Mystery

Really happy with the final outcome of this one, feel like I've finally gotten that competitive loudness mark with the master.

Sean Stuckey on lead guitar,
Adam Hemphill on acoustic, vocals, bass, drums, synths, and production

Anyways, this song has pretty eerie origins, I originally wrote it mid September on a really dreary day, which certainly affected the mood quality of the song. Later that day, I got a call from Sean, where he broke the news to me that Josh Fleet, Sean's cousin and a good friend of ours had passed away from an overdose. We ended up coping that day by making this track come alive with that sorrowful energy, and I trust that you'll feel that listening to the guitar solo Sean put down on this one. 

September Wind

Here's one for all the introverts. The music video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZykJPR6AZ4o



Lyrics:
You talk
all the time
but you never say a god damn thing
If you'd just
shut up for a moment
you'd know exactly what I mean

Please
Breathe
Breathe

Adam - Writing, Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Synths, Percussion, Production

Talk

Here is something that almost never existed. We played the first riff and were like NAH LETS GO HOME, and then we had a very awesome psychadelic folk ending. 

Conditional Ambition

Flow/Resist

What started as two songs... ended up as two songs. But they go together, I promise. We're pretty stoked about how these turned out, I feel like a lot of musical ground gets covered in 7 minutes. 

Sean Stuckey:
-Banjo
-Electric Guitars
-Synth (Moog Sub37)
-Psychadelic DL4 loops

Adam Hemphill
-Acoustic Guitar
-Acoustic Baritone
-Bass
-Electric Guitar
-Drums
-Synths (Moog Sub37)
-Vocals
-Mixing & Production

02 II. Alphabeticals

01 I. Polar Bear Taser

An experiment with vocal delivery, as I have been way influenced by Why? recently.

Adam Hemphill - Vocals, Guitar, Synths/Keyboards, Drums, Production
Sean Stuckey - Bass, Psychedelic guitar flourish
Darby Smith - Guitar

Lyrics:
Standing on the shoulders of a dead man
Waiting for mother nature to gentrify 
the corpse of our society
and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't ready
to pump a steady stream of psychotropic ingredients into
the sugar cubes for those heavy moods
Any thief loves a story of how he appropriates
as a simultaneous pro-lifer anti-creationist
with a shopping list consisting of a lighter and spoon

Am I still a hypocrite if I know that too?

Looking out from the safety of my fragile ego
With weights and scales and somebody to weigh them too
They speak in regular expressions til the message gets through
'The blood on my hands is on yours too'
Like a picture of a painting of a man with a camera
in an infinite hall of mirrors' reflections into
this hell I've been damned to
Where the weighers dispute
though the scales give the names
and inside of every frame is eerily the same

Act like you didn't notice that
I'm one and the same as you
and as such I know the virtues of wearing many hats
of a different design and only being allowed
to have one favorite color
My lovers I lie with and through the teeth
and while we sleep each dream creates a new God
from the fabric of your flesh
and if you eat what you are
to give an old phrase a rest
while the rest inhale the fumes while the paint dries

Culture Shock

Hypocrite

Cover of the 1979 song, Young Lust, by Pink Floyd, off The Wall Disc 1. 

Jordan Hayhurst
Drums

Adam Hemphill
Guitar, Bass, Keys, Vocals, Production

Young Lust - Pink Floyd Cover

Had to get something done while locked up in the house. I've been listening to a lot of Akron/Family so that may have something to do with the falsetto and banjo stuff. 

Lyrics:
Trapped
I see everything in front of me
Nothing ever breaks this monotony
Why is it so hard to appreciate the time
that we have right now

Now that the space between us speaks
Reveals who was close enough to keep
Silences grows so loud in the absence of a sound
that you long to hear

Mantra
So just remember,
Tomorrow is right around the corner
And the weight of today
Dissipates out of memory

All instruments/voice/production/mixing by Adam

Trapped / Mantra for the Quarantined

It is what it do?

Featuring
Dog - Marley (aka Marl Haggard)
Alan Watts

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