Opening

by The Couch Scene

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Will Erickson Im always gonna have a soft spot for kinda weird vocals and slow shoegaze but this more than earns my adoration on its own merits. Interesting and captivating songwriting throughout the record, deeply personal and excruciatingly relatable lyrics and a consistency and tact to it all that most musicians have to hope one day to capture. Can't wait to hear whats next Favorite track: Erase Me.
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pre-kinetic blueprint Such a wonderful, beautiful, tear-inducing, world-ending masterpiece. I am so grateful to have this piece of music in my life, thank you so, so much Myriam.

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drowse These songs deserve attention. Opening was lovingly recorded over years in a backyard shed where we drank and tried to figure out how to live. Every sound is haunted and right where it needs to be.
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1.
Candle Song 03:01
I knew it from the start and that love grew there with you but now I'm killing time up till 2:00 without you try to sleep get up and leave but I won't find happy this time and now we're far apart I hope it's over soon do you feel that too? cause i'm still killing time up till 2:00 without you
2.
Pretend 03:08
walking out at night together all the streets are empty now happy every time I see you not when you are heading out nothing's really gonna change I see that clearly now and even though it leads to pain I still want you around 'cause spending time with you feels better late at night you're over now down there on the beach together where my hope is fading out later on won't "be much better" without you in my life now all I want is us together making it work out somehow
3.
Here 04:54
I'm not even here I'm not like you 'cause I'm not that real I feel the scene wasted on me go find out the time's hardly past I couldn't call and now I'm not there I felt at home wasted on me go find out where I'll be I'll be taking mostly feelings on my way I'm on my way home to you wasted on me go find out where I'll be I'll be up walking out past powell I'm on my way home to you
4.
into the mess the bar with the rest I plan out my ending could I just go like that? am I an inconvenience? or is it worse than that? I feel the rain what else remains? am I just unhealthy? or on and off really sad? I need to stop all my thinking and drink away the sad
5.
Erase Me 05:13
we're half empty I guess you removed me and now everyone's gone what's next? should I move on? outside the bar you hurt me bad what type of friend does shit like that? could it really be you? I guess I'm unwanted what happened? can you tell me what happened? you erased me right there you erased me right there how could you do that? you erased me right there you erased me right there you erased me right there you erased me right there
6.
everyone goes away nothing really remains you were right there by me but I guess everyone will leave
7.
At the Park 04:02
watching the planes passing by I'll be down here waiting to hide you won't be there I won't be there watching your plane passing by middle of the night parked on the street sit in the side that's all I need and so I left you at the car sat on the trunk and fell apart I dropped you off not anymore I'm sitting there at the park watching the planes passing by I'll be down here waiting to hide you won't be there I won't be there watching you leave everything
8.
Pale Flower 01:20
no one sees me on the concrete my eyes shut I begin to meet the cold that's here tonight the rain I feel outside then I look down at the concrete in the driveway I can really see that all of this will end no one stays we all just end
9.
Funeral Plan 04:19
maybe you'll leave tonight saying that I'll miss you and I'll be outside darkening without you well can we go back? you just died in the woods but I'm still under heavy sheets of rain on the sidewalk scene I'll drive off tonight feeling rain and seeing maybe that's all I'll be a memory of leaving maybe I'll stay inside darkening without you that'll be the last time anyone's around me maybe I'll go outside darkening without you that'll be the last time anyone's around me

about

All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Myriam Nerheim-Chereck between winter of 2015 and spring of 2020. Opening was recorded in various bedrooms, a dirty basement, a garage, a small cabin, and my neighbors house while I was house sitting.

Cover photo taken by Myriam Nerheim-Chereck in December of 2018.

90% of the proceeds will go to United Nations World Food Programme, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Planned Parenthood, The Marsha P. Johnson Institute. Feeding America, The Trevor Project and Mercy Housing, while 10% will be used to produce a physical release of Opening.

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Label/show inquiries: thecouchscene@gmail.com

Thanks to Ma and Pa, Harley, Kyle, Vic, Sam, Juno, Naomi, Lulu, Eva, Benjamin, Joanna, Savanna, Elliot, Addison, Hadley, Carrot, Antoine, Adam, and Gargoyle the spider.

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released April 24, 2020

Mastered by Nicholas Wilbur at the Unknown in April of 2020.

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