Debut song from Winnipeg's Champagne Years

Skinny Jeans

Lists (pre-demo)

Finding jewels in the sand,
got a number in my hand
pink smiles and gold-blue eyes

Meant to leave him behind,
but each find and I am reminded
cast away in my minds eye

Didn't mean to see him sitting there
on the water's edge
singin' my little heart to dust,
through a daydream I pledge

I brought him out
with a song and some sweet observation
good lord have mercy
I think I know now

I thought him out,
wanted to play stay away for a while
but how could I live without
how could I be, how could I breathe

now that I know
now that I know
I just know, I just know

this little black heart shaped hole
ventricles showin'
is restless and strange

doubting dust speaks from the void
that maybe I should stay away, save myself

thus the shadows move across my path
but if it weren't for the light
there would be nothing to be cast

this little black heart shaped hole
ain't seen the light of day in so long
so I'll take what comes my way
little light for my little shade

so I brought you bright things
and presently sing
so you might buy what I'm selling
and catch some light from me

I brought you bright things
and presently sing
but I'll take what comes my way
little light for my little shade

now that I know

This is the first single off of the upcoming album.

Love Won't Always Be There

"Casual Listener" by Future States is out October 28 on Golden Brown.  Available at:
futurestates.bandcamp.com/album/casual-listener

Recorded over a two week period at a church in Northern Ontario, Casual Listener, their first full length LP, sees Future States charting a path between two poles of their musical interest — pop songcraft and improvisation. The arrangements for Apostolic, Lulu, Wish You Well and Violencia highlight the former, with carefully orchestrated melodic and rhythmic ideas, and meticulous attention paid to instrumental layers. In contrast,You Got It All Wrong, Regress to the Mean and the album's multiple interlude tracks showcase how the musical relationships within the band play out in real-time, with loose arrangements made possible by the freedom to improvise together and record late into the night in the church-turned-studio. The quiet album closer Sudo Su pairs Bronson’s abstract lyrics with delicate vocal harmonies, eerie church organ, an ethereal ringing bell, and pizzicato cello performed by Christine Bronson, sampled and carefully re-arranged by Hyatt into Norman McLaren-esque percussive pops. Together, the songs on Casual Listener are testament to the venn-diagram that is Future States’ music—experimentation that feeds into polished pop.

Future States - Apostolic

awful horrible painful world

Don't know what to do...
you're going away again, 
spending my money
drinking it like you do

When will you come back,
and with what in hand?
Got to feed the babies, 
Got to get new shoes, 
buy school supplies for them

but you got nothing for me
no cash, ain't no man
no master plan
no love; who's this I married?

I do this alone
your name on this home,
but I run it,
I run

Bring me a sunflower in the morning if you still love me
Bring me a sunflower in the morning if you still believe in me

new tune

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