Champ de Mars, an indie rock band based in Alexandria, Virginia has released an ambitious, dark, and compelling third album titled Halloween Leaves.  The band’s previous two releases, 2016’s Back From the West EP and 2019’s Rancho Seco Victory garnered positive critical reviews for weaving alternative guitar tunings with intelligent lyric writing to form an unique musical voice which pulled influences from REM, Wilco, Radiohead, Built to Spill, and Sonic Youth.

In his latest release, Champs’ songwriter David Bruns experiments with new layers of piano, full choirs, and hints of hip-hop rhythms to form dark sonic tapestries combined with compelling, introspective lyricism. The album primarily focuses on the story of a couple’s existence in different rooms of a house in suburbia during the pandemic. There’s allusions to wedding dresses in closets and desires to ‘have a baby,’ but also to relationship dysfunction, substance abuse, and reconciliation. The album’s centerpiece may be ‘Leaves in Winter’ which courageously confronts the societal taboo topic of miscarriage and the grief that couples often experience from it.

Monsters in the Kitchen

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The Kid

concealed

….just making my way through the chaos..

By The Time The Back And Forth Has Finished (doorstep mix)

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Lyrics:

Truly  false  complains  around  the way are now coming in vain
I have my rule into my voice while ya check this noise
Coming to a real faith
D’ you wanna please calm down and pull these lands, made of pretty fucking sand?
I Erase the notch at my feet,  no more fears,  walk on fire normally.

Sing about the time
Used to run on the streets
Until the rays, they seemed to raise Up all the leaves
I’d like to be what you want..
now my God has arrived in a song
Cosmic  supersonic  days!
Cosmic  supersonic  days!

Bring me another time,  bring me another land,  be a motherfuckin Saint! 
Bring me another time,  bring me another land,  be a motherfuckin Saint! (ooh ye)
Bring me another time,  bring me another land,  be a motherfuckin Saint!
Bring me another time,  bring me another land,  be a motherfuckin Saint! (ooh ye)


U've Got To Pray

email: subaudiox@yahoo.com  Champ de Mars is the latest project by longtime indie artist David Bruns.  It’s an amalgamation of various musicians he’s played and toured with over decades in music. 
Emerick’s career began in Northern California in the mid-nineties front various bands before settling into Bellstar, a mainstay of the Sacramento-San Francisco music scene from 1999-2006.  The band released two albums on Yak Records, and found significant college radio airplay.  
In 2006, Emerick moved to the east coast, taking up residence in Washington, D.C., where he released two solo records Maryland, and Virginia while simultaneously writing and self-publishing his first novel, The Silent Year. 
Back from the West was recorded at Navigator Studios in Alexandria, Virginia.

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