Summer Dress

by Cold Expectations

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Summer Dress was written on a Sunday, thinking on how it’s the most peaceful day, and how it kinda puts all the other days to shame with its sense of purpose and clarity. With all our daily doses of chaos, at least you know that on Sunday the noise can be filtered out, or at least it strives to be that, for me. That’s where the opening lines came from. Summer Dress is intended to be earnest and optimistic – themes that aren’t easy to weave into 3-minute indie-rock, which tends to skew more jaded. This one is all about hope, anticipation and breathlessness.

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Sunday made an apology
For the other six days of the week
See the sky, clear as a bell
See your eyes, I can tell

Why’d you go and ruin it all?
Why’d you go and tell me you’re gone gone gone?
When you knew my heart was at war
Couldn’t tell what it was fighting for

Every spring I hold my breath
Just to see you
In your summer dress

Broken tea cup on a sill
Held together with tears and glue
Take a nap or go for a bite
It all depends on your appetite

Knee-deep in a garden of weeds
Pushing though the dirt is all hope and greens
Seeds we scattered back in the fall
But what was planted, I can’t recall

Every spring I hold my breath
Just to see you
In your summer dress

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released May 19, 2021
Produced by David Minehan at Woolly Mammoth Sound, Waltham MA
Recorded and mixed by David Minehan, January 2021
Mastered by Dave Locke, jpmasters.com
Artwork by Steve Prygoda

Copyright © 2021. Written by S. Prygoda. Music performed by Cold Expectations

Cold Expectations are:
Steve Prygoda: Guitar & Vocals
JoEllen Saunders Yannis: Bass & Vocals
Nancy Delaney: Drums

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Cold Expectations Boston, Massachusetts

Cold Expectations is a dark, jangle-pop band from Boston MA. Formed in 2016, Steve (guitar, synth and vocals) and JoEllen (bass, vocals) have shapeshifted the band’s sound over the years, creating 21st century pop songs that borrow from the post-punk and new wave past. Mike (Winter Project/Krebstar) fills out the band with his driving rhythms. ... more

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