Continue?, by Super Cassette

Continue?

by Super Cassette

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pikohhh im gay and i love this album Favorite track: Bones.

gimpleg Everyone needs to hear this album. It's seriously going to be on my must listen list for years to come, if not the rest of my life. Flawless song construction and execution Favorite track: Bastille Day.

pbound A late entry for my album of 2023. The songwriting faultless, the songs perfectly crafted. Favorite track: Ulcer.

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12" version of our first album, "Continue?" pressed on limited edition RGB vinyl

Pressed with opaque green, yellow, and blue splatter on transparent red. What does it look like? We don't know yet! As of September 2023, they are still being manufactured, and we'll update the gallery as soon as we have photos

Single jacket with artwork on back and front. Inside is an insert including lyrics for each song, credits, and ASCII artwork. Download code included in packaging (in addition to the download you get with this purchase)

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Super Cassette is back, in CD form! Great for playing in your PS2, walkman, or your 2012 Scion XD, the compact disc is here to stay

Heads up that these are currently very DIY and may not have as high print quality as something you grab from Best Buy.

-Max

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REJECT MODERNITY. EMBRACE TRADITION with this stylish cassette, a medium made famous by Richard Nixon. Your cassette copy comes with all 45-ish minutes of Super Cassette's seminal album, "Continue?"

-Max

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Full Digital Discography

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Continue?, Uh-Huh (Bastille Day), 9 To 5, Sad In The Midwest, Invincibility Star, Mr. Bezos Is Santa Claus This year, Bones, Fooly Cooly, and 13 more. , and , .

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1.	Continue? 02:34	lyrics	buy track
Insert a quarter If life's worth living with anxiety disorder Stealing every instant A pained existence for no good reason Insert a quarter To sing your blues to the windows voice recorder A tree in a forest, falling on purpose WIth no one there to hear Press start to open A nice career as a software boy in Oakland Press some keys and hoard your wealth Or maybe you could kill yourself Well you know, it's always an option I've been trying so damn hard Tto pick myself up off the ground It's one step forward And nineteen backward Why can't I just play these songs, please? And still eat New game, continue Your save's corrupted but it's better than what you'd go through Starting a new one Too old to waste time, but too young to give it up So pick a dead end, chill out 'till you die I've been trying so damn hard Tto pick myself up off the ground It's one step forward And nineteen backward Why can't I just play these songs, please? And still eat 'Cause no one Will pay me to live a decent life
2.	Path Through the Past 03:08	lyrics	buy track
Every path through the past reaches a dead end My ex-girlfriend's dog is probably dead Every road through the snow leads to crooked bends And no matter how fast you turn, you always crash in the end When I see your face All I can see is how you will age Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil Every fleeting day So why should I stay? Every child that is born will withhold their joy When their peers wipe them out, I mean totally destroy Every shred in their head that the world is good Now they're left all alone writing songs about how they're misunderstood When I see your face All I can see is how you will age Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil Every fleeting day So why should I stay? Every path through the past reaches a dead end My ex-girlfriend's dog is probably dead Every road through the snow leads to crooked bends And no matter how fast you turn, you always crash in the end When I see your face All I can see is how you will age Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil Every fleeting day So why should I stay? When I see your face All I can see is how you will age Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil Every fleeting day So why should I stay? When things will just get worse
3.	Bones 02:53	lyrics	buy track
I’m draggin' my feet I’m draggin' my bones I’m draggin' what remains of the shreds of my soul I feel incomplete I feel so homesick But I’m already home I’m already home There’s nowhere to go Pardon my feet Pardon my soul Pardon every part of me that’s not quite whole Ashamed to exist Ashamed to be lonely I gave myself to fear and now I’m letting it own me I want to exist I want to be happy But everything hurts When you’re maudlin and sappy I don’t wanna die But I don’t wanna be alive I don’t wanna be alive But I don’t wanna die And there's nothing I can do I'm already home There's nowhere to go Fucked up, knocked down, in over my head An inch of water, I drown in my bed I don't want to be myself no more No more I'm draggin' my feet I'm draggin' my bones I'm draggin' what remains of the shreds of my soul I'm already home In my solipsistic hole There's nowhere to go I'm all alone I'm already home
4.	Ember 04:14	lyrics	buy track
When I was younger When sorrow still slumbered An ember burned bright Nurtured by daylight The ember's ever-fading every year since the age of ten Maybe if you feed it you'll be warmed by its flames again The ember held too tight Can burn you, so learn to Let age give its graces Through cycles and phases The ember started glowing every time that you spoke your name Maybe if you feed it you'll be warmed by its flames again The ember's firelight Once swallowed by midnight Now nourished, burning Smolders, yearning The ember started glowing every time that you spoke your name Speaking to your spirits as they gather by its golden flame A lifetime of looking inside filled me with spite When I was younger When sorrow still slumbered
5.	9 to 5 02:31	lyrics	buy track
Children know While our bodies grow A chill will seep Through every hour of every day of every Weekend coming Motor running But the car goes backwards Struggle ever after just to Idolize A boss that we despise We waste our only life from 9 to 5 Yuppies know Though your debt will grow Your thoughts will shrink 'Til the only thing you think is real's your Credit rating Masturbating to the Stocks your boss has Bought you off with, just to make you Idolize A boss that you despise You waste your only life from 9 to 5 I Idolize A boss that I despise I waste my only life from 9 to 5
6.	Ulcer 02:54	lyrics	buy track
A hole in the lining That lets all the hurt in Anxiety made manifest A souvenir for all your stress A pain to drain your soul I don't know What I am or where I'm going Who I am or what I'm doing My ulcer grows With every drink I knock down I just feed the very thing that tears me up There's hope in the lining A glimpse of silver Maybe I can gain control A pound of flesh a pound of gold Exchange my pain tenfold I don't know What I am or where I'm going Who I am or what I'm doing My ulcer grows With every drink I knock down I just feed the very thing that tears me up Hope floats in surges But as soon as you surface The water turns sour Acid eats right through your stomach Cuts a hole and saps your every power I don't know What I am or where I'm going Who I am or what I'm doing My ulcer grows With every drink I knock down I just feed the very thing that tears me up
7.	Interlude 00:22	lyrics	buy track
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8.	Bastille Day 03:23	lyrics	buy track
The guillotine’s effective More than an election They have feasted for a century I think it’s time to reckon No votes and no more begging But it’s time to kill the gentry Time to kill the gentry Uh-huh The lesser of two evils Dragged away the middle to the Bidding of a small elite They bought the laws they wanted Our god kings were anointed in the Blood of all the peasantry Blood of all the peasantry Uh-huh The 1% beheaded Abundance shared with all indebted A working class united For good For good Suffering the curses Of a god they couldn’t purchase So disarmed without their capital See wealth is not a virtue In the end it only hurts you when it’s Time to storm the capitol Time to storm the capitol Uh-huh The guillotine’s effective More than an election They have feasted for a century I think it’s time to reckon No votes and no more begging But it’s time to kill the gentry Time to kill the gentry Uh-huh
9.	Someday 03:22	lyrics	buy track
What can I say? I think I'll stay another day What can I do? I'm stuck inside just me and you Things go wrong before they go right People say goodbye Whenever they like Things go wrong before they go right Maybe someday stars will align Thank god it's you The sunny version of the truth I've been abused By my own pessimistic views Things go wrong before they go right The muse will say goodbye Things go wrong before they go right Maybe someday stars will align Things go wrong before they go right Maybe someday stars will align
10.	Ghost 05:19	lyrics	buy track
"Why can't we retrieve A vibrant glow from muted memory? Good friends fade away Why can't summer stay? Why can't I break through? Dreamt the ghost of you Good souls passing by I'm glad you stopped to touch my life And all the pain it added up to nothing but a clusterfuck Why didn't I save you? Why is it I let you Suffer in this worse-than-silence Cries unheard, a quiet violence I'd like to say your soul is home But death's a rainbow made monochrome And all the worries added up to nothing but a clusterfuck Why didn't I save you? Why is it I let you Suffer in this worse-than-silence Cries unheard, a quiet violence I'd like to say your soul is home But death's a melody made monotone The boy who lent my first guitar now sleeps in silence between the stars No constellations formed between them Just static, noise, and death No meaning
11.	Sliver 03:01	lyrics	buy track
Every day A sliver of what made me happy seems to fade away Just a trace But something better finally is standing in its place Every shape I knew when I was younger seems to dissipate With a rate Accelerating violently until some final day Leaving traces of your heart Before the dawn Before the dark In a state Of gratitude, serenity I speak my name Unafraid Without a trace of bitterness of self-obsessive shame 'Cause there is peace inside the part of you that aches A quiet dark inside the space that you retake When you feel your pain and celebrate There is peace inside the part of you that aches A quiet dark inside the space that you retake When you feel your pain and celebrate 'Cause there is peace inside the part of you that aches A quiet dark inside the space that you retake When you feel your pain and celebrate
12.	Island 02:59	lyrics	buy track
Where I’m coming from And where I’m going to are one Both the island and The continent will spend their time beneath the sun When I wanna see What is good in me I hum Out a melody, ringing presently out From the past, now sounds as one A man’s not a point in a time but a line through his life And the days added up to much more than a sum A whole, a soul, I know, I know Who I wanna be and Who I hated once are one My impermanence Gives precedence that all my woes Will come undone A man’s not a point in a time but a line through his life And the days added up to much more than a sum A whole, a soul, I know, I know Who is judging you and Who you’re beholden to are none When you ached because The stakes would tower over you, blot out the sun You closed both your eyes to the light of your life And the beat of your heart rung out deaf, dumb, and dark to a Cold, black hole, where envy took control A man’s not a point in a time but a line through his life And the days added up to much more than a sum A whole, a soul, I know, I know
13.	Continent 03:33	lyrics	buy track
Servitude channeled through Churning black centrifuge Swallows you whole, Commodifies your soul Affinity lures me Back to humanity Anchored by empathy To the bottom of a sacred sea But we don't face this alone The parts compose a whole As planets, oceans bask in the sun The islands warm as one Apathy shackled me, fed on my energies Only let go of me when I heard a voice sing to me We don't face this alone The parts compose a whole As planets, oceans bask in the sun The islands warm as one

credits

released December 1, 2023

Music, Lyrics and Production by Max Gerlock
Cowritten with Nick Gerlock
Recorded by Max Gerlock and Cole Williams
Mixed by Cole Williams

Max Gerlock - vocals, guitar, programming, synthesizer, keyboard, bass, alto sax
Nick Gerlock - vocals, guitar, keyboard
Devin Hollister - bass
David Rabkin - drums
Cole Williams - additional production and tracking, drums

Dedicated to Michael “Yeh-Hi” Bright, the boy who lent my first guitar

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Super Cassette

indie rock/power pop from oakland CA

shows

May 9

Tamper Room

Fremont, CA
May 11

Pourhouse

Oceanside, CA
May 15

The Hive

Flagstaff, AZ
May 16

Old Cuss Coffee

Salt Lake City, UT
May 17

Misfitz

Pocatello, ID
May 18

New Colony Beer Co.

Boise, ID

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