Now Streaming: Trust Falls EP
Trust Falls EP is now available on Bandcamp, all your favorite streaming services, and right here on our site
Our Production Team
Trust Falls EP was produced by an extraordinary group of music industry veterans
Matt
Walker
Producer
Scott Tallarida
Recording Engineer
Joe
Lambert
Mastering Engineer
Tracks and Lyrics
Fashion Show
Lyrics and Music by Erik Uppenberg
This is not a dinner party
No one’s laughing at the jokes
All you rock stars go kill yourselves
We’re about much better things
This is not your clientele
The tits aren’t mass produced
We’re all ugly here and born this way
The crowd has left the room
We’re not in fashion
We’re not even wealthy
We’re justified by age
We’re not into rage
We just want to be hard rockers
We just want to be hard rockers
Because we’re better off that way
This is not a fashion show
Filled with pretty things
All the girls are making out
And all the boys are on their knees
This is not that chipper concert
All the songs are sad and broken
All our heroes are dead and gone
And the new ones have no faith
We’re not in fashion
We’re not even wealthy
We’re justified by age
We’re not into rage
We just want to be hard rockers
We just want to be hard rockers
Cause we’re better off that way
We’re not in fashion
We’re not even wealthy
We’re justified by age
We’re not into rage
We just want to be hard rockers
We just want to be hard rockers
Cause we’re better off that way
Imposter
Music by Erik Uppenberg, Ed Jaffe, and Jarrett Dapier
Lyrics by Erik Uppenberg
Outside the impostor is revealed
But inside the true self is concealed
And the moment you decide, it’s all a dance
And the choice to run or fight is all you have
Stand up
Or turn away
Stand up
Or run away
Sometimes this world is upside down
Stand up
Or turn away
Stand up
Or run away
Sometimes this world is upside down
Then it lets you down
What are you doing here?
Standing
Waiting
Why aren’t you standing there
Punching
Fighting
Shit Times
Lyrics and Music by Erik Uppenberg
I left my home to find I was mistaken
For a man I used to know
Woke up in the bed of an angel
Behind the wind and snow
See the world crumble around us
I was dreaming on a train
Some say the life we left was wasted
I remember you
How many lifeboats out at sea
Would want to save a fool like me
You can hear me singing
Then sink so slow
Cause’ these are hard times
And these are poor times
And these are love times
Without any highs
Writing letters to the sacred
I’m not a family man
Then I saw her and I was taken
Only lovers understand
In the moment of repression
Escape to a faraway land
Some say the life we’ve left was wasted
I remember you
How many lifeboats out at sea
Would want to save a fool like me
You can hear me singing
Then sink so slow
Cause’ these are hard times
And these are poor times
And these are love times
Without any highs
And these are shit times
And these are poor times
And these are shit times
And these are poor times
It’s all in the way you see it
It’s all in the way you see it
It’s all in the way you see it
These hard times
Good Ones
Music by Erik Uppenberg, Ed Jaffe, and Jarrett Dapier
Lyrics by Erik Uppenberg
Fangs for teeth
Simple words that make you bleed
And all you’ve known
Is waiting for
The brutalist of all
And it sounds like
One of the good ones
Again
One of the good ones
One of the good ones
Again
You’re losing your sight
You’re losing your sight
It’s plain to see
Hidden words that remain unseen
And all we’ve known
Is waiting for
The perfect star to fall
And it sounds like
One of the good ones
Again
One of the good ones
One of the good ones
Again
You’re losing your sight
You’re losing your sight
Reviews
“Fascinator’s Trust Falls EP blew me away. It has hints of so many bands I have loved for years and cover on my channels – Nothing, Jesus & Mary Chain, even Hum and Sunny Day Real Estate – while also delivering something new, managing to make me feel nostalgic and surprised at the same time…
Matt Walker is an inspired choice for producer. He brings the same driving musical intelligence, force, and instincts he showed in his work with Filter, Morrissey, Cupcakes, and The Smashing Pumpkins to bear on Fascinator’s sound in the best ways.
I want more Fascinator – and I want it now.”
Jacob Givens, content creator, podcaster, comedian, and actor @jacobgivens, Waterproof Records pod