STATE CHAMPION - "Send Flowers" LPState Champion Send Flowers LP (Feeding Tube Sophomore Lounge, 2018) "If Bob Dylan was funny, if Tom Waits was relevant, Ryan might not be peerless at what he does best, which is writing large gregarious circles around his pitiful colleagues in the field. He's the best lyricist who's not a rapper going." David Berman "Send Flowers is State Champions most fully realized Beard Rock expression to date. The surrealist underpinning of Ryans lyrics are

The chance meeting of the four started taking on the dimensions of a project when the group with fire in its veins was captured by Gary Olson at Marlborough Farms Studio

Robert Wyatt

The influences for the sound of No Medium reflect this pairing of assured vulnerability

them being

Sapat) plays the drums

Mastered by Shelley Anderson at Black Lab

Or get burned

Side B kicks off with Parallel Universum

it translates as “Lord have mercy

around that same time

cheesy chords

particularly on "Sounds Like a Shimmy