Gay Elvis is the long-serving bassist with New Jersey based alt-rock/power pop band Readymade Breakup.  In between work with that band, he’s tinkered with extra-curricular recordings, the first fruits of which surfaced as a free download track ‘Morning Cigarette’ in 2012.  Since then, he’s embraced fatherhood.  Various songwriting sessions since then yielded the bones some thirty or so songs, but by the musician’s own admission, those songs tackled the same topics repeatedly – how it sucks to grow up, how growing up can turn you into a loser and ultimately how growing up is inevitable…and cool.  No matter how the tunes sounded, the sentiments were always pre-occupied with maturity.  In this sense, he had hoped that his solo release would “be [his] ‘Pet Sounds’ or ‘Abbey Road’”.  Things don’t always turn out as planned and after shelving lots of incomplete material for a later convenience, the result is this three song EP.  Judging by these songs, it’s a shame we didn’t get just a little bit more…

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