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Whistle A Mindless Tune

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Alex G: "Break"

Onett Theme (Keiichi Suzuki)

A song by me with some guitar by Andrew Gorny

It Doesn't Hurt You

text me when you're bored;
when the other ones get old.
letting me know that you're alive,
don't even say goodbye.
asking to come over;
i'm still there just to hold her.
looking through my distant life.
we kiss and say goodnight.

all of my friends are breaking up,
and they're learning to just have fun.
i hope that some time we'll find love.
i hope we never wake up.

do your make up in the mirror,
but you'll never know how it feels to look at you.
you're an earthquake in a black hole, you
shake me, you shake me up.
all those secrets you told me,
crying on your bed.
give me kisses, the ones i remember,
the ones no one can steal.
now all my friends are asking questions.
the ones i never knew the answer to.

why are you depressed, why are you a mess,
why you talk about your ex, why you talk about your ex?
why are you depressed, why are you a mess,
why you talk about your ex?
it was only sex.
(it was nothing it was nothing it was nothing it was nothing it was nothing.)
it was only nothing.

are you okay? i'm fine.
are you okay? i'm fine.
are you okay? i'm fine.
i've said it three times now,
of course i'm fucking lying.

i gotta get my head on straight.
don't kiss me too long, i don't want you to be late.
if she's coming back, why the long wait?
if she's coming back, then why do i only feel hate?

either these curtains go or i do.
oh, fuck me. (FUCK.)

should i go?
i don't know.
i guess so.
i don't know.

3 Weeks

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"Amiee" appears on Vault Vol. 3., the third in a series of rare and unreleased tracks. 

Learn more about the Vault series & pre-order Vol. 3 (out 12/1/17)
http://plyvnyl.co/STRFKR-Vault

Salvaged from the hard drive of a dying laptop, the 64 tracks that make up STRFKR’s three volume Vault series are completely unreleased material never before shared outside of the band. Ranging from fragmental 30 second sketches to more fleshed out full song demos, this material goes as far back as 2007, chronicling the band’s evolution with ideas that would eventually go on to form their earliest material, get scrapped or mutate into something else, right up to their most recent full-length, Being No One, Going Nowhere.

Over the course of almost two hours, the collection runs the spectrum from ridiculous to sublime. All written and recorded by STRFKR’s primary songwriter Josh Hodges (with occasional lyrical help from Radiation City’s Randy Bemrose), the mood of any given song tracks what was happening in that particular phase of his life. You can hear the songs being informed by what was unfolding in the moment, in both emotional and physical environments.

There’s the goofy fun of aimless afternoons spent jamming. There’s the excitement of discovering a new instrument, particularly when parents of one of Hodges’ friends invited him to stay at their house for a while and record with their Steinway grand piano. There’s also a valley where you can hear someone pulling themselves out of a depression, with songs from a darker time period taking on more a sense of struggling than sadness. Every major disappointment, wasted night at a low paying job or lost opportunity seems to be pushed back against with an achingly beautiful new song idea, created when Josh was crashing with supportive friends or sleeping on his dad’s couch.

So why is this a STRFKR record? These demos, however unfinished or rough around the edges, are the raw materials of the band’s process. Never intended for an audience, the Vault series is unguarded, unrestrained and deeply personal, a beautifully unpolished view of what inspiration looks like from inside someone else’s head.

Onett Theme (Keiichi Suzuki)

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