Lilico by SLUDGEDOWN

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Below is a special message from SHUTDOWN:

From May of last year to January, I conceptualized over 30 songs, most of which were just unfinished ideas I recorded down for later.
Most of them fucking sucked and I'm fairly certain one has a constant brown note going throughout.
The 3 that didn't suck are the ones you're hearing today, with chopped up and absorbed ideas from the other songs. So I guess I could have written 100 songs and had an album by now, but we'll chalk it up to laziness on my part.

This time around we recorded everything over the internet, which came as a great relief to my wallet, but it meant we had to work around tight school-work schedules and the like.

Final recording spanned from January 4 all the way to May 13, since there's a lot of work (and fatigued procrastination) that goes into translating demos into fully living and breathing pieces.
I've included two demos as purchase bonuses - hopefully you can hear the difference in how the tracks feel!
I've been working on and off with these songs so long it's relieving to just get them out, even if they're not groundbreaking or anything. I hope at least one brings you enough enjoyment to be a mainstay in your library.

You probably know the drill by now. New music will be done when it's done, if it's done at all. Reason being my creative block isn't even a block anymore, it's a monolith.
I'll still try and chip away at things, as long as life doesn't get in the way (I am not a good lifer). No, I'm not gonna get help. Just get me a Coke Zero.

Maybe someone's reading this and thinking "damn, that's big talk for music this bad."
To that someone, DM me your address.

Please keep in touch on Instagram and let us know your thoughts on the music!

My personal Discord is "shutdownofficial" should you wish to reach me.

Until then,
See You, Sludge Cowboy...
FUCK ISRAEL,
FREE PALESTINE.

Tracklist

1.	Lilico	4:54

2.	Chlora	4:44

3.	radicalradicalradicalradicalradicalradical	4:59

Credits

released May 25, 2025

SLUDGEDOWN are:
Vocals, bass: SHUTDOWN
Guitar: TYLER
Keyboards: HIRO

FEATURING:
Drums: Barry Fitzgerald Derrington III

All music and lyrics written by SHUTDOWN
Recorded over the internet between U.S.A. and Sweden
Produced, mixed, and mastered by SHUTDOWN

Back in 2023, when SLUDGEDOWN was little more than an inside joke, we promised some of these people that our first release would have them in the special thanks section. We forgot.
I guess that's a good thing, because we have a lot more people to thank now!
So here's A VERY VERY SUPER ULTRA MEGA XXL SPECIAL THANKS to our wonderful friends and fans (in no particular order):

Squirn/Wombat Country
Dark Purple (Gavin Casey)
Robert Wilhelm
nagotown
Ernests Bērziņš
nutellacoffee
luckidyne
Ju-lion
JukeMix
Daniel McCracken
shasta
Mucho
Spaghettionage
marsenic
SlowBro (Jett Mance)
yell0
emoceannull (Christian McKinney)
mickknot
JrFishPro (Fisher Allshouse)
cinnaluna
cherry
BonzoBeanMachine
Winter/i can't draw
riipentry
mellorine (Rin Jeon)
x86mattia
ralpho/ralpholski
Mcgullicuty
kiddopls
krakatoau
bbbeaaa.16
loluhani
Cats on Mars (Tommy Pedrini)
nevdogg25
itembox/alikoneko
Kieran Corson
PumpkinVolt
revolution
Ashley Ferrante
CosmicGem (Sean Bialo)
washingmachine1987
zaphyre
Mason Manteau
ArieJuice
deathic
fresh/tom
Nick Balsirow
BestBuilder101
MattAndStuff
harporkii (Jacob Fogel)
doktrin
rei gaming
vsharpener
AdenTheEldritch
Nikole
mycobiota

If you are in this list and would like to be credited under a different name/removed, please let us know.
If you feel like you've been cheated out of this list, please feel free to message us about this as well. We probably forgot.

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