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Dessa of doomtree

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Almost one year after the release of her critically acclaimed album Parts of Speech, Dessa is releasing a remix EP featuring new takes from a number of talented artists including Doomtree cohorts Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, as part of COMMITTEE (Lazerbeak x Ryan Olson), as well as Budo, Grant Cutler, among others. The first single, “Fighting Fish” comes remixed by The Hood Internet and is available as an instant grat track if pre-ordered from iTunes.

Get it on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/dessapsrmx

Tour Dates — Tickets: http://doomtree.net/shows

Dessa // http://doomtree.net/dessa
Follow @dessadarling on Twitter // http://twitter.com/dessadarling
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Dessa "Warsaw (Cecil Otter Remix)"

Almost one year after the release of her critically acclaimed album Parts of Speech, Dessa is releasing a remix EP featuring new takes from a number of talented artists including Doomtree cohorts Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, as part of COMMITTEE (Lazerbeak x Ryan Olson), as well as Budo, Grant Cutler, among others. The first single, “Fighting Fish” comes remixed by The Hood Internet and is available as an instant grat track if pre-ordered from iTunes.

Pre-order from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/dessapsrmx

Tour Dates — Tickets: http://doomtree.net/events
June 22 - Minneapolis, MN @ Rock The Garden
July 8 - Grand Forks, ND @ North Dakota Museum of Art
July 9 - Mandan, ND @ Mysteria Theatre
July 10 - Moorhead, MN @ Rourke Art Museum

On tour with WHY?
September 18 - Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom
September 19 - Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace
September 20 - Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola
September 21 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
September 22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
September 23 - Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat
September 25 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
September 27 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
September 28 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall

Dessa // http://doomtree.net/dessa
Follow @dessadarling on Twitter // http://twitter.com/dessadarling
Like Dessa on Facebook // http://facebook.com/dessadarling

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Buy on iTunes

Dessa "It's Only Me (Grant Cutler Remix)"

Dessa "It's Only Me (The Year of the Horse Remix)"

Dessa "Skeleton Key (Youngblood Brass Band Remix)"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by ICETEP
Additional production by Lazerbeak

Chime

I Hope I'm Wrong

Dessa "I Hope I'm Wrong"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Dessa and Andy Thompson
Additional production by Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger

Say When

Dessa "Say When"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Anagram Norton and Lazerbeak
Additional production by Andy Thompson
Additional synth by Saam Hagshenas

Dessa "Half of You"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Cecil Otter and Lazerbeak
Additional production by Andy Thompson

Shrimp

Dessa "Shrimp"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Dessa, Lazerbeak, and Andy Thompson

Boy Crazy

Dessa "Boy Crazy"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Dessa, Lazerbeak, and Andy Thompson
Cello by Dan Lawonn
Violin by Andy Thompson

Velodrome

Dessa "Velodrome"

new DESSA 
album CHIME
in stores 2.23.18
pre-order: http://smarturl.it/DessaChime

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Andy Thompson
Additional production by Lazerbeak

LYRICS

I’ve been Wendy
living with the Lost Boys
youth spent as a deckhand on the convoy
moved every night to prove we were something
got confused if it was from or to that we were running. 
I've seen Gibraltar
I’ve seen the Taj Mahal
Soweto, Hagia Sophia 
Chefchaouen paints their walls blue
I’ve played to full rooms
I’ve played the fool too 
burning through the bottoms of a pair of new boots
Cut my hair
tape my tits down 
A woman on her own must be from out of town
funny, you don’t know the concessions that you’re making until you catalog em
and by then they’re many and you’re battle-hardened. 
Heat makes liquid of the asphalt 
keepsakes and parking tickets on the dashboard 
I'm here to file my report as the vixen of the wolf pack; 
tell Patient Zero, he can have his rib back. 

Chorus
You can count my ribs
Wanna know what class I’m in—
Count my,
You can count my ribs. 

You can’t be too broke to break
as a woman
Always something left to take 
so you shouldn't  
try to stay too late or talk to strangers
look too long, go too far out of range cause
angels can’t watch everybody all the time
stay close, hems low, safe inside;
that formula works if you can live it 
but it works by putting half the world off limits. 

Chorus

We don’t say, Go out and be brave
nah, we say Be careful, stay safe 
in any given instance, that don't hurt
but it sinks in like stilettos in soft earth,
like the big win is a day without an incident 
I beg to differ with it
I think a woman’s worth
I think that she deserves 
a better line of work 
than motherfucking vigilance.
Don’t give me vigilance
by definition 
you can’t make a difference 
if the big ambition 
is simply standing sentry to your innocence  
that’s not a way to live 
that can’t be what a woman is
that gives her nothing to aspire to.
What that is—
what that is
is just a life of running fire drills. 

We’re runnin fire drills.

Fire Drills

Dessa "Fire Drills"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Chance Lewis, Lazerbeak, Andy Thompson, and Dessa

5 out of 6

Dessa "5 out of 6"

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Lazerbeak
Additional production by Andy Thompson