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❤ "One Million Love Songs" on split blue & red color vinyl
❤ The official "One Million Love Songs" 100% cotton screen-printed halftone T-shirt (photo by Alexa Viscius)
❤ The official "One Million Love Songs" 18x24inch Poster by Jessica Viscius (frame not included)
Made in Chicago, IL.
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I still remember the first time
you said you loved me
texting me at 2am
from across the country
I still remember the first time
that it felt real
to love again
to feel
yeah I’m hanging on
to the sunshine
I’m hanging on ‘til the next time
yeah I’m hanging on
to the good stuff
yeah I’m hanging on
to my big love
my big love
remember when we met
I think we both forget
standing in the street
with nowhere else to be
yeah I’m hanging on
to the sunshine
I’m hanging ‘til the next time
yeah I’m hanging on
to the good stuff
yeah I’m hanging on
to my big love
my big love
a million love songs
of our past
write one quick ‘cause
nothing lasts
I wish the sun would just set
I’m not tired of the dark yet
I’m crazy baby
I thought you knew
forever
I’m just born blue
born blue
summer is hot and smells like shit
just one whiff of a cigarette
all the summers of my past
like watching a train that’s gonna crash
I’m crazy baby
(when I go out walking in the middle of
the night and i’m feeling wrong)
I thought you knew
(‘cause I don’t ever feel right)
forever
(and you broke my heart
but I broke yours too)
I’m just born blue
born blue
(crazy baby)
born blue
4.
Something Blue
5.
Screaming, Dreaming
6.
Sweet
7.
Nothing Lasts
8.
Rainbow
9.
Changes
10.
Get It Right
11.
No One
about
There are one million ways to approach love, one million ways to experience love, one million ways in which love shapes both the course of our lives and how we choose to navigate that course. On her second album, Bnny’s Jessica Viscius looks love square in its many eyes and describes, with self-awareness and humor, not only what she sees, but what it makes her feel. Deep romantic love, breathy lust, generous self-love—and their opposites, self-loathing, resentment, disappointment—all make appearances on One Million Love Songs, Bnny’s revelatory second album.
Bnny’s debut, Everything, was written in the face of tragedy, following the death of Viscius’ partner, fellow Chicago musician Trey Gruber. It was a raw, honest album whose songs seemed to emanate from Viscius like a personal climate. Pitchfork called Everything “a beautiful record from wall to wall, comfort food for heartbroken insomniacs.” And while those songs have not lost an ounce of their power, performing them every night live across the US and Europe made for a new and different kind of exhaustion. It’s hard to access your grief all the time; it’s even harder to share it. “I wanted to make songs that are exciting to play—songs that make me feel happy,” Viscius says. “This album is about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”
True to form, One Million Love Songs is a brighter, fuller record that shows Viscius’ immense growth as an arranger and artist. “Good Stuff” begins as soft slowcore, with a touch of Echo and the Bunnymen, but as it wakes up, Viscius channels the sunny chords and at-ease ’90s charm. “I’m hanging on to the sunshine,” she sings, her voice full and rich and carrying both the giddiness that line implies and an awareness of how silly that giddiness can feel. “Something Blue” rises, sighs, and rests in its own tension, Viscius’ voice calm with a self-assured form of acceptance. In “Changes,” she hangs a simple lyric on a straightforward melody like a sheet being draped over a clothesline, channeling Mazzy Star and mimicking the soft, gauzy, fresh feeling of realizing you’re able to begin it all again with a new person. “So happy I could scream,” she sings, and then she does.
Oh, but sadness can have its pleasures, too. “Heartbreak can be fun when you put things into perspective and think about how absurd and fleeting life is,” Viscius says. One Million Love Songs was written in the wake of a breakup that prompted a period of deep introspection and a grappling with her own self-destructive tendencies. Many of the songs here take it as a given that love will end. In “Crazy, Baby,” Viscius lays out her approach to love songs: “write one quick ’cause nothing lasts,” she sings, suggesting that any attempt to capture the green shoots of love’s first moments also carries within it the dying and decaying of the tree. “Sweet” is humid with self-loathing, a nearly bluesy lament in the vein of the Velvet Underground’s third record. “I’m so sweet,” she sings, her voice venomous with sarcasm, “don’t you want to get to know me?”
One Million Love Songs was recorded in Asheville at Drop of Sun and produced by Viscius alongside Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo De Souza, Snail Mail), As with Everything, Bnny is primarily Viscius’ solo project, with assistance from her twin sister Alexa Viscius and a rotating cast of friends. The cover is a photo Alexa took of Jess while they were backpacking in Alaska. It’s an ambiguous image—you can read Viscius as relaxed and at ease, or you can read her as completely wiped out and drained. It’s an image that exists out of time, like the love song itself—songs that will always be relevant because people will always find themselves drawn to and apart from one another, with the millions and millions of complications those movements bring. The idea is to embrace all of it while remembering that everything passes. It seems instructive that the last thing Viscius sings on this album is “No one loves me anymore.” It seems equally instructive that she sounds completely free.
credits
releases April 5, 2024
Recorded by Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun studios in Asheville, NC.
Bnny is Jessica Viscius, Alexa Viscius, Tim Makowski, Adam Schubert, and Matt Pelkey.
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