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Steam Powered Giraffe's 6th studio album, 1896!

A two disc album featuring a full studio album on one disc and acoustic versions of the studio tracks on the other disc!

Take a harmony-filled musical journey with the robots Zer0, The Spine, & Rabbit in this album featuring brand new songs from the band!

1896

Eat Your Heart

The greener grass grows where the wildfires fertilize
With ashes of sparrows, peppered moths, and butterflies
Ghosts of trees and termites bloom in the beanstalk

And if you get lightheaded when standing too fast
Is it from shaking out the weight of phosphenes and pasts
Salt deposits on warm little rivers that burst from our words

And god knows crying ain’t gonna change a thing
She said “take care,” but I take more than I bring.

She said “It just feels inhumane to lose this much”
Cause when you leave, you know you take more than your love
Just one week of cicada days we’re losing touch
And I know it just feels inhumane to lose this much.

Our nerves were braided under ceiling stars, they were all
Glow-in-the-dark, hanging over queen-sized 
Purple waves of ancient chemicals
Just whisper

Did you ever build with those endangered bones?
Well the ground looks soft enough to bury this now
Oh please, oh no.

And then my sponsor said “Do nothing. Nothing works.”
And then my doctor said “Don’t do that if it hurts.”

She said “It just feels inhumane to lose this much.”
Cause when you leave, you know you take more than your love.
The seasons of cicada days we can’t make up
And I know it just feels inhumane to lose this much.

Let all my red flags fade to white, yeah, I give up
Don’t let me leave, I’ll only take more than I gave. Okay, I’ll pack my stuff
Here at the end of days, my god, what have I done?
Christ now it feels damn inhumane to get all I've dreamed of

Keep coming back, it works if you work it
So work it, you’re worth it, it won’t if you don’t
One day at a time, tomorrow’s too late, amen.

"In case I make it,"

Cicada Days

Nicholas Megalis - Drunk With Glory

Ein fröhliches, maritimes Mitmachlied über die Büsumer Krabben, das die Atmosphäre des Fischfangs im Morgennebel, die harte Arbeit der Fischer und den köstlichen Genuss der frisch gepulten Krabben einfängt. Mit eingängigem Refrain, der zum Mitsingen einlädt, verbindet es Heimatliebe, Tradition und den Stolz auf Büsum.

Krabben - Shrimps

Mr. Capgras Encounters A Secondhand Vanity - Will Wood And The Tapeworms

Jack Conte - Off With His Head

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Carve a Smile

Counterfeit Arcade

Villainous Thing

Haunted Things

Tiny Gods

The Owl & The Elephant

Siren Song

Shayfer James has built a creative world entirely his own—where poetic lyricism collides with cinematic arrangements, where darkness waltzes with whimsy, where rebellion and vulnerability share the same breath. His work explores the dual forces of isolation and belonging, of longing and defiance, all delivered with theatrical flair and unmistakable swagger that both welcomes and unsettles.

Siren Song

Shayfer James

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