My Fictions
Bio
Cut from the same cloth of today’s most influential hardcore, My Fictions are a force to be reckoned with. They are unapologetically heavy. Deliberately tense. Manically varied. Though their influences number among acts like Pg. 99, Converge and American Nightmare, the family My Fictions has been born into is one that is revolutionizing the genre today. Since forming in Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley in 2010, the band has shared stages with Circle Takes The Square, Loma Prieta and The Saddest Landscape over the course of a summer tour and several weekends.
2012 will see an added release to their discography (I Want Nothing, a split with Aviator and a 2011 demo). In the age of hardcore’s reinvention, My Fictions is among the frontlines.
(Bio by Elise Granata.).
Press
“Lowell, Massachusetts progressive hardcore quartet My Fictions are another band intent on pushing the boundaries of the term ‘hardcore’.”
-For The Love Of Punk
“[I Want Nothing is] intense but also makes sure to get across that this is a band of musicians.”
-Mind Equals Blown
“As a whole this material is certainly more crisply recorded and tightly performed than most bands that flirt with a “screamo” type of aesthetic.”
-Aversion Online
“Most heavy bands are going for some sort of precise, technological, coordinated strike; like a smart bomb. But how many times do you want to watch the same grainy footage, of some far-off, sudden destruction (powerful as it may be in theory)? My Fictions are more like a van full of dudes in goggles, each with a ball-peen hammer in either hand. The building’s coming down either way, but their crime-of-passion method is way more fun to watch.”
-The New Scheme
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Defeater have unveiled an extended weekend of shows for the northeast U.S. in early April. Joining them on most shows will be My Fictions. Check details below.
- April 4th - Oneonta, NY @ Hunt Ballroom (SUNY) w/ Defeater
- April 5th - Patchogue, NY @ 89 North (Mixtape Fest ? no My Fictions) w/ Defeater, Incendiary, Vinnie Caruana, Iron Chic, KOJI, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Dads, Prawn, Modern Baseball, Cryptodira
- April 6th - Ventnor, NJ @ The Bone Yard w/ Defeater
- April 7th - Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground w/ Defeater
LOWELL: Freeeee show!
This line up is FANTASTIC.
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My Fictions released their Always Trapped 7? via our friends at Topshelf Records a little over a month ago, and PropertyOfZack is happy to now be hosting a Track-By-Track feature for the release. Check out what the band wrote about the meaning behind the songs on the 7? below!
I wrote these lyrics from around December of 2011 to February of 2012. I believe I wrote them in the order that they appear on the EP, which is good because it means that the album may make sense as the lyrics on it would detail my emotional state throughout those months. I currently study English literature. What I can tell you about my experience studying English is that it has been more about analyzing the works of other people than it has been about my progression as a creative writer. What this means that my creative output during this time has really been limited to what this band releases. There?s no prolific catalogue of stories I can boast about, no book of poetry waiting for the right publisher, and no novels about my life forthcoming. As cheesy as it may sound, these songs are my only fictions. They come from a very real place in my mind and they are based on experiences that I have had, though I do sometimes exaggerate the emotions attached to those experiences in order to achieve what I believe may produce a more emotionally resonant (read: sadder) song. The songs on I Want Nothing were about my desire to change the direction that I saw my life headed in because of short-sighted decisions I was making at the time. Always Trapped is a critical reflection on my entire perspective as a person. It was brought on by a few months of emotional distress that I?m happy to say have since passed, but the ideas I touched upon on those songs are still with me. I don?t know if I?ve been able to change the parts of myself that I first criticized on I Want Nothing, and I don?t know if I can ever find meaningful goals or a purpose for pursuing those goals other than reminding myself that ?I have nothing better to do? because I?m too scared to attempt anything prolific. I think these new songs are my way of dealing with old problems that I thought I could flush out of my life with a shift in the way I perceived things. Misery, apathy, jealousy - they are all recurring themes to me and purging them or at least learning to live with them will take more effort than screaming a few songs about them.
A Recurring Dream
I have a tendency to believe that any bit of good luck or any extended period of happiness in my life will be soon gone. ?A Recurring Dream? is about my decision that one of these periods of good fortune had indeed come to an end with the end of a relationship and that I needed to figure out what to do to move on from it. I had to rationalize my depression, and I felt that the best way to do this was to convince myself that it was bound to end at some point. It was as if I thought that viewing the world as a place where the status quo is misery and any happiness experienced is a pleasant remove from that normalcy was easier than thinking that my actions were responsible for what had changed in my life. The happiness I felt was a dream that I had woken up from and now that I was faced with reality and sadness and winter three years later, my first task now that I was awake again was to convince myself of how to deal with reality. I had to do it by telling myself that I never wanted that happiness anyway. That I shouldn?t have forgotten or ignored the fact that it was destined to end. That I shouldn?t reflect on my ?dream? because it wouldn?t do me any good. My conclusion in the song is that even if I prepare myself for the worst by convincing myself that everything will always have a miserable end, telling myself that won?t change anything because I will not know what the end of a period in my life feels like until I experience it, or until I ?lie in that grave,? so to speak.Coffin Rehearsal
This song?s about memory and the burden it can place on you. It?s also about how the time you spend reflecting on the past can add up and inhibit your ability to move forward with anything else, so it becomes a part of your future as well. Reflecting on the lyrics, one thing iI notice is that I internalized a lot of what was going on in my life in this song - there?s a lot of reference to my thoughts and what?s going on in my head. The lyrics are not only the culmination of a bunch of negative feelings, but they also reflect a desire to know if I?ll ever be able to change how I deal with those feelings. The song title is also a lyric from the song ?Fatalist Palmistry? by Why?.
My Fictions? ?Always Trapped? 7?s finally came in today. They?ll start shipping this week! Stop emailing me already, ya?ll! <3
?Always Trapped? full stream now on Stereokiller.com
Our new three song EP is now streaming in it?s entirety at MYFICTIONS.STEREOKILLER.COM. Check out every song on it there and to buy the 7? and/or digital version of the album, it?s still available in a bunch of different packages at the Topshelf Records online store.
We?re going to be on tour for the next two weeks as well, so if you?re near any of these places, check out a show and pick up an exclusive tour press of the 7?.
Thanks so much for listening, share this around if you can too!
My Fictions - ?Always Trapped? teaser. Pre-order the new 7? EP at the Topshelf Records store (Video by Zac Suskevich).
