FIDLAR - "Whore" 4.12.13

Coexist

Happy Valentine's.

Written & Produced by Ray Laurél

SUGARPLUM [U R] (demo)

Bus Ride

🇺🇸
 This song began with the moment a familiar voice suddenly felt distant.
 It reflects the quiet ache of reaching out and finding only coldness in return.
 A longing for comfort that kept circling back to the very source of the hurt.
 It’s the echo left behind when a voice refuses to leave the mind.
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익숙했던 목소리가 낯설게 멀어지던 순간에서 시작된 노래.
손을 내밀었지만 차가운 침묵만 돌아오던 감정.
상처를 주는 존재에게조차 기대고 싶어지는 모순된 마음,
그리고 끝내 머릿속을 떠나지 않는 잔향에 대한 기록.

Just a Curse (monologue ver.)

A Flicker in the Fog

Something To Me (Corners)

'Dépaysement' is the sound of being somewhere far, far away from home. It hums with the shock of being suddenly alone—in a place where no one cares who you are or what you’re doing.

On their debut album, Melbourne band Foreign/National sound enlivened. Having worked tirelessly on a string of acclaimed singles since the release of their self-titled EP in 2014, the band have embraced the longer format with open arms and a healthy dose of ambition.

From the opening bars of its titular track to the haunting death-rattle of ‘22’, the album’s closer, the band weave their way through a sprawling narrative with fresh lucidity.

“I swear I used to be a confident man. What happened to the confident man?” asks frontman Mark Gage on ‘Too Sentimental’, the LP’s first single, sifting through a distant memory—or perhaps a fading fantasy— with uncompromising honesty.

On ‘Mombasa’, we hear cues from Brian Wilson and Kamuran Akkor and as always, the sound of bassist Sean Gage and drummer Rhys Grunden sticking together like liquid nails, hurling the record forward with impossibly tight rhythmic interplay.

On keys, Sam Stearne brings palpable tension to ‘Ballerina’, and imbues ‘Nicole Warren’ with a gorgeous sense of weightlessness. Tom Stephenson, similarly omnipresent and shapeshifting, reaches dizzying heights of slacker ecstasy on ‘Sunny Afternoon’ and ‘Never Really’.

More than anything, however, ‘Dèpaysement’ shines as a product of undeniable chemistry and collective devotion. This is an album of songs that have lived many lives and taken many forms, but now feel strangely familiar and at home together.

Foreign/National’s debut LP, Dépaysement, will be released February 3 through DOWNTIME.

ARTWORK: Alex Jennings ( www.ajayjennings.com )

Mombasa

Made a beat on periscope today and then wrote some stuff to it because I'm feeling amazing today. Love you all.

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Entropy

Cotton Tales

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clairvoyance.

Consider this a time capsule. 
Open it on the night I propose.
See how far down my rabbit hole of a life goes. 
Love.
Speaking as me from the past, 
I can’t wait to live the rest of my life with you as my last. 
I started today. 
I read the first page of a novel 
with plans to make you laugh someday 
pointing out all the plot holes.
I can’t wait for tomorrow. 
I need to hit the mall so I can buy 
a new sweater that you’ll always borrow.
I even dragged myself into the gym 
so when you see me for the first time, I’ll be thin. 
Drinking more water.
Eating more vegetables and acai. 
Might go vegan if it means 
that we both have longer lives, I’m game.
My compass is on a whole other decade. 
I saved us two seats when the Olympics come to LA. 
Just you wait ‘til this music thing blasts off.
That or I’ll have an actual job. 

‘Til then, I’m buildin’. 
Beat down Beelzebub. 
I cut the smoke out. 
I keep myself up. 
I’m plantin’ seeds now. 
See how they swell up. 
So when you finally do come around 
and turn my life upside down, 
I’ll be ready.

I'll be ready
So when you finally do come around 
and turn my life upside down,
I’ll be ready.
I'll be ready.
Already?

To whom it may concern. From a poet. 
This poem is about you and neither of us know it. 
Busy reminiscing about the memories we’ve yet to make.
I already own the shoes I’ll wear on our second date. Set. 
Thoughts of you visiting make me clean my room.
Make my bed so it’s neat when I’m sleeping beside you.
I’m already singin’ all of your other songs. 
I even got a bowl for the dog. 
Picket fence. Front lawn. 
Don’t need to worry then. Don’t need to worry now.
Focus on makin’ a me today that’ll make you proud.
We’re both starin’ at the same night sky, 
prayin’ for stars to align. 
Bring us to the same place at the same time.
Every step I take is one closer to you
and every day I live is new and a chance to improve.
Smiling at our smiles in the pictures we took. 
Only thing is I still need to learn to cook, 

but ‘til then I’m buildin’. 
Beat down Beelzebub. 
And I’ll have alife for myself to appreciate if nobody else does.
There’s a beautiful woman in my future. 
Maybe this song’ll help her get here sooner. 
'Cause I'm ready.

Already?
I'm ready.
So when you finally do come around 
and turn my life upside down,
I'll be ready.
Already?
I'm ready.

ready (already?) [prod. by mr. master]

I hit 100k plays yesterday... thanks for sticking with me ♡

SUGARPLUM [U R] (demo)

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