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"YEAR OF NOD"

by battle ave.

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dyl so glad i was able to grab a tape. it's like a love letter to indie rock that still finds a way to sound innovative Favorite track: ALEPH.
mingo hollow
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mingo hollow Just like a rainy drive through our beloved Catskills at autumn's twilight, this record is sublime, enchanted and profound. Thanks to Will Lytle (another great Catskill artist) for the recommendation! Favorite track: SEASIDE GIRLS.
Kaya Brennan
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Kaya Brennan Happiness and sadness all at the same time. Favorite track: SUMMER SPEAR.
Jeremy / HI54LOFI
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Jeremy / HI54LOFI This album is really great… but it almost sneaked by my easily distracted head. Don't let it sneak past yours. Favorite track: IN EVIL HOUR.
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Travis Button The random time that Soundcloud got to keep playing it's track based playlist and it led me to this. Thanks Soundcloud. Thanks Battle Ave. Favorite track: ALEPH.
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贝塔灰 favorite album of the year
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1.
ALEPH 04:06
see my room, there's no one in it see my blood, my dirty rivers you don't have to be unkind left behind see my parents dressed in black icy looks across the racetrack you've got your thing and i've got mine left behind see my arrows on the floor see my sweaters keeping me warm i'm major arcana i wanna kiss you on the lips and that's the whole of it
2.
SUMMER SPEAR 03:28
where is my summer spear of grass? i've finally learned how to sing at last i'm just a sunburnt unknown sitting down at the cool kid show enemy lover you have forced my hand i'm in the void and i don't know where to stand so just lay down on top of me i am bruised fruit, you are royalty i'm just a sunburnt unknown in the bed of the solar queen enemy lover you have forced my hand the year of nod left me wondering who i am
3.
LALANDE 09:00
Listening to Court & Spark I remember the words "taped down and absent" A student of time Did you write The Sun and I? Was it you who saw the horn? Did you say "I am a light wave" Or "I died out at sea" Or "I am the empty house"? Reading Near To The Wild Heart I remember the words "the sun rose on Lalande" A student of time Did you write The Sun and I? Was it you at Echo Courts? Did you say "I'm already rusted" Or "movement explains form" Or "I am the empty house"? Ligeia braced herself for the fall but at the pale peak, I know the sun never meant anything at all It's not the music of the spheres that caused my hands to scrape against the wall But as a last twist of the knife I want it all.
4.
IN EVIL HOUR 02:20
I broke my sword in two It was always a waste of time You are mine and the world is mine Pitchers of fire have me dusting off my wings I give up on the shape of things I never loosed an arrow Even towards the sky They were always good friends of mine In evil hour, shake your head I can't shake mine
5.
ZOA 07:05
i am the crown, i am the weight i am the breaking and settling i am the need, i am the roots i threw up near on christmas eve i am reason in everything i am the shame, i am the laurel placed atop elysian manes i am reason in everything i am the crown, i am the weight i am the momentary metempsychotic state i am the breaking and settling i am the thorn, i am orion with blue eyes forever torn i am reason in everything the wolf that i am, i hold in my hands
6.
SOLAR QUEEN 05:58
i know things don't turn out as planned i don't mind you are the egg, & i'm doing fine i am the snake, you are the egg i feel heavy i can hardly breathe the city but i see a light joan is a girl that i admire always tired & i am nothing but a child i think i make my parents wonder "what a blunder"! but i see a light how can something come from nothing? i'm just a boy who needs attention
7.
everybody knows that they've got problems everybody knows that they aint saints but the tattoos on yr body wont make everything go away and if my best friend blames you for all his problems remember that you arent the only one whois thought of as a train wreck who is thought of as a hopeless cause if yr parents try to stop yr drinking and kingston's always just a step behind one way streets call out to us and we respond
8.
Years dreams return The pilot light burned, I searched for signs In the sun and the sea and the quay Another waste of a day Is my dowry a lock or a key? Sweet memory, it's not Hamlet or Lear that makes me take pause I should have been a pair of ragged claws There will be time Years dreams return I should have left long ago, standing room at The Globe doesn't suit me at all There will be time to find mountains and peaks asleep down the hall There will be time or no time at all i want the old times
9.
I haven't seen you in days I'm not allowed in the city anymore I've packed up this Arcadian life I gave myself to the night A student of time Furious vengeance is mine (No its not) Something wicked this way comes My head is a stone Got rid of my phone Just leave me alone (My heart is darkness) I haven't seen you in days Who knows what moves me anyways? Look, a jewel! Look, the sun screamed right by me Say say oh enemy I saw the sun, it screamed right by me I still saw the whites of her eyes In our diner, in our disguise It was me, the sun, and a friend that I loved Or me and a friend that I called the sun I haven't seen you in days Who knows what moves me anyways? I'm missing you in the city I want o call you one hundred times, but I won't I want to build you a city But you're the beast who brought me down I'm sick of talk, I'm sick of pressure Hermia gave measure for measure And at my leisure I have known it to be true I'll be through them hills and gone, and so will you

about

recorded & produced by wise sage KEVIN MCMAHON
marcata recording, new paltz, ny
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recording & addt'l production on tracks 1, 2, 6 by HUNTER DAVIDSOHN
business district recording, johnson city, ny
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addt'l recording on track 4 by ALEX BEAULIEU
brooklyn, ny
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mastered by JAMAL RUHE
west west side, ny ny

with
NICK CORBO, HUNTER DAVIDSOHN, JESSE DOHERTY, ROLAND GARDNER HASBROUCK, TREVOR GRASSI, GRETA KLINE, FRANK MCGINNIS, KEVIN MCMAHON, SAM MINTZER, SAMANTHA NISS, KORNELIS POORT, ADAM STOUTENBURGH, EMMA TRINGALI, PETER VOAKES, MATTHEW WOOLEVER

THANK YOU to kevin, andrea, emma, our families, & everyone who played on the record

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released May 5, 2015

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