Telemarket

Telemarket are releasing their debut full length, Ad Nauseum, on August 25th via Elephant 6 label affiliate Cloud Recordings and Science Project Records. The band is surrounded by a creative force, that includes friends 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 Nauseum 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.

The group’s new single “Anything To You” arrives June 23rd, just in time to find and subsequently lose a summer love. This pop song gone arigh features a fuzzy guitar hook, twin vocals, and plenty of snap endictive of early Neutral Milk Hotel and other ELephant six projects. “‘Anything to You’ is a tale of heartache and humour combined with pop hooks. It’s about falling so head-over-heels for someone that you fail to release how bad of a person they actually are.” Songwriter Wayton explains. “Sometimes you lose sight of yourself when you throw your heart at something and you’ll ask yourself ‘Why did I care so much when they didn’t care at all?’. This track is about dodging that bullet and being able to laugh about it after the fact”. Telemarket will be celebrating their heartache and new single with their hometown of Athens release day as an official Athfest artist.

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. For much of 2021-2022—a piece of time many would just as soon forget—and managed to create something memorable together in Ad Nauseum. 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.