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Another Truck Stop

by Mover Shaker

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m long live the gays ill miss u Favorite track: Honeydew / House of Youth.
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Harrison Tyler this album doesnt miss, mover shaker fucks Favorite track: Latchkey.
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economics101 this truck stop in a journey through time and space is fucking amazing Favorite track: Midwest Amnesiac Blues.
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lina AOTY and i still haven't even finished listening to it fUck Favorite track: Honeydew / House of Youth.
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I will never, never, be able to overstate how much I love this album. I heard it the day it came out & still listen multiple times a week. It's stunning from the first note of Latchkey to the fade-out of Another Truck Stop. For those who still believe a song can change the world--here's ten that changed mine. Long live Mover Shaker. Favorite track: We Can Go to the Landfill Together.
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1.
Latchkey 02:12
Jill came home and caught me barking at the dog again Went to bed in a fog and woke up half past ten JACK JACK JACK where the fuck’s your head at? Everything gets queasy when the heart beats too easy And I don’t wanna die but I feel like I might if you call me again And it’s only polite when I say “I’m alright” But I’m feeling like I might get left behind at latchkey again And I don’t wanna die but I feel like I might And I don’t wanna die but I feel like I might when you call me a man And it’s only polite when I say “it’s alright” But I’m feeling like I might get left behind at latchkey again
2.
We drive around in our early days We're content with talking over cassette tapes Turning a blind eye to this fleeting phase I wanna believe you won't change your mind But I swear that it just happens every single time I imagine the worst when we don't talk while you drive So text me when you get home safe I saw the news they said it was supposed to rain So text me when you get home safe I know you have habit of driving too late Love cuts like diamond dust There's no time for us to decide Love cuts like diamond dust It's derived from our state of mind Being apart from you Makes my heart turn into the sea Love cuts like diamond dust And your love is just something I need You drop me off in your SUV No music plays and we don't sing Can't tell if you're just tired or if you're mad at me I've fallen short more than once or twice But I promise guilty conscience keeps me up at night I imagine the worst when we don’t talk while we drive So text me when you get home safe I saw the news they said that it's supposed to rain So text me when you get home safe I know you have a habit of driving too late Love cuts like diamond dust There's no time for us to deny Love cuts like diamond dust It's derived from our state of mind Being apart from you Makes my heart turn into the sea Love cuts like diamond dust And your love is just something I need
3.
Some days I can’t find the words Yeah it gets better but it gets worse A sleeping curse, a heart diseased Yeah who needs friends with meds like these I sweat when I eat I crawl in my sleep I’m falling in dreams I forgot what I mean All this sleeping in just makes me bored and mad Nothing makes me happy Yeah well nothing makes me sad Who needs friends with meds like these Vertigo-amnesia queen Still wanna be the best man she can be Give up the woman of your dreams “Just called to say I’m here for you; If you kill yourself, I’ll kill you” Sleeping in late for the 30th day Call me again “hey sorry I was late” I’ll be there, I’m on it I’ll call you, I promise All this sleeping in just makes me bored and mad Nothing makes me happy Yeah well nothing makes me sad Who needs friends with meds like these Vertigo-amnesia-queen Still wanna be the best man she can be Give up the woman of yr dreams “I just called to say I’m here for you; If you kill yourself, I’ll kill you”
4.
Vilify 04:04
I don’t wanna try if I know that it’s not gonna work Given the examples from my past I don’t want to set myself up to get hurt I don’t want to wait outside while the rain keeps pouring out my eyes I’m digging my own grave with every word that I say And I feel like I wanna die But I don’t wanna die I want to feel alive I just want everyone I love, not to hate me Even if it’s paranoid Or if it’s justified I don’t want to feel like I’m being Vilified I won’t be surprised not to hear your voice when I call The automated greeting doesn’t sound like you at all Even when we talk face to face it’s not the same We both fear that we’ve grown apart It’s hard to stay away but it’s harder to change the way that we view our lives But just because we had a good day, it won’t show For all the times that I had to wait out all the pain in the cold I’m reluctant to invest in what they’ve all been sold But I’m worried that I’ll miss out on the fun But want will I become? If these constructs come undone, Will these wings I’ve grown fly me into the sun? I don’t wanna try if I know that it’s not gonna work Given the examples from my past I don’t wanna set myself up to get hurt I’m not gonna be here long if I don’t change soon I’m not gonna sing another word to this empty room
5.
In ‘92 Picture frames all full of you Honeydew Dahlias grow where love once bloomed And i still see The wedding ring The fickle green still stains your hand The copper curse of wife and man Melancholy Worn on sleeves In a dream I wear them too Recyclable wasted youth Well, if you’re coming over Park the car on the lawn They knocked the old barn over Sparklhaus is gone You wish we’d talk more on the phone All I want’s some time alone To live is to dance And I don’t wanna die It’s plain to see You wear your feelings on your sleeves Well it’s plain to me at least I’ll stay away Seems I’m better off alone for now When the lights turn down I don’t wanna make the same mistakes The sinner calls to my delight To end this now wouldn’t be right I speak my mind, inherit sin Tonight I’ll dance Without anyone holding my hand My hand Well if you’re coming over Park the car on the lawn They knocked the old barn over Sparklhaus is gone You wish we’d talk more on the phone All I want’s some time alone To live is to dance And I don’t wanna die Desperate to touch Disconnected thru love The ol’ mourning dove Calls my name out through the fog We look old when we dance I exhume, you romance I am miles away Thought I’d something kind to say But I’ve got decades of hate Got no grown-ups left to blame You forgot we made plans I never learned how to dance Got no favorites to share Think I’ll cut off my hair Now the radio’s fucked You curse your kids with your bad luck I’m burning down this house of youth I’m burning down Well if you’re coming over, Park the car on the lawn They knocked the old barn over; Sparklhaus is gone. You wish we’d talked more on the phone All I want’s some time alone. To live is to dance; And I don’t wanna die To live is to dance; And I don’t wanna die
6.
You say sorry Every hour Every day of the week And I’m sick of it My heart’s burnt to a crisp And I don’t know how to tell you And you don’t care And I can tell Yeah you’re sorry Yeah I’ve heard that one “Did you hear me? Did you miss that?” Not surprising Not the first time And I feel like ending it all tonight ‘Cause the way that you’ve been treating me feels just like a knife To my throat while I cry and I wonder why I had to be told of an afterlife And I feel like ending it all tonight ‘Cause I know that it’d be easier than talking it out And I hope and I pray that you change your ways But I’m not holding my breath, unless I’m hoping for death In a hurry Every hour But still late every day And you’re on your way To a place that you’ll hate And I think that you have to go And I do mind And you can’t tell Yeah you’re sorry Yeah I’ve heard that one There’s a consequence and you feel bad Yeah you’re sensitive and I get that “Are you up there? Are you coming down? Do you expect me to wait around? Did you hear me? Did you miss that?” Not surprising Not the first time And I feel like ending it all tonight ‘Cause the way that you’ve been treating me feels just like a knife To my throat while I cry and I wonder why I had to be told of an afterlife And I feel like ending it all tonight ‘Cause I know that it’d be easier than talking it out And I hope and I pray that you change your ways But I’m not holding my breath, unless I’m hoping for death And I feel like ending it all
7.
I want a love so pure that it’s rotten Can’t help but notice how lonely I’ve gotten But anyone that would consider me Must have terrible options I’ve got a gun I shoot it for fun
8.
You can stay with me But it won’t be the same between us You can frame it any way that you want But it isn’t just the difference in the way we love It’s insane to even try and discuss The convoluted differences between all of us You convey it anyway that you like to But just because you like it doesn’t mean that I do Fridays always put me to sleep I won’t mind if you leave me on my own You tell me I need you but I’m telling you I don’t You’ve only got time for me when you’re in the mood The only real emotions in the way that we move “Can’t you see that this is all fucked up?” I tried to help but it’s not workin’ out You hung up before I answered the phone Just another sign that I’m better off alone “But I wanna be tough for you I wanna get roughed up by you in your room I don’t like you going so easy on me” Fridays always put me to sleep
9.
I'm going to the caverns to look for angel tears For a monument to water and medusa'd bible fears It's no secret that the martians know we'll self destruct They're placing bets on falling stocks, monopolies of rust Once smitten, twice shy Wish I was an ordinary guy Caught in the throes of a pale and blithe midwest sky And the neighbors cry out; “You will never be yourself!” Not so long as your penance crosses my property line At the Local County Landfill You can fall in love for free You can throw your voice and mumble "nothing matters much to me" The ugly duck is king of kings, The Good Word Shall Be Heard From coast to coast I still believe a song can change the world I cried for days when my goldfish died much too young to learn there's no going back sometimes we can go to the landfill together feed the fish their own bones, if the weather holds From Chicago to Kalkaska The crustpunk heartthrobs writhe Thru the ire of rusted lakelands Just trying to catch a ride Be ye cynic or Found God At least you're moving on At least you can belong But the neighbors bellow out; “You will never be yourself!” And I am my father's son 20 years can't be undone I’m still reeling from eighteen wheels screaming - At the Local County Landfill You can fall in love for free You can throw your voice and mumble "nothing matters much to me" The ugly duck is king of kings, The Good Word Shall Be Heard From coast to coast I still believe a song can change the world If you wanna get With God I heard she lives under a rock All this time spent sleeping, must've slept all my dreams off I'm stuck on this one scene And I hate writing songs Too late to give up My phone is always off Wake up and daydream Paint my Purple Heart I'm stealing my shit back And I want all the art In the right place for a long time Adolescents with their hair dyed We were tongue tied, speakin easy Drained our pockets on 50 cent movies Even grown ups get it wrong sometimes Wake up early to stand in the wrong lines I would kill for more That's what friends are for I’ll keep my friends alive; All locked in carbonite Michigania; Can't cure what ails ya. Dandelion'd and weather arrhythmia Lost my friend today Said "I could never stay" Eighteen wheels straight to hell to make all them bastards pay. This is moving on, it's the sing-al-ong Who lives on, on and on, on and on. I'm still reeling from eighteen wheels screaming "full stop".
10.
You say you’ll sing my songs when I’m dead But they won’t sound like they do in my head We drove for 20 hours non-stop to the canyon but I see another truck stop ahead Just can’t seem to get ahead Got the sheas wishing they were dead Let em down Hang my head I know a place where we can go; Play a gig Don’t get paid But take a look at all the friends we made At the end Of the day All we need’s a truck stop on the way

about

Mover Shaker is a band from Michigan. They probably landed there from an entirely different space and time. Michigania was their first transmission—an LP that reframed Midwest living into epic constellations. That galaxy twinkled with towering glam attitude and burned with white-hot prog intensity. Another Truck Stop, the band’s long-awaited return, fell out of a wormhole and into Skeletal Lightning’s stacked roster. What was once a group defined by quad-vocal muscle, a collaborative work ethic, and extreme arrangements has only grown stronger and bolder, but also weirder and wilder. Let’s take a trip, shall we? Cowards need not apply.

While the genre fusion on display sounds weightless, Another Truck Stop shows how gravity takes its toll. You can hear the doom, the storm-cloud chords that wake “Latchkey” or the slowcore creeping through “We Can Go to the Landfill Together.” The crushing weight of earthly displeasures gets unpacked elsewhere, too. “Service Provider” warns against falling asleep at the wheel on tour despite its alert new-wave confidence, while “Midwest Amnesiac Blues” disintegrates in a fuzzy mess informed by gender dysphoria and antidepressant withdrawal.

If this is a road record, it’s a haunting and existential one—discomfort is given room to grow, warp, and take control. Vocals often swap frantically between vocalist/guitarists Jack Parsons and Gabriel Miller, creating a dialogue that is dissociative by design. The twin rhythm section—literally comprised of twins Colin and Ryan Shea—burbles and cracks at pindrop moments, heightening the drama of this interstellar communication. Behind the glitz lies something gnarlier. Welcome to Mover Shaker’s Earth. - James Cassar

credits

released November 21, 2019

Jack Parsons - Guitar, Vocals
Gabriel Miller - Guitar, Keys, Vocals
Ryan Shea - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Colin Shea - Drums, Vocals

Additional Musicians:
Brianda E Goyos Leon - Vocals
Ryan Ellery - Cello
Liam Rush - Vocals
Benny Morawa - Synth

Recorded/Engineered by Ryan Ellery @ Sharkbite Studios

Mastered by Jay Maas @ Getaway Recording Studio

Artwork by Liam Rush

Photography by Kris Herrmann

Released by Skeletal Lightning

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