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Enjoy the new single from the LA based band "A House For Lions."

Daniel Norman - Vocals, Guitar
Mike Nissen - Lead Guitar
Eric McCann - Bass, Keyboards
Joseph August Luisi - Drums, Percussion

Additional Musicians
Wendy Wang - Vocals
Daphne Chen - Violin, Viola

String Arrangements by Eric McCann

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Tom Biller
Recorded at The Hangar Studios and Baby Possum Studio
Mastered by Dave Cooley

Design by Mike Nissen

RANDM DS-001
©2015 Randm Records

Tell Me We Can Run Now

Hide another letter
Starting to get better
Everybody's waiting around
Promise me a secret
Swear I won't repeat it
Everyone's away from me now
I don't wanna go there
I don't wanna know where
I just wanna run now
Tell me we can run now

Faces of the no one
Buy another message
Tell me we can run now

Is it just a feeling
Sun or just a ceiling
Everything that's lost can't be found
Sing a magic spell
Ring around the well
Only matter time til we drown

I'm not gonna hurt you
Only want to search you
Did you steal away with the crown
Push me through the red mess
Only can the dead rest
Keep your eyes awake for the sound

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A House For Lions - Tell Me We Can Run Now

Daniel Norman - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Mike Nissen - Electric Guitar, Omnichord
Eric McCann - Bass, Keyboards
Joseph Luisi - Drums, Percussion
 
Recorded and Mixed by Mike Butler at the Lost Ark Studio, California
Mastered by Jamal Ruhe at West West Side Music, New York

www.ahouseforlions.com
www.randmrecords.com

RANDM S-002
 
A House For Lions - Peace And War

a painted fool waits on the floor
for the keepers of pretend to call him in
(or i did i end up singing - to be called up by the keepers of pretend?)
each night asking for his chance
to retrieve the life he's offered up to them

lords above
am i your song?
O!

he give a bite to one and all
a banquet for the cosmopolitan
thought it seems an errant call
in his fever dreams he's cursed, he's the forgiven
sees with the eyes of the reflection in the mirror
knows the truth - that all is void, still there's an army at your back
what could real life offer him

lords above
i am your song
o my love

o since we first touched i've wanted more
i am your song of peace, your song of war
i dare to scream your name from every shore
i long to scream my name from every shore

A House For Lions - Peace And War

The 2nd release from debut album 'Regrowth' due early 2017

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0C2bS1MGghsrHSYf1Tybmk
Apple: http://apple.co/1TvgRHL
Bandcamp: https://kauf.bandcamp.com/track/a-ruin

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BANDCAMP

A Ruin

3rd cut from debut album Regrowth due early 2017

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2h2PA2P
Apple: http://apple.co/2h9w81W
Bandcamp: https://kauf.bandcamp.com/track/key-to-life

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Key to Life

Take you down

<3

spotify: http://sptfy.com/Xg1
p+p premier: bit.ly/2ln2cBz 

production by @josiahkosier and vōx
mastering by @vermaasaudio
photograph by David Gomez Maestre

i think i died this week
the earth slipped away
i didn't leave
you didn't stay
you didn't stay

i think i died this week
the lights dimmed out
i didn't scream
you didn't shout
you didn't shout

it was the loneliest occupation
only my soul to keep me warm
and the mumbling and the shaking
wouldn't let up til i was born
til i was born
til i was born

i think i died this week
but i can't be sure
i wasn't chaste
you weren't pure
you weren't pure

I Was Born

"The Horseman" from the Beautiful View's 2012 release "life is beautiful"

The Beautiful View - The Horseman

Talk Time - Year of Self - Out 06.15.18
Co-produced by Math Bishop (U2, The Killers, Silversun Pickups)
Mastered by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Studios
Dream-pop made from scratch in East LA

Year of Self

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Year Of Self

Talk Time - True North - Out 11.09.18 via Broken Company Records
Co-produced by Math Bishop (U2, The Killers, Silversun Pickups)
Mastered by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Studios
Dream-pop made from scratch in East LA

https://talktimeband.com/
https://www.instagram.com/talktimeband/
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https://twitter.com/talktimeband
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6SvlCVjpqyfgxpe4mu7IBb?si=oZeg7rzyQl2GmzwFYnA4_Q

True North

From "Torey's Distraction".

I was lucky enough to do the soundtrack to a documentary film entitled "Torey's Distraction". www.toreysdistraction.com

released digitally on Aug 28, 2012.

Tracklisting

01 - Torey's Distraction 
02 - An Explanation 
03 - Leaving Florida 
04 - Play With Me 
05 - Complications 
06 - A Day in the Life 
07 -Going Under 
08 - Distraction Days 
09 - Pinky's Storage 
10 - Baby Saige 
11 - Cowgirl 
12 - A Look Back 
13 - Celebration

A Look Back

Talk Time - Colors - Out 03.26.19
Co-produced by Math Bishop (Two-Door Cinema Club, Silversun Pickups, The Killers)
Mastered by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Studios
Dream-pop made from scratch in East LA

Colors

Talk Time - Paperhearts - Out 04.09.19
Co-produced by Math Bishop (Two-Door Cinema Club, Silversun Pickups, The Killers)
Mastered by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Studios
Dream-pop made from scratch in East LA

Paperhearts

Daniel Norman - Vocals, Guitar
Mike Nissen - Lead Guitar
Eric McCann - Bass, Keyboards
Joseph August Luisi - Drums, Percussion

All songs by Daniel Norman and A House for Lions
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Tom Biller
Recorded at The Hangar Studios and Baby Possum Studio
Mastered by Dave Cooley
Design by Mike Nissen

www.ahouseforlions.com
www.facebook.com/ahouseforlions

lyrics:

i'm gonna test my will 
i'm gonna put things right 
you don't wanna wait for me 

i'm not gonna stop until 
the artist can pay his bills 
you don't wanna wait for me 

but somehow in the night 
oh the feeling's always right on time 
but you don't wanna wait for me 

i've got a new idea 
i'm gonna set it down 
i just wanna say my piece 

a gathering in the field 
a search through the lost and found 
i just wanna be released 

but somehow in the night 
oh the feeling's always right on time 
but you don't wanna wait for me

(You Don't Wanna) Wait For Me

From the debut Maxi Single. Out on 2.12.13 via PCM + Boombox recordings | Mom + Pop

Something Better

"The modern rock genre is in serious need of some fresh new faces. Enter A House For Lions." --L.A. Times

"L.A.'s A House for Lions showed off a robust rock sound at Rusty's on Wednesday, adding garage ferocity to the softer, '90s-influenced alt-rock of debut EP 'I Want Us to Be Remembered'. --Billboard.com

“They’re only just starting out but already they’re purring like a sleek machine with a human heart...seeing a band this good this early is a thing of wonder and ought to be celebrated.” - Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) - Q Magazine

“Purveyors of gorgeous anthemic rock” –-Kevin Bronson, BuzzBands.LA

THE LATEST: A House For Lions recently completed work on their debut full-length album with Grammy Award-winning producer Tom Biller (Silversun Pickups, Elliot Smith, Fiona Apple) after completing an innovative DIY crowdfunding campaign to fund the making of the album. By successfully bypassing the traditional crowdfunding platforms (Kickstarter, et al) and building their campaign from scratch, they've impressed the indie music world at large and attracted flattering press including an interview on NPR, articles from Digital Music News, Hypebot and many others.

Daniel Norman, singer/songwriter of A House for Lions, was a music lover who never intended to become a musician. But while hitchhiking through Germany, a melody and a few words popped into his head and never left: “we'll write a book worth reading!” - the first line of what would become the first song Daniel ever wrote and A House for Lions' statement of purpose, “Let Back”. In that moment, he realized it might be possible to get off of the fence and create a project of his own; at least, it would be fun to try. Daniel had played guitar since he was a kid, but had no experience playing in a band. So he'd have to get better, (“we'll pass the test, no cheating!”) but he'd also need to seek out kindred spirits to flesh-out the sound of his bare bones experiments. 

In early 2010 he found just that in an unlikely group of strangers. Adding guitarist and designer Mike Nissen, bass player Eric McCann and drummer Joe Luisi, A House for Lions has developed a sound that according to The Deli Magazine “manages to blend the sleeker side of angsty 90s rock with the laid-back instrumentation and heart-string pulling melodies you might expect from an alt-country band”. 

Within six months, the band had recorded their first EP I Want Us To Be Remembered, with LA producer Raymond Richards (Local Natives) and were off and running. From there the band garnered rave reviews from the LA Times and Billboard.com, made impressive debuts at CMJ and SXSW and established themselves as one of Los Angeles' most promising young bands. 

Not content to rest on any laurels, these brothers-in-arms remain dedicated to creating and sustaining a distinct vision in an uncertain musical landscape. “To all the new beginnings/to all the screws unspinning!”

(You Don't Wanna) Wait For Me

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