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Selfish

by Malachi Graham

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Hassles
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Hassles Just love that laid-back, infectious rootsy groove, the simple yet tasteful arrangements and of course - the voice.
Tricia Snell
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Tricia Snell Great songs, great voice, and the rhythm rocks... the tunes are great too. And the guitar playing is ace.
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1.
Won’t you kiss me like a pre-code movie? Won’t you kiss me for the world to see? Won’t you kiss me like a pre-code movie? I won’t let dirty Willie Hays get the best of me. And I’ll be your leading lady If you’ll be my pretty baby Won’t you kiss me like a pre-code movie? They call it lewd which I just can’t believe Won’t you kiss me like a pre-code movie? Those silver screens with tongues as thick as thieves! Live in sin, and living free If you’re lucky I’ll hike my dress up to my knees Won’t you kiss me like a pre-code movie? And I’ll be punished but the crime is worth the fee If you’ll just kiss me like a pre-code movie Don’t try to save me from myself— I’ll fly this plane into the sea! And the complicated heroine She’s in short supply again Won’t you kiss me like a pre-code movie? I’m so damn tired of modesty. But they’re scared of what I’ll do with sex and power So they wrote the rules to stop the girls like me So they wrote the rules to stop the girls like me But the rules’ll never stop a girl like me.
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Oregon Bride 03:53
3.
Lunacy 03:24
I’d give all that I have I’d give all that I knew If you’d just look at me The way you look at the moon Cuz when you look at the moon You got tears in your eyes Like you’re counting the steps Of your dirty white bride When you look at the moon You know, that’s yesterday’s light And she’ll always be gone By the end of the night When you look at moon (tears in your eyes) Like you’re counting the steps Of your dirty white bride When you look at the moon Drawn like her tide Guess I’ll always be wrong And she’ll ever be Right All through the night She’s yesterday’s light But I know you don’t mind I’d give all that I have I’d give all that I knew If you’d just look at me The way you look at the moon
4.
Selfish 02:54
5.
Wiretap 03:35
You didn’t know it but I recorded our conversation And I’m listening back to it now Because the wire can tell you more than the transcription It captures the sound, the sound, the sound So I’ll rewind the reel when it gets to the end 'cause I live in the words I can play back again I live in the words I can play back again! They say the man who first pulled sound out of the ether Thought if he tuned his wireless right That every throat that ever spoke could sing forever As clear as I hear our last fight I’ll rewind the reel when it gets to the end 'cause I live in the words I can play back again, yeah I live in the words I can play back again! I hear the creak of the door as it opened And the slam of it after you’d gone So forever I’ll churn in that moment And a thousand before and beyond But if I have to listen to my lisp or your lies one more time I’m gonna die And it isn’t worth knowing if I said what I meant 'Cause I tried But I’ll rewind the reel when it gets to the end 'cause I live in the words I can play back again, yeah I live in the words I can play back again!
6.
The Eaves 02:56
What'll you miss when your kids turn into people? What'll you miss when people leave only dust? What'll you miss, oh will you miss me? When the people that you love all have gone What'll you do when the bedrooms all are empty but the eaves are even fuller than before what'll you do, ooh with all those boxes When the people who owned them all have gone? It's your grandma's china pattern, your uncle's crown of thorns It's the dress your mother wore when she died of a broken heart It's the piles of broken bottles, the old dance cards, the older photographs It's the wonderin' why you're the one that's last What did you miss when your kids turned into people? What do you miss now people've left only dust? What do you miss, oh do you miss me? Now the people that you love all have gone

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Malachi Graham writes lush, intimate Americana inspired by complicated women.

On her debut EP Selfish, recorded live to an 8-track at Mike Coykendall’s Blue Room Studios and produced by Dustin Hamman (Run On Sentence), Malachi's character-driven songs come to life with percussion by Dan Galucki (Wooden Indian Burial Ground), bass by William Joersz (Nick Jaina, Ezza Rose), and slide guitar by Courtney von Drehle (3 Leg Torso). Selfish channels female voices that are— like the leading ladies of classic cinema— intoxicating, self-sabotaging, mesmerizing, and not preoccupied with being liked; the compulsive wiretapper, the jealous lover, the censored femme fatale, and the title track’s confessional narcissist.

Capturing to tape in single takes, Malachi and this team of top-notch Portland players craft a punchy, electrified folk record led by her strong, unaffected voice, a sound that perfectly mirrors her honest and unapologetic heroines.

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released April 10, 2015

produced by Dustin Hamman and Malachi Graham
recording and mixing by Mike Coykendall at Blue Room Studios
additional mixing by Philip Graham
mastering by Stereophonic Mastering
artwork by Maggie Olson
songs by Malachi Graham
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vocals and guitar - Malachi Graham
bass - William Joersz
drums - Dan Galucki
vocals on The Eaves - Erin Elliott
vocals on Wiretap - Ashley Blincow
slide guitar - Courtney von Drehle
electric guitar - Dustin Hamman

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Malachi Graham Portland, Oregon

Portland indie songwriter Malachi Graham twines her incisive lyrics and inventive sounds around the complexity of personal relationships. With a long history in the synth-pop duo Small Million, her newest solo songs explore codependency, unraveling loves, chronic pain, grudges, flings, and the boundaries of the self. For fans of Aimee Mann, Neko Case, Mitski, Jolie Holland. ... more

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