For Tuesday is a lo-fi emo–rock project from multi-instrumentalist and producer Mark Ferris. The project began as a series of lo-fi music sketches on which Ferris explored the creative possibilities of cassette tapes, guitar pedals, and synthesizers to make short-form tape loop driven experimental music. Inevitably, the project birthed a series of single releases to explore different ways of integrating some of those lofi tape sounds with an indie–pop or rock sensibility.
Check out the creative and unusual new alternative-pop track “Wrong Party” (below) from For Tuesday. With pop-sensible design and tone, Mark Ferris muses over a honed and creative rhythm section. There is a brooding openheartedness and new-wave sensibility here, where the tender edge worlds of The Faint and Death Cab For Cutie collide.
“I think we’ve all had that experience of being “at the wrong party with the wrong people.” I’ve been listening to a ton of midwest emo lately and it has its own nostalgic house-party vibes (I’m thinking like a packed DIY emo basement show atmosphere). In the verses, you can hear muffled music panned to the left. I wanted to create the auditory illusion of standing outside of a house party with the music filtering out,” says Ferris.
