Creature, by Pileup

Creature

by Pileup

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W Phillips a beautiful record from front to back —also I wish "Fun City" was about 10x longer ♥ Favorite track: Running Around.

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1.	Intro 01:10	buy track
2.	Running Around 04:44	buy track
3.	Fun City 00:45	buy track
4.	Glue 04:32	buy track
5.	May I Be Well 04:13	buy track
6.	Tired 03:51	buy track
7.	Anyway 05:20	buy track
8.	Broken Record 03:49	buy track
9.	Deano 05:19	buy track
10.	Sept. 1 05:35	buy track
11.	Last Year 06:35	buy track
12.	Creature 07:13	buy track

about

Creature is the debut LP from Pileup, recording project and band of Nathan Urbach. Hailing originally from Portland, Urbach has lived in many places since 2015 when the writing of the songs on Creature began. In lyrical themes, moods, and production choices you can hear his travels and various homes throughout Oregon and California. His roots in Portland show themselves in the distinctly Pacific Northwest feeling that the album evokes, paying homage to PNW greats like Elliott Smith, Quasi and Death Cab for Cutie while also evoking similar California to Oregon slow core travellers like Duster. Also along his travels Nathan has pieced together a grand group of collaborators and bandmates from all over the west coast so make sure to check the credits for the album. You might see a friend! Pileup are one of the greats in PNW indie rock already, so pile on now while you can.

credits

released October 7, 2022

Nathan Urbach - Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Synth, Melodica
Tom Kendall Hughes - Drums, Percussion, Synth
Cole Brossus - Bass
Gracie Gray - Vocals
Noah Kaufman - Synth
Elian Conroy - Trumpet

Arrangement and songwriting contributions from Diego Ramos and Sam Aplin

All lyrics by Nathan Urbach

All music written, engineered, and performed by Pileup

These songs were written between November 2015 to May 2018. They were all recorded, a little at a time, from October 2018 until June 2021 within the walls of several different houses, apartments, and studios in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon.

Mixed by Peter Stone and Jacob Allen at Dead Music Productions

Mastered by J.P. Bendzinski at Wizard Audio

Cover and interior layouts by Ellington Peet
Photos by Nathan Urbach

Special thanks, in no particular order, to our parents and grandparents, Diego Ramos, Peter Stone, Jacob Allen, Sam Aplin, Emmet Martin, Ellington Peet, J.P. Bendzinski, Ben Urbach, Emiro Blom, Colin Scannell, Crowley Zwartjes, Michael Black, Sally, Jackie, and Jasper Loughney, Gracie Sprout, Tyler Spracher, Jake Abernathie, Lily Tesch, Ian Breeze, Izzy Storm, Mia Baum, Mo/e Gamez, ~b. Castron, Scone Forrest, Rachel R. Preyst, Meghan Vandewettering, Erik Robertson, Ethan Jacot, Alec Armijo, Izzy Gallishaw, Sean Wilburn

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