Mouth Full Of Diamonds (Phantogram) Cover

does it make any sense

the first in a series of releases I'll be putting out through @windowsillrecs everything recorded and mixed on cassette. 
piano by Sam Nobles @tiptoesmusic
artwork by Logan Kruidenier (@happy_tatz on ig)
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back then

Did She Call

From the underground headquarters of dogs h8 rats NYC>>><<<Seattle

❤️This track is a loving modern homage to Dave Brubeck's Take Five

 Thank you for buying music from independent artists! We need to pay our rent and electricity bills, feed our cats, buy food, car insurance, and all that other stuff too...You can buy our music on Bandcamp.

lyrics:
Lost lost lost…
should I buy something at the store?
costly costly costly, 
it’s costing me,

it’s caustic.

I spend my time waiting in line 
spend my time…
this is my prime!

…So maybe the best years of my life will be spent at the grocery store, 
and maybe some of the best times.

More and more and more and more...

I’d like more and more and more and more and more and more!

I’m thinking of capitalism 
(giggle)

I’m thinking of how I work eight hours a day so I can return to the same spot, the same place every day 
(giggle)

I’m not complaining…That’s a crime

Alanah Monet Malone, vocals/ Doug Wilkerson, Live drum performance, repurposed piano from the playing of Paul Mathew Moor arranged by D. Wilkerson, other repurposed sounds to create the soundscape created by D. Wilkerson; cover art by D. Wilkerson
composed by Wilkerson and Malone
Mixed and produced by D. Wilkerson

Buy song, thanks!

Alanah's Lament

From the underground experimental lab at Dogs h8 Rats World Headquarters.
Michael Grimes plays bass and electronic sounds. Improvisational drum performance by Douglas Wilkerson. Paul Mathew Moore plays Piano, mini Moog analog synth and trombone. Cover art Douglas Wilkerson
Composition: Wilkerso, Grimes & Moore.
Mixed and Produced by D. Wilkerson

The Catch

From the underground experimental lab at Dogs h8 Rats World Headquarters 
Michael Grimes plays bass and electronic sounds. 
Improvisational drum performance by Douglas Wilkerson. 
Paul Mathew Moore plays Piano, mini Moog analog synth.
Colt Kraft, vocal. 
Cover art Douglas Wilkerson
Composition: Wilkerso, Grimes & Moore.
Mixed and Produced by D. Wilkerson

The Last Day

I wrote this last August with tears running down my face.
I was supposed to release this but could never bring myself to and now I can hardly sing it. Instead I'd like to treat it like a journal entry and leave it behind in 2017.

This song serves as a letter I wrote. He was on tour, he hadn't called in months, and while he was gone I stopped getting my period. I didn't have the nerve to call him and tell him that, so instead I wrote this song as an outline of all the things I'd tell him if he aver asked me how I was doing. 

I am proud of this song, and of all of the people that have faced a scare, had to consider abortion, tried inducing abortion because of lack of funds or lack of support, or went through with an abortion alone. 

I haven't bled in 60 days and I never had his number saved
I haven't bled in 60 days and you get the picture 
I haven't bled in 60 days and I never had his number saved
I haven't bled in 60 days and I know the scripture

It's been 60 days since my legs were spread and 
I haven't bled and I haven't bled and 
It's been 60 days since I was in your bed and 
I haven't bled and I haven't bled and 
Over exercised and underfed and 
I haven't bled and I haven't bled and 
Every tear I cry has been tinted red...
I didn't want to say goodbye

And you said
You'd see me on a Sunday 
I blame my feelings on the full moon baby 
I didn't want to say goodbye
But then, 
Sunday turned to Someday 
I blame my feelings on a big change baby 
I didn't want to say goodbye 
To you

I know you don't wanna be my man,
I know you don't wanna be my man,
I know you don't wanna be my man 
But would it kill you to just ask me how I am?

You get to see the world and have your fun,
While I'm stuck at home with dreams of birth and blood
You get to see the world and have your fun,
While I'm stuck at home with dreams of birth and blood 
Ooh I'm stuck at home with dreams of birth and blood.

3 Scares to Leave Behind

There's a Monster (under the bed)

shes doin' it right

From the depths of avant-jazz, punk rock, and everything in between, Dogs h8 Rats are genre defying, and full of surprises. The music is born of improvisational performances so with a little luck you'll catch the "mistakes and imperfections" now and then, or as Miles Davis once said "Don't fear mistakes, there are none" and that ethos is in clear evidence within the music of Dh8R's. The core of Dh8R's is made up of Douglas Wilkerson and Michael Grimes who collaborate with friends old and new."

❤️ Thank you for buying music from independent artists! We need to pay our rent and electricity bills, feed our cats, buy food, car insurance, and all that other stuff too...You can buy our music on Bandcamp.

I record mostly everything to four track to cassette.  Everything is pretty unfinished, mostly stream of consciousness kind of thing.  This is like a journal.  I’m looking to collab and create.  In Asheville, North Carolina at the moment.

Ig: frainbloss

Valley Girl Voice and a Haunted Drum Machine 
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～(へ-_-)へ

❀✿❀ upcoming shows ❀✿❀ 

❀✿❀ past shows ❀✿❀
Jan 31 ❀ Goodfoot ❀ Portland 
Jan 27 ✿ Kelly’s Olympian ✿ Portland (with Jennifer Vanilla) 
Sept 27th ❀ Holocene ❀ Portland
August 19 ✿ Bombs Away ✿ Corvallis
July 29 ❀ Troll Fest ❀  Under a Portland Bridge
June 26 ✿ The Fixin' To ✿ Portland

2023
Dec 28 ❀ The Camel ❀ Richmond (With Destructo Disc) 

2022
May 9 ✿ Universe Denver ✿ Denver
March 19 ❀ Black Iris ❀ Richmond 

2021
Nov 21 ✿ The Broadway ✿ Brooklyn

2020
Jan 16 ❀ Berlin ❀ Manhattan

2019 
Dec 10 ✿ Alphaville ✿ Brooklyn 
Nov 19 ❀ Living Gallery ❀ Brooklyn
Oct 6 ✿ Gold Sounds ✿ Brooklyn
Sept 20 ❀ Fuzzy Cactus ❀ Richmond
Sept 4 ✿ Alphaville ✿ Bushwick 
Aug 9th ❀ PaperboyPrince Fest ❀ Jones Beach
April 15 ❀ Secret Project Robot ❀ Brooklyn 
April 10 ✿ Crayola House ✿ Harrisonburg
April 8 ❀ Best Friends Bar ❀ Lexington (With Jovontaes) 
April 6 ✿ TAV ✿ Manitou Springs (With The Space Lady)
April 5 ❀ Thought/Forms Gallery ❀ Denver
April 4 ✿ Copeka Coffee ✿ Grand Junction 
March 28 ❀ Junior High Gallery ❀ LA
Feb 27 ✿ Quilcene Historical Theatre ✿ Quilcene
Feb 26 ❀ Track House ❀ Olympia
Feb 24 ✿ No Fun Bar ✿ Portland
Feb 23 ❀ Bat Cave (R.I.P.) ❀ Arcata 
Feb 21 ✿ The Hole ✿ Oakland 
Feb 19 ❀ Blue Lagoon ❀ Santa Cruz
Feb 15 ✿ A Satellite of Love ✿ San Luis Obispo 
Feb 6 ❀ Gold-Diggers ❀ LA
Jan 14 ✿ Coaxial ✿ LA 
Jan 10 ❀ Big Surf ❀ Phoenix
Jan 10 ✿ REBIRTHDAY ✿ Flagstaff
Jan 9 ❀ Bound 4 Glory Books ❀ Tulsa, OK
Jan 7 ✿  Backspace ✿ Fayetteville, AK 
Jan 5 ❀  DRKMTTR ❀  Nashville 
Jan 3 ✿  Fleetwood's ✿  Asheville
Jan 2 ❀  Message 4 Address ❀  Charlotte
2018
Dec 31 ✿ Gallery 5 ✿ Richmond VA
Dec 5 ❀ Union Pool ❀ Brooklyn (With Barrie) 
Oct 25 ✿ Our Wicked Lady ✿ Brooklyn 
Oct 4 ❀  Baby's All Right ❀  Brooklyn (With Petra Glynt)
Sept 17 ✿ Secret Project Robot ✿ Brooklyn
Sept 2 ❀ Trans Pecos ❀ Brooklyn
Aug 30 ✿ Crystal Palace ✿ Richmond
Aug 11 ❀ Gallery 5 ❀ Richmond
July 29 ✿ literally just a laundromat ✿ Brooklyn
April 27 ❀ Brooklyn Bazaar ❀ Brooklyn
May 4 ✿ H0L0 ✿ Brooklyn
May 25 ❀ Alphaville ❀ Brooklyn 
April 7 ✿ MacRock ✿ Harrisonburg 
March 30 ❀ Trans Pecos ❀ Brooklyn
March 23 ✿ Gold Sounds ✿ Brooklyn 
March 2 ❀ H0l0 ❀ Brooklyn (With Sporting Life) 
Feb 17 ✿ Message 4 Address ✿ Tucson 
Feb 15 ❀ Trans Am ❀ Phoenix 
Jan 27 ✿ Scully's Den ✿ Brooklyn
Jan 6 ❀ H0l0 ❀ Brooklyn 
Jan 3 ✿ Silent Barn ✿ Brooklyn

2017
Dec 29 ❀ Ruby Deluxe ❀ Raleigh
Dec 27 ✿ Message 4 Address ✿ Charlotte
Dec 19 ❀ Strange Matter ❀ Richmond
Nov 19 ✿ Berlin ✿ Manhattan
Nov 1 ✿ Rebeccas ✿ Brooklyn
Oct 27 ❀ Message 4 Address ❀ Manhattan
Oct 15 ✿ The Gateway ✿ Brooklyn 
Oct 6 ❀ The Glove ❀ Brooklyn 
Sept 8 ✿ Trans Pecos ✿ Brooklyn 
Aug 16 ✿ Silent Barn ✿ Brooklyn
Aug 11 ❀ On Pop of the World ❀ Greensboro
Aug 10 ✿ Static Age Records ✿ Asheville 
Aug 9 ✿ 641 RPM ✿ Boone
Aug 7 ❀ Lon Lon Ranch ❀ Harrisonburg
Aug 5 ❀ Gallery Five ❀ Richmond 
July 31 ✿ Secret Project Robot ✿ Brooklyn (With FUPU and Macy Rodman) 
July 2 ❀ Apartment 603 ❀ Brooklyn
June 30 ✿ Knitting Factory ✿ Brooklyn 
June 13 ❀ Nu Blu ❀ Manhattan 
May 19 ✿ Trans Pecos ✿ Brooklyn
May 18 ❀ Secret Project Robot ❀ Brooklyn
May 15 ✿ Silent Barn ✿ Brooklyn
May 13 ❀ Rebeccas ❀ Brooklyn
May 6 ✿ 24 Hour Show @ Apt 603 ✿  Brooklyn
April 27 ❀ Flowers for All Occasions ❀ Brooklyn
April 14 ✿ The Woods Collective ✿ Ridgewood 
March 11 ❀ Strange Matter ❀ Richmond (With Negative Gemini) 
Feb 12 ✿ The Glove ✿ Brooklyn

2016
Oct ? ❀ 641 ❀ Boone 
Sep 2 ✿ 3 Moons ✿ Richmond
July 26 ❀ Elena's House ❀ Richmond
July 23 ✿ Slice o' Heaven ✿ Richmond
June 18 ❀ 25 Watt ❀ Richmond

Be well! Drink some water!

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