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Tear Your Heart Out

villagerrr
March 22, 2024
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‘Tear Your Heart Out’, the new album from Columbus, Ohio’s villagerrr, is a collection of 11 home-recorded songs of tasteful indie rock with understated twang that are the most assured and fully realized effort yet from singer/songwriter Mark Scott.

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As villagerrr, Mark Allen Scott’s songs are mesmerizing and unmistakably Midwestern. The prolific Ohio artist thrives on imbuing mundane moments with disarming emotional clarity. His latest LP 'Tear Your Heart Out', his fourth album since he started the project in early 2022, is for long drives where the light shines through the sunroof, small-town get-togethers, and the times when you realize more about yourself and who you want in your life.

Scott is based in Columbus but was raised in Chillicothe, in southern Ohio alongside the Scioto River. It’s a rural town that felt small and stifling growing up but, for all its faults, now feels like home. “I want to wear where I'm from and my family on my sleeve,” says Scott. “I'm proud of the twangy influence in my music from corny country songs I'd hear on the bus rides to school. I feel like I’m reclaiming where I come from and making it my own.”

These 11 home-recorded songs of tasteful indie rock with understated twang are the most assured and fully realized effort from Scott yet. It’s a new leap for an artist uncompromisingly doing things their way.

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Tracklist
1
Neverrr Everrr
Neverrr Everrr
03:41
2
See
See
02:25
3
Tear Your Heart Out
Tear Your Heart Out
04:18
4
Runnin' Round
Runnin' Round
04:31
5
Car Heart
Car Heart
05:10
6
Barn Burnerrr
Barn Burnerrr
05:34
7
Cry On
Cry On
04:22
8
Low
Low
04:20
9
Come Right Back
Come Right Back
04:20
10
Honesty
Honesty
02:01
11
River Ain't Safe
River Ain't Safe
05:04
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Credits

Merce Lemon: Vox on 1

Boone Patrello: Vox on 4; Pedal slide, vox, synth on 4; Slide guitar on 2 & 10

Cursed Phoebe: Cello on 2

Colton Hamilton: Guitar on 5

Cam Garshon: Vox on 10

Zayn Dweik: Drums on 4 & 11; Arrangement on 11

Syd Simonitis: Album art

Mark Scott: Everything else

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