I’m as balanced as a deer 
Walking across a frozen pond 
Lost when I don’t get my way 
I wear red eyes on a carnival ride 

Won’t you come and feed us in the morning 
Won’t you come and feed us with the morning light 

I’m as silver as the moon 
Taking credit for a borrowed tune 
I try hard but I’m still cruel 
I’m sad but not out of concern for you 

Won’t you come and feed us in the morning 
Won’t you come and feed us with the morning light 

I’m discerning as a dog 
Easy to please 
Desires gone wrong 
Down on my knees 
Sickness, relief 

Won’t you come and feed us in the morning 
Won’t you come and feed us with the morning light 

Make me steady like a melody 
Make me humble like a wheat field 
Make me soft as an open window 
Help me love what is unending

12. Morning Meal

Riding my bike
Pushing as hard as I can
Blowing off steam
And energy I don't understand
My friend Charles has an older brother
They live down the street
He slipped us a magazine
I felt big but I looked through squinted eyes
My mom found us on the trampoline

Growing up is like gravity
A steady erosion
I wasn't ready
The waves in the ocean
They're rolling and rolling
Rolling and rolling

Five hundred miles
To the right of the Outer Banks
A volcano gave birth 
To beaches of the softest sand
Perched in caves looking at water
The color of jewels
I held my breath and beauty too
Who would hold these things
As close as I do
A box full of fuses

Growing up is like gravity
A steady erosion
I wasn't ready
The waves in the ocean
They're rolling and rolling
Rolling and rolling

I'm hitching a ride
On the back of a ferris wheel
Take me to my manhood

11. Rolling And Rolling

We drive into the dark 
Trees forming a line into the dark 
I don't know where we are 
Or when we'll get there 
Or where there is 

We are carving our 
Fading tunnel into the night 

Lightning on power lines 
Metronome strobe divides 
The road 
Blurs all the time 
Stay in the lines 

White noise 
Tires breathing 
The ocean in a shell

10. Nightdriving

The death of your brother 
Put the nail in the coffin 

O where is your father 
Did you see him in the horses 

When you should’ve been growing 
You broke both your thigh bones 

You smash all the mirrors 
And sing through the canvas 

Death came early and stayed too long 
Often told the truth

09. Lautrec

Stained glass reminds me of the way 
I got refracted by my playmates 
I tried to seize power from them with my imagination 

I tied a rope around a stick 
So I could make ends meet 
A little breeze 
Awake the spark and nudge the heat 
Making ends meet 

All in the how we pick it up 
All in the how we fold it up

08. Fold

Her kitchen is a lantern
She makes her preserves 
In reel to reel
Voices are the ribbons
Trace the maze
Pocket the past

I hope my body is only a shell
A shadow at dusk
The ring of a bell

Won’t put the research in the ground
She lives on raw nerves
Meals ready to eat
Voices are the engineers
Fall for the warnings
Get word to your family

I hope my body is only a shell
A shadow at dusk
The ring of a bell

Red phone ring
I want to speak to the president please
Red phone ring
Won’t someone send us a common enemy
World War 3
Been waiting for you to undo me
Red Phone ring
What can I leave to my family 
What’s it about if it’s not about me

07. Older, Wiser

Now, when I close my eyes 
Rooms dematerialize 
I soar above salt water 
Warm sand under my hands 
I’m free 
  
I have all the time in the world 
I’m free 
  
I used to keep quiet 
Before I learned words 
My bones dried, were chalk 
Hot and heavy 
I balked 
Hot and heavy 
In the world 
Weary 
  
I opened the door 
Dug up the photograph 
Ball point pen royal blue: 
“I have failed 1999.” 
  
Blessed is the one whose sin is gone 
  
She cried

06. 1999

The Jack of Hearts with wily eyes 
Corrupted without intention 
Moving with grace and ease like violence 
He marked his prey with friendship 
Donning a mask of sneering glass 
The Jack marched North for good 
Electric wind at his back 
And the fire of the misunderstood 
  
The Jack of Hearts pulled strings without 
Lifting any fingers 
His dark brow charms slowly destroyed 
Defenses like waves on sandstone 
Women wept as they got swept up 
Into the Jack's deep shadow 
Men felt small, knelt down and scrawled 
Out excuses in sunburned dirt 
Reasons why what he said hurt 
  
Some men shout to be heard 
Others whisper to be ignored 
But the Jack of Hearts left the listener in the dark 
And while smiling breathed out disaster 
Unconcerned, and weeping with laughter 
  
March on, march on 
Revolution in the dark 
Compromise breeds confusion 
March on, march on 
Don’t let silence mar the throne 
Never look a man in the eye 
March on, march on 
Don’t look closely at the horn 
Where the white knuckles grasp the leather 

March on, march on 
Don’t let silence mar the throne 
Never look a man in the eye 
March on, march on 
Wearing darkness like a gown 
Keep on moving 
You’re a rich man now

05. Jack Of Hearts

Charleston 
She went South for the money 

You’d better walk it off 
Better walk it off 

Bitter rain 
Smoke on the corner 

Where is brother Cain 
When I don’t get my way 
Don’t get in my way 

She’s picking up the pieces 
Calling out the descent 
Such fine furniture sitting in the basement  
Such strong cigarettes 
Drawn by delicate red 
Pray for sleep after 
Pray you can sleep after 
A little folding of the hands and poverty stabs on a sunny afternoon

04. Charleston

Woman and a man 
Lean against the wind 
Fist in pocket, hand in hand 
Utilitarian grip 
Backs weighed down, heavy laden 
Saturday breakfast sitting inside them 
Off they go to win the day 
Hoods and special shoes, stronger than the rain 

Olivia 
Here we are 
I want to have a good time with you 
O spread a smile 
Across your face 
I want to have a good time with you 

Woman and a man 
Squeeze an orange into a bowl 
Slotted spoon in hand to pull 
Hazy August day 
Don't let it sink away 
Open windows, shrill cicadas 
Like grinding metal heat radiators 
Sunlight tracing shapes on the wall 
Get your body in the water before it turns fall

03. Olivia

I bathe in light and watch the steam whispering 
perfect milky porcelain 
It is not me, 
my pressed down soul 

Henri, Henri, 
through you I see 
A mother's love, no room for me 

I gave my sons all that I had 
One flew on home, life's bitter seed 
The other broke, never a man 
He paints me now, 
my pressed down soul 

Henri, Henri, 
through you I see 
A mother's love, no room for me 

He paints the gleam of china fine, 
the hue of day a sharp white wine 
Green lungs that breathe outside my door, 
my pressed down soul

02. Odell

01. Sunday

This is Lowland Hum's third full length album, Thin. The album was released February 10, 2017.

After four years of nearly constant touring we found ourselves in the first relatively slow season we’ve known since we began our collaboration as Lowland Hum in 2012. We spent the spring and summer of this year seeking health and clarity, and recording this family of songs using our minimal studio equipment assembled in a friend’s attic. It has been a necessary pause, and a gift, allowing space for our deepest collaboration yet. These songs are an unadorned illustration of this season of slow reorientation and we are thankful to get to share them with you.

Lowland Hum is Daniel and Lauren Goans.
All songs written by Daniel Levi Goans and Lauren Plank Goans. 
All songs © 2017 Daniel Levi Goans Music (ASCAP) 
Thin was engineered, produced and performed by Daniel and Lauren, and recorded in John's attic in Charlottesville, VA.
Additional vocal engineering by Jeff Crawford at Fidelitorium in Kernersville, NC.
Thin was mixed by Mark Nevers and mastered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman.
Artwork and embroidery by Lauren Goans.
Daniel plays guitars made by master craftsman and dear friend, Bob Rigaud.

A huge and hearty thanks to John McCray for generously sharing his attic with us, and to Alan Brilliant, whose friendship and support helped make this album possible and this season joyful.

“Do not forget the story of Icarus, who wanted to fly to the sun, and having arrived at a certain height, lost his wings and dropped into the sea. You will often feel than neither you nor I are what we hope to become someday…wanting in stability, simplicity and sincerity. One cannot become simple and true in one day. But let us persevere, above all let us have patience; those who believe hasten not.” - Vincent Van Gogh

www.lowlandhum.com

Thin

11 Yesterday Is Forever

10 Winter Grass

09 Someone To Change My Mind

08 Thin Places

07 Folded Flowers

06 Vedauwoo

05 Family Tree

04 Compass

03 In Flight

02 Adonai

01 Palm Lines

For our families and friends. Thank you for your patient love and loyalty, despite how many special and ordinary moments in your lives we have had to miss. Merry Christmas.
credits
releases November 17, 2017 

Songs For Christmas Time was produced, arranged, performed and recorded by Lowland Hum in the Pink Warehouse Library. 
All songs ©Daniel Levi Goans Music 2017 

Songs for Christmas Time was mixed by Mark Nevers and mastered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman. 

Joy To The World - Isaac Watts 
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Traditional 
O Come, O Come Emmanuel - Traditional 
Ain't That Rockin' All Night - African-American Spiritual 
We Are The Shepherds - Johnny Cash 
Silent Night - Joseph Mohr / Franz Xaver Gruber 
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming - Traditional 
O Holy Night - Placide Cappeau / Adolphe Adam / John Sullivan Dwight 
Christmas Time Is Here - Lee Mendelson / Vince Guaraldi

09 Christmas Time Is Here

08 O Holy Night

We're All Waiting - Lowland Hum

In The Garage [Weezer Cover]

In Darkness

Eye In The Sky

Waite

W/ Sam

Slow

Raise The Ring

I Like You That Way

Equator Line

Salzburg Summer

A Drive Through The Countryside

Will You Be

Lowland Hum (Daniel & Lauren Goans) is making music that is decidedly quiet in the midst of our culture's present noisiness. The duo's self-imposed musical restraint provides space for their rich harmonies and skillful arrangements to fill rooms both large and small, and their sound is unmistakably their own. Following the 2019 release of their fourth full-length studio album Glyphonic, which garnered praise from NPR, No Depression, and more, the pair took their songs on a nationwide headlining tour where they employed the use of handmade lyric books, off-the-cuff songs and conversation with their audiences to create a refreshingly communal musical experience. 

Back in Virginia, Lowland Hum spent the fall & winter converting an old barn on their modest farmhouse property into a proper recording studio. They released their first home studio-born single, a cover of The Beatles’ “I Will”, in January, which found itself at the top of playlists on both Spotify & Apple Music, where the pair are regular fixtures. They will follow-up the release this spring with an EP titled Singing Other People’s Love Songs and a co-headlining tour with The Sea The Sea. The duo will also launch a Patreon page, which will provide a window into their prolific songwriting, Lauren’s visual art (she designs all of the band’s artwork), and daily musings from their life as touring artists and admirers of beauty. Lowland Hum is also launching Golden Hour, an experiential project with friends & collaborators David Wax Museum (look it up, you won’t be disappointed). 

In previous years, Lowland Hum has taken their hush-folk sound across the United States & Europe, sharing stages with the likes of Josh Ritter, Penny & Sparrow, Jesca Hoop and The Oh Hellos along the way - and 2020 will be no different. With new original music set to release this summer, Lowland Hum will hit the road once again. As NPR puts it, “if you love sublimely beautiful two-part harmonies, you’re not going to do better than this band.”

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