SHARPIE SMILE
STAIRCASE - LP

DRAG CITY

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UPC: 781484088912
Label: DRAG CITY
Format: LP
Release Date: June 27, 2025
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Sharpie 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