care about
  what’s that sound?
  what’s that song about?
  it’s nothing worth me sayin aloud
  so then why do i seem to
  need to?
  why do i seem to
  need to?

• Problems
  lyricstabs

  this is how i spend my life up
  singin old songs
  what if i waste my life up?
  & all my problems
  it’s so stupid
  they’re not even problems
  it was supposed to snow
  & it did for a minute
  but there’s no distraction now
  or we could spend these years up
  on the phone
  but is that much better?
  it was supposed to snow
  but it didn’t
  so there’s no excuses now

• Cadmium
  lyricstabs

  i was walkin with my neck out
  some ways i wish i was
  was walkin with my neck out in some ways that i wish that i was
  out on the bevel of sound it sounds like everything else
  you’ll know it when you hear it cuz u know the way my voice felt
  ignore my tone & everything i sing i sing for me
  ignore the phone on your bed it rings it rings it rings
  shirt collar ringin me out & my collar bone got all red
  & already severing prose i wrote so i sing instead
  i hold you put your neck out tell me the ways you wish you were
  keep your confidence sound, your hook my eye my spur
  so when i went to hang out, i hung behind your eyes
  but my eyes still flicker with doubt
  quickly o i cant decide
  i’m tapped out
  don’t it always seem to go that
  you could hold it right in your hands collapsing & still not know
  (your hands’ collapse & still not know)

  say what it is
  say how it is with everybody i know
  i’ve got no temper for that
  i send you this
  cadmium red, one for every layer i shed
  & i shed one layer for thisss
  say what it is
  it’s so impossible
  but if i just say what it is
  it tends to sublimate away
  when i was looking to drop
  my life away

  more every year
  i shine light on edges i tried to unfeel
  but we’ve gotta do better than that
  some sortin out
  so i’ll be sittin on the outskirts if you wanna talk about it
  things in there were just gettin so loud

  say what it is
  it’s so impossible
  but i just say what it is
  it tends to sublimate away
  when i was looking to drop
  my life away

• Size of the Moon
  lyricstabs

  do you wanna dance?
  fine
  but do you remember when
  in your living room
  when we made some room & moved ourselves around in it?
  it’s how my heart resumed
  i got caught/ you got those caravaggio moves
  we had some good ideas but we never left that fucking room

  do you wanna talk?
  fine
  i’ll talk it out with my dad
  it’s always nice what he says
  he’ll have some good advice from something in a book he read
  if i did what i wanted then why do i feel so bad?

  would you like a drink
  while we wait for everything
  to get good again?
  we’re good at things & so are a lot of our friends
  we should forget these setbacks & get back movin again

  i dont know what
  i’m afraid of
  but i’m afraid
  one day it all
  will fall away
  maybe i read that

  but still, let’s see
  if nothing else it’s an idle curiosity

  so would you like that drink?
  fine, yea i know. i remember that too
  in your living room, right?
  when we began to fight but then we both got confused
  then we were laughing & crying in awe of the size of the moon do you want to die?
  fine you’re right
  but i wonder what it feels like
  to stop feelin so alive
  what if we could wake up in five years & things’d be feelin alright?
  i wanna visit the future & dance in a field of light!

• Angelina
  lyricstabs

  washing windows with angelina
  i don’t understand anything
  violent angles from side to side
  how’d you get so tangled up in my life?
  how’d you get so caught?
  how’d you get so tangled up?

  i love you like it’s the old days
  when i could ask you anything
  how’d you get so tangled up in my thinkin?
  how’d you get so caught?
  how’d you get so tangled up?

• &
  lyricstabs

  Hand over hand
  I’m pulling myself together
  on this itchy couch again
  I’d pull you in
  but
  I couldn’t help thinking
  or
  my mouth was tarpaulin

  let me start again:
  I didn’t mean to say so
  much about my plans
  so you see my hand
  (see?) it’s never either/or now
  stigmata ampersand

  The morning is the self it’s self evident:
  a clattering of blinds:
  a mimetic wind:
  a sympathetic tremor I’m
  a tessela of signs.

  o I close my eyes &:
  fractal inner rings of varicose resign!
  coiled dark inside
  I’ll open my eyes and clear my
  throat when I know it’s time:
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• Recycling
  lyricstabs

  Rolling on his back like an ocelot
  crawling on his stomach you make the lids stick together
  nothing really bugs me out
  nothing really bugs me.

  Tightening the slack on the millimeter tape
  trudging through your stomach I make the walls split forever
  nothing really bugs me out
  nothing really bugs me

  anymore. I’ve had enough.
  Now we’re on the same page.

  Circling the gap like you don’t know what you hold
  drying out my knuckles you tucked it between the folds
  nothing really bugs me out
  nothing really bugs me.

  Recycling the cans at the center by the boxcars
  we’ve been carving little symbols in the bark
  nothing really bugs me out
  nothing really bugs me
  out.

  So let it go:
  there’s nothing I could tell you
  that you don’t already know.

• Aphasia
  lyricstabs

  so satisfied i said a lot of things tonight
  so long aphasia & the ways it kept me hiding
  it’s not so much exactly all the words i used
  it’s more that i was somehow down to let them loose

  so complicated i cant wait to get explaining
  your listening distended out since i’ve been crying
  so long aphasia & the ways it kept me hidden
  so long to silent nerves & hesitant oblivion

  you came & sent me out unfurling in the street
  & i felt unprecedented confidence in speaking

  stick around im thinking things’ll be alright
  newly delivered wont you live with me tonight

  something tonight was such a letdown on my pride
  it takes a part of me i don’t got to take some things in stride
  i’d pace around the place so quiet in myself
  id wake the next & see my silence went unfelt

  just when i thought i had this pattern sorted out
  apparently my ventricles are full of doubt
  now
  nah things go wrong sometimes don’t let it freak you out
  but if i don’t have you by me then i’ll go underground!
  nah but what you’ve got was in your reaches all along
  plus one day you’ll be reaching for me & i’ll be gone
  to help remind myself I wrote this little song

  one day i won’t need your love
  one day i won’t define myself by the one i’m thinkin of
  & if one day i won’t need it
  one day you won’t need it