Ache Through My Bones
Donor / Ache Through My Bones / 2014 / JR-041
There was a moment of time throughout 2013 and 2014 that I could not stop listening to You Blew It. Anywhere and everywhere I went I repeated playthroughs of Keep Doing What You’re Doing in my car. They (among many others) were one of the many pieces that led me down a rabbit hole of scouring Bandcamp and small label’s signed bands to discover the influx of DIY emo out there. With my newly acquired turntable in tow, I felt I had to obtain and listen to it all. I was hooked. I saw a preorder link get posted from You Blew It via twitter for a seven inch debut from a new band - Donor. Who is Donor? Turns out a supergroup including Tanner Jones of You Blew It and Steven Gray of Dikembe…I never spent $15 so fast in my life for three copies of the same EP.
Ache Through My Bones is the debut side project from Florida based “Band Dad Pool Party” Donor. It’s a hot garage, summer rock EP for fans of punk and 90’s emo. The four track quick spin is full of angsty breakup lines and fuzzy guitars that transports you back to a night at the local basement show with your buddies. In one of my favorite tracks Everything Feels Illegal, lead singer Jason Bittner vents metaphoric lyrics clearly influenced from his Florida roots - “Saw your face inside a shore line. So sick of seeing it all the time. When I know that you’re not mine. Float away into a jade sea. So you’ll be stuck chasing after me. My hands are shaking like palm trees”. It’s a classic emo(tional) song that hits you in the gut with the driving drum kit and feedback heavy guitar amps. Closing track Pool Dad is my other favorite with the gang vocals and breakdown in the middle. Bittner yells “I know that you’re tired! You always sing the same song. An old song, a night that lingers on and really should have disappeared”. Next time you’re headed to the pool shop to pick up some fresh goggles and dive rings, turn this one up.
Donor is Steven Gray, Tanner Jones, Nicholas Inman, Greg D’Ambrosio and Jason Bittner. Ache Through My Bones released digitally in November of 2013 in a collaboration between Jeremy Records and Paperweight Records out of Florida. The album art design was done by Nicholas Inman (looks like a homage to American Football’s first LP…)
