Telemarket

Ad Nauseam
out August 25th, 2023 on Cloud Recordings | Science Project Records

Athens, Georgia’s Telemarket emerges with force and finesse on its debut full length, Ad Nauseam, due out August 25th on Elephant 6 label affiliate Cloud Recordings and Science Project Records. The record by turns navigates loops of existential quandary, heartache, and hilarity in a world gone awry. Running at 34 minutes and 34 seconds, this thirteen track odyssey discovers itself through bouts of exuberant feedback and snappy hooks, and ultimately finds resolution surrounded by good friends in its musical home of Athens. Among these friends is John Fernandes of Cloud Recordings, a former member of projects Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System and longtime Elephant 6 collaborator, who teamed up with Telemarket to release and distribute the group’s LP. Ad Nauseam features artwork from late Georgia artist Patrick Dean, to whom the record is dedicated. Dean’s piece ‘Welcome to Athens, Y’all’ was featured on Athens GA publication Flagpole’s cover in August of
1999, and now adjourns the Telemarket cover reflecting the themes of repetition, redundancy, and relief.

Telemarket provides a distorted vessel for the shape-shifting songcraft of vocalist/guitarist Adam Wayton, and features collaborations with many of his talented Athens friends. Wayton together with guitarist and engineer Will Wise hunkered down in their Odd Street home studio (originally built by a former Widespread Panic fiddle player) for much of 2021-2022—a piece of time many would just as soon forget—and managed to create something memorable together in Ad Nauseam. Vocalist/keyboardist Josie Callahan, bassist Hunter Pinkston (who Wayton plays alongside in New West Signed – The Pink Stones), and percussionist Jack Colclough round out the group’s personnel, bringing counterpoint and
consummation to Telemarket’s work.

Lead single “Who Was In My Room Last Night?” kicks off Ad Nauseam with a jangle-psych stomper and VHS-fried music video, out April 20th, 2023. Inspired by a pre-pandemic house burglary at Wayton and Wise’s residence, Telemarket’s single takes on its own life through this analog drenched video caper featuring a myriad of masked burglars and plenty of petty theft. This trivial Whodunnit, shot entirely on 8mm VHS tape and edited by local filmmaker and Odd St Resident Isaac Johnson, accompanies the trudging track “Who Was In My Room Last Night?”, following each sonic turn with an equal dose of fuzz and texture. Telemarket teamed up with local friends and emerging act Sex Cells for the video, enlisting the group to don a colorful pallet of ski masks and commit their best break-in. Telemarket will celebrate
the release of this lead single and show their new music video on April 20th at Athen’s mainstain Flicker Theatre, and will be joined by Savannah’s Basically Nancy and Athens act Sex Cells that night. Remaining ever true to form, Ad Nauseam does not relent in delivering a record full of defiantly catchy tunes apt to take root in your ear, repeating over and over and over again.