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Tonight Turns to Nothing

by Olivia Kaplan

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1.
Spill 04:36
spill me out on the floor i don’t want to be drunk anymore bent over on the side of the 5 cause i can’t afford the hundred-dollar fine at least see me to the door or don’t you give a shit anymore ‘cause i’m casual it’s cool and this conversation’s really just a tool To get you where you wanna go To get you where you wanna go quote me pages from the book you say defines you but i can tell by the look on your face you’re still waiting to be saved I might be good at that But i’m really trying to change Not just get you where you wanna Not just get you where you wanna I can’t get you where you wanna… all of this to say that all i want to be is chosen from the room and shown out to the sea pointed across the water to the places i can go like a mother to her daughter in case she didn’t know that her maritime dreams aren’t so in her mind that all of this concrete is better left behind
2.
Wrong 03:24 video
she wanna go big she wanna go long She wanna go where no one’s gone deep into the night catch her in the screen light wondering if she’s getting it wrong wrong she wants the real thing lover that he could be if loving wasn’t frightening maybe she’d stop then needing to forgive him every time that he got it wrong, wrong oh put your temple to mine we’ve got time, don’t we? if only we knew how to get it any way at all fear of the between fear of grand scheme now is that really what you mean? everyone’s talking everyone’s laughing at everybody getting it wrong, wrong put your body to mine i’ll be kind to it can’t show you how to do this can’t show you how to do anything at all
3.
think you're watching a little too closely and it’s getting in your way it’s like you do it without knowing that this is no way to behave oh what’s the problem? oh what’s keeping you awake? are you searching for the love like it’ll save you from the quake? every time they ask me how i see myself every time he ask me how i see myself i say as seen by you and i swear that i’m done tryna get behind those eyes the incendiary gaze burning right though mine every time they ask me how i see myself every time they ask me how i see myself I say as seen by you
4.
Long Con 03:11
oh, what’s behind the door is there something more that i can expect? we were just around the bend from feeling okay again but you’re in it for the song in it for the long con in it for the bet but i’m out this round cause my luck’s already down ah but the logic’s always been what’s another hit, what’s another taste what’s life if it’s not mine to waste not once without your charm even with a band tight around your arm but i’m out this round i’ll be gone when you’re coming down. ah but the logic’s always been what am i gonna miss? what’s another day? what’s life if it’s not mine to waste?
5.
Ghosts 03:20 video
quiet, ear to your chest falling walls and the rest of commonly held opinions finally disappearing move me onto the floor dissolve a little more i’ll whatch you dance with your ghosts if you say you love me the most i’ll watch you dance with your ghost if you say you love me the most but you might need permission from me to give any fight you’re in no position to love anything, oh but you might. half way you’ll let me know how far i’ve still to go the joke’s on the hand-drawn map i’ve crumpled and torn in our laps the trusted advice in the stars i read you aloud in the car But why’d I need permission from them to give any fight I sit and blame conditions when I could have loved you if I tried
6.
that face, that look textbook description of what i’ve been missing out here, joking but really hoping to get ya, but where to find... my dream possession something to hold but you can’t see what I can now you choose not to do your eyes let you down every time? a touch that knows where to go and where not to until instructed i’ve trusted irresponsibly. unresponsive, you just laid down and let me lose, didn’t you? my dream possession something to hold
7.
i’m only wet cause i let you come inside me the distant silhouette of the city hills remind that i’ve made this bed before. had chosen to ignore it till now charcoal lungs breathing charcoal skies your blistered fingers are loose around my thighs i feel decomposed into only deficits but it’s comforting to know that i’m stuck stuck, but not to you turn the car around and head into the park it’s not a real lake but it’s silver in the dark are you even there as i tell you it’s okay not to care heart in a tomb, is it unrecognizable? it just sits in the room settles for what is likable in me, in everything don’t i make it easy to know? you polish spoons and i sharpen knives closing up to get on with our lives forever unconvinced that i can do much better than this hands in the air, is it so indescribable that you just wouldn’t dare but revert to what’s mimable in love in everything don’t i make it easy to know?
8.
hey, john you move to slow for me and i’m spending all this money wondering where you’re going as the night turns to nothing it’s all i’ve been thinking you said southern california nobody ever warned ya that she’d wrap you in this sadness you asked me what are the chances of us leaving Los Angeles tonight you could grab another drink for me we’ll make a plan built on fantasy of a home in the desert or the trees meet the water but i’m happy in this bar here getting drunk and across the table you ask me if i know what it’s like to wanna close the door forever and never go outside and i said obviously i do but i think i’d open it up for you i think a part of you is listening to the part of me that whispering i’m not asking you to love me i’m just talking about some company i know i’m not alone in wanting but you joke that you’re almost 30 and you sleep in a sleeping bag it’s alright cause i’m still sleeping in the same room i’ve always had and you’ve fooled yourself into thinking that you’re making some kind of strides by getting yourself to tell me the things that you normally hide i drive you when i shouldn’t back to your door you just sat there laughing with a classic hesitation as to what’s supposed to happen but i know that you won’t kiss me and i don’t want to come inside if in the morning we say it was nothing but something we thought we should try and we’d still be strangers
9.
taken by a sudden light he never wanted out but he is now. they wait until his mother lands to give her news she won’t understand. everyone on the ground is already trying to figure it out. she’s alone but she’d never tell she feels her lover ought to know her well enough to call, enough to ask enough to try though he don’t understand. he’s just diving in to where she’s already been talking to the dead talking to the dead in the age of forgetting we’re excessively evading the facts and the physics of what’s becoming non existent. and in the interest of distraction i’m just looking for some kind of reaction but i’m talking to the dead talking to the dead
10.
watercolor lover a portrait of you falling off the page there's nothing to remember but the glass turning blue like some kind of magic if i held you down into that river would I wash this all away till there's no trace at all still life flower i tried to be for you but you turned off the light now wilting at the mention of me packing up my stuff asking what would have kept you what would have been enough would have been enough but you held me down inside the dark till i lost all my shape now there's no trace at all
11.
her song’s the only one that you wouldn’t dare sing along to a voice like the sun, a light you let wash every part of you away bodies are warm sand dunes she’s sinking into your slope and every grain of you will have her without any hope of time standing still you’ve got no will to say it like it is but your limited by a temporary thing and you take, take her as she comes like a wind, like a drug a temporary thing just for now holding on for the sake of holding onto the shape of her movements like whispered rays burning through winter to land soft on your face kissing your cheek. whenever she speaks, she tells it like it is and you’re comforted by a temporary thing you take, take her as she comes like a wind, like a drug a temporary thing just for now

about

Over its eleven affecting, varied songs, Olivia Kaplan’s debut album Tonight Turns to Nothing moves gracefully between pointed, balladic slow-burners and cathartic indie-pop grooves. The debut longplayer sees the singer-songwriter exploring the challenges of modern intimacy with a bracing combination of bold observation, levity, and wit.

While the unmistakable anchor of Kaplan’s music is her rich, smoky voice, her songs are elevated by inspired production choices, delicate arrangements, and the musicianship of the people in the room: including drummer Jorge Balbi (Sharon Van Etten), Alex Fischel (Spoon), Buck Meek (Big Thief), producer Adam Gunther, and Topshelf labelmate Gregory Uhlmann.

Kaplan writes with a measured self-awareness for a generation that has trudged through endless devastation and absurdity, forced to find a sense of peace in the world when there seemingly is none. The album’s lead single “Wrong” is a trotting ode to this overarching sentiment, dedicated to friends and everyone else simply doing their best.

Expanding on this sense of alienation and insecurity, tracks such as “Seen by You” and “Still Strangers,” though disparate in style, cohere in their clarity and composure, where the former laments our heavily templated existence on social media, and the latter presents a poised ballad about feigned intimacy.

This colorful, detailed storytelling animates the broad-spectrum songcraft on Tonight Turns to Nothing, a convincing and comprehensive document of Olivia Kaplan’s sharp perspective. Sung and performed with gravity appropriate for its subject matter, Kaplan’s album reveals—completely and candidly—the entirety of its author’s heart and soul.

credits

released June 25, 2021

All songs written by Olivia Kaplan
All songs produced/engineered by Adam Gunther
All songs mixed by Joseph Lorge 
All songs mastered by Sarah Register 
Strings on track 7 arranged by Adam Gunther, Georgia Lill, & Stephanie Yu


Olivia Kaplan - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Adam Gunther - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, modular synthesizer (1-7, 9, 11)
Jorge Balbi - drums, drum programming (1-7, 9-11)
Georgia Lill- cello (1, 7, 9)
Evan Vidar -  piano (1)
Buck Meek - electric guitar (2)
Alex Fischel - piano, modular synth, wurlitzer (3, 5-7, 11)
Gregory Uhlmann - guitar, loops (4, 6, 9)
Sarah Kaplan - bkg vox (4)
Pat Kelly - bass (5)
Stephanie Yu - violin (7)
Johanna Samuels - bkg vox (9)
Olivia Gerber - bkg vox (9)
Steven van Betten - bkg vox (9, 10)

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Olivia Kaplan Los Angeles, California

Olivia Kaplan came to music through the stories and voices of American folk and jazz music that scored her childhood in Southern California. Her own songwriting took shape in the 2000s Los Angeles, listening to Sheryl Crow and Elliot Smith. She has shared the stage with the War on Drugs, Buck Meek, Courtney Marie Andrews, Miya Folick, and Hand
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