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Even Shadows have Shadows

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

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

"Thank You" is off of Sage Francis' COPPER GONE album, available in all formats here at Strange Famous Records: www.tinyurl.com/sfrCopperGone
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This live version was recorded during SXSW 2014 at Daytrotter's studio: 
"We knew what Sage Francis was going to do to us when he came by the studio in Austin a month ago. We knew he was going to destroy us. We just didn't know he was going to destroy us as much as he wound up destroying us. He's a rapper unequaled and his new record, 'COPPER GONE', is a goddamned blessing, after a four year break between records. This particular song from the full session floored us. We were slack-jawed and stunned by the passionate delivery and sentiment in 'Thank You' and we all -- Sage included -- wanted to get this out into the world in front of the full session." - Sean Moeller www.daytrotter.com



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

Dessa "Skeleton Key (Youngblood Brass Band Remix)"

The new album ALL HANDS in stores 01.27.15 www.doomtree.net

THE BENDS
Produced by Cecil Otter
Additional production by Lazerbeak
Vocal sample by Will Humphries, Guitar by Jake Hanson, Additional vocals by Joe Mabbott and Isaac Gale
(Dessa)
Leave when the snow melts / on the first clear night / River runs deep / walk against it / Walk til the Southern Cross peaks on the west edge / of the brine lake at the dredged end / Ruts in the mud, then gravel, then a paved one / left at the Amoco, right at the station / First train—wait / take the second headed east
/ window seat, pretty girl with the gold teeth / has a hotel key with your name on it / Stay on it til the train hits the border in the morning / Duck the conductor, leave through the back door / wait for my sign on the platform / Smoke on the skyline / welcome to Delphi / They’ll come with questions / answer what you can / everybody knows the new oracle’s at hand
(Hook)
Oh, there prolly ain’t another way / and I watch so amazed / and float through everyday / hoping I don’t float away / that I don’t float away
(Stef)
Cold world, no blanket / dark nights, no Batman, what up? / I keep a nail in the hand and a hammer on
the nightstand / locked in, no B plan / Keep the mouth shut, let em stay lost / radio up, radio off / Either
no guts or it’s so what / rather read up then trust my neck to the blood suck / Full moon, hand fulla silver bullets / high noon all day with these assholes / How soon is too soon to pull it when I doubt they count they paces at all / So fly took a bullet in the wax wing / so high but didn’t get the chance to melt / so tight how when he came down didn’t even look scared / just eased on back into the veldt
(Hook)
(Sims)
The woods are deep / yeah them woods are deep / I was drinking that cheap shit to fall asleep / and really solely to hold my feet / because these days I’ve been taking that heavy so lightly / that I might float away completely / in my psyche I’m the natural man in a Black Friday stampede / LED murder spree for cheap / and the video screams Worldstar War Z / I’m feeling dirty but feeling so good I just smile at the thieves / fold up a note in the breeze / I’ve got a few miles to go before I concede
(Hook)
(Cecil)
You got it wrong, but you got it made / a lot of weight but you gotta wait for a lot of aid though / and I’m not a maid or amazed by the raise in your payroll / ergo silence the offers / High-wire walkers, child actors / ain’t vying for your father figure fodder / Otter out, we outta town, you outta line you lil faulker / taut line from the dock to the Oscars
(Mike)
And I’m reading like a Rorschach / hiding lines in the pantomime, allegory in a smirk / Where my eyes won’t take you my moves do that work, a nonverbal creep / Where the O.G.s weep / slide, slip, test glide / Connect like catchin rec like R-E-S-P-I-R-ation from the Westside / Now it’s strong in the Midwest in my own nation
/ got a fam and we crewed up in sub-clans, no subjugation / with the wings and the chops, put the beans
in the pot / like the seeds to the crop, Doomtree No Kings cut the top / head em off at the neck, better off dead, dead em all / better them than you, right? / Forever type shit
(Hook)

DOOMTREE "The Bends"

Final single from Doomtree's 2011 sophomore album 'No Kings'

Doomtree "Team The Best Team"

Produced by: Cecil Otter
Additional Synths & Bass: Adam Pickrell
Additional Drum Progamming: John Congleton
Horns: Reggie Pace

Even after 6 months, NOLA was still a wreck
The 9th ward still had water up to your chest
Under I-10, they piled the dead cars
Ever seen an ambulance with high water marks?

They don’t dance no more, all we do is flinch
And brace for that old taste that chase a strong fist
With blood on our lips, and flooded bricks
Taste that whiskey kiss, born sweaty and free
Fuck a club, motherfucker, take that shit to the streets

We were born running away from God!
We were born running away!

10 euros is cheap for sure
He said it all in broken words, 
but these people ain’t got nothing
they’d rather drink what they have then buy your merch 

Čadca isn’t pretty, but Tatranský works
Thick liquor dark brown, made of secret herbs
Slovakia gets busy, they don’t need no words
And anything is club if the speakers work

Turn it up till it shakes the plaster
No kings, no gods, no masters
The beat builds while the euro collapsing
Little kids tagging “all cops are bastards”

AntiFa is passin, in they old jean jackets
They don’t need no magic just to make it happen
Make out, make do, make the best of what you got
And turn the volume up till it shakes the rafters 

Till it shakes the rafters
Till it shakes the rafters
Till it shakes the rafters
We make our own disasters

CHORUS

We ain’t no gangsters
We ain’t no thugs
We’re all just flesh and blood
And we don’t need you to mess this up
We independent son, dig our own graves
Salt our own lands, make our own plagues just for fun
You can test us come
We’ll be waiting by the front gate with the Beam in our cup

And I’m dumbfound how in my home town, when the cops come they all just run
And when the land lord wants us out, we pack our bags and shut the whole thing up
So I was like, “aiiight, what you do when the police come through to shake you down?”
She laughed out loud and said, “we lock them motherfuckers out!”

That’s a true story.

ALBUM CREDITS:
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Justin Vernon
PRODUCED, ENGINEERED, & RECORDED BY: John Congleton at April Base Studios. Fall Creek, WI
MIXED BY: John Congleton at The Elm Street Funeral Home. Dallas, TX
MASTERED BY: Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering. Brooklyn, NY

Cover Photo: Cameron Wittig
HMUA: Romney Chan
“Florida Flag Robe” Designed and Made by: Lina Tillmann
“Handmade Helvetica” Font by: Andy McAlpine

Under Exclusive LIcense from Astronautalis to Cargo Records in the EU and SideOneDummy in all other territories.


Running Away From God

"sleepdrone/superposition" by P.O.S off of Chill, dummy out now on Doomtree Records.


Doomtree Webstore: http://store.doomtree.net/artist/p-o-s
iTunes: bit.ly/POSChilldummyiTunes
Bandcamp: bit.ly/POSChilldummyBandcamp

featuring Allan Kingdom, Astronautalis, Eric Mayson, Kathleen Hanna, Hard_R, Lydia Liza, Lizzo, Nicholas L. Perez

Chill, dummy

sleepdrone/superposition

P.O.S "sleepdrone/superposition"

Sean Anonymous & DJ Name - Clock In Feat. Sims

Produced by Paper Tiger

Pre-order More Than Ever from Doomtree.net (http://bit.ly/DTpreorder)
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/simsmte
Bandcamp: http://sims.bandcamp.com

LYRICS
I heard they prey on weak / I heard they play for keeps / I feel em grabbing at my feet / I heard them say don't speak / I just hit another level / watch em try to pull me down / with the petty, with the heavy / put the devil in the crown / what can I say to you? / I’m too right brain for you / Twain my communique / you are what's in supreme / fuck boy starter pack / I’m Huck Finn, huck shit, Hassoi / living art in fact / I see deceit, I see em back stab / I’ve got no need for that / I’m sliding off like the god damn pizza rat / I’m out, I’m out, with that free that I just found / my sound and it bumps / look at what amounts from the jump / and I’m never coming down

I am living lawless thinking I won’t come down, come down / I am flying high now thinking I won’t come down, come down

all the doubters, they can shout from the towers  / I just laugh, I just stay up / what a way to waste your hours / I’m not wastin, I'm not wastin / boy I'm racing,  got no patience / I ain't stressing count my blessings / I go right into it / burn the brightest til It’s done  / right into the sun
more cognitive than dissonance / they call me Icarus /I am stretching my whole frame out / they’re readying their takedowns from safe ground / pulling all their blades out / cut me up, cut me up, what they really gonna take? / cuff me to the truth of failure ay that's okay / why you’re living like a stowaway, I go my own / far from perfect but let no person put a verdict on that, no way / cannot touch me, cannot touch me / I am beauty I am ugly / I am living art / play your part

More Than Ever

"Icarus"

Pre-order CD/LP from Doomtree.net: http://bit.ly/DTpreorder
Pre-order on Bandcamp: http://sims.bandcamp.com
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I love this beat. I think ICETEP captured some amazing feeling in this one, big rises and falls, sweeping synths, I don’t know, there is just something unique and special about that beat to me. This was the first beat I got for this album, and it was the last song I finished; I wound up turning it in the day before we went to mastering. The song is about immediacy, and that sense of desperation in immediacy.  I wrote this in memoriam of some lost friends. Something woke in me when they died. Something fierce and urgent. And I wanted to share that sense of urgency on this song, to share that expression of being relentlessly present and driven to do whatever it is that you want to do.
-Sims

Brutal Dance

"Talk To Me" by Run The Jewels [from the upcoming album RTJ3]

Download this track for FREE at adultswim.com

Produced by El-P
Co-produced by Little Shalimar and Wilder Zoby
Recorded by Leon "Yung Leon" Kelly
Mixed by Joey Raia
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound
Scratches by DJ Trackstar

Get the t-shirt / art print here: http://bit.ly/2edZufz

2016 Adult Swim Singles Program

Run The Jewels - Talk To Me

Doomtree - Little Mercy

"Faded" by P.O.S off of Chill, dummy out now on Doomtree Records

Doomtree Webstore: http://store.doomtree.net/artist/p-o-s
iTunes: http://bit.ly/POSChilldummyiTunes
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/POSChilldummyBandcamp

Faded

P.O.S - "Faded"

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
Additional production by Lazerbeak and Andy Thompson

Jumprope

Dessa "Jumprope"

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