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San Jose

from San Jose by Spunsugar

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Swedish three-piece Spunsugar is releasing new track "San Jose", the third single off their upcoming new album "A Hole Forever", with forthcoming sophomore album due to release on 17th November 2023.

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”This song is an homage (and sort of a response) to the Dione Warwick song "Do you know the way to San José" (1968). This is a song about dreams, mainly, broken ones. About pumping gas for the people who achieved theirs. Fittingly, this song has a beachy indie vibe paired with a grungey sound. It lulls you in with a crisp coolness, and then hits you with a distorted riff that chugs away under breathy shoegaze vocals”.

lyrics

Do you know
All these roads
I got lost
And I told

Everyone
What I'll be
Now they all se

What makes up
A glowing star
A real life star

I remember what she sang about
That thing about San Jose
Glued down by the gas station pump and
Watching all my dreams slip away

Exorcists
Creates the schism
Between what was
And what will be

But not for free
Don't learn from me cause you will be
Greasy handed tired knees
For eternity

I remember what she sang about
That thing about San Jose
Glued down by the gas station pump and
Watching all my dreams slip away

Not a single friend is left here
Breathing free in San Jose
I can't park their cars without a license
A year a day

Stammering, as I recount my dreams
violent scenes
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behind my lids
sits in place
for diversion

no aversion
i’d rather see
this than reality

I remember what she sang about
That thing about San Jose
Glued down by the gas station pump and
Watching all my dreams slip away

Not a single friend is left here
Breathing free in San Jose
I can't park their cars without a license
A year a day

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from San Jose, released September 29, 2023
Produced by Joakim Lindberg

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Spunsugar Malmö, Sweden

Spunsugar is an alternative rock band with shoegaze influences. Sound wise, imagine if Alternative Nation on MTV 1997 and a drum machine fall into a cotton candy machine. The cotton candy wheel breaks and derails. They grew up farmer offsprings, bible belt kids of fundamentalists and trailer trash in small towns of Sweden. These are their references and this shapes their sound. ... more

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