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Our final video for our final single is out now.

Our baby @nyle.rosenbaum ripped into this edit so hard. Love u

Link to full vid in bio stories blah blah blah taken in Detroit, Michigan by @johnstonsonsss

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JOHNSTONSONS “HARD II IMPERSONATE”

Detroit duo Johnstonsons — John River and Stonny Moon, lifelong friends operating under a band name that reads like a Lynchian fake ID — arrive with their debut full-length “Hard II Impersonate” on à La Carte Records. The name sounds more like a CB handle or a landscaping company than a synth-pop band, which is exactly what lets the actual record sneak up on you: a 28-minute new-wave/synth-pop LP that turns the gap between expectation and execution into part of the pleasure. Three years in the making, two full attempts scrapped along the way, the album is the third pass and the first one only Johnstonsons could plausibly have written.

Sonically the record draws on the cinematic emotional reach of Tears for Fears, the patient spaciousness Talk Talk worked into the seams of their best arrangements, and the contemporary discipline of Body of Light — songs that trust a held note before they sell you anything. Guitars soar without grandstanding, synths breathe, vocal hooks lock in fast and stay. Lyrically Johnstonsons trade the cryptic for something more direct and less defensive — the kind of plainspoken vulnerability that’s harder to fake than metaphor. Production duties were shared with Trey Frye (@treyfrey) of Korine, who also mixed and mastered the LP and is responsible in no small part for how unhurried the record feels even at full sprint.

Available now for preorder. by @johnstonsonsss

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Proud to announce our new album, Hard II Impersonate, comes out October 16 on @alacarterecords — preorders are live!

You can hear “Burning For You” now on all your typical haunts, including the video, directed, shot, and cut by @cherrypitz_ on YouTube.

All relevant links will be presented for the foreseeable future. Buckle up.

All tracks produced, mixed, and mastered by @treyfrey

Please share and help us take over the world.

Thank you

xx JSS

#Detroit #newwave #postpunk #synthpop #Johnstonsons taken in Detroit, Michigan by @johnstonsonsss

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Hard II Impersonate.

Tomorrow we release our debut album. Out at midnight. Thank you.

@johnstonsonsss
@alacarterecords
@funeralplant taken in Detroit, Michigan by @johnstonsonsss

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NOW AVAILABLE ON MAGNETIC ANALOG TAPE!

💜 JOHNSTONSONS, “HARD II IMPERSONATE”

Receive your copy from FUNERAL PLANT COLLECTIVE via RUN FOR COVER records. Link in bio!

For private listening, contemplation, and repeated observance.

DETROIT, MI | FPC-003

Thank you @alacarterecords and @runforcover. by @johnstonsonsss

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Hard II Impersonate drops next Friday, October 16. To celebrate, we are dropping our soft rock banger “Wraith” on Bandcamp only.

Preorders, or maybe just orders at this point, are still available. Scoop up your vinyl now or forever hold yr peace taken in Detroit, Michigan by @johnstonsonsss

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The time has come.

November 7 @smallsbar

Tix live @ 12:00

See u there

Flyer 1 by @nyle.rosenbaum
Flyer 2 by @alacarterecords taken in Small's by @johnstonsonsss

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22 days ago

YO!!!!! TAPES!!!!

Big thanks to the mega-homie @chrismojan / @funeralplant for setting up this sick tape order for the record. Collecting all of our artifacts this year just got a little more expensive xx

@alacarterecords 🤝 @funeralplant

To commemorate this great honor, we’re dropping the final single, CHANGE. OUT NOW

Tapes are up for sale in October. Blast this new track in the meantime. Our “heaviest” track. Album closer. Live set closer. You know the drill.

JOHNSTONSONS BABY YEAH

Album preorders still going strong. Thanks so much everybody. Link in biooooooo taken in Detroit, Michigan by @johnstonsonsss

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“IMPERSONATE” VIDEO OUT NOW.

@johnstonsonsss
@alacarterecords
@whalebonesaw by @johnstonsonsss

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IMPERSONATE MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW

Directed & shot by Stonny Moon
Cut & produced by @whalebonesaw
Somehow backed by @alacarterecords

It’s hard II impersonate such high brow literary prowess and we managed it without the use of AI.

Lore tidbit: this isn’t even the song with any DFW reference, that would be our song “Wraith.” You’ll hear that one later. Xo

#EnglishTeacher #InfiniteJest #PoorYorick #Johnstonsons #Newwave taken in Detroit, Michigan by @johnstonsonsss

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TOMORROW. AT LONG LAST.

@alacarterecords
@whalebonesaw
@johnstonsonsss taken in Whataburger by @johnstonsonsss

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Stoked to announce that @roughtrade has started carrying à La Carte Records releases via @redeyeworldwide @clandestine_distribution.

Hit them up if you need em. by @johnstonsonsss

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