Ella For Real

Girls In Black

A mixtape featuring some of our favorite songs from 2016 (and beyond!) 
Happy Krampus and stay tuned for new music from us!
 
1. Angel Olsen - Intern
2. Miike Snow -  My Trigger
3. Neon Indian - Slumlord (parts 1 & 2)
4. Blood Orange - Best to You
5. Baio - Sister of Pearl
6. Wild Nothing - Shadow
7. Kornel Kovacs - BB
8. Bat for Lashes - Sunday Love
9. m83 - Solitude
10. Kevin Morby - Cut Me Down
11. Baio - Matter

"Now That's What I Call Indie-Pop!" 2016 Mixtape

Lyrics:
Waking on your own it's just too bad
That every morning go I try to make those stacks
Well reelin' in the years just makes you sad
Say mea culpa's to yourself until you can't

Well I was born to the right of every score
And you are home to delight and nothin' more
We're singing glory to it all
Glory to it all

Well I'm in the background singin' songs
While you knew the secret art of getting what you want
It's hard to explain just how you got
To be my number one best lover of the 'aughts

Well I was born to the right of every score
And you are home to delight and nothin' more
We're singing glory to it all
Glory to it all

Super Sad Rom-Com

The Secret Art

All at once you're the comedian and my muse 
'Til the end
I don't know how I'm gonna learn how to live in your world
If I can

You'd never believe
The things I see in you
You wonder
You wonder
You'll say

Going back to the time when you'd say what you mean
To your folks
It's really hard for them to buy gasoline for your car
If you smoke

They'd never believe
The things they've seen
I know they wonder
They wonder
They'll say
We'll make it out clean
It's hard to believe 
Sometimes
I wonder
I wonder
I pray

That all your devices
Can never bring to that truth
That's a thing you have to lose
No longer healthy
To be trying for the moon
That's a thing you have to do
Go out and love me
Like you know you're made to do
Like you know you're meant
To do

All at once you're the comedian and my muse
'Til the end
I swear to god I'm gonna gonna learn how to live in your world
If I can

You'd never believe
The things I see in you
You wonder
You wonder
You'll say
I'll make it out clean
It's hard to believe
Sometimes
I wonder
I wonder
I pray

All at Once

Oh to be a part of it
You'd have to be so cruel
You never turn away do you?
The girls with swimming pools

Has it crossed their minds?
That you might not mind
Getting down

Oh to be a part of it
The lucky ones
Would never dream of parting with it
It's what they've won
Think they've won

You're falling out of windows
And into moving cars
You tell your lesser acolytes
To wish on shooting stars

These are all mistakes
For you karmic date
One of these days

But oh to be a part of it
The lucky ones
Would never dream of parting with it
It's what they've won
Think they've won

The Lucky Ones

Lyrics:
Out in your garden
We're in the same boat
Counting on good friends
Back at the hotel

I was an island
You were a pirate
Shooting your guns in vain
You always aim to miss

But it goes without saying much
That you were the sum of loves
And if you say you'll do it
Then no one would question it

Back at the hideout
Puking our guts out
But we'll play this game again
Once more with feeling

Appear in the hallway
The room would go prostrate
All of the ways to sing
I don't know what my life means

But it goes without saying much
That you were the sum of loves
And if you say you'll do it
Then no one would question it

It goes without saying much
That you were the sum of loves
And if you say you you'll do it with us
No one would question much

Sum of Loves

Lyrics:
Death
I think about it half the time
You run your mouth
You never had it good enough
In your life
So my ego should burn
The concerns
Of ordinary people are of no worth
You're still so assured

So go on
And take me to your mother's home
You can't believe 
I'd never heard of legacies unknown
Your blood is a curse
And the chauffeurs are never ever here on time
And love hurts
But it's all just for show

We could do much worse
Hosting parties in your bed
But you're too averse
To getting stains on your bedspread

I fought piranhas in the Amazon
To be here now
And your telling me to mow the lawn
Before the neighbors will see
It's obscene
I'd do ya 'til the cows come home
But I bleed
For no one's renown

And you're sure
The concerns of ordinary people are
of no worth
I'm saying

We could do much worse
Hosting parties in your bed
But you're too averse
To getting stains on your bedspread
And I really tried
Really tried to be that guy
But at summer's close
I take my things and I'll head home

An Effigy for my Ego

Lyrics:
Always in the background getting stoned
Mess with their assumptions 'til they've flown
All the same one thing that you've got to admit
It sticks

Just another summer on your back
Politics and manners that you lacked
You and me underneath the poplar trees
In dreams

But on your own
It's too far
Walking home
Now typical
I'm too old
To get your drugs
You're too young 
Let's do this more

Girls in Black
Oh, they had golden dreams
And one by one
They tell me their fantasies

Until I'm sold
Until they've grown
Until they've

When is everything too much for you?
I thought that was kinda messed up when you
Locked me out naked it my own front yard
It's hard sometimes

On your own
It's too far
Walking home
Now typical
I'm too old
To get your drugs
You're too young
Let's do this more

Girls in Black
Oh, they had golden dreams
And one by one
They tell me their fantasies

Girls in Black

Lyrics:
The rhythms in your car
Help hold me together
Until we get far

And I think I know right now
What it really takes
To be a holy cow

Cause this was good fun
Like laughing in the face of a 
Loaded gun

And I was almost one
With my favorite self
But the moment just passed away
Now baby says we cannot stay
Get your shit together bae

Now the way that you cut your hair
Shows off your roman features
but hardened your stare

and I know I should know by now
How much you had to give to get
back into style

But all your arguments 
Just crumble at the feet of the
New charlatans

But you were almost one
With your favorite self
But the moment just passed away
Now baby says we cannot stay
Get your shit together bae
All because the songs don't play
no more

Your Favorite Self

Heartstar

'Good Intention Blues' is the epic centerpiece of Modern Leisure's upcoming EP. A portrait of personal change confronting the tedium in a decaying relationship, the song explores that take-stock moment where you realize there's nothing left for you. The party's over and it's time to start cleaning up. Fitting for this time of year, the song blooms from a state of despondency into a budding sense of optimism. Reconciling with the unresolved, 'Good Intention Blues' is a ballad of the equinox.

Good Intention Blues

Do You Find

Modern Leisure is the recording moniker of Casey Banker. The low-key pop tunes highlight illicit tales of hedonism and heartbreak under the guise of lush guitars and a hodgepodge of warm melodies.

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