UPC: 781484088912 Label: DRAG CITY Format: LPRelease Date: June 27, 2025In stock items ship within 48 hoursSharpie Smile’s debut album has one question for you: is your heart good enough to take The Staircase? Sharpie Smile is Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner. They met in 2015, a pair of musically-adept nonconformist teenagers, forming a songwriting and performance duo. Writing initially for a project called Kamikaze Palm Tree, with Dylan on drums and Cole on guitar, they produced two albums of thorny, earwormy art-rock. While continuing to play shows and write, there was some session work with other acts (Cate Le Bon, A. Savage, Tim Presley’s White Fence). And then a shimmering new direction came into view... For Sharpie Smile, that direction is up. The Staircase is a lush and energizing contemporary pop record, scaling an ambitious gradient of minimal/maximal electronic production and deep feels. It’s a dreamy and ethereal trip through something (you’re not sure what yet), on a radiant melodic raft. Reality is breaking and rebirth is happening, one piece at a time—essential questions deconstructed and pieced together again. Like scanning a new x-ray image of yourself.TRACK LIST: 1 Bells 1:36 2 Disappears 2:18 3 The Slide 2:07 4 Answer 3:20 5 Love Or Worship 2:52 6 So Far 3:20 7 Brick Or Stone 4:21 8 New Flavor 2:11 9 The Letter 3:24 10 The Staircase 3:59
