Ceres - We Are a Team (April 26, 2019) Album • Page 9

slowheart · Jun 24, 2024

WE ARE EATING MOTHER FUCKERS

sean_rugy · Jun 24, 2024

I’m so fucking happy

Cameron · Jun 24, 2024

Holy

OotyPa · Jun 24, 2024

Oh fuck

Yellowcard2006 · Jun 24, 2024

Ceres releasing peak songs with no warning.

Glad to see we likely have an album coming based on the newsletter email.

sean_rugy · Jun 24, 2024

tom is absolutely crushing the newsletter game. I really appreciate the openness.

Carrow · Jun 25, 2024

Are we getting a new record this year?!?

wisdomfordebris · Jun 25, 2024

Can someone share the newsletter?

I Am Mick · Jun 25, 2024

the songs rule but i really don't like the production on these tracks. Feels like I'm hearing them through a wall or something

Yellowcard2006 · Jun 25, 2024

wisdomfordebris said:

Can someone share the newsletter?

You can sign-up here for future ones.
https://www.weareceres.com/secretstaircase

ISSUE #002
Humming b/w MAXior; Loss on a Mountain Top, Change in a Parking Lot

Hello again friend,

Two new songs for you. One is about losing something on a mountain top, the other is about changing something in a parking lot. Two very different things, from two very different times in my life.

And because we are penpals, you get to hear them first, before their official release on 26/06.

On Humming:

Tom Bromley heard Humming for the first time and sent me a message: “It should be a single!”.

“Hahaha” I wrote back, my emotionless face aglow from the light of my phone’s screen. Surely he was joking.

It can’t be a single, I thought to myself. Humming is a sad song. A song about sad things. About loss and about blaming yourself. Hating yourself, even. It’s too much. Weak when it mattered. Faux-strong when it didn’t. How can you still love me? Humming a harmony, something for me.

“Nah, fuck that,” I said out loud, “Humming’s not a single.”

Click above to watch and listen to Humming. Visualiser by Arlo Cook

On MAXi:

“I don’t know—sometimes I love you, and sometimes… I… I don’t."

“Well I can’t be with someone who thinks like that” she said.

I hung up the phone and stared at the steering wheel. Parking lot was quiet.

I felt very alone, and very free.

Change is hard. Phone calls are harder. But sometimes you just need to make the call.

Sadness and optimism in two-and-a-half-minutes. I love this song.

Click above to watch and listen to MAXi. Visualiser by Arlo Cook

Proud and scared of these ones.

Let me know what you think, pal.

Thanks for being here.

Tom

Secret Staircase

Remember: these letters are a two-way street. If you’d like to ask a question and have it answered like Rebecca and Buzz did, feel free to reply to this email. I can’t get back to you all, but I read and appreciate every reply.

Let’s talk.

A Secret Staircase. Image from Google Maps

Rebecca D wrote: I have a question about the choir recording of want/need - I can see a sneaky date there of May 2021 - that's 3 years ago! You've kept this under wraps for 3 YEARS. Does that mean there's more where this one came from? Dare we hope for.... a new album of music?

Hi Bec,

Yep. That was THREE YEARS ago. Crazy, huh? Want/Need was a labour of love. I wrote it pretty quickly if I remember correctly. Sent it to Bromley. Sent it to Stu Harvey. Sent it to JT. Sent it to the band. Saying something hyperbolic like “I just wrote the best Ceres song ever!!”. (You are now the judge on that one, Bec). Then… not much. It was a demo. Then a half-recorded song. Then finished. Mixed. Mastered. Then thrown out. Then recorded a choir. Then mixed. Then mixed again. Mastered again. Sat on. And finally, yours, Bec. Ridiculous that it took that long, really, isn’t it?

A photo of the choir recording, all those years ago. Photo by Mick Thomas

Does this mean there’s more where this one came from? Yes! Songs called Humming and MAXi. See above. You must’ve manifested them into existence, thank you for that.

And dare we hope for… an album? Who dares wins, Bec; who dares wins.

Thanks for the question,

Tom

Buzz C wrote: I wanted to ask, what’s your process for when you’re stuck in a creative block? I’m currently in one, and haven’t been able to write a song in over a year now. I will say, seeing you guys release new music has inspired me to finish the old songs I’ve been sitting on for 2-3 years. I went back to a rough mix of a song to finally finish it and have now I’ve uploaded it for release, because if Ceres can put out a song after 5 years, so can I!

Can you tell I’m a dad? We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Micheal Rosen & Helen Oxenbury

Hey Buzz,

I’ve never felt in control of writing music. Not entirely sure what my process is. But I do know I get into creative blocks—big ones. Mostly between records—they can last for a few weeks, a month—years even, just like you. Example: I didn’t write anything for a year-and-a-bit between Stretch Ur Skin and We Are a Team.

But I also (maybe) know that blocks are (probably) there for a reason. Don’t say something if you don’t have something to say. I believe in that, in a creative sense anyway. Maybe you just don’t have anything to say right now.

So I guess I would say: you got to go through it to get through it. Say it when you mean it.

Hope that helps,

Tom

wisdomfordebris · Jun 25, 2024

Yellowcard2006 said:

You can sign-up here for future ones.
https://www.weareceres.com/secretstaircase

Thank you!

wisdomfordebris · Jun 26, 2024

LOVE these songs but the recording is unbelievably bad. Sounds like I’m listening through iPhone speakers but I’m not!

BigMouth · Jun 26, 2024

wisdomfordebris said:

LOVE these songs but the recording is unbelievably bad. Sounds like I’m listening through iPhone speakers but I’m not!

I unfortunately agree.

BackwardsWalker · Aug 27, 2024

New album 10/4. 26 tracks.

slowheart · Aug 27, 2024

Let’s do this

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Leftandleaving · Aug 27, 2024

I’m speechless. I am without speech

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