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1.
Saint 02:25
Higher in the The thing about That’s right Why don’t you? You wanted it In time I found that you You started it You’re in love
2.
Destroyer 01:35
Destroyer I know you wait for me at home I know you’re there when I’m alone Without a thought I’ve seen your face It’s there whenever I’m a Destroyer I saw you out behind the hill I know it’s gonna hurt me still Without a thought I’m full of hate It’s there whenever I’m a Destroyer
3.
Radical 02:24
You were radical There’s no front to betray Things we talk about There’s no need to explain Don’t I know that Everyone will forget The other I is not I Now I am the real one All of me Fire will be A growing thing Fire will be
4.
Do It 02:59
If you wanna tell me what you mean Just do it If you wanna stay by my side Just do it Why don’t you show me what you mean? Just do it If you wanna tell me what to wear Just do it Why don’t you show me what you mean? I already told you how I feel You never want to go where I want to go You probably think it’s not too fun And every time I tell you where I want to take you You just turn around and run But I don’t care Is it alright? Will you find it inside? Will you find it alright? Is it ok? Will you find it someday? Will you find it ok? Sitting in a room in the gallery
5.
No 02:06
Some people know They turn the problem Goes to the bottom We know Some people say It’s all deceiving Down to the breathing We knows Stay down Disaster on the way Become A believer Some people know They turn the problem Goes to the bottom We know Some people say It’s all deceiving Down to the breathing We know You're not Falling out of mind Calm down Do you see it? Oh no No
6.
Sally & Me 03:08
Is it already done? (You broke) You no longer remember (my head) Who will pay the reward? (Dancing is a duel) It’s as real as a splendid chord Stonelight and metal Winged like an angel Caught by the mantle Did I I saw Sally’s shadow Forty feet above Did I I saw my Sally at the ocean side I saw her, Sally and me I saw my Sally at the end of the street Fahrenheit fission, my Sally No, no, no, no, no, no, no Suwanee My Sally at the ocean side My Sally at the end of the street Sally and me Stonelight and metal
7.
Harlequin 02:40
Oh, my friend Everybody laughs at him Harlequin Groping at the air Nobody wants to see that I bet they’ll never know A rivet on the green bed Idiagain to come That’s right Harlequin’s the star tonight Honest men Hoping for the end Nobody wants to see that I bet they’ll never know A rivet on the green bed Idiagain to come
8.
Lost lunar one, I feel that you’re gone Lunar one, come back to me I see the night Lost lunar one, come back to me You’ll find that things haven’t changed I see the night I see you falling for someone else’s dream You’re turned away from me I love your mystery I love your sound And if you won’t come back to me, it’s ok Lost lunar one, I know that you won’t come home You’re gone to me now I only hope that wherever you may be You’re happy and spiteful and free
9.
Roll In the temple of the mind Love is on the line And I hear it all the time Why don’t you Roll There’s a crater in the air Love is everywhere But you don’t want me to share When my baby says to me This is how it’s gotta be And he shows me everything I don’t want that bell to ring
10.
Magdalene 02:19
Lost in the atmosphere, floating in space Why would you reach me as I’m washing my face Out from the starfield, static and swords Send me a vector that cuts through the storm All the world one big orb Save your neck, do your chores Magdalene, let me be I don’t want what you want me to see Now or then, not a peek You’re too tough and we’ll never agree Magdalene, let me be I don’t want what you want me to see Now or then, not a peek The spirit is still and the body is weak Battery-powered, righteous, secret instruction Cast down or passed down if you like it or not The bees stay down, the bugs stay down, the birds can do whatever Close the door, you’re more of my concern All the world one big orb Save your neck, do your chores Magdalene, let me be I don’t want what you want me to see Now or then, not a peek You’re too tough and we’ll never agree Magdalene, let me be I don’t want what you want me to see Now or then, not a peek The spirit is still and the body is weak
11.
Spoon Jade 02:24
Lightning glass will toss and turn Bliss bestowed, my walking fern Where can I find sawdust rings? See a grackle’s emerald wing I don’t feel a thing Could be anything
12.
Jem 02:38
Love let it down, why can’t I? Talk gets around, oh that’s fine There where you’re found in your blood Love let it down, why can’t I? He looks like a salesman Always down to lie Go down to the carport Let me come inside Jem looks like a salesman Always down to lie You know how to kill him He deserves to die

about

Something happened on No. The early EPs from Baltimore’s Tomato Flower were a pretty, dreamy psychedelia. Warm to the touch, like looking up at the trees on a cloudless day. On No, the four-piece's (Mike Alfieri, Ruby Mars, Jamison Murphy, Austyn Wohlers) debut album, those trees, that cloudless sky, have become haunted, thorny, stormy. It takes Tomato Flower from buttoned-up, almost technically formalist psych pop to something more urgent, raw, emotionally immediate. No is messier, more expansive, and through all of its chaos, the band’s most rigorous artistic statement to date.

No is the band’s first effort made entirely in person, the first thing tracked in a studio instead of in a bedroom. It is a highly collaborative record written and recorded by everyone, partially made live. It is very much the byproduct of a band that has done some serious touring, following a coast-to-coast tour with Animal Collective in the summer of 2022. On No, the drums are aggressive, the bass is fuller and more direct. The guitars are distorted and disorientingly complex. Wohlers’ and Murphy’s vocals are meaty, fully loaded, in your face.

Lead single “Destroyer,” has co-lead vocalist Jamison Murphy practically screaming over angular guitars, oscillating in a sonic space somewhere between the prettiness of Broadcast and the sludge of Jesus Lizard. The song feels like kicking a soccer ball through wet cement, impossible, sisyphean, but also weirdly beautiful. It also presents an early entry point to one of No’s major conceptual underpinnings: that of the breakup between Wohlers and Murphy, which occurred during the composition of the album.

It wouldn’t be fair to just call No a break up album. It’s far more complicated with that. No is a record about negation: I will not do this, you cannot tell me what to do, we are not living in a utopia, don’t be delusional. No embraces a kind of brutal realism, a confrontation of life that only happens when you wizen up a little bit. “Saint,” explores the aphasia and resentment that follows a tumultuous love affair, intense feelings on every end of every spectrum. The baseline stumbles and falls into the earth, almost unable to pick itself back up again. Wohlers’ voice sounds like it is being caught in her throat. “In time/I found that you/started it,” she sings.

No has its foot not just in realism and lucid emotional resonance, but, like in Tomato’s Flower’s past work, the fantastical, too. “Sally & Me,” reappropriates Gerard de Nerval images, with its stonelight and metal, its angel wings and its softness. “Harlequin,” treats a bumbling friend like a pierrot, a titular harlequin where their fuck ups get weirder and weirder in each passing second. All of it is a brutal delight, a departure from the past, a nod to a startling present. Tomato Flower is no longer a pop band. Long live Tomato Flower.

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released March 8, 2024

Mike Alfieri: drums, piano on track 7, additional guitar on track 11
Ruby Mars: bass, additional synth on tracks 7 and 8
Jamison Murphy: guitar, vocals, additional synth on tracks 4, 6, 8
Austyn Wohlers: guitar, vocals, synth, flute on track 4, piano on track 8

Engineered and mixed by Jared Paolini at Tempo House Recording
Mastered by Ryan Power
Cover photo by Missy Malouff
Back cover painting by Austyn Wohlers
Design by Gavin Perez-Canto

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