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Try Again

by ahem

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1.
Sideways 02:46
a little fun a little dumb I feel a little like a kick drum everyday another calm a storm a mile away oh anyway and on and on . . . and everyone says it’s ok but I’m all the way I’m sideways I’m all the way well I don’t wanna who needs to see straight anyway
2.
Spill 02:33
caught another chord in the branches of the oak I swung down towards the lawn stopped to fill my heart in the arrows of the sun I lost it all found another chord in the alleys of my heart I swung up towards the dark stopped to fill my sight in the orchards of the night I found it all I’m gonna light my home I’m gonna take it slow I’m gonna lose my way and I won’t waste another minute the colors in my mind the hills I couldn’t climb well I ain’t gonna walk away it don’t spill until we fill it the colors in my mind the hills I couldn’t climb the things I still can’t find well I won’t waste another minute I’m gonna light my home I’m gonna take it slow I’m gonna lose my way and I won’t waste another minute
3.
Halloween 02:47
all hallowed out spill to fill it up everything we carve away don’t know what I’m trying to say all that we hold we can make it glow olli olli oxen free don’t know what I’m trying to be and all I know is simply by the book all I ever wanna be at home, another runaway I want a key to hide away a simple spell to speak shaking like it’s Halloween another game of hide and seek they say have hope well I’ll make it home go ahead it’s all that really matters we’re evergreen nowhere to be go ahead it’s all that really matters away my love let’s haunt the dark go ahead it’s all that really matters we’re evergreen nowhere to be go ahead you’re all that really matters
4.
here we go again another song a bell awake but I don’t care cuz I can’t go on this way stand up straight tuck it in clean my plate do it again, again, again no kid a little low kid well I don’t wanna wait for anyone a little low well I’m gonna take this road as far as it will go cuz I can’t see straight anyway spill my days split my lip drop a penny in the well again, again little low kid just let it go kid well I don’t wanna wait forever just let ‘em know kid tired of lemonade too much hesitate tend to wait, and wait, and wait hey low kid just let em know kid well I don’t wanna wait for anyone just let ‘em know kid well I don’t wanna wait for anyone just let it go kid
5.
Twenty 03:17
I should’ve noticed we all look away the sun it’s cold when it’s lowest end of the day we let it slip away and everyone I love I can’t keep you know they fit just like a glove and still I can’t speak and all the words I wanna say float away and still we can’t let all this time go slow I could have chosen carried away I think that I’ve maybe blown it wasted away all the time I had we were twenty then and anything could happen slept on rooftops burned a couple matches and what we knew we lit it into ashes slow
6.
Wishing Well 03:14
I’m having trouble saying no I’m falling right out of the boat and now I’m sinking like a stone trying to find my way home my head is ringing like a bell I’m like a penny in the well I don’t wanna wait another day another hour I don’t wanna sink another inch another mile Now I’m counting all the ways I’ve already bailed I’m just trying to feel a way I can’t explain I’m falling off a cliff and I hope that shows just trying to find a way I don’t know a way I won’t let it go
7.
Sweet Tooth 01:38
The sun is a lemon drop my heart is a candy shop and it don’t know when to stop fizzed out and feeling fine I see the world through lemon lime I want it all but there just ain’t time they tell me I should know what the fluoride’s for they tell me I should go but I won’t, cuz I know it’s just a sweet tooth, yeah
8.
Canopy 02:53
low in kind low am I light say I low am I save your air for the ones that make you say you’re feeling loved save your air for the ones that let you say you’re feeling low take care of the ones you’re feeling take care of the ones feeling low
9.
I used to think I was stuck in the middle of an old riddle and I didn’t need to solve it at all now I feel a little dark as the sky on the fifth of July and I don’t know what to take to shake it off please enemy I just wanna lose myself in the trees I just wanna bury my blood in the breeze not these thirty-three keys I hope you’ll stay with me anyway take it underground we won’t a sound low and I don’t think I can take anymore we always feel like the space between the keys like the l m n o p like we took the eight and shook it up some more so here we go let’s tear it from the vine like a video wire that we took it yeah we cut it at the source and we don’ wanna play your silly little games na na na na na please enemies I just wanna lost myself in between a little bit of blood a little bit of bleed these thirty-three keys I hope you’ll stay with me anyway take it underground we don’t make a sound we won’t make a sound
10.
Sunspots 02:31
yeah I’m gonna let go on the brightest little day I have ever known roll it up and go home let it all loose, that ice flow I don’t even dare I can see it anywhere shooting like a flare everyone I love is there yeah I’m gonna let go on the brightest little day I have ever known roll it up and go home let it all loose, my heart flow and I could even dare I can see it anywhere shooting like a flare everyone I love is here

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"Everyone needs a scuzzy, fuzzy, injection of reckless energy from time to time—and few did as well as ahem managed on their messy-as-heck debut. 10 songs, 26-minutes, absolutely infectious." —Gold Flake Paint

“Sunny and sweetly morose . . . shit, being sideways sounds like a blast.” —City Pages

“Channels the pop-rock purity of The Cars through a grungy pop-punk lens . . . [a] fantastic debut album.” —The Alternative

“A bite-sized punch of power punk . . . “Sideways” might be enough to convince you that hey, you’re doing pretty great after all.” —The Grey Estates

“Evoking the endless energy of a childhood sugar buzz, each fuzzy-alt-pop track of Try Again is like listening to flickering memories of my younger-carefree self, running full speed and out of control through sunlit days.” —Melodic Noise

“’Sideways’ sees the return of ahem’s trademark energy, the guitars weaving a bright and infectious sense of momentum that sweeps up the listener and deliver them to a cathartic release.” —Various Small Flames (UK)

“On Try Again, ahem have been able to crystalize their fuzzy, anthemic power-pop into a near science . . . feels like a mature look back on lost youth.” —Reviler

“’Sideways’ jitters with irreverent energy. There is no hook because everything is the hook . . . a glorious ode to individuality.” —Ear Coffee

“Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s an underground bunker turning out some of the happiest and loudest rock in the state.” —Pass the Mic

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released November 1, 2019

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ahem Minneapolis, Minnesota

alyse // courtney // erik

minneapolis and the woods

band photo: Téa McLawhorn

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