"Next stop… you?" is a funky-electro ride through urban routine and existential chaos. Humor, groove, and the questions no one answers… but everyone asks.

Next stop… you

Like Andrew Bird lost a bet to Father John Misty and recorded his therapy journal on a cassette deck. Raw, playful, with serious self-loathing fingerpicked into the bridge.

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Unironically Ironic (Anti-Folk)

Written by Briyan Frederick Baker
Published by Blind Mime Music, ASAP
© Brian F Baker. All rights reserved. 
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Whelmed

Whelm is a verb
To engulf or submerge
And that's what I am
If the truth could be heard

Life 's in a state
Of utterly whelm
The absurdity whelms
When it takes the helm

[chorus]
iI'm basically over 
Though essentially under… (whelmed)
Whelmed over circumstances
Beyond my advances
Stuck here at the laundromat
On the corner of over
Under, outer and inner
Whelmed

It's not a teachable moment
I'm well past that now
I've turned off all comments
The trend's pointing down

[chorus]
iI'm basically over 
Though essentially under… (whelmed)
Whelmed over circumstances
Beyond my advances
Stuck here at the laundromat
On the corner of over
Under, outer and inner
Whelmed

Whelm is a verb
To engulf or submerge
And that's what I am
If the truth could be heard

But the truth won't be told
To the young, but the old
Will hear it quite incessantly
Wherever good books are sold

[chorus]
iI'm basically over 
Though essentially under… (whelmed)
Whelmed over circumstances
Beyond my advances
Stuck here at the laundromat
On the corner of over
Under, outer and inner
Whelmed

Over, under, outer and inner (whelmed…)
Over, under, outer and inner (whelmed…)
Over, under, outer and inner (whelmed…)
Over, under, outer and inner 

[instrumental]

Whelmed

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Phrases and Phases Publishing is a one-man label, archive, and reality-refraction field. Founded by J. Adam Walters - lawyer-turned lyricist, satirist, and architectural dropout from polite society - it's the home for songs that shouldn't exist, poems that go to far, and fictional universes with better paperwork than the Library of Congress. 

From folk elegies to parody rap to theocratic cartoon trauma epics, everything here is written by a human who uses AI as a collaborator and instrument rather than an outsourced brain, and finished only when it reaches a space where laughing hurts, or hurting laughs.

Blind Mime Music (ASCAP) is a Soundcloud for recordings of songs and music written by Briyan Frederick Baker (GAJOOB and Tapegerm Collective) and collaborators. Eventually songs will make their way onto Bandcamp albums and stream on all the usual outlets. Briyan has been making songs since junior and high school and these recordings contain 50+ years of material old and new. The music ranges from glitch pop to experimental.

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