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1.	No North Star 04:30	lyrics	buy track
I got no north star I'm floating away This is my last chance to see you again I am a still life I'm waiting for prey This is my last chance to see you again There is no substance To take it away This is my last chance to see you again Is there a witness To this display? This is my last chance to see you again I see catastrophe A faster way to end Throw me into the sea Disaster is my friend
2.	Daffy Duck 04:27 video	lyrics	buy track
Talking to a friend And the conversation keeps coming ‘round to how does this all end I think of you Maybe you could have an idea then I could think that too These days when anything can happen Days I can’t do anything but nap in These days I never want to happen again And again Well what should we do I know I’m never going to feel ready But they say you never do So sad to think Every single day that’s been wasted here We slide up to the brink We can’t keep swirling ‘round the bottom Like Bugs and Daffy Duck This back and forth just makes me dizzy And feel like giving up That’s what they want keep hanging on
3.	Without Your Love 03:25	lyrics	buy track
All the empty words that filled my empty days Without your love, without your love All the endless roads that led a million ways Without your love, without your love All the selfish things I did All the feelings that I hid away Without your love to make them true Without your love to see me through Without your love Who knows when some empty day will dawn Without your love, without your love Or what is left behind when this is gone? Without your love, without your love All the blankets on the bed All the words I should have said to you Without your love to make them true Without your love to see me through Without your love
4.	Hang On to that Feeling 03:56	lyrics	buy track
By the end of the night You were huffin' and puffin' By the end of the week You were drillin' holes Spent days and days and days Fixing nothing Spent months and months months Mainlining time Why can't We hang on to that feeling? Why can't We hang on to now? Why can't We hang on to that feeling? Please please Just touch the ground We were shivering cold Inside your own shadow We were dying In a man-shaped car Spent days and days and days Fixing nothing Spent months and months months Mainlining time
5.	When You Go 04:32	lyrics	buy track
I know the songs you sang to me by heart Drumming on the dashboard of your car When you go Will I know The way back home? The photographs of things we left behind And how your voice is always there in mine When you go Will I know The way back home? There’s a part of me I got from you I can’t deny And a part of you I’ll never know When you go Light in the cracks Fading to black Putting the pieces back together When you go Words we can’t say End of the day Coming apart again and then you go And now I’m getting older, too The days go by and suddenly they’re through When you go Will I know The way back home?
6.	Psychic 02:30	lyrics	buy track
No North Star I got no north star I'm floating away This is my last chance to see you again I am a still life I'm waiting for prey This is my last chance to see you again There is no substance To take it away This is my last chance to see you again Is there a witness To this display? This is my last chance to see you again I see catastrophe A faster way to end Throw me into the sea Disaster is my friend Daffy Duck Talking to a friend And the conversation keeps coming ‘round to how does this all end I think of you Maybe you could have an idea then I could think that too These days when anything can happen Days I can’t do anything but nap in These days I never want to happen again And again Well what should we do I know I’m never going to feel ready But they say you never do So sad to think Every single day that’s been wasted here We slide up to the brink We can’t keep swirling ‘round the bottom Like Bugs and Daffy Duck This back and forth just makes me dizzy And feel like giving up That’s what they want keep hanging on Without Your Love All the empty words that filled my empty days Without your love, without your love All the endless roads that led a million ways Without your love, without your love All the selfish things I did All the feelings that I hid away Without your love to make them true Without your love to see me through Without your love Who knows when some empty day will dawn Without your love, without your love Or what is left behind when this is gone? Without your love, without your love All the blankets on the bed All the words I should have said to you Without your love to make them true Without your love to see me through Without your love Hang On to that Feeling By the end of the night You were huffin' and puffin' By the end of the week You were drillin' holes Spent days and days and days Fixing nothing Spent months and months months Mainlining time Why can't We hang on to that feeling? Why can't We hang on to now? Why can't We hang on to that feeling? Please please Just touch the ground We were shivering cold Inside your own shadow We were dying In a man-shaped car Spent days and days and days Fixing nothing Spent months and months months Mainlining time When You Go I know the songs you sang to me by heart Drumming on the dashboard of your car When you go Will I know The way back home? The photographs of things we left behind And how your voice is always there in mine When you go Will I know The way back home? There’s a part of me I got from you I can’t deny And a part of you I’ll never know When you go Light in the cracks Fading to black Putting the pieces back together When you go Words we can’t say End of the day Coming apart again and then you go And now I’m getting older, too The days go by and suddenly they’re through When you go Will I know The way back home? Psychic I went to see a psychic But it was after hours The neon light misled me there, Unshaven and unshowered If I can say this now When everything’s untrue If I can say this Why can’t you I’m floating horizontal I never thought I could But I’m stuck in this cycle Of painting gold on wood If I can say this now When everything’s untrue If I can say this Why can’t you I know, I know, I know When you feel left out
7.	Fading Out 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Talking about the weather Is making me old And getting my shit together Is leaving me cold I know you’re hurting lately I feel like fading Over and out Fading out Fading Remember the bars we crashed in At quarter to 3:00? When all of the lights stopped flashing It was just you and me I know you’re hurting lately I feel like fading Over and out Fading out Fading Feel it slipping away Feel like slipping away Ever after Feel it slipping away Feel like slipping away Together after all
8.	We're Existential 03:01	lyrics	buy track
No North Star I got no north star I'm floating away This is my last chance to see you again I am a still life I'm waiting for prey This is my last chance to see you again There is no substance To take it away This is my last chance to see you again Is there a witness To this display? This is my last chance to see you again I see catastrophe A faster way to end Throw me into the sea Disaster is my friend Daffy Duck Talking to a friend And the conversation keeps coming ‘round to how does this all end I think of you Maybe you could have an idea then I could think that too These days when anything can happen Days I can’t do anything but nap in These days I never want to happen again And again Well what should we do I know I’m never going to feel ready But they say you never do So sad to think Every single day that’s been wasted here We slide up to the brink We can’t keep swirling ‘round the bottom Like Bugs and Daffy Duck This back and forth just makes me dizzy And feel like giving up That’s what they want keep hanging on Without Your Love All the empty words that filled my empty days Without your love, without your love All the endless roads that led a million ways Without your love, without your love All the selfish things I did All the feelings that I hid away Without your love to make them true Without your love to see me through Without your love Who knows when some empty day will dawn Without your love, without your love Or what is left behind when this is gone? Without your love, without your love All the blankets on the bed All the words I should have said to you Without your love to make them true Without your love to see me through Without your love Hang On to that Feeling By the end of the night You were huffin' and puffin' By the end of the week You were drillin' holes Spent days and days and days Fixing nothing Spent months and months months Mainlining time Why can't We hang on to that feeling? Why can't We hang on to now? Why can't We hang on to that feeling? Please please Just touch the ground We were shivering cold Inside your own shadow We were dying In a man-shaped car Spent days and days and days Fixing nothing Spent months and months months Mainlining time When You Go I know the songs you sang to me by heart Drumming on the dashboard of your car When you go Will I know The way back home? The photographs of things we left behind And how your voice is always there in mine When you go Will I know The way back home? There’s a part of me I got from you I can’t deny And a part of you I’ll never know When you go Light in the cracks Fading to black Putting the pieces back together When you go Words we can’t say End of the day Coming apart again and then you go And now I’m getting older, too The days go by and suddenly they’re through When you go Will I know The way back home? Psychic I went to see a psychic But it was after hours The neon light misled me there, Unshaven and unshowered If I can say this now When everything’s untrue If I can say this Why can’t you I’m floating horizontal I never thought I could But I’m stuck in this cycle Of painting gold on wood If I can say this now When everything’s untrue If I can say this Why can’t you I know, I know, I know When you feel left out Fading Out Talking about the weather Is making me old And getting my shit together Is leaving me cold I know you’re hurting lately I feel like fading Over and out Fading out Fading Remember the bars we crashed in At quarter to 3:00? When all of the lights stopped flashing It was just you and me I know you’re hurting lately I feel like fading Over and out Fading out Fading Feel it slipping away Feel like slipping away Ever after Feel it slipping away Feel like slipping away Together after all We're Existential You're feelin' restless Is it the good kind? I'm feeling wilted It's not the first time We're existential We're existential, baby We're existential And I'm on the line You're in a trenchcoat I'm in a boa You're feeling left out There's no control We're existential We're existential, baby We're existential And I'm on the line We're at a crossroads You're lookin' vacant There's a ring in the high road There's no escaping
9.	Parrots of Rome 04:05	lyrics	buy track
Hearts go astray Jasmine climbs all the way To the roof The smell is so sweet but it can be a surprise Just like the parrots of Rome The parrots of Rome They’re not like at home Dimming of the day Wading through piles of ruins The sight is so new but they’ve been there for a while Not like the parrots of Rome The parrots of Rome They’re not like at home I gave my love to you I’d give my life to you All of my love for you All of my love to you
10.	After All 04:55	lyrics	buy track
Parrots of Rome Hearts go astray Jasmine climbs all the way To the roof The smell is so sweet but it can be a surprise Just like the parrots of Rome The parrots of Rome They’re not like at home Dimming of the day Wading through piles of ruins The sight is so new but they’ve been there for a while Not like the parrots of Rome The parrots of Rome They’re not like at home I gave my love to you I’d give my life to you All of my love for you All of my love to you After All Hey, it's me With a wonderful masterpiece About some disaster And who loves what's-her-name Oh, I see There's nothing underneath So come on You'll never see her the same After all We're out to sea And after all You're dreaming about me After all you're dreaming about me Wait, I'm stunned You mean there's more than that to come? Peel me backwards And take my Saturdays Cheers, we're done Threw my map into the sun So come on We're over it anyway After all We're out to sea And after all You're dreaming about me After all you're dreaming about me

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It’s been four years since L.A. indie-pop mainstays Massage last released new music. Now, on Oct. 10, they return with Coaster, a masterful 10-track album that finds the band facing the upheaval and uncertainty of adulthood the only way they know how: together, five longtime friends, turning out one Perfect Pop Song after another.

The wait was worth it. Massage have always seen themselves as music fans rather than proper “musicians,” and Coaster — their third LP after 2018’s Oh Boy and 2021’s Still Life — still conjures memories of other eras: the braided rumble of The Cure’s “Pictures of You”; the radiant clang of Big Star’s “September Gurls”; the strobe-light sheen of Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Bring on the Dancing Horses”; the hazy strum of David Kilgour’s “Shivering”; even the post-Madchester swagger of prime Oasis, if you squint hard enough.

Yet while facets of Coaster might feel familiar, here they add up to something greater, and rarer — a band that finally sounds more like itself than its influences.

“We’ve been labeled ‘jangle pop’ and lumped in with ‘fog pop,’” says Andrew Romano, guitarist and vocalist. “We even called ourselves ‘college rock.’ But we never really fit in anywhere. I think Coaster is where we embrace that in-betweenness. We’re a pop group, plain and simple. We don’t want to just remind you of some other band. We want to write songs you can’t shake.”

The result is Massage’s finest full-length — a collection that can’t help but reflect how much its members have been through since Still Life. Bassist David Rager nearly lost his home in L.A.’s devastating Eaton Fire; he and his family have yet to move back. Romano’s father survived a serious cancer scare. Keyboardist and vocalist Gabi Ferrer married her partner Thaddeus Ruzicka, Massage’s resident photographer and video director, then had a baby boy last June. Alex Naidus (guitar, vocals) and Natalie de Almeida (drums) had a son of their own a few months later. Neither pregnancy came easily, or went exactly as planned.

“I guess that’s what growing up is — accepting you aren’t the center of the universe,” says Ferrer, who also created the album art. “That kind of became the theme of the record."

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released October 10, 2025

Produced by Andrew Brassell and Massage
Mixed by Andrew Brassell
Recorded by Andrew Brassell and David Stern
Mastered by Greg Obis, Chicago Mastering Service

February 2023 - May 2024

Alex Naidus: Vocals, guitar
Andrew Romano: Vocals, guitar
Gabrielle Ferrer: Vocals, keyboards
David Rager: Bass
Natalie de Almeida: Drums

Andrew Brassell: Additional guitar, bass and keyboards
David Stern: Additional percussion

Songs by Massage

Art by Gabrielle Ferrer
Design by David Rager

For Anouk, Elliot, Graham, Glen and Seb

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Alex Naidus
Andrew Romano
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Natalie de Almeida
David Rager
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Coaster

Oct 2025
Lane Lines

Dec 2021
Still Life

Jun 2021
Michael Is My Girlfriend

Feb 2020
Oh Boy

Jul 2018
Lydia

May 2018
Crying Out Loud / Under

Aug 2016

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