Grumpy - Unfindable Ring
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description: Releases October 23rd, 2026 **Bundle includes signed LP & a hand engraved ring by Grumpy!** 1. Unfindable Ring 2. OBL 3. yr bitch 4. Football Tour 5. Answers 6. The Whale (ft. D.A. Crimson) 7. Last of Your Kind 8. WTF 9. George Clanton 10. Cool Ranch 11. Solicitors' Rights 12. Twenty Five 13. Queens ----- The comfort of kids’ hidden object games––iSpy, Where’s Waldo, a carnival treasure dig––is that the thing you’re searching for really does exist, and you’ll find it, should you only try hard enough. Not quite so as we get older. The more we learn, the more we realize the coveted loot isn’t always within reach. It might not exist at all. The Golden Fleece, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail. For Grumpy, this is the “Unfindable Ring.” The record opens with a confession, an appraisal of his work until now: “I dive for an unfindable ring,” Grumpy’s Heaven Schmitt sings on the title track, “a grand gesture type thing / that doesn’t have the effect I hoped for.” Schmitt––and thus his alter ego Grumpy––is a guy of Big Romance, the sweeping, theatrical stunt, chivalry and pomp, thorned rose stem between his teeth, the spectacle of the thing over the thing itself. But there’s a limit to the magic of performance. On ‘Unfindable Ring’, he’s beginning to see the charade weigh on its recipients: even if the ruse works, it’ll cost him. ‘Unfindable Ring', out October 23 on Bayonet Records, is an adventurer’s epic. The arc of the journey, like any good Spirited Away or Neverending Story, lands its wide-traveled protagonist right back at home before bedtime. Grumpy, like many great hero tricksters before him, has always been a project of juxtaposition: upbeat radio-ready hits whose buoyant, goofy hooks belie the dark thoughts they describe. Much of this, Schmitt acknowledges, owes its due to the matter-of-fact morbidity of the trans experience in America. It’s from these experiences—personal, romantic, political, and existential—that the tale of ‘Unfindable Ring’ unfolds. Ambi…
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