Based on the characters in the Hawthorne short story, Rappaccini's Daughter.

Percussion, bass, and piano by http://soundcloud.com/shaemoseley
Backing vocals by Kate DeToye
Art by Raquel Kidd

I'm gonna tell you about the girl with the poison skin
She was born the only daughter of an eccentric botanist
The one with the villa at the end of town
With those Godless gardens on the grounds
He grew poison plants under the guise of medicine
All just a ruse to continue his experiments
Of which his daughter was the grandest one
She was the reddest rose in a crown of thorns
You see, he was the victim of a terrible heartbreak
And he swore from then on that he would spare her from that fate
So in the garden is where she grew
Until them poisons were imbued
As the years went by, tales of her beauty, they did grow
As every man longed to see the blooming of her rose
But that's as close as they would get
Because the smallest kiss would sure mean death
So he just keeps her, with her sisters, Ivy and Mistletoe
And their kisses carve the names on the gravestones
Well, she done grew wild, as the teenage heart will do
But as the leaf that's starved from light, it soon will meet its doom
And so those shadows took her heart
Till the night only wished it were that dark
No longer could she bear to hide the sadness on her face
Well, this caused the father to see the error of his ways
And he said, "Oh my, what have I done?"
"What monster have I become?"
He begged his daughter, "Oh my darling, please forgive?"
Well, she looked him dead in the eye as she absolved him from his sin
And the two, they shared an embrace
And he died in that very place
It was there he was buried in a garden tomb
And when the spring rolled round it's where he was born anew 
But now in a truer form
Amongst the petal and the thorn
So she just keeps him, with her sisters, Ivy and Mistletoe
And their kisses carve the names on the gravestones

The Girl With The Poison Skin

Available on April 1, 2014. 

Get it at Asthmatic Kitty Records:
http://asthmatickitty.com/merch/its-reggae/

Or at your local record shop.

Rafter, "Wedding Ring Modulator"


1. Christian's Farewell – DM Stith
2. The Devil Rides out
3. The Gaol - Beak 
4. Big Black Car – Big Star
5. Mental Caverns Without Sunshine - The Caretaker
6. Creeky Lullaby – Margaret
7. Some Say I Got Devil – Melanie
8. Chere Chambre - Faust
9. I Feel Love – Plantains
10. I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here - David Crosby
11. Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction) – Phosphorescent
12. Cloudy – Guild Light Gauge 
13. Brigitte - Brigitte Fontaine
14. Ozark Dream – The New Honey Shade
15. Mau Mau Call - Ugella and Viking Pops Orchestra 
16. 4 Butterflies – Morton Subotnick
17. Caboclo – Arthur Verocai
18. I Am Darkness, I Am Light – Peter Broderick / MRC
19. Saturday's Child – Janis Ian
20. Slept With a Lion – DM Stith
21. Dark is the Bark - The Left Banke
22. Chaos in the Gym – Saint Etienne 
23. Chnam Oun 16 - Ros Sereysothea
24. Pantomime – Roy Orbison


The Revival Hour Midnight Mass Mixtape

If I Have To Go - Tom Waits (Cover)

From the LP: "Decimation Blues"

Available August 19, 2014 on Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Preorder it here.

Bought a Vanity Fair at the Value Village
Green tags half off, bought some old Nike shoes
Sean Penn he was smiling from the cover
The kind of smile that says there's nothing to lose just now

November, 1994.
My girl was ten
Someone might have been at war but I don't know

Rang up at seven dollars fifty for the day
A few months wear for an hours pay
Rain on the windshield shone like diamonds in the sun
May 28th, and the Blazers won in OT

And Carlisle agreed that the boys had played fair
Clean in the paint, that the calls had been square
Jason Kidd and Oden were the last ones there when the cameras had gone

Sometimes it's six to go down, three to wake up
But the days are short and the night ain't so bad
Out in the valley I can hear the last of the trains
As from the porch I hear her calling out my name from inside

Out for the West the pioneers they ran
Through Utah and the Thunder for the gold in the land
O Harvey Milk what a wonderful man
O Harvey Milk what a wonderful man

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Castanets, "Out For The West"

Your face it blooms as your roots grow down and drowns your mouth with an ocean sound;
honey lightning mud on your lips, can’t hear a word from the noise of your hips,
you leave a streak of wild creepers and crooked thorns where you weep and moan -
oh how we shake when the small words say what big words only think.

Break this wall of teeth -
they will gnash and cleave and pull your head apart like it was flower meat

Surround the brutes with your tendril throne no one screams till their heads are gone
honey lightning mud on your breasts  - can’t feel a word from the thump in my chest;
you leave a streak of wild fingers and crooked heads in the  blades of grass,
oh what we make when the small words say what big words never grasp

Gamma Flower

From the new album CARRIE & LOWELL by Sufjan Stevens
Get it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:

I should have known better
To see what I could see
My black shroud
Holding down my feelings
A pillar for my enemies

I should have wrote a letter
And grieve what I happen to grieve
My black shroud
I never trust my feelings
I waited for the remedy

When I was three, three maybe four
She left us at that video store
Be my rest, be my fantasy

I’m light as a feather
I’m bright as the Oregon breeze
My black shroud 
Frightened by my feelings
I only want to be a relief

No, I’m not a go-getter
The demon had a spell on me
My black shroud
Captain of my feelings
The only thing I want to believe

When I was three, and free to explore
I saw her face on the back of the door
Be my vest, be my fantasy

I should have known better
Nothing can be changed
The past is still the past
The bridge to nowhere
I should’ve wrote a letter 
Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing
The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination

Don’t back down, there is nothing left
The breakers in the bar, no reason to live
I’m a fool in the fetter
Rose of Aaron’s beard, where you can reach me

Don’t back down: nothing can be changed
Cantilever bridge, the drunken sailor
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination 

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Ariel

Neil Jones

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