The First Year

by Here For You

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1.
Walking Song 03:00
there is a little light a little light that makes your whole it's not enough at night but it's bright enough to bring you home should i still say your prayer the one you taught me back in ohio it's been with me everywhere i only say it when i need control if i sleep at all i dream of all these gardens where you're in some overalls procrastinating home repair hold me in tenderness hold me in soft warm glow my love for you unexpressed my love for you buried in the garden to grow don't delete your mp3s yet there's so little permanence left
2.
i take my shirt off, cold water to my chest in a few months, there’ll be snow on the cars coming of mountains to the city we work always trying, constant arrival as you take your shirt off and stare at the screen speaks so clearly to the humidity and I am a lawn chair in a city of grief pain in my legs, flowers in my teeth coming of mountains to the city we work always trying, constant arrival coming of mountains to the city we work always trying, constant arrival
3.
you're a brunson floater you never miss when it comes to lovin i lose like the new york knicks this could be our year but i've been fooled before with too many heartbreaks on the hardwood floor when it's pouring rain and you make it to our show i appreciate the gift of time much more than you know so let me be your airport ride and i'll clean up the cats smell when you get that book deal i'm the one you call to tell the one you call to tell you're a brunson floater you never miss you're my LA baby and we're a perfect fit this could be our year but i've been fooled before with too many heartbreaks on the hardwood floor we're a brunson floater you just can't miss hey LA baby i love you more than my knicks this could be our year but i've been fooled before with too many heartbreaks on the hardwood floor
4.
French Toast 02:11
hydroponic wheat from a hydroponic farm lab created bacon strips the size of your arm berry flavored cherry flavored cheeses from goats optimized obvious overnight oats revolutionize my breakfast experience x4 eggs, eggs all kinds of eggs spherical empirical beautiful eggs white round and perfect as the day they were born by chickens who live on a grassy green farm and milk, milk, all kids of milk creamy like butter and smoother than silk made of walnuts and tall-nuts and tree nuts and peanuts enough kinds of milk it could make you and me nuts revolutionize my breakfast experience x4 heat up in nanoseconds (nanoseconds!) so you won’t be late (won’t be late!) cook with micro gamma waves it still tastes great revolutionize my breakfast experience x4
5.
Theme Song 2 02:38
you've kept all your pictures and i've got all my prose and though we both have sisters we can't know how this goes so let the morning come let the sun relearn to glow take it with ease i suppose as the leaves decompose what i need is to be close to you to break in two wherever, forever for a day or forever if it's not a useless endeavor if i said it much better and the glue could keep us together that would be what i want are you having fun? i hate losing touch with almost anyone don't give up, don't say goodbye there is plenty of use in a good long cry take it slow, we don't mind we have nowhere to go and an excess of time for a day or forever if it's not a useless endeavor if i said it much better and the glue could keep us together that would be what i want
6.
they lined the sidewalks with hydrants planted trees in every square bodies flying off the planet there’s blood in the air it’s fun to bake a cake wondering on the floor from all the cake you baked cutting rebar on the other side there’s ghosts in the air tonight
7.
One Big Leap 03:36
waiting for the wind to come creeping in through the cracks of your windowsill it's from a world undone, the exact same one that's fabricated how arrogant you've become you think we all ultimately succumb to the "realistic," cold and numb so you bend, and you break but if you work with us to recreate we can start mediating the fucked up, degrading shit you've suffered from it doesn't matter that you lied i only care cause you bottled it up inside i wish in me you would confide it's never easy to trust i see you fading to dust
8.
On Fire 04:43
it’s hard to say you should take your time but you know what it means when you’re on fire it’s today--now it’s tonight finding some time away, take it easy
9.
Go Forth 03:40
no it's not gonna be one of your perfect memories but you hope and you plan and you do what you can can i call you in your hideaway when I'm not sure it'll be okay? yea we're both feeling a little hollow, everyone is fadin away all that weight must weigh a ton if i am brave you are braver you are fooling everyone i know that in a little while you and me are gonna be alright i know i will see you tomorrow if we only get through the night if you want me to stay, we only have to find a way if you want me to stay, we only have to find a way and we used to believe in all the dumb shit they'd say all the promises of running away when we had some place to stay i know that in a little while you and me are gonna be alright i know i will see you tomorrow if we only get through the night if you want me to stay, we only have to find a way if you want me to stay, we only have to find a way as i was walking (dang me, dang me) the endless breadlines (tie me to a tree and hang me) my landlord gave me (dang me, dang me) a two week deadline (tie me to a tree and hang me) the paper printed (dang me, dang me) a better headline (tie me to a tree and hang me) they said this land (dang me, dang me) is not for you and me (tie me to a tree and hang me)

about

When Jordan C. Weinstock’s old band, american poetry club, had moved away and Weinstock was tired of playing solo, they were presented with an opportunity. They had been jamming with Mike Nowotarski of Coffee Nap for months at that point; so when asked to perform again, they said “why not bring together a new band?” Weinstock and Nowotarski texted their friends in the Brooklyn music scene, bringing together Adam Holmes, Anthony Graffigna, Ethan Abelar, Jasen Vest, and Rebecca Lewit to perform the music of american poetry club one last time. If the group hadn’t enjoyed playing together, that would have been it. But as it turns out, they loved playing together.

Rechristened as Here For You, they worked together under a highly collaborative DIY effort, exhibiting a range of influences from the Mountain Goats to Los Campesinos!. You can hear the results on the group’s first album, The First Year.

The First Year offers visions of solidarity through emotive folk and spiky power-pop. The band pleads for time to slow down to accommodate the expanse of love on “Theme Song 2,” and explores the questionable wonders of bioengineered breakfast on “French Toast.” These songs envision a world where grace is the dominant mode of interaction. The shouts of “it doesn’t matter that you lied / I only cared that you bottled it up inside” on “One Big Leap,” and the guitars snaking around one another on “Baking the Cake,” offer space for truth, the sound of seven friends whose aim is true.

- Lillian Weber

credits

released October 24, 2025

adam holmes - auxiliary percussion, drums, glockenspiel
anthony graffigna - additional production, bass, voice
ethan abelar - field recordings, guitar, voice
jasen vest - guitar, voice
jordan c weinstock - guitar, voice
mike nowortarski - accordion, cavaquinho, guitar, spoon, synth, voice
rebecca lewit - album art, voice

additional group vocals provided by danny roberts

cole makuch - field recording, recording, mixing, production, voice
hannah jocelyn - mastering, "ooohs" on "one big leap"
ethan bookstein - "brunson floater" single art
maddy angstreich - "theme song 2" b/w "night at maud's" single art

ending lyrics to "go forth" written by Utah Phillips and Roger Miller (kind of)

released by atlanta zone records (www.atlantazonerecords.com)

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