CHROME WAVES, by Marathon

CHROME WAVES

by Marathon

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1.	Dead of Night 05:24	buy track
2.	Chrome Waves 05:33	buy track
3.	Twin Loop 01:40	buy track
4.	All I Want 04:24	buy track
5.	Unresolve 02:40	buy track
6.	Gamma Knife 01:18	buy track
7.	74 03:48	buy track
8.	Overglow 03:23	buy track
9.	Pale Moon 00:21	buy track
10.	True Blue 08:12	buy track

about

Marathon has cycled through several lives in its short existence, transitioning from a bedroom pop project into a progressive indie rock band with ever-expanding layers of texture. If the Pennsylvania-based band’s latest single is any indication, they haven’t stopped evolving yet. “Chrome Waves” is the title track of Marathon’s forthcoming full-length, and it finds the band more focused and less prone to self-indulgence.

Frontman Zach Wagner has stripped down his song structures and built outward from there, layering ambient textures that don’t detract from the simple pleasures of the pop melody at the center of it all. His new approach on Chrome Waves involves sampling and a heavier dependence on synths, both of which are apparent in the album’s lead single.

The lyrics of “Chrome Waves” seem to reference Wagner’s personal struggle with anxiety, which almost crippled the band at one point. “I was having massive panic attacks on a daily basis where I couldn’t breathe and my heart would beat so intensely I was sure I was going to have a heart attack,” the songwriter explains. “I wasn’t musically inspired in the least and so I really didn’t have any way to cope without music. I decided to abandon whatever ideas I had surrounding what I thought Marathon was supposed to sound like and took a different approach to the music I was making, both in writing and production.”

- Consequence of Sound
consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/marathon-share-dreamy-new-single-chrome-waves-listen/

credits

released May 8, 2017

Zach Wagner - vocals, guitar, drums, bass, synth, keys
Robert Battle - bass
Erich Wagner - guitar, aux percussion
Paul Winter - synth, keys
Andrew Alonso - drums (All I Want, 74, True Blue)

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Marathon Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Marathon is a style-blending, genre-bending outfit from Central Pennsylvania dedicated to creating music which pushes the envelope. Atmospheric and ambient, yet poignant and raw at just the right moments, Marathon develops a vastness of sound without pretension and with unparalleled maturity for such a young band. ... more

discography

CHROME WAVES

May 2017
CHROME WAVES

Nov 2016
MARATHON

Sep 2014

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