Progress Bakery | Yellow Vinyl
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Kneading dough is tricky - you should know how it's supposed to feel. If you try too hard you could make it worse. It's a beautiful practice - creation with a gentle touch, to work at something so it can be left alone. 'If it's too drawn out it's awful. It's easy to give too much.' Dance in the mirror. Contemplate your veiny hands. Who do they remind you of? You begin by mixing flour and water. 'What happens when your people die? Why'd they move the rock to the other side of Ulster Park?' Eliza Niemi asks two seemingly unrelated questions in a rising melody with guitar accompaniment, like fingers playing spider up to the nape of your neck. Gentle pressure. Strands of gluten form to bind the mix. A new question lingers in the binding. When she admits 'but I don't know how to tell if I'm feeling it or not,' that question surfaces through the text. It is reiterated throughout the album. When I'm working with dough I think the same thing to myself. On Progress Bakery, her second album as a solo artist, Eliza knows to leave some questions alone - to let juxtaposition and tension be the proof. It doesn't have to be hard. The feelings and revelations they provoke rise in the heat. The smell is sweet. Crispy on the outside and soft all the way through. She playfully slip-slides through words and sounds and images, delighting in surprise, skimming ideas like stones cast across clear water, touching down briefly with uncommon grace. The question provoked between those opening lines
Tracks
1~1~Do U Fm1~2~Novelist Sad Face
1~3~Green Box
1~4~Dusty
1~5~The Linda Song
1~6~Dm Bf
2~1~I Tried
2~2~Melodies Like Mark
2~3~Wildcat
2~4~How U Remind Me
2~5~Pocky
2~6~Bon Tempiii
2~7~Pt Basement
2~8~Alberqurque Ii
2~9~Mary's
Details
Catalogue Number: TAR118LPCFormat: Vinyl LP
Artist: Eliza Niemi
Release Date: 21 March 2025
Genre: Rock
Label: TIN ANGEL RECORDS
Distributor: Rocket Group
