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Younger Moments

by Soft Idiot

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Siamese 03:25
sweetly irreverent you're blissing your petals away pacing the pavement, thinking of something to say when you come home i won't be there sweetly else where slipping fingers underneath our skin touching our toes we are wishing the mothers away feeling our fingers falter and streak down our face one in the same you are elsewhere but i am right here pulling stitching imagined in our side forcing fingers down our throat to feed a thing that will not grow we're trapped in gestation with one thing left- a beating heart it can't be sewn nor torn apart we're not where we want we're wrapped up in love
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driving home in hard rain i feel like a passenger with no driver in the other chair your words find no focus and it feels like i'm losing you or there's nothing there to hold onto i don't know what i could mean unknown to you is unknown to me in your arms i cried i held on tight of fear for life i'm shaking now, i don't know why i can't speak, i sat there held my tongue and held my breath hidden words, my empty head i don't know what i could do it feels like i'm losing you
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finding myself needing something i hold my hands up high spent my money feeling frightened i bought a way of life a better way to feel alone a lonely shining let window pane pushed on the carpet my hands too sore to fight i love you stretching wordless meaning nothing i covered up my eyes holding tightly favorite love i can see your sky burn bright i love you
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Wind 02:24
i will meet you there someday in the wind when we've been tossed around and set again when our bodies start to forget our simple shapes and the places we went oh i'm not really gonna be there not really gonna be alone i will meet you there someday in the wind when i can greet you as an old friend when our breath fails to contend our deepest fears and the words that we meant oh i'm not really gonna be there not really gonna be alone like the dust hanging overhead in light the sudden breath does blow us through this life
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Camera 04:51
holding up a camera to take a picture of all of my friends moving craving stillness to capture things that i must not forget but it doesn't work like that i can't recall this one there's dust that hangs in air all lit up in the sun holding back the laughter we quiet down so we can really hear the neon humming proudly all the little lights hung in the air i drove home quietly all caught up in my throat i want it horribly that forever hanging glow
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go! turning wheels i only feel the same as ever stuck back a year i think that i am doing better steadfast and falling over feet the ground is moving under me go! ticking clock i count the minutes on my fingers still older now but younger moments flash in features a humming song i want to sing i wanna feel everything go! moving feet i feel the sun is setting later still fading light i sang some songs about the weather i felt so foolish on my feet i wanna feel everything
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Neon Bells 03:58
caught up once again in your after alls lost your housekeys on the train tracks and god they lit up like the sun and something else contention rings from your heart in neon bells stuck inside the safety of your better offs left screaming at the rain drops and you can fold yourself up in the mountain swells still deafened by the city's neon bells i will find my own way to sing about you when all of our ghosts have blown away that always like an echo come to haunt you hanging like the sunshine in the day don't get carried away lost you in the autumn turning leaves to ground you said its just the season and on the winter breeze that held the leaves i lost myself and found you in the glow of neon bells i will find my own way to sing about you when all of our ghosts have blown away that always like an echo come to haunt you hanging like the sunshine in the day
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it's cold and i love you the wind comes to blow through and in our ears to loudly sing i can only think this single thing watching the plains pass the sun in a basket of trees down by the horizon line i saw you in the pink sky and i opened up the window and the sky filled up the car and the sky filled up with stars i felt safe in your arms the snow on the ground here patches and disappears the sun shines sweetly all around silent since the wind died down i walked down past the driveway the sun shone warm and hard i held you in my heart i felt safe in your arms it's cold and i love you the rain comes to pour through and in our ears to loudly ring i can only think this single thing

about

OGR-010 // From Justin's bandcamp: "the final soft idiot record! all about youth and friends and fear and time. the footholds that fall away beneath our feet, the love we learn to accept. i worked on this record over the last year and a half on and off between work and droughts of motivation. in the end, it made me spend more time with these songs than any others. this album is the culmination of everything i've learned in the past five years, both as an artist and as a person."

Soft Idiot is back and never going away! What better way to celebrate than to do a physical pressing of what was supposed to be the final SI release and thanking our lucky stars that the best folk fuzz rock band around is here to stay.

"Starting with the title track, a simple instrumental (Roth played and recorded the majority of the record, from bass to drums to background vocals to guitar), you get the suggestion, which music often evokes in us, of youth. “Still older now / but younger moments flash in features / a humming song I want to sing / I wanna feel everything,” he sings on the delicate but driving, “I Want Everything.” And that’s the feeling that I get, listening to this wonderfully constructed album of indie rock songs, with a touch of emo: that I am young again and playing on the drums in my basement to my favorite bands.

There is something about viewing youth through the lens of growing older, that makes it perhaps even more precious than it was when we first experienced it. As he puts it in his song “Camera,” “I want it horribly / that forever hanging glow.” But life seems to get blown away by the same wind that carries us into life’s adventures: “I will find my own way to sing about you / when all of our ghosts have blown away.”

This is an album of ghost songs. Merely suggestions of Roth’s inner world, strokes of his musical paintbrush, that never exactly pin down what he wants to say. But you get it, nonetheless. That’s the thematic, lyrical feel of the album. Which is nothing to speak of the wonderfully sense for song craft, musically, that Roth has. His sound is like one of those bands that possessed me with the spirit of indie rock, when I was a teenager: Teenage Fanclub, and Sebadoh, and the like. Though he has a sound all his own. It’s a surprisingly full listen, which draws you in with its part folk, part rock feel. The wind of Roth’s heart, blowing through the room for a good half hour. " - Gregory Walker (@prismreviews)

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released August 23, 2022

Most stuff by Justin Roth

Except:
David Solomon played bass in "Camera"
Kennedy Freeman sang background vox in "I Want Everything"
Mike Whalen played guitar in "Neon Bells"
Jane Lai played piano in "It's Cold and I Love You"

Mastered by Terrin Munawet @GBmystical

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