Mushroom by Kyle Field and Greg Olin

Enter into a strange yet oddly familiar world—one that is absurdly like our own, a realm of modern nursery rhymes accompanied by colorful and unique illustrations, all sprung forth from the creative minds of artists Kyle Field and Greg Olin.

Best known for their musical projects, Little Wings and Graves, Field and Olin collaborated on MUSHROOM, an audio and visual journey through the ceaseless strangeness of childhood. Here you will find tall tales, stories, and yarns for adults and kids alike, but with an eye for the era of smartphones. These are both lullabies in the age of Bitcoin and fond memories of “Love in the Time of Beepers.”

The book includes an accompanying listen-along soundtrack featuring Field and Olin taking turns reading the poems over original music and atmospheric sounds. Both contribute their distinctive touch to bring these imaginative vignettes to life.

Watch the Mushroom videos here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=chQ3IANqn5o&list=PLmvj1a3KTjTVKd9eTljsEpKvz4YcL2c-V

“The music poetry herein toys with my left coast subconscious. I thought of teenage vacations with stepparents, weird uncles, domestic psychedelia... ‘The Point' by Nilsson but aimed at teenage skateboarders from Oakland (or grown-up ex-skateboarders from Oakland.” -Stephen Malkmus

Tracklist

1.	Old Munkle Dishes	0:36

2.	Little Tammy Moppins	0:25

3.	Astoria Tower	0:39

4.	Muscle Cars	0:32

5.	Big Sur	1:10

6.	Beauty School	0:32

7.	Rock Hound	0:16

8.	Arco Arena	0:39

9.	Liver Tea	0:22

10.	Alcatraz	0:23

11.	Baggy's Phone	0:31

12.	Hermit Soup	0:22

13.	High Dive Queen	0:27

14.	Bitcoin Christmas	0:20

15.	Just A Sip of Wine	0:53

16.	Ponce de León	0:57

17.	Toughest Nut	1:06

18.	A Wrinkle	0:32

19.	Love in the Time of Beepers	0:30

20.	Colonel	0:16

21.	Falcon	1:13

22.	Niilo Smeds	0:38

23.	Monopoly	0:36

24.	Hippity Dippity Do	0:15

25.	Old Rascal	0:28

26.	The Putney Sparrows	1:01

27.	The Gong Show	0:24

28.	Munson's Merry Minstrel Show	0:19

29.	In The Zoo	2:03

30.	Sports	1:31

31.	Tommy Tubbs	0:26

32.	The Bed That Jack Made	1:20

33.	Groms	0:29

34.	Wood Bark Beetle	0:29

35.	Foam	0:20

36.	Golf	0:26

37.	Band-Aids	0:36

38.	Turquoise Sound	0:30

39.	Pepper Soup	0:20

40.	Cotton Candy	0:48

41.	OK Glue	0:32

42.	Edward Shandy Huppincuffs	0:55

43.	Polly Dolly	0:31

44.	Fiddle & Fiddlesticks	0:33

45.	Ifs	0:15

46.	Milton Glaze	0:37

47.	Nearly A Goner	0:55

48.	Pollywogs	0:38

49.	Sanjay o' Sanjay	0:49

50.	The Spoiled Bachelor	0:39

51.	Just A Pirate	1:07

52.	The Other Milton Glaze	0:25

53.	Old Mustard	0:35

54.	Pacific Daylight	0:26

55.	Shorts	0:20

56.	Madonna Inn	0:18

57.	Lazy Husband, Lazy Wife	0:31

58.	Shuffle Off To Buffalo	0:32

59.	Little Johnny Pap Pap	0:34

60.	Re-Watch Patriot Games	0:25

61.	Ice Dream Truck	1:22

62.	The Shoe	0:32

63.	Sap	0:34

64.	Soft Pitch Soft Ball	0:34

65.	Air BNB	1:02

66.	The Artist Formerly Known As 7	0:36

67.	Visions Clear	1:17

68.	Daisies	1:07

Credits

released June 10, 2022

Mushroom the Record:
12 inch LP vinyl record | Split run, opaque swamp + translucent orange
Songs written, performed, and arranged by Greg Olin
Songs written and performed by Kyle Field

Mushroom the Book:
Hardback with dust jacket | 12 x 12 inch | 74 pages | 80+ color illustrations
Poems and Drawings by Kyle Field
Poems by Greg Olin

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