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1. Crystalline Peaks
(composition by Javi Perez)
2. Fallacy
(composition by Tim Doyle)
3. So Divided
(composition & lyrics by Jamie Benzies)
4. 3301
(composition by Tilé Gichigi-Liperé)
5. The Cracks in the Bricks (Prologue)
(composition by Jamie Benzies)
6. The Cracks in the Bricks
(composition by Jamie Benzies, lyrics by Jamie Benzies & Tilé Gichigi-Liperé)
7. Ashen Faun
(composition by Axel Kaner-Lidstrom & Tilé Gichigi-Liperé)
8. Last Throes of the Temporal Monolith
(composition by Tilé Gichigi-Liperé)


Jamie Benzies - Bass Guitar & Vocals
Tim Doyle - Drums
Javi Perez - Electric Guitar
Tilé Gichigi-Liperé - Keys & Electronics
Axel Kaner-Lidstrom - Trumpet
James Mollison - Tenor Saxophone
Rob Milne - Tenor Saxophone & Bass Clarinet & Flute
Production: Tilé Gichigi-Liperé (D’vo) & Tim Doyle (Chiminyo)
Executive Production: Łukasz Wojciechowski & Jamie Benzies
Visionary: Jamie Benzies
Studio: Hermitage Works Studios (July 2020)
Recording Engineer: Nathan Ridley
Mix and Master Engineer: Aviv Cohen
Cover Art: Miranda Benzies
Graphic Design: Animisiewasz
Photographer: Karolina Wielocha

Cykada - Ashen Faun

Cykada - The Cracks in the Bricks

Cykada - 3301

Cykada - So Divided

Our favourite psych jazz rockers, Cykada, share “Fallacy”, an exclusive cut from their forthcoming second album, ‘Metamorphosis’, released Friday 22 November on Astigmatic Records. 

“Fallacy” is a prime example of the development of Cykada’s sound, since their debut album, into a heavier amalgamation of jazz, folk, rock and sound system and UK dancefloor influences. 

The new album was recorded whilst the pandemic was in full swing in the UK. Bass guitarist Jamie Benzies, now on vocals too, was joined by Tim Doyle, aka producer/multi instrumentalist Chimyuo, on drums, James Mollison, also of Ezra Collective, on tenor sax, on trumpet Axel Kaner-Lidstromo of Levitation Orchestra, Tilé Gichigi-Lipere on keys & electronics, Rob Milne on various wind instruments, and Javi Perez on electric guitar.

Exclusive Premiere: Cykada "Fallacy" (Astigmatic Records)

It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing
It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing
It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing
It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing

All my anxiety making love with my peace
Right on time for the vacation on the shores of my mind
Swing low, sweet chariot
Separate the gross from the subtle,
The truth from the rubble,
You’ll find yourself again, my son

But why, can't you hear me love?
Please have mercy, I surrender!
Find a little space in heaven.

It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing
It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing
It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing
It’s jubilee, we’ve come to sing

Dying

The Magician

I’ll meet you in the clouds
We blast off, we blast off
Sunshine fights cross our faces
(speak all the words and we’ll fall away)
We can’t fall, we can’t fall
(forward bound, forward bound)

La la la la la la la la la la la la hiyeeeeeoooooo

Go seek inside the mother, go laugh into the sun
Reshape negative thinking
Plant in your garden now

Go seek inside the mother
Go fortify your garden

El pasto siempre, es más verde del otro lado
Y en la forma típica de los humanos distraídos
Atención hay extraterrestres
Y como un bebe, y como un bebe

Cuando tu veas algo, algo que sea un brillo
Arrebata ese momento, que controla ese momento?
Cuando tu veas algo, algo que sea un brillo
Arrebata ese momento, que controla ese momento?

Baila!


I'll meet you, in the clouds
We blast off, we blast off
Sunshine fights cross our faces
(speak all the words and we’ll fall away)
We can’t fall, we can’t fall
(forward bound, forward bound)
Fall, we can’t fall
Fall , we can’t fall
credits

The Mystic

Seven locks upon the red gates
Seven gates about the red town
In the town there lives a butcher and his name is
Handsome John Brown

I gave my heart to the Blue Ridge,
The sun washed over, under clouds
I saw myself in God, I knew that it was love,
I felt the tender pressure of Truth

Petit enfant,
(il ne) faut pas avoir peur
Si ç'est ton temp,
(il) faut te laisser.
Dis, repose-toi!
(il ne) faut pas te cacher
Viens avec moi, petit enfant
Petit enfant, viens avec moi
Petit enfant, petit enfant

Petit enfant, écoute tes parents!
Ils ne savent rien, mais t’en sais moins que ca
Dis, repose-toi
(il ne) faut pas te cacher
Viens avec moi, petit enfant

John Brown’s boots are polished so fine,
John Brown’s spurs, they jingle and shine
On his coat a crimson flower,
In his hand a glass of red wine

(Dream)

Can you hear the river falling up the stream?
The angels laughing back our discernment, no discernment
Maybe we will find it, leading with our hearts
Surrender to the fire and let it burn apart

Petit enfant,
(il ne) faut pas avoir peur
Si ç'est ton temp,
(il) faut te laisser.
Dis, repose-toi!
(il ne) faut pas te cacher
Viens avec moi, petit enfant
Viens avec moi, petit enfant
Petit enfant, petit enfant

The Child

The feel, the feel, the feel, the feel x4
(This this this this this this is is is is is your your your your your your your your last last last last last last last)


I couldn’t feel anything
Except our tides
You play a little little, on my strings
Always high
(High high, high)
(Your chance, your chance)
Always high on you
Just a little little little little
Then the energy starts taking over me

Starts taking over, starts taking over
But I cant feel a thing
(Can’t) feel a thing, can’t feel a thing,
Can’t feel a thing, can’t feel a thing

The Feel

Ain’t it time we see the truth?
(Boys, boys, boys ahh)
Boys and girls they say they can’t play with us
Ain’t it time we see the truth?
(What do I do?)
Boys and girls they say they can’t play with us
(What do I do?)

Sing, sing to the sky, I’m in love again
I find it funny
(Go find yourself, come again, learn yourself, come again)
Fly, flying apart and creeping ‘round the river bed
(Go find yourself, come again, learn yourself, come again)

Ain't it time we see the truth?
(come again, learn yourself, come again, find yourself, come again, learn yourself, come again)
Boys and girls they say they cant play with us

Under the wave high above
Calcificate into love
Follow God down the river of Truth
Surrender to perspective

Ahhh
Boys, boys, boys, boys , boys, boys, boys, boys

Ain't it time we see the truth?
Boys and Girls they say they cant play with us

The Lovers

Upright: communion, sacrifice, ritual, ceremony
Reversed: isolation, indulgence, erratic behavior, chaos


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Bass Guitar - Jesse Heasly
Drums - Matthew Bent
Electric Guitar - Adam Turay, Esther Quansah
Lead Vocals: Esther Quansah, Becky Foinchas
Percussion - Murphy Aucamp
Piano - Ross Mayfield

Recorded at GB's Juke Joint in Long Island City, NY
Mixing Engineer - Colin Mohnacs
Mastering Engineer - Shawn Hatfield

Artwork - Mareano Ruiz Rosillo/Base Lunar

The Lamb

This is The Sun.

You woke up suddenly after a cold night to a gigantic, smiling Sun...
and to carnivorous flowers, venus fly traps that tease and tingle your senses. 


No one is safe, but everyone is dancing. 

An etheric body floats above the seance, observing.

The Sun

Time means nothing, nothing, nothing at all
Time means nothing, nothing

Dadadada x 8

Da da da da da da da da da
Sing to the garden sing to the sky
One stop, and we fall to the ground
Round and round and round and round

Da da da da da da da da da
Sing to the garden, sing to the sky
One stop, and we fall to the ground
Round and round and round and round

Sweet abandon, time and space have no place here
(we wave like water) calling you out to sea
(never stilling to check shore) waving like waters at high tide
(no final destination) calling you out to sea
(lost in untime) drowning in love
(what’s the meaning of nothing, I’m
lost in feelings of untime)
What is time, time, time

Time means nothing, nothing, nothing at all

Le coq chante,
le jour paraît,
tout s'éveille dans le village.
Pour que le bon couscous soit prêt : Femmes debout et du courage !
Pilons pan-pan,
pilons pan-pan,
pilons gaiement.

The Mother

La la la, la la la
La la la, La la la
La la la, la la la
La la la, La la la
x4

Someone told me to make an impression
Someone make me look in love

Someone told me to make an impression
Someone make me look in love

Someone told me to make an impression
(Someone in control of me, not me not me not me not me)
Someone make me look in love
(Someone else is in control, and i am not in love)

Wooooah
La La La, La La La
La La La, La La La
La la la la la la la la la la la la

La La La (til end)

The Maiden

KEEP ALL HANDS, ARMS, FEET, AND LEGS INSIDE YOUR THOUGHTS AT ALL TIMES!

LYRICS:

(WENDIGO)
swimmin 
thru the sewer
swimmin thru the shit imma need a poop scooper 
grinnin
then i shoot her
catch a nut when the pussy get neutered

i fill up my bong with tobacco
independent but we got the show packed tho
pack runnin low imma whacko
call up the plug and i throw em a rack hoe

get out my shell
ill send u to hell
son of the angel who fell
right down to earth
we whippin a hearse
smoke a wood down to the dirt
i kill it myself like im kurt
im rippin ur spine thru ur shirt
i hope that it hurt
snatchin ur grandmothers purse
i pull up and give u a curse
slut

(DARKIE)
NIGGA WANNA RUN UP I HIT HIM THE RIGHT WAY
NIGGA WANNA RUN UP I HIT HIM THE RIGHT WAY
INNA UNDERWATER DUNGEON CAN’T TELL IF IT NIGHT/DAY
SO A NIGGA WANNA RUN UP I HIT HIM IT MIGHT PAY

PICKING UP THE GOLD
AND I PUT IT IN MY POCKET SWIMMING GOT A BODY OF WATER IN MY SOCKET
THINKING IMMA BODY THE CHALLENGE AND I GOT IT
BUT I OPEN A DOOR AND THE ENEMIES SPAWN LOCK IT

DAGGER THROW HE HAD TO GO I
HIT EM IN THE NOGGIN HE DROPPIN THE RIGHT ITEMS
ILL HIT HIM WITH A BOMBING AS SOON I MIGHT LIGHT EM
AND I’M GETTING OUT THE CHAMBER IM CLIMBING LIKE A SPIDER
THAT

LEVEL UP

UPGRADE CAMO
GOING GHOST LIKE RAMBO  MAKE THE HAMMER GO BLAMMO

IMMA SAVAGE SIDE PASSAGE GIMME AN ADVANTAGE
AND I MANAGE TO ATTACK HIM DOING DAMAGE

GET TO SWIMMING LIKE A FISH AND
DARKIE GRINNING
AS ALWAYS
NAVIGATING DARK HALLWAYS IMMA
FIND IT

THE DOOR THE FINISH
THAT I GOTTA UNLOCK
WALK IN WITH THE GUN COCKED
HOE PREPARE TO GET ROCKED

DEEP IN THE CAVERN
DEEP IN THE CRYPT
I STRAFE MAKE HIS HEAD TURN
WAIT FOR THE SLIP

I WITNESS A PATTERN 
AIM FOR HIS WEAK SPOT
KICK LIKE A REEBOK
TAKE ALL HIS SHIT

LOOTING
SLEEP DART SHOOTING
WHILE YOU SLEEPING
IN THE GUTTER IM CREEPING
WITH THE WATER
IM LEAPING OVER HOTTER SHIT
LAVA AT THE BOTTOM 
SPIT FIRE LIKE A LOT OF IT

GONNA NEED MORE

BEAT MY SCORE!!!!

(PT.2)
AYE WHAT THE FUCK???
AYE WHAT THE FUCK IS SHIT
THERE’S ANOTHER DAMN LEVEL AT THE 
BOTTOM OF THE PIT?

YOU GET STUCK!
STUCK IN THIS TYPA GAME!
AINT NOBODY THERE TO BLAME
BUT, YOU!

FIGHT TO THE DEATH
NO BREATH LEFT
BREATHLESS
BEST YET 
FUCKING WITH THE BEST YET

MOLTEN
ROLLING WITH THE COLT BEND YO REALITY
MORTALITY
APPARENT YOU AINT CARE BOUT YO VITALITY

BROKE
YOU BURN UP IN THE SEA

SMOKE
AND MIRRORS ALL I SEE

THE DUNGEON OF THE SEWER TURTLE (FT. WENDIGO) (PROD. WENDIGO X BINSFELD)

KEEP ALL HANDS, ARMS, FEET, AND LEGS INSIDE YOUR THOUGHTS AT ALL TIMES!

LYRICS:

INFILTRATE
ELIMINATE
A PREDATOR 
SNAKE

IMBEDDED YOUR FACE

DEEP INSIDE YOUR
UNDERGROUND BASE
I WANDER THE PLACE
AT NIGHT TIME
WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME
NINJA GAIDEN GLITCH THROUGH 
THROUGH YOUR THROAT MAKE A LIGHT MIND

DECAPITATE
AND THEN THE BOY EVAPORATE
I CAPTIVATE YOUR VISION WITH A FLASH
AND THEN GO BACK A WAY
(NINJA SOUND)

PAC MAN
GET THE STRAP THEN
LIKE IT CRACK DOWN
SMACKED ROUNDS
IN YA BACK NOW
WHERE HE AT NOW?

NOT HERE
KILL A BOT
HEAR ANOTHER SHOT 
I HAD TO CROUCH
AND HIT THAT NIGGA WITH THE 
CHARGE I LET IT 
SHOUT
SHOUT

POWER UP
IM PICKING UP THE DIESEL HAD TO SOUR UP
1 UP I DEVOUR EM
GUN UP I LET IT SHOWER 
COME FUCK WITH ME LOOSE ONE LIFE
BITCH I AINT A ENEMY TO MAKE YOU’RE RIGHT
FIGHT

COMING OUT THE SHADOWS ENGAGE IN A BATTLE
RIGHT! LEFT!
HIT YOU FROM A HEIGHT SO I STAY OUTTA SIGHT
LIGHT! DEP-

-RECATION 
STAYING PATIENT
HIT THE STATION FROM THE INSIDE
SHIT I MISSED THE CAMERA I CANT JAM DA 
SYSTEM IN TIME

FUCK!!

PICKPOCKET SKILL LEVEL 100

KEY CARD 
GOTTA BE HARD
TO MAKE IT OUT ALIVE
I SURVIVE

DODGING THE BULLETS
IM DITCHING THE PLAN THAT I DEVISED
IMPROVISE
RUN TO THE LAB-RATORY
SOMEWHERE THAT I CAN HIDE
OPEN WIDE
INTO THE UNDERGROUND 
OH WHAT AM I TO FIND??

JUNGLE BASE
SECRET PLANS
I AM SEEKING 
DEEPER LEVELS
IN THE DARK
SPARK METAL
BITCH IM
HERE TO KILL THE DEVIL

IM A BENGAL

TIGER BITCH IM WETTING UP YOUR MENTAL

WATER TEMPLE

IMMA LIQUID ELEMENTAL

JUNGLE BASE (PROD. LiL CUBENSiS)

KEEP ALL HANDS, ARMS, FEET, AND LEGS INSIDE YOUR THOUGHTS AT ALL TIMES!

LYRICS:

(WENDIGO)
ANAL PROBE X8

2019 WE CONQUERING THE WHOLE GLOBE
PULL UP TO THE FUNCTION IN A UFO

WITH MY SLIME
WITH MY SLIME
WITH MY SLIME
WITH MY SLIME

EXTINCTION COMING SOON U CANNOT DENY
HUMANITY CANCELLED WHEN THE PLANET DIE
REPLAY MEMORIES IN VR TIL THE END OF TIME

(DARKIE)
BUGS ON MY ASS LIKE I SAT IN SHIT
LIT DRUGS SPITTING GAS OUT THE BACK END SHIP
MIGHT RIDE ON THE MOTHER FUCKING LIGHT RIGHT QUICK
MY STARBOARD SIDE THERE’S A BITE THAT’S BIG

IN THE HULL
IN THE HULL
IN THE HULL
IN THE AIRLOCK

BALL SO HARD WHOLE DICK LIKE A BEAR COCK

FOCUS 
GOTTA FOCUS
GOTTA LOCUS
SHOOTING ME
HOCUS POCUS WITH THE STICK THAT IM GRIPPING 
UNTIL IM FREE

THERE’S BUGS!
BUGS!

BUGS ON MY DICK LIKE IT DIPPED IN TRASH
THROW SLUGS AT THE BITCH TIL THE BITCH GO CRASH
GOT BUGS ON MY DICK LIKE A LIGHT THAT FLASH
I BUG ALL MY NIGGAS GOTTA MAKE THOSE TRACKS

DO THE DASH
GET THIS CASH
YOU GET BIT BY A SPIDER YOU MIGHT SWELL UP GET A RASH
OR DEVELOP SOMETHING MUCH WORSE

IT’S A CURSE
THROW THE ROACH INTO A HEARSE
WE THE FIRST
VR YOU CAN GET IMMERSED 
GRIP THE AR LET IT BURST

(1:41)
THORAX 
MANDIBLES
A CANNIBAL
CAN’T STAND THE BULL
YOU FUCKED UP FUCKED UP

BUGS ON MY TAIL LIKE IT SLID THROUGH MUD
GOT BUGS IN MY HUD LIGHT EM UP LIKE BUD

MAYDAY
GOING DOWN

OH PLEASE GOD THE JUNGLE
GETTING CLOSER
GOTTA BRING IT ROUND
ENGINE LIKE A FUCKING TOASTER

THIS IS BLACK WIDOW TO SPIDER 1
DO YOU COPY?!?!?!

THIS IS SPIDER 1 COPY

IM BRINGING IT DOWN OVER JUNGLE SECTOR 9

HEY YOU
HOLD OOOOOON TO SOMETHING

BUGS! (FT. WENDIGO) (PROD. LiL CUBENSiS X WENDIGO)

KEEP ALL HANDS, ARMS, FEET, AND LEGS INSIDE YOUR THOUGHTS AT ALL TIMES!

LYRICS:

I CRASHED MY CAR 
INTO THE LAKE
I CRASHED MY CAR 
IT DIDN’T BREAK

IM DROOOOOOOOOOWNING
NOBODY
NOT EVEN
ME IS SAFE

I KILLED A WOMAN AND HER CHILD
DID NOT CRY IN FACT I SMILED

THIS THE WORLD THAT I EXIST IN
PISS IN A BOWL TIL THE PISS IS MISSING

SO REALISTIC
GRIP ON MY PISS STICK
PORN HUB 360 WHEN THE JIZZ HIT

MOMMA MISS ME, I DONT GIVE SHIT
SWITCH UP LIKE ANOTHER DISK

CARTRIDGE IN MY CONSOLE
SPARK IT
ART IS HOW I LIKE MARKET
MY EXISTENCE
STEALING SHARPIES AT YOUR TARGET

SUPER HOT SHIT MOVE WHEN I DO
YOU ARE NOT I WILL DEFY YOU
BIG LIKE KAIJU
BALD LIKE CAILLOU
BITCH NIGGA MAD CUZ I DRAIN THE BAYOU

TRY TO
STOP ME LOOK AT HIM TRY TO
FLY THROUGH SPACE ON A METEORITE
HIGH DUDE FACE ANOTHER KEY TO YOUR LIFE
I KILL SHIT AND WE COMPETING YOU’RE RIGHT


VIDEO GAMES MADE ME KILL THE NEIGHBOR’S CAT
BEAT SABER AND LAZER SPITTING RATS
CHUCK RAZORS AND RUSTY NAIL FILLED BATS
TALK LATER AMAZE YOUR SENSES STAT!


BO-THER ME ILL BITE BACK
BLOOD BATH
FA-THER PLEASE JUST 
GIVE MY HUD BACK
RUB THE GOGGLES ON MY NUTSACK
WHEN YOU PLAY IT YOUR EYES TOUCH THAT


FUCK IT UP FUCK IT UP
TUCK IT UP NOT ENOUGH
LIGHT MY BLUNT I CANT SEE PROPER
RUN UP MY, GUN UP I, DUMP ON A COPPER 

WEIGHTLESS CHOPPER
SHOOT WITH ONE HAAAAAANDDD
SCORE TOPPER YO SCORE AT ONE BAAAAAAND
KILL KILL KILL KILL
TURN EVERYTHING THAT YOU LOVE TO SAAAAAND


4D QUARTER P
CAN YOU MAKE IT SHORTER PLEASE?
SHUT UP BITCH
AINT NOTHING CONTROLLING MEEEE BUT MEEEEE

TV NO SIREE
I THINK I POSESS THE KEY
HIDI NUMBER THREE
INPUT EVERYTHING I SEE

SUPER DARK VR
YOU, CANT, BE 
WHERE WE ARE

SUPER DARK VR

SUPER DARK VR

LIKE TRON RUNNING FAST
 HIT THE BONG WITH THE MASK ON
BLAST OFF
STAR SHIP 666
I WHIP THIS BITCH
AND SWITCH THAT MODE
INPUT THAT CODE
I PITCH I ROLL

GRIP
JOYSTICK
MOTION CAP
I POP THE TAB AND POTION TAP
ENGROSSING STATS 
SEE MOTION MAP
 IT SHOWING COMMOTION
APPROACHING FAST

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