Swim Slowly (Expanded Edition)

Lyrics:
Tearing apart the cracks in your mind
A light keeper’s song in the tide
A man on a screen performs the obscene 
Edges are coming undone
Pulled along

Waking alone
Sightless, unseen
Your hollow inside
Stuffed like a straw man
Hiding his eyes at the edge of the world
From what the inferno will bring

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Always around in the air that we breath 
Choked by the sands
When will the rains come?
Flooding the stage at the edge of the world 
Blood in the eyes of a king
Waking alone at your hour of need
Pray to a stone your stuffed like a straw man 
Hiding his eyes as the hour arrives
Shedding your crow-skin disguise

Empty inner vision
Drowning the song in the tide 
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me?

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Wasteland (single edit)

SOUVENIRS

Souvenirs

Pale Blue Eyes - Globe

Will You Be Alright?

Initial tracking by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studio. 
Overdubs by Steph and Maggie at Trash Treasury. 
Mixed by The Helio Sequence. 
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. 

Photo by Megan Leisy. Design and layout by Genders.

Maggie Morris- guitar/vocals/omnichord/synth
Stephen Leisy-guitar/synth
Katherine Paul-drums/vocals
Matt Hall-bass

Life Is But A Dream

It’s funny how all the demos we’ve accumulated can change over time ... Sometimes the early versions & rough mixes that stick out the most now didn’t when we were making them, as is the case with ‘Habits’. 

We originally bounced this mix when we were still working on overdubs, but then we lost the project file after Chris spilled a bunch of coffee on his laptop.  We rediscovered this version while sifting through demos one night at our house a couple months later.

If we could reopen that file, I’m sure we’d find some shitty preset sounds, a guitar amp simulator on the vocal track, and tons of crude, approximate EQ and compression.   If we still had the Logic file, we'd probably want to change and rerecord a bunch of stuff.  In a way we’re thankful that this particular track is frozen in time, because if we had a chance to dive back into it, I’m not sure we’d be able to get into the right headspace to improve on it.  

After the coffee spill we started backing up all our files to de cloud, and we'll probably continue to exhaustively revise our current projects, but just this once it’s kinda nice to release something we never got the chance to split hairs over. 

“Habits" is the first song we’ve released where Chris (keyboard + guitar) sings lead vocals.  It's the first song off Loosies, a collection of demo versions & B-sides from the sessions for the Baby Blue Suede EP that came out last year.  Loosies is out 2/16, along with a deluxe cassette from Invertebrate Music.

Photogénie

Meltt

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