Stray Fossa

Limited edition Vinyl Moon pressing of "With You For Ever" available on www.strayfossa.com/shop

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
All music written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert, from "Swimmer" (2015)

Do you think I see myself as part of something old?
Foreseen to hunt in water and multiply to millions?
You said it was preordained if you're soma, I am brain cell
A little faith will split your conscience, pit the world against its hopeful odds

All, all that was, all that was 
You feel that it haunts every move in a constellation of what you are
All, all that was, all that was 
You know that the time to find out what can never be found won’t last for long

If you feel so much of what you give is what you are
How do you know what's left will prove enough to carry on?
And if you carry what you're worth and what you sacrifice 
Wears you out, would anyone else notice if you died?
Do you have to be so, do you have to be so over and under I?
Do you have to be so, do you have to be so over and under I?

All, all that was, all that was 
You feel that it haunts every move in a constellation of what you are
All, all that was, all that was
You know that the time to find out what could never be found won't last for long
All, all that was, all that was 
All, all that was, all that was

All music written and performed by Stray Fossa
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert, from "Swimmer" (2015)

With You For Ever B-Sides & Live

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All That Was

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Closer Than We'll Ever Know

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Transpiring

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans 
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Never Rest For Good

Perfectly Out Of Time

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa 
Produced by William Evans 
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

So Still

released July 1, 2019 
Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by William Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
It goes it comes the feeling right now
It goes it comes the feeling right now

The time I wait, the time I waste
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste

Eyes

Laridae

Eyze

released August 1, 2019 
Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion
Arielle Korman - violin

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
Never thought that I could be so cold?
Try me
After all the rest have all gone home
And I’m
Living on a caldera how dare I
Temper myself
Fortunate that I’m not 
Sinking
These days
These days

Thinking of the past that other world
Spying
Whose enamored authors wore their 
Better selves?
Honestly the truth seems
Oh, so very empty,
Mislaid 
These days
These days
These days
These days

These Days

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans 
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA. 
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass 
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion

Cover design by Kris Williams

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by William Evans 
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA. 
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass, percussion
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion

Always Over

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa 
Produced by William Evans 

Lyrics:
Split me right from the start
One half deserving more than the other
Lean into stranger thoughts
Stronger than I could dare ignore
Once more once more once more

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer

Now you’re dulling it down
With every vain attempt to relate
As every match holds a fire
In all the histories burnt out of place

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer
No way in love for what was
No way in love for what was
No way in love for what was

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer

I can’t help it [No way in love for what was]
I want more from it [No way in love for what was]
I can’t help it [No way in love for what was]
I want more from it, from it
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it
[No way in love for what was]
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it, from it
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it
[No way in love for what was]
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it, from it

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.
© 2020 Stray Fossa

Will Evans: vocals, drums, percussion, synths
Zach Blount: vocals, bass, synths
Nick Evans: vocals, guitars, synths

Cover art by Kris Williams (IG: no_ghsthuntr)

For What Was

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

In between, reaching for something sound
Wanting more before a sign is found 
Thoughts in circles, sewed in
The feedback wearing it thin
Am I someplace I’d rather be
Off in times different than these?

I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth 
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew it

Burn all ties
Foundation lines
For another time
Or a lonely lie
Costing, sinking, all in
Best to flip or to spin
If something real
Isn’t real?

Can’t get out of this myself

Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth 

Music by Zachary Blount, Nicholas Evans, William Evans
Lyrics by Zachary Blount
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

With You For Ever

Something Sound

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

Folding at the top of your life
Weekends she never your type
How you gonna stop yourself?
Folding at the top of your life
Weak kids were never so kind
Strong ones shut their mouths
And weaken beneath the quiet

Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for

I don’t care if this is what you’re in it for
I don’t care
I sit around (I don’t care) 
I sit around (If this is what you’re in it for)
I sit around (I don’t care) 
Asking what you’re in it for

Folding at the top of your life
Fall back you’re one of a kind
But trip to catch twenty-two
Everyone’s talking about something 
(Something)
I don’t think I fully can understand 
(Understand)
Or I don’t have the patience to indulge it
Shaking all the upper hands

Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for us
Don’t need much for

I sit around (I don’t care) 
I sit around (If this is what you’re in it for)
I sit around (I don’t care)
Asking what you’re in it for
I sit around
I sit around

I sit around

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Much For Us

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

A light is fading out
I rush to feel it
Beckoning the sound 
Of an open age
Never had I thought 
I’d have to leave it
Never had I guessed 
I would remain

I hold my breath
Gold rush to wait for it
Slow down, savor 
What chills and burns

You give it all you can 
And ask for nothing
Break inside to mend 
What bleeds your days
You wait for all that was 
As close as it was far

I hold my breath
Gold rush to wait for it
Slow down, savor
What chills and burns

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Bright Ahead

Limited edition Vinyl Moon pressing of our debut LP "With You For Ever" available on www.strayfossa.com/shop

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

This time seems
There's no getting out 
Of the headspace that 
You made yourself

You don't have it bad, 
But you're mad, and 
You mean to feel significant

Staring down the harm, 
You take it to the sun
To preach at all the pawns;
You don't fool me

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

The kid guards its toy
Like the thing is the last remaining
Sign of home

The freedom to say 
What you want like you can 
When you're among your own

It must be tiresome
To play a victim,
It must feel so absurd;
You don't fool me 
   
Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Hypocritic

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© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

I don't belong here
Pass another season
Move along dear
It's the best kind of moment
The kind that goes 
It's the best kind of moment
When we never know, when

It cuts in
Like a razor blade,
Smooth sail
Between sky and lake
It's the best kind of moment
The kind we love
It's the best kind of moment
Passing over us

The summer
Melts like ice on black
Pavement,
Scrapes the knees
And takes me back
It's the best kind of moment
The kind that goes
It's the best kind of moment
And now it's gone, oh no

I've noticed
You're not the same
You've changed
Time to save some face
It's the best kind of moment
The kind we love
It's the best kind of moment
And now it's gone

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA

Best Kind Of Moment

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© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

My sun'll rise, and I know
It's not much longer now
Somewhere begins a future
A stranger to ourselves
What's left of me and you 
Is a geyser rushing out at night
No chance to see it through,
To feel it boil out from under

I can't keep waking up   
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm looking at you always)
To dreams of orange days 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm ready to lose our way)
That held us in her arms 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm pushing away the truth)
And kept us for a while

Our time has come
To uncover every answer kept
Beneath the white burn of August
That carries us to bed
What chance to see it through
If the moment falls out from under
And holds a heavy heart
In the open odds of ever landing

I can't keep waking up   
I can't keep waking up   

I can't keep waking up   
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm looking at you always)
To dreams of orange days 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm ready to lose our way)
That held us in her arms 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm pushing away the truth)
And kept us for a while

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA

Orange Days

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

You’ve seen a face 
Falling out of the dark
To mother a whisper
So half of your mind 
Can dare to drift off
As the other stays 
Always wondering,
Watching through the thunder 
For a sign of all the 
Monsters in the rain

"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"Say no to drugs"
"And stay like it was the plan all along" 
"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"I wish I could stay
Like it was the plan all along"

You said goodbyes 
Never meant a thing
But I started guessing  
Though we’d gathered our best
It was known for a while
That all through the night 
You’d stayed wondering,
Haunted by old dreams 
You could not share
In fear you’d throw them all away

"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"Say no to drugs"
"And stay like it was the plan all along" 
"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"I wish I could stay
Like it was the plan all along"

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans, Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Wish I Could Stay

Stream 'How Come?' : https://strayfossa.fanlink.to/howcome

Opposing artistic tastes, divergent creative processes and yet a shared obsession with melody define the Virginia-based indie band, Stray Fossa. Brothers, Nick and Will Evans, and childhood friend, Zach Blount, grew up writing music together. Numerous monikers, solo efforts and a six-year hiatus later, in 2018, the three dropped everything, moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, built a studio into the attic of their house and began crafting songs together again.

How Come?" is the first single off of our debut full-length record, planned for April 2021. The track was recorded in a single session in our attic studio (and home) in Charlottesville, Virginia and produced by Will Evans (drums/vocals). The song feels like “a warm cocoon of lo-fi chill-wave nostalgia” and a “heart-rending blend of garage rock and dream pop” with “consistently superb vocal deliveries throughout."

Stream

Stray Fossa - How Come?

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© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

Don’t go that way, 
How I want you
To say all’s at stake 
And to call it like it is

Have to stay here 
(Trapped at home)
With the weight that 
(You don’t know)
If I'm underreacting
Find a place to 
(Be alone)
And the weight that 
(You don’t know)
Is it all as it seems?

Now, surfacing 
For another
It's a distant emporium 
In full color, is it real?

Have to stay here 
(Trapped at home)
With the weight that 
(You don’t know)
If you're underreacting
Find a place to 
(Be alone)
And the weight that 
(You don’t know)
Is it all as it seems?

Nothing new is ever strange
To you

You kept your heart
So close to mine
Underneath
The diving line

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

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