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Tuff 2B Tender

by Olivia's World

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1.
Debutante 04:37
Hold your head in your bed I don’t think your yolk’s on Debutante old and young Supper’s not so hard done No, that is long gone and he’s the one whenever that's done Grab your head from the bed (Don’t you know I’m tacked on?) Boiled egg salamander hair Encrusted bad lino weed and feed the lawn and pull the shit that’s dead out of the garden bed You never make me mad You'll never make me mad This place is heaven bare Tiny travel kits a sort of mini me Tags on so we can have more fun Hold your head in your bed Debutante old and young
2.
Hellbent 03:28
i don’t like the passage of time but at the same time it makes me proud that i can change over time and i wiped your blood a million miles away from here in an aboriginal land, does it make sense to be PC? in a time when nothing feels right big news, big lies does it make sense to be obsessed with nothing else but a contest and ah what’s the point of being kind to ah people that are never kind to ya i’m hellbent i’m hellbent on you i’m hellbent oh it’s true it’s no use i once met a girl or should i say she once met me she showed me her room isn’t it good Norwegian wood i’m hellbent i’m hellbent on you i’m hellbent it’s no use
3.
Little Sage 03:22
it’s hot in here and i’m deconstructing my peers in a minute i won’t take what you say in good faith the cat sheds the hair the blows down the stairs scarcity despair will make me take what you say but i can’t take your bed and run moth-balled and undone in the setting sun blame it on my age like a little sage wishing for my birthday again it’s hot in here and now it’s burned up singed into dust but i’ll stand up and be brave if i can cause i’m cramped up and my place sucks and you couldn’t drop me off soon enough till we’re saved i know that you are safe little sage i know that you’ll be saved i know you’ll be saved little sage
4.
tiny crown fit for tiny mice warped rectangular wire over the bridge you said you would drink me under the table galvanised steel is always ready to rust circuitry is so limited in small spaces i bear only good memories an ode to you, friend FaceTime me in the snow again i’m sorry to be such a disappointment but it’s over now and i’m sorry still just a social seagull discursive one on one i check in with no one my recreational needs who built this? capital fact but i’m over that still just a social seagull pardon me, i’m done you’re built well, tightly spun you are my number one an ode to you, friend
5.
Grassland 05:26
transmute me across time and space to our exciting past an itch to scratch the veins won’t relax a grassy knoll with moss we had two marginals searching for land i’m just looking for a place to call my grassland Just looking to farm in grassland And here the fog grew dense, enveloping the senses, but I remained undecided, at least now with peace and quiet, until some faithful day I’m just looking for a place to call my grassland Everyone just wants a place to call their grassland A blown hole in the ground, shards ebbing outwards at the speed of sound, underground, underground. ’Run for cover’ I thought I heard myself scream and when I looked back, there was no one. I never saw him again, he was gone, forever. Mud plated on my nylon pants like an abstract painting, a uniform of survival. The dried up landscape buzzed with a deafening pitch. Debris, wind and grease. There is a chatter in my mind, robotic, unceasing, thinking he’s still alive, thinking he survived. But even if that was true, I know it wouldn’t be the same, this thing is bigger than me. Just looking to farm in grassland what kind of sage are you? i’m a perennial blue

about

Before Alice Rezende would dream in comic strips about a girl’s make-believe getaway, Olivia’s World was already a real place. Part homage to the imaginary world under her own bed growing up, Rezende’s Queensland-based indie pop project is rooted in escapist reality. Formed during a two-year minimum wage sabbatical in Vancouver, British Columbia, Olivia’s World came to fruition after a last-ditch effort for a drummer resulted in the recruitment of Rezende’s longtime musical hero - indie pop legend Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, The Softies, Knife Pleats). Needless to say, dreams became reality and in late 2019, the band released their bright and buoyant self-titled debut via Lost Sound Tapes.

Influenced by the scrappy DIY ethos of Exploding in Sound and the innate wonderment of all things twee, the group emits a sense of playful fascination through dazzling melodies, doe-eyed harmonies and bright and punchy songwriting. Olivia’s World is a conduit for collaboration; the band’s creative vehicle to compartmentalize the events unfolding around our strange, tumultuous home planet. One demo, one EP and one lifestyle magazine later, Olivia’s World gear up for the release of their second EP Tuff 2B Tender, a vast existential outing assembled over a period of change for the band’s members.

Recorded one floor below a newborn at Incremental Studios with Cameron Smith in Brisbane, and mixed by Jordan Koop at The Noise Floor in Gabriola Island, Tuff 2B Tender contemplates time, age, disaster and death in whip-smart pop fashion. Olivia’s World’s cutting lyricism and clear-eyed melodies ponder on alternate timelines, question the empty gestures of virtue signaling and grasp with impending catastrophes. Alice Rezende pictures a post-apocalyptic plantopia in “Grassland,” an image cast back by the songwriter as a desire to flee the city in favour of a sprawling, vast horizon. “I’m just looking for a place to call my grassland/Everyone just wants a place to call their grassland.”

Opening track “Debutante” recounts Rezende’s experiences playing in bands and what it means to start over, considering the cyclical tilling of ideas, spaces and musicians in nostalgia-tinged harmonies from guitarist Tina Agic and bassist Joe Saxby. With Ben Napier filling out percussion, the quartet order anthemic pop hooks between sharp and upbeat punk, channelling the overt charm of Tiger Trap’s brightest tunes and the push of Sleater Kinney’s knottiest riffs. Again pairing up with Cascadia-based tape label Lost Sound Tapes (Richard Album, Temporary Eyesore), Olivia’s World continue to glimmer as one of the most exciting twee-revivalist acts in operation.

Aside from the band’s innate knack for catchy arrangement and undeniable charisma, Alice Rezende’s thoughtful, empathetic lyricism further sets Olivia’s World apart from their contemporaries. Rezende’s perspective-seeking words reveal lush and imaginative imagery; literary and pensive verses mirroring the author’s transoceanic experiences through time and space. Tenderness sure can be tough but Olivia’s World possess the sensitivity and awareness to assess big-picture issues of the future, present and past. Despite its exterior pop sheen, Tuff 2B Tender is a ruminative exercise in existing - existing as a bandmate, as a friend, as a human.

- Patrick Pilch

credits

released April 23, 2021

Recorded by Cameron Smith at Incremental Studios in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Mixed by Jordan Koop at The Noise Floor in Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada
Mastered by Pip Sullivan at Lion Works in Hackney Wick, London, UK

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Tuff 2B Tender was made possible with the generous assistance of QMusic Network and Arts Queensland.

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