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Six Songs

by aeseaes

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    The second printing of our debut EP on vinyl. Part of a limited second run printed in 2019. (The original was released in 2017.)

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    A physical CD copy of our debut EP, with song lyrics printed on the inside cover. A little something special that you can hold in your hands and play in your car just like the good old days.

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1.
Two Knocks 03:30
cold fire tonight and head slow ironed eyes and lead to hide the gallows the crowd’s stoned out on bottles in the back and the red rope i shot him down two knocks at the door and he hit the ground one last breath, well i suppose and the beat goes on broken strangers filled with blind hope perched the thing with feathers made of red smoke as the sun bleeds down on all the tangled rivers and the loaded guns [chorus] the sun goes black as the cello plays the kind of cinematic swell that makes the critics say if only we had made something out of nothing before a quiet grave
2.
Plenty 02:31
in the land of plenty, we don't know what the word no means give it to me, give me all the things I want make it new and shiny, and make them watch me, make them watch me turn the power on and wait for light all the pleasures that you paid for all the skipped turns that you saved for all the nights you fell asleep without your gun a coronation, a beheading from the funeral to the wedding do you think they care where the crown goes? show the crowd you're happy, like a movie, like a movie what's your story, what's the refund policy? we want violence, we want blood we want superhero love, we want all the answers you promised us we want laughter, we want pain, everyone will know our name did you know that no two missteps are the same?
3.
Any Body 04:21
grey on my face and spurs on my tongue and i could be anyone large as a lion stalking his lover, small as the dying sun don’t tell them what you would do in there fist full of flowers and fire for hair feet first, all fumbles, but he wouldn’t care fake human face trapped inside his stare when i’m in this body, put your pressure on me when you’re getting closer, you’re getting further from me but i’m the one who knows better i’m the one who’s no better and she’ll always know better and she’s always no better i could be best and i could be dust and i could be what you think pinned to your collar, proof of your power, code for what you can’t see don’t say it’s me when you know she’ll do things I could dream up and you’ll dream too all legs and all eyes, like any body moves perfect in the right light, like anybody’s truth when i’m thinking clear like the light behind the window oh, i could see it peel off, and the voices become real [chorus]
4.
Mahogany 04:07
mahogany eyes, you saddle me with doubt behind the stadium, when you were coming down the lighter leaves are lost in the freckles on your skin the bitter taste of blood when the rooftop's caving in rotting good, would you, would you cut the grain, would you, would you string his neck, would you, would you steer this wreck, would you, would you tease me, torturess, bend to your death i give in easy, hold me now when i grow tall, bigger than them i'll be reckless, not yet mahogany eyes, are you more true than me? the woodcutter's brothers are lining up to see your beauty is unparalleled and i cannot compete the fray, the fretful harmonies, it twists the good in me [chorus]
5.
Bloodlust 03:01
why can’t we rearrange the tectonic plates? there’s another painted woman at the foot of the stage blue eyes, black thighs, you don’t give a damn as every cheek in this room prepares to give you a hand cheap beer and moonlight were never enough and every time i cried wolf, you had to call my bluff you’d start to call me more fashionable names i chipped my teeth on our wedding day bang, bang, bang goes the front door and bang, bang, bang goes my heart to the floor you’d be a liar if you settled for more oh, these are the plights of the ever unsure if we do this your way, it’ll never be through we’ve got a lot to say and even less to do bloodlust is the ticket and contrition is fraud you’ll have a hell of a time crawling back to the start build me a cradle and make it swing deep and you can tell all the neighbors that i just went to sleep you’d be a liar if you settled for less so just cut off my hands and watch me try to undress
6.
Carl 03:44
there will come soft rains in time, when you are grey and older not a single cloud will know the burdens we have shouldered earth, if i may, stand on your stage larger than life, and life as large as we are this lonely light looms in the cosmic night we fell in love and spilled our blood on the pale blue dot every way erodes the lines 'til there's no good, there's only kind kids and killers shed their bones on this, the only home we've known [chorus] and by design, the iris of your eye hides the hints of amber in the artificial light once brilliant blue, so innocent and new wider than the endless night around our tiny view

about

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. on it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering...every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena."
(Carl Sagan)

credits

released November 6, 2017

All songs written, recorded, and produced at home
Additional arrangements for Six Songs were composed and performed by Travis Jeffords

Allie - vocals, lyrics, nylon guitar
Travis - upright and electric bass, tracking
Travis Jeffords - prepared grand piano, vibraphone, banjo, cello, electric piano, guitar
Kendall Clark - drum kit
Austin Chapman - electric guitar
Dylan Rieck - cello

Lead vocal recorded by Andrew Hernandez at Estuary Recording in Austin, TX
Mixed by Andrew Hernandez and mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering

Album art by João Dias [bitsandcrafts.org]

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