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Woundwood / Blind Pelican

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    High-bias audio cassettes with gratuitous art by D. Thornton, M. Murphy, and D. Milliken. Limited edition of 25. A separate download code will be included with the cassette, which will feature a bonus mini-EP that will not be a part of the standard digital download. It will also smell nicer than any MP3.

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1.
Woundwood - Passing Reflection 05:42
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Woundwood - The Blind Pelican's Volcano 08:35
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3.
Blind Pelican - Fox's Song 03:29
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The ghost of you howls into everything I do and I'd bow to any god just to exorcise this room (just one corner of this room). It's like some sort of sickness whose code can't be erased: you can cover up the symptoms but you'll always be sick. Your language inflect everything I say and I'd mouth the edge of a switchblade just to purify my tongue.
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Blind Pelican - Eyes Closed and Swimming from the Shore 03:32
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Learning you love only after you've lost: what is that? Loving all that you've had only after it's gone: what is that? What sick joke is that? When the hotel tower closes in the fog and you can never go back to where it all went wrong, can never fix your out-of-tune song: can never sing true your out-of-tune song.
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Blind Pelican - For Hung and Akhmatova 03:33
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Admit you want for their long looks. I long, too. So say yes to empty air. We bare our knuckles to hide the truth about us. We whip hands. We out teeth. And all our teeth are a lie. And our hands are a lie. And our lie's a lie. I want to pull you to pieces. So say yes, you admit you say yes.
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Blind Pelican - Rabbit Boy Kick That Blood Clot Around 04:05
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My friends, my friends, I have fought the sun and though it did burn me I did not lose. I survived. And I am all fire now and I am all wind. And I am all ash and water. And I am all of your sighs and all of your tears. And I am the dust cloud that's choking in your baby's throat. And I am your blood. And I am your breath. And I am you. My friends, my friends.

about

There's likely a psychological function that forms or is built-into those who live in landscapes dominated nearly half the year by snow and ice and naked black-limbed trees. Survivalism seems too strong a word. Maybe it's simply a preference for the absence of embellishments. When your world is stripped of even its essentials, why would your art be anything more? This isn't the driving force behind these four Northern-born and bred musicians, but it does inform some of the choices made. Songs composed as much by the empty spaces between the notes as by the notes themselves. Even when we're trying our damnedest to fill that empty space. Even when the emptiness is trying even harder to fill us up.

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released October 31, 2012

Woundwood: M. Murphy, D. Thornton
Blind Pelican: D. Milliken, E. Sprinkle

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