Just Having Fun

My name is Andrew. I am the guitarist and producer in Field Mouse. I have produced a bunch of LPs for comedian/rapper mc chris. Here are some other things: Twitter | Facebook | Ask Me I love you

[andrewfutral]

Is this anything? Would this have been something months ago?

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I forgot I had a Tumblr. Here is my cat Andrew

[topshelfrecords]

Just saw this weekend happens to be our eight-year anniversary of being on Bandcamp! What a serendipitous occasion!! So to celebrate, we’re diving deep into our catalog to unearth some gems for a cool deal for you~. In addition to the albums we already give you upon subscribing, we’re adding one album from each of the last eight years—one per year we’ve been on Bandcamp—as a free subscriber bonus. Here’s what we’ll be including:

2010: Big Kids - “Hoop Dreams”

2011: Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - “On Time Spent Waiting or Placing Weight of the World on the Shoulders of Those You Love the Most”

2012: Duck. Little Brother, Duck! - “Don’t Take Our Filth Away”

2013: Crash of Rhinos - “Knots”

2014: Field Mouse - “Hold Still Life”

2015: Donovan Wolfington - “How to Treat the Ones You Love”

2016: Oyama - “Coolboy”

2017: Heat - “Overnight”

and why the heck not, 2018: Ratboys’ new EP “GL”

^^^This is for this weekend only! (April 14-15, 2018)^^^

Subscribers will also get the following upcoming albums on their respective street dates:

Pema - “Bad Habits”

gobbinjr - “ocala wick”

Giraffes? Giraffes! - “Memory Lame

tricot - "portage / On the boom”

mouse on the keys - tres

(plus that unannounced biz)

Subscriptions are a lot of work. So we’ve always avoided them. But, more recently, we’ve given a lot of thought as to how we can do cool shit with the music in our catalog for positive social change. In the past, we’ve made one-time donations to organizations doing work we feel is important. The issues these organizations are fighting for are not going away, though, so we feel they require an effort on our part that won’t either. We came up with a few long-form ideas that can help us, as a company, to help our artists while also continuing to give back more—and you’re lookin’ at one of ‘em.

Our label subscription represents a broad scope of genres and artists from diverse geographies spanning the entire globe and is the perfect way to keep up with the label. We think we’ve put together a great selection of albums at an incredible value and hope you’ll feel the same.

Our monthly label subscription gets you the following:

Every album we release after you subscribe delivered to you digitally on release date in your choice of a FLAC, ALAC, MP3 320, MP3 VBR or AAC 256 download

A re-usable discount code good for 10% off anything in our webstore

A 10% off re-usable code for anything on our bandcamp

On occasion, streaming and downloads of rarities, B-sides, demos from our catalog

infrequent, but thorough updates on upcoming albums and the artists making them

$1 from every subscription is divided equally amongst donations to The Trevor Project, The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Planned Parenthood.

For more details on what you can expect from this monthly digital subscription as well as a detailed FAQ on our annual physical subscription, please peep.

The Trevor Project

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Planned Parenthood

THANK YOU, *SINCERELY* for supporting us, the artists we work with and independent music.

-Danielle, Robbie, Seth & Kevin

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[andrewfutral]

I fixed the Pepsi commercial

[andrewfutral]

Haha! I made my grandmas phone autoswitch "steal my xanax" to "Fuck my ghost" lololol. Idiot doesn’t know how to work a phone because she’s so fucking old

[topshelfrecords]

This Audiotree session with Field Mouse sounds awesome! It’s available for streaming and download today.

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[topshelfrecords]

We have a new 2016 Sampler for you to listen/share as you please. If you’re into it, you can get a free download from our Bandcamp & you can get a CD copy for free with any order from our store (while supplies last). Thanks!

[andrewfutral]

What are you playing in Half Life in the chorus on guitar?

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INTERVIEW WITH AN ANDREW

Rachel let me answer an e-mail interview but my answers might have been too weird so they never posted them but I liked them too much to let them go unread:

Field Mouse’s debut release was in the form of 2010’s ‘You Are Here’, an album that contrasts greatly to the band’s current form, and one that was made up of a duo ensemble. What sparked the decision to expand the bands profile and leave a more intimate form of music to reach ‘Episodic’?

I straight up refuse to believe that you've heard that record! We scrubbed the internet of it pretty heavily. But for us, that first record doesn’t count. We made it as a collection of songs that were produced for fun before there was any real intention of being a full-on band. At the last minute after it had been recorded we decided to make a go of it and chose Field Mouse as a name, but soon after realized that’s not how things are done. You gotta take baby steps. A very wise baby once told me that. I said “baby, how do you know so much about steps?”, and strike me down if I’m lying, but I turned back around and that baby was gone. Ok, so far the interview is off to a rocky start - you lied about having heard our first record (we weren’t a duo, mad drummers and bassists all over that record), and then I lied to you about that baby I met. Let’s see if we can salvage this.

Your distorted post-punk style is reminiscent of math rock, 90s grunge, dream pop, and indie-dance. Are these just the critics speaking or has the band taken an interest in a multiple of subgenres and styles to develop their own?

Well, I’ve never met a band or musician that thinks or cares about genres, let alone subgenres. That’s more of a way for non-musicians to categorize things. It’s not a bad thing and having a system is cool, but it's never a thought that exists in the process making the music. I think all those genres you listed are all pretty close to each other. If you played one of each of those genres for a time traveler and then added some mad old shit like the Firebird Suite by Stravinsky, the alien (I know I said time traveler before, but I switched it to alien) would think that all those bands could be the same and only hear a real difference when you hit them up with that classical shit. So I think the proof is in the pudding. Sorry to use the word "pudding" - I know your pre-screener interviewer asked and later begged me not to use that word, but here we are. Like, worrying about genres is like looking at a painting and being like “oh, I noticed you used the same shade of red here as this other painting, and over here you used a similar blue to this other painter”. Meanwhile I’m like “motherfucker, I made a painting of a boat, it’s probably the fastest boat ever in the world, talk about that!"

In the past Rachel has commented on her personal struggles that come with chronic disease and the issues surrounding it for a musician, which received overwhelming support. Do you think these kinds of issues are underrepresented in the media relating to musicians, especially regarding the vanity and perfection that surrounds it?

Man, that does sound like Rachel. She is on another level sometimes, feel me? One time on tour we broke down in Utah and we saw a pack of wild horses (like that song!) and honest to god she took out a full lasso and I was like “whaaaat?” Keep in mind I saw homegirl pack for this tour, so I KNOW she didn’t pack a cowboy lasso. Well, long story short, I watched her tame a wild horse and set it free. She named it Tipper after Al Gore’s wife, that’s just her sense of humor. Not too sure about things being underrepresented or not but I think often times that’s a matter of perspective. I see people on the internet say “oh so it’s cool when blank but when I do blank it’s a problem??” and it’s like, no dude that’s on you. You’re just only aware of people calling you out because it’s aimed at you but everyone on the internet hates everything and everyone else on the internet. Not really sure what to say about vanity and perfection. I don’t think either of those words has much to do with us. My grandma used to say “vanity is not just a river in Egypt!” Not sure what she meant about that, she was a deeply deeply troubled woman. She didn’t trust doctors.

Over the recording process of ‘Episodic’ the band was hit with family issues. How did the band member’s relationships grow during this troubling and yet reflective time?

If I can be honest with you? I don’t think they grew at all. I don’t think it was reflective either. I think with most people I know the period of reflection comes after, but when we made the record that was just two weeks, and not everyone was there all the time. We were just doing non-stop ten hour days recording and not really talking anything out. We all like each other just fine and that period of time was crazy for other reasons but your question was maaaaad specific. It’s totally possible our relationships grew but you don’t really always notice shit like that. A friendship is like a tree. You might not notice a new branch but with or without it, it’s the same tree, fuck this tree metaphor is really getting to me. These are some powerful words right here. Has anyone ever used a tree as a metaphor before? They should.

You worked with established Philadelphian producer Joe Reinhart, whom has exceptional ties within the DIY House Show scene. What experiences and lessons did you take from working with a fellow Philadelphian and a prominent musician within the North Philadelphia scene?

At this one point he pulled us aside and I remember the sun was setting and he said to us he said “One of you I love and one of you I hate, and I need you to all battle for my love because I’m fucking Joe Reinhart. I RUN this town. If you ever talk about this to anyone make sure you or they spell ‘run’ in all caps because that is where I am putting emphasis in the sentence. I’m in fucking Hop Along, do you understand?? I run these streets." I bought two JHS overdrive pedals after working with him. The guy’s middle name is sick guitar sounds.

Although the summer festival period is coming to a halt do you have any plans to tour around the Autumn/Winter season that you can tell us about?

We’re doing a full loop of the continental United States with our bros in Cymbals Eat Guitars and Wildhoney in September and October. We’re gonna tour every which way. We’re gonna go up and down, it’s gonna be like that movie Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, which is a movie I didn’t see but it seems like the kind of movie that would have a road trip in it. We also are announcing another November tour on Thursday but I’m not gonna tell you about that. You gotta trick your readers into looking at our Twimbler page or our Face-books. First taste is free.

[topshelfrecords]

Field Mouse’s “The Order of Things” is KEXP’s Song of the Day! Have a listen and download it for free!

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Field Mouse Dishes On New Album Episodic, Fights Over Donuts | Features | Impose Magazine

Wherein Field Mouse openly feud over what kind of donut they would be.

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Field Mouse - Episodic

[andrewfutral]

if this don’t get u horny, yr a globalist shill

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Field Mouse Premiere Their New Album “Episodic”

Field Mouse. Photo by Shervin LainezWith a new album that feels like it’s the start of something bigger—bigger hooks, a bigger sound and Rachel Browne’s booming voice—Field Mouse are bounding towar…

My band’s record is streaming NOW!

This is something I am VERY happy at and proud about

Go check it out and also reblog this or whatever

[andrewfutral]

All you liberals are so quick to point out the lack of diversity in the Paul Ryan staff intern photo that you didn't even notice that The Mask from the Jim Carry movie 'The Mask' was in the 2nd row and that the first row was entirely made up of other Paul Ryans. This is why Bernie LOST!

[andrewfutral]

Check out my new “Philip Seymour Hoffman Fever” T-Shirt

PUUUURRRR-fect for SUMMER!

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/569223-hoffman-fever

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A lyric video I directed for Cymbals Eat Guitars. Edited by Andrew Futral!