Name: The Lab Rats - Devil's Train by Hirro Chan in Spooky
Duration: 5 min 57 s
Description: Album art from: http://witnesstheabsurd.tumblr.com/post/55451677063/remember-reality-is-a-dream-the-universe-is-a

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Her dad lived a life people can’t understand

You waiting on a train?
Nah man, let me explain

Who’s gonna ride the devil’s train tonight?

Spooky

Steam Powered Giraffe's very first album was originally released in 2009. By 2011, founding member Erin Burke (who played the robot Upgrade) had left the band to pursue other opportunities. Since the band only had one album at the time, during their 2011-2012 performances at the San Diego Zoo, the band decided to change this album to feature just the current robot lineup. This included new cover art, the removal of Erin Burke's vocals, and the replacement of the song "I Am Not Alone" with the song "Ice Cream Parade". 

This version features the original release of Album One as it was in 2009, with the robot Upgrade, her vocals, and her song "I Am Not Alone". It also includes the track Ice Cream Parade from the 2011 release as a bonus.

Album One (2021 Re-release)

Brass Goggles

LaboratoryRats - Devil's Train

vending machine of love

The main Character - Will wood

Chris Garneau - "Dirty Night Clowns"

Bloody! Bloody!

Forrest Day

Sleepwalk

My second Over the Garden Wall cover, of the somewhat more morbid song "Come Wayward Souls" sung by the Beast as he lulls his victims into an eternal slumber. This was a lot of fun.

Come Wayward Souls (cover)

Devils Train

The streams are free! The opening track to an upcoming mixtape

I was reflecting on life and seeing all the things I put above myself. I burned myself out so I was burning other people. Seeing myself do that, something had to change.

Feel free to stream the song on YouTube, Bandcamp, TikTok or Instagram or just keep it pushing. Either way, I appreciate that this showed up to you when it did

1. The Mirror

Bremen - Pigpen

Album art from: http://witnesstheabsurd.tumblr.com/post/55451677063/remember-reality-is-a-dream-the-universe-is-a

The Lab Rats - Devil's Train

The rhythms of hip-hop provide a placemat for nervously melodic splendor and a melting pot of genres.  What are we to call this compellingly oddball mélange of rock, rap, jazz, reggae, and other influences, all in sway to some of the most mirthfully self-conscious streams of consciousness you’ve ever heard? We could call it attention-deficit-disorder rock. Or maybe we should just call it Forrest Day, the Bay-area bandleader who’s releasing his self-titled full-length debut on the Ninth Street Opus label. 

Cohorts include guitarist Terrell Liedstrand, a bandmate of Day’s since they were both 15, and bassist John Sankey, another high school buddy. Keyboard player Nick Wyner also came on board when the band was founded in 2006, and Jasper Skydecker joined up as their first full-time drummer a year later. When they went into the studio together for the first time, it was with several years of live performances under their belts and a chemistry that Day wanted to capture—and ever-so-slightly digitally tamper with.

“We hit analog tape with everything, but then dumped it into ProTools to manipulate it there,” says Day, who produced the album himself. “So a lot of it is like a big marriage between actual performance and then, in editing, turning some of the songs into loops—though it doesn’t really sound like it, because it’s so analog-sounding.” Day also points out that “there’s not a sample on the record. We brought in real violin players, who were in the room with real saxophones.”

Day’s amusingly confessional songwriting dabbles in social commentary about corporate greed (“Hoarders”) and our overmedicated society (“Meds”), among other concerns. But he returns again and again to everyday struggles common to itinerant musicians and non-musicians alike: bad bosses, lost jobs, debt collectors, and the girlfriend as muse or unwitting patron of the arts. There’s an elaborate work ethic apparent in these meticulously crafted tunes that would seem to put the lie to lyrics that talk about being dreamy, uncertain, and aimless. What we have on this striking debut, then, is a collection of incredibly focused anthems for an unfocused generation. 



The Lab Rats - Devil's Train

Hirro Chan

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