Prettier

Written by Ryan Ritual
Produced and Mixed by Chris Zane
Mastered by Joe Laporta
Engineered by Nathan Cable


It’s been more than a while
Since I met someone like you
The world shut down and so did I
Reversed into a cocoon
I didn’t mean to let this happen
The circumstances are uncouth
But you keeping showing up in my life 
And now all I want is you

I never thought I’d say
This to someone again
I never thought I’d feel like this again
It’s been so many days
Hiding myself from pain
And I don’t wanna let you slip away
Before it begins

I’m not the best at shapes and shit
But I can read a room
This ain’t no damn triangle 
Almost a decade now removed
Still I get where you are coming from
I know the loyal rules
But I also know this feels different
And I think you feel it too

I never thought I’d say
This to someone again
I never thought I’d feel like this again
It’s been so many days
Hiding myself from pain
And I don’t wanna let you slip away
I never thought I’d say
This to someone again
I never thought I’d feel like this again
It’s been so many days
Hiding myself from pain
And I don’t wanna let you slip away
Before it begins

Slip Away

Written and performed by CIEL
Produced and mixed by Steven Ansell
Mastered by Katie Tavini

Shut In My Body

Fuck Around Phase

Fortune

Man or Machine

Written by Sydney Wayser
Produced by Dan Molad and Pete Harper
Mixed by Dan Molad
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

LOVER I BUILT US A THRONE
Woke up in your bed
Mountains of pillows had grown
I tied the sheets with copper thread
Lover, I built us a throne

I want to begin, down to the feel and down to the color
Don’t wait for me to kiss you in the morning when you’re half asleep

Honey I want to get tangled up
Maybe you and I could fall in love
I don’t want to wait but I don’t want to rush
I think I love you, I love you, I love you

We memorized the history 
Of ancient Greece and ancient Rome
And while you practiced their dances
My king, I knit you a robe

I want to begin, down to the feel and down to the color
Don’t wait for me to kiss you in the morning when you’re half asleep
‘Cause I want to begin again 

Honey I want to get tangled up
Maybe you and I could fall in love
I don’t want to wait but I don’t want to rush
I think I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you

Somewhere in the forest I built a tower
Far behind the pines, stacked bricks and flowers
I’d forgotten my truth I had nothing to prove

Honey all I want do is tangled up
Maybe you and I could fall in love
I don’t want to wait but I don’t want to rush
I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you

FIND A WINDOW

May 16 2023

Lover I Built Us A Throne

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She Brings The Noise

Sometimes, the greatest ideas spring from the subconscious, fully formed. Such is the case with CLARA-NOVA, a name and concept that struck its creator, Sydney Wayser, in a dream. Musical exploration had already pushed the Los Angeles native onto a pantheon of Franco-American influences, from Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Charlotte Gainsbourg to John Lennon and Jeff Buckley. Now, her inventive songs swim to new depths in a mix of pastoral pleasures and urban grit—a sonic landscape of organic and electronic sounds. “Let me count the ways that you haunt me,” she sings on “Electric,” synths and strums swirling around her. “Let me count the ways that you stop me in my tracks attacking every part of me / you woke me up when the storm came and it’ll never be the same again.” Pulling inspiration from deep sea dance parties, ancient Egyptian ritual and Martian folklore, the upcoming CLARA-NOVA EP sets forth an otherworldly sound, grounded in the earthy intensities of the human experience. “I drank a handful of water from a black well,” Wayser sings on “Isis.” “Been painting my life and it’s not only golden / I’ve been humbled.”

Lover I Built Us A Throne

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