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Your Face Replaces Mine

by Small Reactions

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1.
You want me to go You want me to go turn the lights out You want me to go You want me to go turn the lights out Savor the taste Fragrant the fumes stuck in my life Shaping up to a bogus speech Can’t leave you unprotected Savor the truth Or the illusion perfected Desperate eyes miss the point in seeing I’m ready to fend self-possessions Oh, I am at a loss For words my tone is thin like smoke Savor the truth Or the illusion perfected Desperate eyes miss the point in seeing I’m ready to send you alone Savor the taste Or the illusion in my life Desperate eyes miss the point in seeing I’m ready to fend self-possessions Oh, I am at a loss For words my tone is thin like smoke Savor the taste A scene to steal The vanity of the obsessive ones If you are to vanish down the road The specter you’ve seen isn’t like me The specter you saw was a trick of light Guiding you towards the domestic life I live with the feeling night by night Someone is breathing down my neck
2.
Aviator 02:44
Into the night, I expected to run What I’ve been doing Cannot be undone Ginger on my tongue Blood on my face Everyone asking for only a taste If my days are numbered And your days are more I’m saving face with The Aviator Don’t bring me scared animal eyes In my mind, hand in time I’ve lost my sense of place This is the last one I’ll ever take Covet salvation, but not the technique I feel a tremor Down in my core Is this the last of The Aviator Don’t bring me scared animal eyes In my mind, hand in time I’ve lost my sense of place In my mind, hand in time I’ve lost my sense of place
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Dinner Song 02:58
Out to dinner tonight I see you all the time Your face replaces mine And I’m dying for your touch I’m dying for your touch I’m dying for your touch I will, I won’t (x 8) Before I sell the story short This is our life If Memory will serve The unrelenting cut A cell divides just once And I’m dying for your light I’m dying for your light I’m dying for your light I will, I won’t (x 8) Before I sell the story short This is our life Out to dinner tonight I see you all the time Out to dinner tonight I see you all the time Out to dinner tonight I see you all the time I will, I won’t
4.
There's great danger (danger) For the loneliest ranger in town No silver bullets (bullets) Tonto's split the scene Next week will solve your problems But now Fish-fingers all in a line The milk bottles stand empty Stay glued to your TV set There's great danger (danger) At hand, most caped crusader of all No cloak of justice (justice) Robin's quit the scene Next week will solve your problems But now Fish-fingers all in a line The milk bottles stand empty Stay glued to your TV set (TV) Stay glued to your TV set (TV) oh, ho-ho Stay glued to your TV set (TV) stay glued to your TV set (TV) oh, ho-ho Stay glued to your TV set Oh, (TV) oh, oh-ho stay glued to your TV set Oh, (TV) why don't ya, don't ya, don't ya? Stay glued to your TV set (TV) stay glued to your TV set Oh, (TV) why don't ya, don't ya, don't ya?

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“I’m dying for your light,” Small Reactions’ singer and guitarist Scotty Hoffman sings on the band’s new EP, Your Face Replaces Mine. Serving as the brief refrain to “Dinner Song,” the line is perhaps more like a mantra for the band’s current state. Small Reactions has always written pop songs, but noise, grit, and reckless abandon helped them to not get too comfortable with the label “pop music.” This track, along with “Mineral Water,” “Aviator,”—both outtakes from the band’s 2021 LP New Age Soul—and “Ex-Lion Tamer,” a Wire cover initially included on a compilation by The Blog that Celebrates Itself out of Brazil, evince that Small Reactions are both punctual and exciting.

On Small Reaction’s Your Face Replaces Mine, the band is represented by four separate yet equally important songs. These are their stories.

Perhaps pop music is subversive after all?

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released February 15, 2024

“Mineral Water,” “Aviator,” and “Dinner Song” were produced, engineered, and mixed at Maze Studios (Atlanta, GA) by Ben Etter. All three tracks were mastered at Joe Lambert Mastering (Cortlandt Manor, NY) by Joe Lambert.

“Ex-Lion Tamer” was record at Ember City (Atlanta, GA) by Scotty Hoffman. It was mixed and mastered at Sampson Sound (Atlanta, GA) by Kris Sampson. It is a Wire cover, with some made up stuff in the middle.

Performance credits:
Scotty Hoffman (Guitar, Bass, Vocals)
Ross Politi (Guitar, Percussion, Vocals)
Sean Zearfoss (Drums, Percussion)
Eric Balint (Percussion)
Clinton Callahan (Bass on “Dinner Song” and “Ex-Lion Tamer”)

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Small Reactions Atlanta, Georgia

Small Reactions play situational pop songs. Relying on the minimal instrumentation of guitar, bass, vintage organs, and drums, the quartet is equal parts post-punk, new wave, and surf.

Their music has been internationally praised by Huffington Post, GoldFlakePaint, Atwood Magazine, The Big Takeover, and more. They've directly supported the likes of Portugal The Man, Mac DeMarco, and DIIV.
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