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WHO are they?
“We are BASEBALL GAME, made up of ADAM CARPENTER (Vocals, Multi-Instrumentalist) and JASON BENNETT (Multi-instrumentalist). We have been a band for almost a year. We started playing together at a church gig about 6 years ago, and have kept playing in random projects since then. When JASON moved to Nashville we started this project as an excuse to keep touch and continue making music with each other. BASEBALL GAME has been a calm yet disordering release from our everyday.”
WHAT is the inspiration behind their songs?
“We found a multitude of inspiration in nostalgia, melancholy, and desire. Baseball Game is a song about being in a place you don’t belong in, kind of a present day perspective on your past or upbringing. We were drawn to the idea of the sound being aggressive. In some ways it molds the feelings we experienced as kids and how that has followed us into our adult lives. It is about the inability of being content with our stance on that very feeling.”
“Lyrically, Woman is a song about distracting oneself from their inner doubts. Constantly searching for someone or something to validate or assist the feeling of being wanted. We wrote Woman and put it over a demo we had sitting on the shelf for about a year. The demo consisted of us trying to emulate a sound that put us in a trance. The same way that watching old videos of people dancing to slow disco seems to do.”
“Feelings is written with the idea of having sympathy for a significant person in your life who is experiencing depression or anxiety. It’s the idea of the uncanny feeling we all seem to get after being there for someone, and holding their pain so close almost as if it’s our own. The direction of the song came from a pulsating drum loop and a synth patch that we found to be our ticket into making this song all it could be. The final touch added was a baritone saxophone track Jason recorded and chopped up into a solo, and it fit seemlessly.”
“See You Tomorrow is our final song on the EP, and it addresses the idea of losing someone and wondering what it would be like to see them once more. We focused on how each individual instrument was processed and tracked, and not having to worry about adding an abundance of things to the song that didn’t need to be there. The direction of the sound was set in stone when we put a very specific effect on ADAM’s vocals. From there, we wrote the song which was purely driven by emotion.”
WHERE are they from?
“JASON grew up in Redlands, CA and ADAM grew up in Corona, CA. The west coast is vastly different when it comes to expectations and standards to fit, and because JASON now lives in Nashville he has found it to be more forgiving in the sense of experimentation. ADAM currently resides in Southern CA still, but I think that creating a project with anyone that lives in a different state physically and musically allows for clearer thinking, different ears, and unending ideas that has the ability to create something meaningful and pleasantly easy to listen to.”
WHY are they called BASEBALL GAME?
“It’s trivial really, how a small moment as a child can insert itself in our relationships, friendships, love, and emotion we feel on any given day. At a young age, ADAM experienced his first glimpse at showing up and not belonging. He played his first t-ball game and remembers being on the blue team, playing against the red. After filling all the space he could in that moment and throughout the game his team lost. Running to what he thought was his own dugout he mistakenly entered the brutal constructs of what life was going to always say to him. The red team laughed in his face and told him he was a loser, and that he should get out because he didn’t belong. This was only after they sprayed their red gatorade on him. The name and song Baseball Game is about showing up and filling spaces you “aren’t” supposed to fill.”
WHEN can I listen to their EP?
BASEBALL GAME‘s self-titled debut EP is due out August 7th, 2020 via House Arrest.
HOW can I get to know them better?
Listen: Soundcloud // Spotify
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