Lyrics:
So cold in the sun
So right at being wrong
Choosing between tragedies

Stay up all night
Borrow happiness from tomorrow
Playing chess with a ghost
Tearing down the studio

I am all of that

Cold water flat
Newspaper ad
Leaving the city
Throwing out your TV

Hum along
To the sound of a utopian future
Empty out your pockets
Into the street
Give it all back
And more

Credits:
Omar Akrouche: vox, gtr, tape loops
Sydney Peterson: bottlecaps

Truthtelling

Cold Water Flat

Lyrics:
After a week inside
I can't recognize a thing
The sun was in my eyes
It was exactly right
Exactly right

Hey,
I heard there's a town a little up the road
I don't know what it's called, but I'd really like to go
Hey,
I hear there's a town a little up the road
Where they still have wells and landline phones

Dust on the dashboard
Like I'd forgotten how to drive
The moon is in the rearview
And it looks just right
It looked just right

Hey,
The rain's coming down on the blacktop
And you keep spliffs in an Altoids box

Hey,
And all the kids out ride their bikes home
And in the distance there's a thunderstorm

It was just like I remember
It was

Credits:
Omar Akrouche: vox, 2600, dub
Nicole Rowe: vox
Eric Van Thyne: pocket operator, dub, gtrs, sub, sk-1, prophet 5

Start Stop Motion

Lyrics:
You push me and I'm swinging above the ground
I wonder what they'll think of me when I'm six feet down
They'll say, "She's everything we wanted, just not what we needed."
And for fears of being haunted they'll say, "she'll never be forgotten."

But what did you want, what did you from me?
And who did you want, who did me to be?

They'll say, "She's everything we wanted, never left unheeded."
And for fears of being haunted they'll say, "she'll never be forgotten."

How could that not be enough for me?
For if my life were to be left incomplete?

Credits:
Nicole Rowe: vox
Omar Akrouche: gtrs, bass, solina, drum machine, bvox

Scriptivism

Lyrics:
Use my teeth to strain the seeds
From the lemon juice I make in the morning
I dumb it down
Hot water and honey
It's my only routine

How much of this is you?
And how much of this is me?

Why do we always have to fuck
Like it's a punctuation point
On our world falling apart
Two hollow bodies knocking against the bed frame
You open up the bottle
And you throw the cork away

How much of that is you?
And how much of this is me?
Who am I trying to please?
Is it you or is it me?

Credits:
Omar Akrouche: vox, gtrs, minimoog, pds loop
Nicole Rowe: bass
Spencer Hartling: lexicon 200 + stromberg vocal dub

Pullquote

Lyrics:
No way I'm gonna make you ride the bus
You're right around the corner, I'll come pick you up
Hold wonder just like a cup
There's not a lot to do here for people like us
I'd do anything to leave the house
I settle down and I sweat it out
You never know what I'm on about
We get bad coffee and I stain my blouse

Pulse stays steady
You wait while I get ready
Heaven is such a lonely cloud
Pulse stays steady
And yet I'm breathing heavy
Always laugh a little bit too loud

Why is it always so hard to admit it?
Probably all of the doubts
Why is it always so hard to admit it?
As much within me as without

Always wanna stay inside
I don't even know the time
Looks like it's tonight
Oh I bet it's like five, six, seven
Almost overstepped the line
Lost my appetite
The future blinds my eyes
Hope I get it together by then

Pulse stays steady
You wait while I get ready
Heaven is such a lonely cloud
Pulse stays steady
And yet I'm breathing heavy
Always laugh a little bit too loud

Why is it always so hard to admit it?
Probably all of the doubts
Why is it always so hard to admit it?
As much within me as without

Credits:
Nicole Rowe: vox, gtrs, bass, percussion
Omar Akrouche: vox, drums, wide gtrs, 440 dub

Deadbeat

Lyrics:
The city's run by blue collar
Working class closet alcoholics
It's a strange truth
Strained youth
Everything is making me feel stupid
What's the use?

It's probably obvious I'm desperate
For a change

Today I saw a ghost on the metro line
It took the seat right next to me
It's cold hands touched my body
And told me

Truthtelling
Is becoming extinct

I tuned it out completely
I tuned it out all the way home

Credits:
Omar Akrouche: vox, gtrs, drum machine, minimoog, tape loop
Nicole Rowe: piano, model 200 bass, bvox

Lyrics:
I got a few bucks in my pocket, I'll close the door and lock it
And I drive to the house I was yours in
Everybody's talking, bout how the future's so uncertain
So I float in the pool I learned to swim in
I never dream, so I sleep instead
There's not a nightmare in my head
I keep seeing faces of those I haven't met yet

I've just been thinking maybe
If someone's bound to break me
You can, can it be you then?
You can, can it be you then?

The more I think the less I understand
Tracing the lifelines on my hand
Even the crystal gazer said she doesn't know yet
And just like that
You take a seat and you start to chat
About things that feel much different than before
I'm sorry bout your sweater
I shrunk it in the drier
I tried to stretch it back but I don't know what for

I've just been thinking maybe
If someone's bound to break me
You can, can it be you then?
You can, can it be you then?

I've just been sitting lazy
My vision's getting hazy
Soft skin, sunny side up grin
Soft skin, sunny side up grin

Credits:
Nicole Rowe: vox, e gtr
Eric Van Thyne: acoustics, drum programming, moog source, feedback
Omar Akrouche: vox, dub, woodblock, editing

Sweater

8mm music video by Sarah Phenix & Claire Donohue: https://youtu.be/ghweHa6Xfws

Lyrics:
Why are all my memories
Made up of things that never happened to me?
What's not, what should, what will be
There stands a line between is and seems

It constantly replays
Another bright synthetic day
It always feels the same
Another bright synthetic day

A neon world turned gray

Credits:
Nicole Rowe: vox, acoustic gtr, piano
Omar Akrouche: vermona, bass, cs-50, gtrs, pds 8000

Anne Hedonic

Lyrics:
Bitstream unlimited precious information 
Time and space relationships are on sale this weekend

I'm learning how to disappear
 I wanna get out of here 
I'm learning how to disappear

 I can't stick around here
 I can't wait forever

I am an outsider with a manic focus 
To a heavenly horoscope I return automatic opposition 
Unstudied points and unstudied angles that I've never seen before
 It's astronomical it's astrological, I don't belong here anymore

I'm learning how to disappear
 I wanna get out of here 
I'm learning how to disappear

 I can't stick around here
 I can't wait forever 
I can't stick around here
 I can't wait forever

Credits:
Omar Akrouche: vox, guitars, bass, drums, piano 
Nicole Rowe: vox 
Eric Van Thyne: engineering 
Spencer Hartling: tape loop, engineering 
Mac Mercutio: engineering

Inbetween / Themanwhofelltoearth

Themanwhofelltoearth

Lyrics:
I should have waited for a longer time, I pantomime
Someone who knows just when to smile, but I'm defiled
I'll get there soon, I'll be grown, too
I'll get there soon, I'll be grown, too

I see no face in the mirror, then it reappears
Exterior is a hueless ghost and I'm the host
I'll get there soon, I'll be like you
I'll get there soon, I'll be like you

But I'm all too young and starry-eyed
And always accidentally pushing time

Can't wrap my head around it

Credits:
Nicole Rowe: vox, acoustic
Omar Akrouche: vermona, vox, bass, e gtr, dub
Eric Van Thyne: prophet 5, piano
Kasie Shahbaz: harp

Inbetween

Deadbeat (Chloe Corley Remix)

Tall black cloud behind your old house
Rain comes pouring down
In the rear mirror see you clear
Staring your past down

Playing all your favorite songs
You’re nodding your head along
Racing past the old strip mall

I don’t wanna go back home anymore
Since it was sold and gutted from the floor
Years ago my parents moved up north
I don’t wanna go back home

Playing all your favorite songs
You’re nodding your head along
Racing past the old strip mall

We’ll go together
Towards city center
Where time doesn’t matter

Playing all your favorite songs
You’re nodding your head along

I don’t wanna go back home anymore
Since it was sold and gutted from the floor
Years ago my parents moved up north
I don’t wanna go back home

I don’t wanna go back home anymore
Since it was sold and gutted from the floor
Years ago my parents moved up north
I don’t wanna go back home

Nicole Rowe - vocals
Eric Van Thyne - drum programming, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Omar Akrouche - vocals, dub
Chloe Corley - prophet 600
Andrew Pham - bass guitar

Written by Nicole Rowe & Eric Van Thyne
Produced by Worthitpurchase
Mixed by Omar Akrouche & Eric Van Thyne
Mastered by Joe Lambert

Big Canada

Something New

Sideways

Don’t really know why you’d expect me to stay
‘Cause you can’t keep changing your mind every day
Don’t really know why you’d expect me to run
‘Cause I can’t let us go until you’ve said that we’re done

Are you really that surprised
Well I guess I’ve been keeping it inside
Preferred memories disguise
My whole life

You always say that I’m not like anyone else
When you don’t even know what you’re talking about
You’d be with anyone that prevents you from dealing
With the wounds that you scratch at everytime they start healing

Are you really that surprised
Well I guess I’ve been keeping it inside
Preferred memories disguise
My whole life
My whole life

Nicole Rowe: vox, gtrs
Omar Akrouche: gtrs, bass, ps-20, prime time, ampex 440
Spencer Hartling: OP-1 drums

My Whole Life

Lyrics:
I swear
The subway is on the other side
Of the walls in your friends
New York basement
I can hear them
Running through our room
There’s an energy that’s
Keeping me from sleeping

You run around around
Looking for something that can’t be found
All over town
It’s really turning me inside out
Beneath the ground
I remember how we came about
I’m not sure what I’m here for
I’m just somebody for you to feel for

Freaking out on the underground
Excess electricity in me
I can feel it running through my chest
It’s gonna throw off my heartbeat

You run around around
Looking for something that can’t be found
All over town
It’s really turning me inside out
Beneath the ground
I remember how we came about

I’m not sure what I’m here for
I’m just somebody for you to heal for
I’m not sure what I’m here for
I’m just somebody for you to feel for

I’m not sure what I’m here for
I’m just somebody for you to feel for
I’m not sure what I’m here for
I’m just somebody for you to heal for

Credits:
Omar Akrouche: vox, drums, guitars, sk-1, solina, prophet-5, dl-4
Nicole Rowe: vox

Prospect Heights

Lyrics:
The smallest feeling fuels a rocket to space
I can’t stop thinking and I hate how things change
Trying to find a way
But I won’t go back, ‘cause I can’t get back

It’s a one-way train speeding through all the years
I wanna get off, I just wanna disappear
Are we even near?
But I won’t go back, ‘cause I can’t get back

Here I go
Spinning, blurring
Everything I’ll ever know

Here I go
Spinning, blurring
Everything I’ll ever know

Credits:

Nicole Rowe: vox, guitar, glockenspiel
Omar Akrouche: tr-808, sk-1, bass, portasound, pcm 41

Dizzy Age

nicole & omar
los angeles, ca
kmart surrealism
mgmt: gbm@jrbigstar.com

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