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NEW SHOEGAZE FROM CALIFORNIA

shoegaze, alternative indie & rock

If u walked in my skin
Youll Feel the jail
embed, it feels
Like Eternal ache
Stuff me in
Its beautiful 
Let Me out
just like he did
 
the doll i thought i lost
i left it at the dance
when we drove we crashed
it flew right out my hands
us two we act as one
i wish we never did
its all his fucking fault
he thought that i was him

life imitates life

kenopsia

Lyrics:

Just one more lie and then I fall

Don’t play pretend you had it all

I’d kill for you dont even start

Dancing alone all in the dark

I’m hurting im hurting i wish you were dead

Don’t reach out my hand ill stab you instead

You said you wont hurt me, now look what you did

I’ll pretend i don't need no help, but i said I need you bad

scars

VOL. 1

[Verse 1]
I just want something more
A million ways I couldn’t think

[Chrous]
I can’t
You know things I don’t know
I can’t 
You know things I don’t know

[Verse 2]
There is nothing left to heal
I’ve been through it all
Sitting here all alone 

[Chrous]
I can’t 
You know things I don’t know
I can’t 
You know things I don’t know 

[Verse 3]
It’s harder to go through things
When your wrong

[Chrous]
I can’t 
You know things I don’t know
I can’t 
You know things I don’t know

I can’t

Synchronicities - bbdalena (prod. rick hardy)
mastered (prod.midknight)

Lyrics:

You know I would take 
All the hurt away
Know that we would make 
The greatest love escape
Could we create 
All the promises they faked
Could you be mine

The one that I've been looking for 
The kind you want more and more of
You're what I adore
Come play with me I'm bored
Ah ah ah ah

Don't wanna fall
Out of love this shit cuts deep
Don't wanna fall 
Asleep when you're not next to me
With your back against the wall
Know you're hurt been through it all
But I won't let you fall

The one that I've been looking for 
The signs that you just can't ignore 
You're what I adore
Come kiss my neck I'm yours 
Ah ah ah ah

Synchronicities

Dune Altar (DA-058)

Pillowprince is an Oakland-based indie gaze band that makes rock from cracking folds of leather and glittering chain link, from nights of red-gelled stage lights and mornings after that are way too bright, from hair matted with joy and danger and most of all from bodies making places for themselves only they know.
 
Songwriter and guitarist Olivia Lee (of There's Talk) sings about queer joy, pain, love and subversion, punctuating raw sincerity with vibrant brooding guitar riffs. Together with Sea Snyder on drums, they create dense, propulsive shoegaze anthems.

Massive and melodious, Pillowprince ebbs and flows between a dramatic intimate grandeur and irreverent indie pop on their debut EP, pretty, baby!, coming out on Dune Altar in Spring 2025.

pretty, baby!

Babybird

PILLOWPRINCE - Babybird

Prettier

I can't

The song is about obsessing over and idealizing lost love and the struggle to recapture the halcyon days of past relationships.

Kingfisher

HOLD ON TO ME

lyrics:

i thought i was gone
the mirror showed a face that i forgot
i don't know the cost
a thread remains the same from what i lost

i thought i was home
the mirror shows a face that i don't know
eyes closed, i'm alone
i'm here and then i'm gone... i won't let go

a thread remains the same

Response to Bio-Kem & Algorithmic Send Fi C3B & General Waste

Junglewars 2018

a thread remains the same

solace void