Patio Share New B Side "Reality State" From "Essentials" Sessions

Today Patio share a B Side entitled "Reality State" from the "Essentials" sessions. The New York City group (Alice Suh, Lindsey-Paige McCloy, Loren DiBlasi) have crafted a signature sound of minimal post-punk that radiates throughout their debut record and this cut while not making the record serves to close the door on Patio's "Essentials" & opens a new one for new music in 2020. Here's what the band has to say on the track...

"Reality State" takes its title from a long and winding conversation with a cab driver on my way to band practice about his previous life selling real estate in Dubai and all of the artifice that accompanied it - fake names, glamorous backstories, renting a Rolex for an hour to wear to the client meeting to help seal the deal. Due to some sort of linguistic mix-up, he used the beautiful and compelling phrase "reality state" instead of "real estate" throughout his 23-minute Wild West tale.

This song is the older cousin of "New Reality" from Essentials and presents a different take on the cognitive dissonance of living in a world on fire. "Reality State" is more concerned with personal dynamics - identity construction and performance, building and maintaining connection, and making space for worry about small and big things at the same time. It's a snapshot of summer 2016-era simmering discomfort. As we dive into writing more and more new material, we're releasing this remaining track from the 2017 Essentials sessions as a bookend or a final celebratory balloon."

Track List

01. Split

02. Endgame

03. Boy Scout

04. Scum

05. Vile Bodies

06. No Time

07. Open

08. New Reality

09. Reality Testing

10. Legacy Continued

Tour Dates:

• 12.31 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory *
• 01.17 - Los Angeles @ Hi Hat
• 01.19 - San Francisco @ The Laundry

* w/ Cloud Nothings