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Big Fall

by Florry

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1.
A fast car measures its' worth A slow smile bends you backwards So get your cheap thrills quick Before it makes you sick You don't know what you're doing And all the things you think don't matter Are coming back and they're coming back faster One of these days you're gonna be amazed Clearly you don't know the love that goes and grows round you day to day and it kills me just to say You don't know what you're doing and you're hurting so many people Dragging them down in your trouble Betting their good on a double E You don't know what you're doing And all the things you think don't matter Are coming back and they're coming back faster One of these days you're gonna be amazed You think you got it You think you've seen it So you wanna go the show
2.
Drivin' 04:24
I saw you last night you wanted to see mine that you wanted to see me outside I held on your hand as you kept steadfast You told me, you told me what I looked like When you turn that way it hits me like a "Oh honey" "Oh baby" You drove so fast, your clutch was so rad You told me, you told me what I looked like... Uh huh! Take me home! Uh huh!! Take me home When your ship is sailing I wanna be home Uh huh, take me home Uh huh! Take me home! Cos when that big furnace is glowin' I wanna be home
3.
Big Fall 02:23
Well I've been waiting all year just to get to this And it's a finally here I can feel ilt cos I think it's the day where I can finally say I'm putting these ol weary bones away I know it's a big fall and all Well now it's a brand new day on the winning I been here all along since the beginning Cos I can finally say I remember the day I put those ol weary bones away I know it's a big fall and all
4.
Jane 04:21
Can I talk to you today? or are you feeling something? Anything at all, something beautiful When I saw Jane talk I started crying because it reminded me of how you talk, how your eyes are so much And I wanna know what it's like to be good, I wanna know happy I love everything that you do. would I love me too? could I love me too?
5.
Don't forget to say your prayers for me and I won't forget to say my prayers for you God knows I want it Lord knows you need it So say your prayers for me oh yeah and I won't to forget to say my prayers for you, oh no God knows I need it Lord knows you want it Don't forget me now I'm not the best yet Don't forget me now I'm not the best form yet! Prayers for you and prayers for me God knows you need it Lord knows I want it
6.
Older girlfriend, you're so great Pick me up from school at 2:08 Drive me around and get me real high Touch your hand and look in my eyes My friends think you're weird but I know you're hot stuff Touch my hand, tell me I'm cute That's what you do in love Older girlfriend, be my man Teach me things I know only you can Push me up against a wall Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me baby When you play Neil Young, you know it gets me so hot Touch my hand after we do shots
7.
Animals 02:15
Tame your bride and take a spill Put love to the test cos love's to kill Everyone wants it for you So bad, you think you need it too Mother, father, look at me now It's your little one with a big new sound Look at what I've found
8.
Hanging out with them and you You take your shirt off, I see something new You get it all over me, I fall in love with your sick cutesy Your smell makes me dizzy Touch my hair, kiss my head You don't know your own name It's fine if you can't remember it cos I'm fucking up now Ah As I die, as I grow my body becomes more comfortable with what it knows I turn on my fan before bed, I fall asleep freezing I wish I had a tight grip on my life so I could be ____ but I don't think I'll ever be as pretty
9.
Move to Savannah with my friend Hannah Live off the land, find a whole new meaning/truth Give up the cigarettes get up on life Wearing black boots on fresh new soil Damn I feel good! Everyone I love you!
10.
Lovely 03:51
Sorry did I scare you too much? it's not enough Think I love you for what you are? a constant flush When you leave me on the cold cracked sidewalk will you let me borrow your blanket? the one that smells like you It reminds me I love you Think I love you for what you are? I only loved you when I was falling apart So I'll wait til I'm 18 to tell you, you made me mad When you talk about the boys that've kissed you it just makes me sad But when you tell me to quit being so loud I will When you tell me to quit being myself, I will

about

Gram Parsons coined the phrase "Cosmic American Music" to describe the synthesis of country, blues, rock and soul that he traded in. Sheridan Frances ‘Francie’ Medosch wouldn’t be born for another 28 years after Parsons’ 1973 death, but that Cosmic American sound was waiting for her all the same. On 'Big Fall', she embraces it like an old friend.

Medosch grew up outside of Philadelphia in a family home that encompassed three cats, a dog and a pig. Her mom loved music; she played all kinds of stuff around the house, but mostly alt-country like Gillian Welch and Wilco. 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', the seminal 2002 album by the latter became formative to a young Francie’s love of music - “I never really got into 'Sgt Pepper' or anything, so I think that album kinda took the place of that.” She learned violin for a while, then she was a natural on piano, but that stuff bored her. Eventually, her mom bought her a guitar. “I was actually very bummed out at first. I think I wanted an Xbox or something that year. But I came around to it very quickly,” she laughs.

As a teenager she got into obscure underground rock and power pop, influences she channeled in the band she initially named Francie Cool, which would later transition into Florry (these days it’s a solo project, in which she’s backed by Jared Radichel on bass, John Murray on guitar and Joey Sullivan on drums). In 2018, at the age of 17, Medosch put out her debut Florry album 'Brown Bunny' (Sister Polygon). The following year, she went out to Willow, New York - a tiny hamlet outside of Woodstock - and recorded a follow-up album with producer Paco Cathcart that she ended up shelving. Backed by Theo Woodward on drums and Pete Gill on bass, it was dark, and angsty, consisting of songs written between the ages of 16 and 18 and reflecting the depression that defined that time for her.

During the pandemic, she began writing again. Her headspace had changed a lot. She was much happier and embraced “absurdist existentialism” - “where you realise that nothing really has any meaning, and that it’s pretty funny that we’re here at all.” She was also bored of indie rock, and for her new songs she looked towards her upbringing among country and folk music, and her fascination with Parsons’ Cosmic American Music. “There’s something about that kind of music that just makes me feel really good inside,” she says. Her main goal was just to write songs that felt good, that translated her newfound positivity. “That was the biggest change for me, just writing and playing music when I’m feeling good, instead of when I’m feeling sad.”

With 6 of those songs home-recorded with the early iteration of her new lineup, she pulled another 4 from the Willow sessions, a way of closing one chapter and opening a new one. There’s a clear split between the old songs - dark, sad, confused - and the new - self-assured, fun, free. Opening track ‘You Don’t Know’ was the last one to be written, and the one that Medosch feels most accurately captured the spirit of Cosmic American Music. It’s a Neil Young-indebted, pedal steel-adorned country tune, the melody of which was born from a dream Medosch had about the Staple Singers. She addresses a loved one who is “fucking their life up”: "You don’t know what you’re doing / And you’re hurting so many people".

Meanwhile, Medosch channels traditional country with the honky-tonk piano of "Say Your Prayers" and the rollicking bassline of the title track "Big Fall". On both, she is full of optimism, claiming the idea of a joyful future with exuberance. These are the record’s lightest moments; its heaviest are the Elliott Smith-esque ‘Dream Diary/Growth’ and the slowcore closing track ‘Lovely’, where Medosch conducts a bitter post-mortem on a toxic friendship, singing despairingly: ‘When you tell me to quit being so loud, I will / When you tell me to quit being myself, I will”. It ends the album by “collapsing in on itself”, with a sudden compressed crunch followed by interlocking guitars that spiral towards the song’s conclusion like they’re circling a drain.

Musically, Medosch comes all the way out of left field on the punky ‘Older Girlfriend’ and the dance track ‘Everyone I Love You’; these feel like moments of total unbridled glee. Of the latter, which was influenced by both Philadelphia’s club and rave scene and Neil Young’s 1982 album 'Trans', Medosch says, “For like a month, it was all me and my friends would listen to, ‘cause everyone was so pumped up on it. Without a doubt, it’s the weirdest track on the album. But I love that song.”

The emotional heart of the album is arguably "Jane", one of the Willow tracks, which recounts a major turning point for Medosch. In the lowest depths of depression, she watched "Jane", the 2017 documentary on Jane Goodall. In the theater, she broke down in tears as she saw the passion and pride with which Goodall spoke about her work. In that instant, Medosch knew that was what she wanted for herself. To love herself; to be proud of who she was and what she had done. Now here she is, presenting 'Big Fall' to the world, and she’s proud.

credits

released August 27, 2021

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 produced by Sheridan Frances Arthur Medosch, mixed by Jared Radichel, Sept-Oct 2020, home studio, Berwyn, PA, and Philadelphia

Tracks 4, 6, 8, 10 produced by Paco Cathcart and Sheridan Frances Arthur Medosch, mixed by Paco Cathcart, Jul-Aug 2019, Natural Jank Studios, Willow, NY, and home studios, Crown Heights, NYC, Berwyn, PA, and Saugerties, NY

Track 9 produced by Elijah Jarocki and Sheridan Frances Arthur Medosch, mixed by Elijah Jarocki, Oct 24th, 2020, home studio, Philadelphia

Mastered by Carl Saff

Album art by Sheridan Frances Arthur Medosch

Words and music by Sheridan Frances Arthur Medosch
© & ℗ Florry 2021 under license to 12XU
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Performers
Sheridan Frances Arthur Medosch - guitar, piano, percussion, vocals, whistle
Theo Woodward - drums
John Murray - drums
Erin McGrath - vocals
Katie Alice Greer - vocals
Pete Gill - bass
Jared Radichel - upright bass
Sammy Weissberg - upright bass
Zena Kay - pedal steel
Paco Cathcart - percussion, whistle
Will Moloney - bongos, whistle
Steve Yankou - whistle

Thanks to Gerard Cosloy, Mad Gathers, the Dome, Girard Hall, James McNew, Tyler Black, No One and the Somebodies, and Old Table

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