Matt Jencik & Midwife - Never Die (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 44:37 minutes | 766 MB
Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 44:37 minutes | 766 MB
Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download
Despite the outright denial in its title, death is present in every one of the songs on Never Die, the collaborative album from Midwife’s Madeline Johnston and Matt Jencik (of Implodes, Don Caballero, and Slint’s live band). Jencik held the tenderest thought imaginable when he came up with that phrase—Never Die—the fact that the people he loves eventually would, a certainty that feels impossible and remote, until the day it absolutely doesn’t. Never Die represents Jencik’s desperate bid to hold onto everyone he loves, to keep them on Earth so fiercely that they might enter the grave with claw marks on their skin. Johnston, who recognizes the grace of mortality (and who, as Midwife once sang: “I don’t wanna live forever,” over and over) serves as the spiritual guide for the album, transmuting the fear of death into an incentive to live more keenly and dearly.
Following a number of ambient drone instrumental albums, Jencik felt the need to set himself a new creative challenge: to write vocal-heavy songs. He worked on them alone in his basement, recording directly to a four-track cassette. He sent those demos to a different collaborator to tinker with before that partnership eventually dissolved. Then, he thought of Madeline: the way her voice tended to glower in her songs, as well as her commitment to minimalism, which fell squarely within the project’s aesthetic and spiritual impulses. “I was immediately drawn to what she was doing,” Jencik says. In both of their work, Jencik and Johnston understand minimalism as a vehicle for enormous, desperate and universal emotions. Entire worlds come in and out of existence between each of their sparse notes; a great breadth of feeling is bedded into the simple structure of their songs.
TRACKLIST
1. Matt Jencik - Delete Key
2. Matt Jencik - Don't Protest (Too Much)
3. Matt Jencik - Flower Dragon
4. Matt Jencik - The Last Night
5. Matt Jencik - Bend
6. Matt Jencik - Never Die
7. Matt Jencik - Only Death Is Real
8. Matt Jencik - Organ Delay
9. Matt Jencik - September Goths
10. Matt Jencik - Rickety Ride
foobar2000 1.6.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2025-07-10 17:49:17
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Analyzed: Matt Jencik / Never Die
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.51 dB -10.58 dB 4:19 01-Delete Key
DR9 -0.51 dB -10.83 dB 4:14 02-Don't Protest (Too Much)
DR10 -0.51 dB -12.99 dB 3:15 03-Flower Dragon
DR10 -0.51 dB -12.46 dB 5:18 04-The Last Night
DR8 -0.51 dB -10.23 dB 4:32 05-Bend
DR9 -0.51 dB -12.67 dB 4:54 06-Never Die
DR7 -0.51 dB -10.73 dB 3:48 07-Only Death Is Real
DR8 -0.51 dB -11.61 dB 4:25 08-Organ Delay
DR8 -0.51 dB -10.95 dB 4:54 09-September Goths
DR9 -0.51 dB -12.58 dB 4:58 10-Rickety Ride
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2442 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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log date: 2025-07-10 17:49:17
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Analyzed: Matt Jencik / Never Die
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.51 dB -10.58 dB 4:19 01-Delete Key
DR9 -0.51 dB -10.83 dB 4:14 02-Don't Protest (Too Much)
DR10 -0.51 dB -12.99 dB 3:15 03-Flower Dragon
DR10 -0.51 dB -12.46 dB 5:18 04-The Last Night
DR8 -0.51 dB -10.23 dB 4:32 05-Bend
DR9 -0.51 dB -12.67 dB 4:54 06-Never Die
DR7 -0.51 dB -10.73 dB 3:48 07-Only Death Is Real
DR8 -0.51 dB -11.61 dB 4:25 08-Organ Delay
DR8 -0.51 dB -10.95 dB 4:54 09-September Goths
DR9 -0.51 dB -12.58 dB 4:58 10-Rickety Ride
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2442 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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