First Time / Alone got here collectively in late summer time and the early autumn of 2023, on the heels of the discharge of Greg Mendez, his self-titled breakthrough album, additionally being reissued through Lifeless Oceans.
After that launch, got here an intensive surgical procedure on Mendez’s proper wrist. Subsequent, a four-month purgatory of unhealthy TV, cancelled touring, and bodily remedy ensued, a painful stretch of boredom leaving Mendez unable to play guitar. The EP’s A-side is a time capsule of that fever-dream, with Mendez’s left hand plucking out the chords.
The songs on the discharge seem within the order wherein they had been written, recorded straight to four-track within the small spare room of his West Philadelphia condominium. He initially thought he would want to refine them, constructing them out to the identical scale as his self-titled album, however the extra he returned to the work, the extra it felt full and true as-is.
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