Do my ears lie or is that the lovely sound of some chordal bass guitar? This takes me back to the time I took a CD to my friends house and nobody knew what was going on.

New Hope is 20 chronologically ordered recordings from the months of November 2023 - June 2024. Made with two microphones and a focusrite, the raw records play with room feedback and tape speed to reflect the sound of grieving while falling in love. Runtime is 90 minutes and gapless playback is recommended in a setting where you feel comfortable.

New Hope

structural mess

tried to make it flow properly but failed for months and gave up

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[Intro]
Welcome to the plant cell bath (Check it up-)

[Verse 1]
I've been plotting a giant revenge scheme
I've been working way too long, I'm starting to see things
I planned a trip to New Mexico
Something is telling me to get up and go
I've been making all kinds of crazy moves
Like all these connections, my network is through the roof
But I want something more, I wanna be fuckin' real
You can't get everything you want from one record deal

[Chorus]
We turn up, yeah, we do it for fun
All these kids on computers know how to have fun
Design Americana, yeah that's how we gon' run
Because a bunch of fucking kids are gonna get this shit done

[Verse 2]
Yellow level thinking
That's what Randy told me
We gotta put the work and make the effort to see
He said we're all connected and I'm thinking it's true
But if I ain't got the platform, ain't got nothing to use
The orange level plan, that's what Devon's all about
She was on a scheme when she figured it out
Well, it must become that temple, the plant cell bath

[Chorus]
We turn up, yeah we do it for fun
All these kids on computers know how to have fun
Design Americana, yeah that's how we gon' run
Because a bunch of fucking kids are gonna get this shit done
We did this, yeah we did it ourselves
Nobody's really sure whether it's heaven or hell
Design Americana, put that book on the shelf
'Cause what we made is history, needs someone to tell

[Outro]
(Design Americana)
(Design Americana)
(Come on now, dog)
(Design Americana)
(Design Americana)
(Come on now, dog)

design americana

New Hope, Chapter I - The Great Divide

I ran home cuz I thought I was fired
And man all these joints are tired
And I said “wait” I was waiting for a serenade
Tell me everything about your damn day
Lay me out front if you threw a grenade
So why?
Do I seem distracted to you?
It’s beautiful to lay awake in my eyes

So watch it all be enough for you to take in
Watch it all be enough for you to let in
I tried to face the great divide
It only tired me out

Date of recording (11.6.23)

The Great Divide

"one sorry muse" by Alaska Sargent
A standalone single, separate from any larger body of work.

Stream the single: http://alaska.stream/osm

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w. Alaska Sargent
art. Alaska Sargent
First five seconds of recording/composition are courtesy of cnri

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Lyrics:
Synapsion 
I can't compete
Apologize
Between you and me

Ancient figures
Poets of which destruction has fed
I think I'll lay back down
And rest my head

Composure
Unrequitee
Oh, doctor
Hold the remedy

Deities
The power which I hold inside my hands
And yet all I wished for
Was one more chance

Bitter soil
Au revoir
Get your act together
Pick the pieces up
And maybe if we try again
You'll love me better this time
You'll love me better this time
You'll love me better this time

Cut the cord
Untie myself
And fall into your hue
To live once more
As I'm one sorry muse

I'm one sorry muse
I'm one sorry muse

© 2025 Cosmic Dysphoria, under exclusive license from Alaska Sargent

Recorded in the United Disgrace of America
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one sorry muse

Music video: https://youtu.be/IvLzZ0YDO-g
LYRICS:
And I think that its pretty
watch and learn
put my hand on the trigger
pull it and earn
what I wanted it back
think I learned
shoot her 
shoot her
shoot her down
wouldn't know what to do but
talk her down
i think i wasted all i am now
I guess that its all my fault i tried
to shoot her
shoot her
shoot her
DOWN ! x24
shoulda called but i know you'll recognize
i got a lot to much that been on my mind I tried it
i know that you can tell me your alright
cause i been wasting all this time to think that im alive
and i don't care
left me outside of the comedown
when no ones ever even there
i know im not gonna feel how
how i am when im spilling all of this shit
i think its finally gon be how
i want to tell you who i am
but now im getting a way out
how i am when im spilling all of this shit?

and i think that its pretty
watch and learn
put my hand on the trigger
pull it and earn
what i wanted it back but
think iv learned
shoot her 
shoot her
shoot her down
it gets so loud
shoot her 
shoot her
shoot her down
just dont know how
cut me now
cut me now
i don't wanna figure this out
could be dead could be now!

CUT THE CHORD

New Hope, Chapter VI - Hush

Date of recording (1.9.24)

Hush

New Hope, Chapter VII - honest
Recorded 2.1.24

oh, don't let em take my breath away again
oh, I'll live forever if I could, if I could
death only matters anyway 
if you have someone to share it with
promise I won't put you on a pedestal
I'll only love you forever
and the sun's getting hotter, oh
but my hope's getting bright
one day we'll have a baby, my love 
one day we'll have a baby
in each other's arms, I love you still
oh, I could look at those brown eyes forever, and see you still

only I know how to love forever
if I could love you still
and only my friends could catch a glipse of the spark
only from the start
read your funny books
and tell me everything inside them
read your funny books
and tell me fuckin' everything

i know the music ain't perfect yet anyway
what the fuck does that even mean?
i'm recording into a focusrite
to tell you i'll love forever

baby I had a dream that you and I were in a library

-st

hmm? (do it anyways)

honest

New Hope, Chapter XI - New Hope
Recorded 2.28.24

New Hope is 20 chronologically ordered recordings from the months of November 2023 - June 2024. Made with two microphones and a focusrite, the raw records play with room feedback and tape speed to reflect the sound of grieving while falling in love. Runtime is 90 minutes and gapless playback is recommended in a setting where you feel comfortable.

New Hope, Chapter V - running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
Recorded 12.13.23

no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt
running through the park
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin home
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
yeah
home
what is this?
what is this?
(runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin)
about me
about me
about me
cause i'm running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
oh i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin through the park
yea im runnin home
runnin through the park yea i'm runnin home

running through the park, yea im runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin

New Hope, Chapter II - Red Spell

spells, we were talking bout spells
oh well, we were talking bout spells
hell, don't talk about hell
oh well, we were talking bout hell

now I see the difference don't you need me to rest
I swear my intuition tells me nothin' but the best
oh I need a good c---
so take your intuition, get your fuckin' inhibition out your mind
I don't need nobody here to see me whine
I'm crying, don't you see that I was only so depressed cause the best of the people that I had in my mind
oh why?

baby this is full regeneration, not the way I ride
I'm swimmin' no regrets and babe I only see the sky
I'm wonderin' bout the
woah, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah standin' in the way

~

New Hope, Chapter III - Blue Spell

this isn't what it seems baby
I'm in a dream, and I'm doing fine
still running from the love that keeps me afraid
still loving how your hair looks when it's in a braid
fell for you when the moon hit the ground and I said "oh"
still waiting for the day to come when you say no
yeah

~

New Hope, Chapter IV - Green Spell

don't you believe?
don't you believe?
don't you we'll be fine, love

this isn't what it seems baby
I'm in a dream, and I'm doing fine
still running from the love that keeps me afraid
still loving how your hair looks when it's in a braid
fell for you when the moon hit the ground and I said "oh"

fell for you when the moon hit the ground and I said "oh"
I'm still waiting for the day that you say you can let me go
I don't wait for the ways that you say "you can let me know"

don't you believe?
don't you believe?
don't you we'll be fine, love

subliminal the way that you would let me go
and the radio is running the show
I care for you I do, I do
but I only have so much for you
and I can't use all my spells


Recorded 11.7.23

Three Spells (Red Spell, Blue Spell, Green Spell)

raven

helloo!! new music out with thomas white. 

please stream it and watch the music video as well <3
https://ffm.to/wait4-me

Bandcamp

wait4me

19/01/23 - 26/02/25
5/11

Lakes is probably one of my favourite songs I've ever made. It's about doubt? or grief? in a way, I'm not entirely sure how to interpret it.
There is definitely tinges of illness in there, and reflections on myself? if that makes sense?
The lake is a pretty simple metaphor for mental illness or just, mentality in general, interpret the quiet however you want, but for me it's that sense of dread or grief when you realise you don't feel anything at all, or that you simply don't care
again, this is what I think it's about; to be honest with you, I don't really know what my songs mean anymore, the lyrics just sort of came to me and I wrote them down, and I sang them, I work out what it means later on, but with all my recent work it just seems very difficult to pinpoint what it's trying to be or represent, and whether that's for better or for worse I'm not sure.

I feel like this is one of those songs that'll outlive itself, when im long dead and the internet is a giant wasteland of dead media, maybe someone will find this and appreciate it, maybe even tell their friends about it, and just enjoy this small piece of me from my little corner of the world, and even if that never happens, that's ok too.

[LYRICS]
The lake's gone quiet, my friend
I'm not going where the wind goes

Look me in the eyes, tell me "this is living".
Cast myself out, to the main beams

The lake's still quiet.
The lake's still quiet, my friend.

Lakes

leave it be

WITH VOCALS: https://soundcloud.com/mardhund/vanda-peek-through-my-skull-with-vocals

peek through my skull

homegrown in pennsylvania
member/cofounder @anythingcouldbehere

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