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Something Better

by Loose Buttons

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I know what I’m expected to say I guess you like it best that way Yet again I think I’m trying to find Something Better You were laying on a hospital bed I knew what could have been instead Suddenly, another one just like me What a nightmare Shouting out something obscene 30 strangers had been staring at me Cause I couldn’t even hide it at all How pathetic It’s like picking traits right out of a bag Half of them I wish I’d give back If you need me I’ll be trying to find Something better Somehow I would Somehow I wouldn’t change If sometimes I could just Play the sideline, pay me no mind Trying not to say it’s the end I wish my parents could be friends But you can’t rewind to get what you want Say the word, we’ll all go back in time But then I get out of bed Regretting all the shit that I said Fucking crying out the name of a girl That I’m dating Somehow I would Somehow I wouldn’t change If sometimes I could just Play the sideline, pay me no mind
2.
I ain’t trying to kill the mood tonight I wanna get away forever Spider will spin Down on a nightmare on repeat, however Let me imagine out loud Home movies with my folks around Command+Z, return (Let Down Lately) Nothing’s gonna change their minds (Let Down Lately) Future fiction left behind (Let Down Lately) Memories of an endless fight I felt it every time Now I take it like a punching bag But haven’t felt a thing in years Instant recall To a stuffed toy dragon so sincere (Three Two Eighty) Cement rubber for a stick figure family Say what you want now I need it this much (Let Down Lately) Nothing’s gonna change their minds (Let Down Lately) Future fiction left behind (Let Down Lately) Memories of an endless fight I felt it every time
3.
Sporting a redcoat with his right hand stamped All through the night he is pounding out his theme song In the search for something better lately Selling sinking ships and brakeless cars to all the weekend hoppers Should I say something? Showed up to the nightclub on a Space Age train Pomade in his hair and grease on his dead leg Winning races, didn’t even bother running Still a shoulder for the friends of all the sunken children Step inside the circle Don’t know him, and I don’t know How anyone could tear apart two Strangers in a nightclub Behind the counter she's been mixing and fidgeting the thoughts out of her hair Venom spews from her snakeskin boots, a narcissistic guru in training Sporting retro-future, she’s a talker Dabbled in gothic erotica, you know She can dine with his fetishes and have a feast Near the head of a murdered deer Step inside the circle Don’t know her, and I don’t know How anyone could tear apart two Strangers in a nightclub It’s just my imagination Strangers I'm creating But I don’t really care to talk about Strangers Step inside the circle Don’t know them, and I don’t know How anyone could tear apart two Strangers in a nightclub
4.
Slept alright But took a walk and I fell into a hole this time Cleared the dirt with the roots while Johnny walks the line Bear in mind (Are we falling into line?) You may not get what I’m implying Mulled about Spent a decade planning how my life turns out The band is doing great, we haven’t yet sold out It takes some time (Are we falling into line?) The 9 to 5’s been so unkind Droogs, you tell me you have a plan A little of that Ludwig van To get me outta my head again Ever falling in, better find something I think about How all our friends are getting sober It freaks me out Push the bookshelf, Alfred, there is much to figure out Georgie boy, what a sorry sight Just tell me I’ll be cured, all right The End Get me outta my head again Ever falling in, better find something I'm so sick and tired Wasting all my time They said if I’d been cured, all right It wouldn't read the same Wouldn't feel the way I’m feeling Tell me, does it feel the same for you? No need to try and run The company has got no time for you No need to try and run
5.
You forced my neck up high To marvel at your grace Smoke rings around warm eyes A name without a place The advertisement girl You always look so cool Forget me not, for sure But please remember I’ll deftly try to fake Some thought provoking line So you'd appreciate What’s printed on my mind Went fishing for the words The letters swam away Went driving for my worth But had no where to stay Forward thinking, I won’t turn it into stone again Don’t you want to waste our lonely lives together? You burned your wedding gown As I’ve been sewn up tight But did I let you down? Forward thinking, I won’t turn it into stone Been thinking, I won’t turn it into stone again I’m an open book Without any pages turned Don’t you want to waste our lonely lives together?
6.
Hell is a lonely penthouse view And I stand bathrobed, attempting to croon (I’m slurring at the sky) Been stumbling over complimentary chaoses A futuristic tune Sang “I’m afraid for you to die” Guess you’ve had enough Help me I’m restless Acting tough I never let this set me off The way I see it now I’m panicking Side by side, tied in line to railroad tracks A crudely drawn cartoon (Still not looking right) I lie amidst a broken home But if I lose you, my crew Then nothing will get me high
7.
6:17 06:17
Alone lies on the bed in which it's made 6:17 All the walls look on at the stranger inside his screen What’s it mean? Please indulge my interest There’s nothing left to undress Obliviously obsessed I'd like to take a look inside your dreams Just to see How I appear and how we would compare reality (Where’d you go, why the wait so long?) Apprehensive access Hide your secrets, actress An empty return address found Like a fool I am pacing around Wide awake with the lies I can’t recount If you need me, I'm waiting inside Wondering if my message has arrived All the times I danced my voice around Jealousy Calibrated thoughts in your mailbox Fucked my legacy Never mind that maybe I fear the distance lately And wish it didn't phase me now Like a fool I am pacing around What to think when the phone won't make a sound If you need me, I'm waiting inside Wondering if my message has arrived I'm not looking for a pause in the action (You're hesitating, I understand) But I've been chasing like it's gone outta fashion now
8.
I don’t really know Whether five years ago We thought this out Time turns to doubt And I’m ever down Monumental or middling? Will we read between the lines? Have you heard this old song before? Should we be happy or resigned? Try to peek inside a critic’s mind? Or thank you for giving us the time? I don’t really know If in five years or so We’ll figure out Time turns to doubt And I’m ever down Where do we go from here? (Some one-star review) Where do we go from here? (Start on something new)

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“I think I’m trying to find something better.” The plainspoken line is halfway between a revelation and a mission statement on Loose Buttons’ debut album; a snapshot of the four New Yorkers coming into their own on their own terms. With a sound that's been described as “an ultra-catchy version of downtown rock ‘n’ roll" by Stereogum, Loose Buttons’ Something Better is a testament to fending off the lingering pains of looking back and looming anxieties of looking forward to build something that's truly worth living for.

Joined by New York music collaborators like producer Gus Oberg (The Strokes, The Virgins) and guest vocalist Ava Trilling (Forth Wanderers), Something Better is above all else the ultimate appreciation of the New York scene that Loose Buttons was fostered in. As lead singer Eric Nizgretsky shouts at the end of the cathartic, raucous “Hell Is A Lonely Penthouse View”: “if I lose you, my crew, then nothing will get me high.”

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released February 7, 2020

Recorded at Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn, NY

Produced by Gus Oberg & Manny Silverstein

Mixed by Jeremy SH Griffith

Mastered by Manny Silverstein

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Eric Nizgretsky
Zack Kantor
Manny Silverstein
Adam Holtzberg

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