Gum

by The CUSP

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The CUSP, a change, a prophecy, a realization that what once was will soon be no more. For Los Angeles’ Lucas Fitzsimons, The CUSP is not just apropos new solo project but a new creative beginning. Disillusioned and stymied by his former band The Molochs, Fitzsimons felt chewed up and spit out by a vague but all too familiar enemy. From Primavera Sound to pushin’ popcorn at a local theatre, lost inspiration and a confused mind became good fodder for change. As Fitzsimons recalls, “It took a while to admit I didn’t want to do my old band anymore. I just didn’t wanna do it. After nearly a decade with the Molochs, I couldn’t imagine starting something new without it seeming like some sort of desperate attempt to stay afloat. It was undeniable, though, and I had, I HAVE, no choice. A little part of me had to die in order for the Cusp to be born. Whatever died made room for something new.” Fitzsimons found new inspiration in the off kilter poetry-like lyrics of Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder, The DIY philosophy of Nipsey Hussle and Tommy Wright III, the bass heavy dub productions of King Tubby and Adrian Sherwood, and the psyched out rhymes of P-Funk. “I started hearing something different in music… the Dylanesque wordiness was shoved away by bass lines, by groovy drum beats, by sparse (yet eloquent) lyrics. I found a sub bass had more to say to me than heady lyrical verses.”

“Gum” is the first single and official release from The CUSP and is Fitzsimons’s heady toe dip into a new landscape of crunchy drum machines, driving bass lines, and spaced out synths.

lyrics

we don't like to function,
we're all young and able,
we're all but forgotten like the gum under the table

it takes me all night just to wake up

me and my friends like to walk down the boulevard,
we don't like wasting time on watchin hacks play the guitar

it takes me all night just to wake up

it's
my job
to draw blood
with my tongue
and i run
from my shadow
when it cocks that
silver gun
you
don't think
that you matter
when you're walkin
but those lights
in your eyes
turn the world
side to side

credits

released February 2, 2021
Music by Lucas Fitzsimons
Mixed by Sunny Levine
Mastered by Jake Viator
Art by Hugo Bernier

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