Tiny Desk 2020 contest submission filmed by Derick Noetzel on April 19th 2020. Recorded live from our bedroom in Albany, NY after returning home from our canceled SXSW tour. #staysafe #stayhome #turnthelightsoff Listen to our debut album "What Happens After" now - smarturl.it/laveda.wha Buy "What Happens After" on limited edition vinyl - lavedamusic.bandcamp.com LYRICS Heart is sound to let go Did you think I could leave my home Meet me in the doorway You're calling my name And if I see you on a sad day Or if I see you in another place Hey turn the lights off And all the stars Hey turn the lights off And all the stars and All the stars let them die Heart is sound to let go Did you think I could leave my home Meet me in the doorway You're calling my name You said I shouldn't run away You told me not to be afraid I notice in the mornings I can feel them fading grey Now I know I'm in another place And I know I'll never be the same Hey turn the lights off And all the stars Hey turn the lights off And all the stars and All the stars let them die

Listen to our debut album "What Happens After" now - https://smarturl.it/laveda.wha Buy "What Happens After" on limited edition vinyl - https://lavedamusic.bandcamp.com Video by Derick Noetzel LYRICS Heart is sound to let go Did you think I could leave my home Meet me in the doorway You're calling my name And if I see you on a sad day Or if I see you in another place Hey turn the lights off And all the stars Hey turn the lights off And all the stars and All the stars let them die Heart is sound to let go Did you think I could leave my home Meet me in the doorway You're calling my name You said I shouldn't run away You told me not to be afraid I notice in the mornings I can feel them fading grey Now I know I'm in another place And I know I'll never be the same Hey turn the lights off And all the stars Hey turn the lights off And all the stars and All the stars let them die

Listen to our debut album "What Happens After" now - https://smarturl.it/laveda.wha Buy "What Happens After" on limited edition vinyl - https://lavedamusic.bandcamp.com Video by Derick Noetzel LYRICS Find me a neverland Where we see no end Hold me and my hand Sleep still while I can Find us a neverland We’re in it too deep No lies to unwind Had to leave those broken times Things were far from right But they’re better now Remember that day It all turned to grey And now there’s never going back Sometimes I can’t pretend That I’m better now She was 17 when she looked at me I doubt she knew what she was in for Find me a neverland Where we see no end We’re in it too deep No lies to unwind Knowing that she’ll never come back What’s buried in the ground Can’t be better now She was 17 when she looked at me I doubt she knew what she was in for She was 17 when she looked at me - oh no I doubt she knew what she was in for I doubt she knew what she was in for

Listen to our debut album "What Happens After" now - https://smarturl.it/laveda.wha Buy "What Happens After" on limited edition vinyl - https://lavedamusic.bandcamp.com Video by Derick Noetzel LYRICS Wasting time Going nowhere In my mind I’m alright To get by On the way down Glorified suicide Now it’s on fire There’s nowhere left to wander Soon everyone dies We’ll never find another Lose your mind Find a lover Watch them cry Nothings right Wish I died Sometime last year Hope i find Dawn tonight Now it’s on fire There’s nowhere left to wander Soon everyone dies We’ll never find another Maybe it’ll happen a billion years from now When the sun finally burns all it’s hydrogen Or maybe it’s only a matter of months until we kill ourselves with nuclear war Years ago when I was younger I didn’t think about how the end would look or sound or feel but the way our world and it’s people have seemed to move backwards in thought has pressed this idea up to the front of my skull And I’m looking out my window A hundred years from now as a member of a future generation And what I’m seeing is terrifying - Rager is the last released single from Laveda’s upcoming debut album, What Happens After. It’s fuzzy, loud and raw, standing out from the pack with an overly dramatic theory about how the end of the world would sound. “After the band found the sound for Rager,” says Ali, “I was immediately getting visuals of desert, wastelands, orange dust clouds, just post-apocalyptic chaos.” The band decided to make the lyrics about what the end of the world might look like with a song like “Rager” playing in the background. At the time the song was coming together, Ali was taking a post-apocalyptic literature class and had just finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. “I was incredibly moved by the entire book,” recalls Ali. “McCarthy’s descriptive language of horrifying and bleak settings painted vivid pictures. The Road ended up having a huge impact on my creative decisions throughout the entire record.” “Rager” started very indie pop, but once Ali and Jake tracked guitars for “Ghost” the band discovered a more fuzzed out, whammy bar bending tone to really work for their sound. Jake applied that same energy into the rhythm tracks for “Rager” and in doing so, the two were hearing things in the song reminiscent of more noisey bands like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Jake fell asleep towards the end of the session, when Ali hopped in to experiment with lead guitar ideas. “She ended up plugging a SG into a Fuzz Factory by Zvex and recorded this dope noisey thing but then buried it in the mix. When we listened to the first wave of bounces I was like ‘what is happening in the post chorus section? It sounds like a guitar but I can’t tell what it’s doing.’ When we started finishing this song up we turned it up to hear it, and now it’s like one of the loudest tracks in the mix. A stroke of genius once again from Ali haha.” While keeping the same vocal melody Laveda originally had, this experimentation helped create Laveda’s hybrid between noise and pop.