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Music For The Future

by LANNDS

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1.
Fortune 03:20
I don’t need a fortune Take off where you lead I’ll build my ship by hand  I’lll leave the light on for you  Desperate for the finer things You can keep your real estate  Pick the poison you won’t win Didn’t leave my house this year  I don’t need a fortune Take off where you lead I’ll build my ship by hand  I’ll leave the light on for you 
2.
Vega 03:23
It was just on my mind  I hope we can come back You needed somebody  I think I needed something too  Girl you and I We were never through  Girl you and I We were never through  In a universe in another world  Something like distant lovers  Now we’re in different places  I think it’s just what happens  Girl you and I We were never through  Girl you and I We were never through  If we could be any place   Any place I would  If I could be holding on  Everywhere you go  Girl you and I We were never through  Girl you and I We were never through 
3.
Blueprint 03:47
We carved our shapes We put down all the floors We measured it wide We called it our home  Darling we built this house We built this house Darling we built this house We built this house Where we lay down  Where we lay Where we lay down Where we lay down Where we lay  Where we lay down
4.
K TOWN 04:22
It’s only true that I pretended I look outside in the creases  I went to you in LA I look outside in the creases I think we knew we were changing 4x You say I’m a liar  We grew apart so fast Shipped sailed last summer  You were holding back Cut the cord you were tripping  Felt lost you were dead wrong It was time either way  I think we knew we were changing  You’re just another stranger now
5.
I don’t want to wait in line I just hope the stars align I just got you on my mind Right vibe, wrong time  I can only do this my way  I ain’t got no time for mind games I been pretty busy these days  I been really feeling this weight  You got your plans  And I got mine I’ll be overseas for the night  Say you don’t care  Say you don’t  Say you don’t  I don’t want to wait in line I just hope the stars aligned  I just got you on my mind Right vibe, wrong time  I don’t want to wait in line I just hope the stars align I just got you on my mind Right vibe, wrong time  Always come back to you It always brings me back to you  Brings me back to you
6.
You showed me my own light I was searching for  Another way out  And you were right there You were everything, everything  I was lost in the void  I sat down in the silence  You were always right And you held me  You were everything, everything  I played the victim  I shared my shame  I felt let down You were right there You were right there You were everything You were everything, everything, everything Everything, Everything Everything, Everything
7.
We all want to turn it off But it don’t work that way  And I know you’ll be happier  When you’re in your happy place  I will wish you well I wish you the best I want you to fly I wish I could erase this I don’t want to waste time I’ll leave you with this I will wish you well I wish you the best I want you to fly I wish I could erase this I don’t want to waste time I’ll leave you with this I will wish you well I wish you the best I want you to fly I wish I could erase this I don’t want to waste time I’ll leave you with this
8.
Forts 03:43
This is our last embrace  Before we build our forts It only hurts when we  Are out of sync This is our last  Before we build our forts It only hurts when we Girl we’re out of sync Out of sync You say it’s just casual I’m just trying give my all You said you just needed space This ain’t what I asked for  I don’t really give a fuck  At this point I’ve made my peace Guess I can go on my way Guess I can go on my way
9.
I think I’m falling in place  I feel the wheels in motion  It’s like I’m finding my way I’m moving forward I’ve outgrown  Sometimes it feels like I’m holding  To something I know I’ll let go  I think I’m falling in place I’m moving forward on my own I tell myself every time  Falling slowly  I can’t let go I can’t let go I hit my brakes don’t speed  like a E30 let the truth be told It’s a mystery  I think I’m falling in place  I feel the wheels in motion  It’s like I’m finding my way I’m moving forward I’ve outgrown  Sometimes it feels like I’m holding  To something I know I’ll let go  I think I’m falling in place
10.
Bonfire 04:00
Say my name  Say it out loud  Call me again Tell me what you want  Don’t come knocking at the door Don’t you ever come back  Don’t come swinging around the corner Don’t you ever come back And don’t you say you know my heart Don’t you ever come back  Don’t you eradicate my love  Don’t ever come back Say my name  Say it out loud  Call me again Tell me what you want  Don’t come knocking at the door Don’t you ever come back  Don’t come swinging around the corner Don’t you ever come back And don’t you say you know my heart Don’t you ever come back  Don’t you eradicate my love 
11.
HURTFCKR 04:00
I’m a fucking saint I feel fucking great Won’t you shoot your shot Have a fucking ball But don’t you fuck with my heart  I’ve been known to be a dog Don’t you fuck with my heart Give it all you got Have a million shots Don’t you fuck with my heart Tell me what I want to hear I want you to want me Take it or leave it I just want to hear you say I’m yours and I want you I flee to your comfort I know I don’t need you I just want to hear you say I’m stretching out my arms For God to see Can we meet birds eye view? Can I get a little closer? Can I meet you in the mirror? It’s nice to know you

about

“I just want to allow the universe to speak through me right now. What is it that I want to say? How do I truly feel?” These are the questions Rania Woodard found herself asking alongside bandmate Brian Squillace while working on their debut album, Music For The Future (out March 3rd via Run For Cover Records). In the Spring of 2021, Woodard and Squillace decamped to a remote cabin in northern Georgia to work on their new album. Beginning each day with a clear intention to create without expectations, the pair found themselves immediately inspired by their surroundings, and felt a deep connection to the spiritual world around them. “What happens right now is what’s meant to happen,” Woodard says. It is this undercurrent of unyielding trust that runs through Music For The Future.

After finding their own unique sound across 3 EPs, LANNDS has expanded their lush, electro-pop palette into new territory. Music For The Future is a confident, sweeping feat of enlivened production and intimate, emotional storytelling, both gentler and more mature than the band has ever been. Replete with messages of care and reflection, Woodard describes this album as an “open letter” to herself. At the time they began writing, Woodard and Squillace found themselves navigating a wave of personal changes, including the anticipation of their imminent cross-country move from Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles. Balanced on this daunting brink of transformation, the songs across Music For The Future are LANNDS’ most courageous yet, and serve as thoughtful reminders to their future selves, and anyone listening, that everything is going to be alright. On album opener “Fortune”, Woodard sings, “I’ll leave the light on for you”, over a bubbling arpeggiated synth, a comforting reassurance that sets the tone for the rest of the album.

In typical LANNDS fashion, Music For The Future was entirely produced, engineered, and mixed by Squillace and Woodard. Some of the vocal takes were taken straight from their writing sessions at the Georgia cabin, while the rest was recorded in Squillace’s apartment. “When we do it ourselves, even if it’s a little more “home done” sounding, it’s just more us,” Squillace says. Years of collaboration have allowed the duo to embrace each other’s creative skills – whether it be Woodard’s blossoming layers of vocal melodies, or Squillace’s soulful piano chords – and shape them into a sound they can truly feel at home in, without the weight of outside influence. On Music For The Future, this level of familiarity has allowed the band to experiment with new ways of writing.

Optimistic song “Wheels In Motion” has the washed out vocals and wavy guitar lines LANNDS has become well known for over the years, but descends into a fuzzy outro with sputtering, distorted vocals, and spiraling synth, like a TV channel tuned to static. “I’m think I’m falling in place / I feel the wheels in motion”, Woodard sings confidently. This kind of surprising shift inside the space of one song comes up repeatedly, as seen on tracks “Overseas/BACK 2 U” and “Forts”. While writing, the duo challenged themselves to resist the constraint of typical song structures, and instead playfully asked, “What’s the coolest thing that could happen right here?”

“Everything, Everything” is a firm anchor in the middle of Music For The Future, with stacked vocals that recall Frank Ocean and James Blake, set against a simple, repetitive piano line that crashes into heavy synth bass and percussion. “This song is just about being at your lowest, but knowing the universe is always going to be right there to cradle you,” Woodard says. “That’s how I felt: damn, she’s holding me right now.” Across Music For The Future, LANNDS isn’t afraid to confront the darker sides of growth and change, and they encapsulate that churning turmoil with glimmering, spacious production. “We were trying to explore sounds that aren’t necessarily recognizable, but are really big and overwhelming in a cinematic way. Like a sound that shakes you. Sounds we felt in our bodies,” says Squillace.

LANNDS is not afraid of the future. On “Wish You Well”, the most uplifting song on the album, Woodard sings, “I’mma wish you well / I wish you the best / I want you to fly” over a sparkling synth line and soft, ringing bells. Even if they’ve been burned, LANNDS knows how to rebuild, and savors the careful work of putting yourself back together, even when it hurts (maybe especially when it hurts). “At the end of the day, our philosophy has always been that it’s more important to capture a feeling than to get something perfect,” Squillace says. And that’s what LANNDS has managed to do so poignantly across Music For The Future: come up close to a feeling. Isn’t it the feeling itself that reminds us we’re alive? Days, weeks, or years from now, when we’re buried again in darkness or in pain, Music For The Future is a warm testament to this survival. You’ll make yourself whole again. You’ll walk once more, chin held high, face turned toward this brilliant, steady sun.

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released March 3, 2023

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Rania Woodard and Brian Squillace

Recorded in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Ellijay, GA at Brian’s home studio in Jacksonvile, FL

Mastered by Brok Mende at Friends of Friends, Jacksonville, FL

Art & design by Rob Carmichael, SEEN

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LANNDS Jacksonville, Florida

Rania Woodard is a queer, black woman living in the south. North Florida isn’t known for progressiveness, but that’s where she and Brian Squillace formed LANNDS, a dreamy, psychedelic take on electro-pop that pushes back at the environment it’s created in. ... more

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