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love letters from the end of the world

by lay / lie

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when the sky was not the sky but heat and smoke ash settling funereal while we burned our dead alive, i ran up the hillside, loud, heroic to find the coyotes pacing menacing and myself the only one left to save. i filled my hands with stones to toss at red horizons and shouted grief til lungsore, til empty, til wrung and my fraying joints carried the weight of me home. what is the future to children who do not know the sky? who must shut their doors and learn to build from strangers in glowing boxes? who must swallow with raw pink throats the words of the arsonists and return the cutting things whole, unburned by acid bellies full of reason, glistening instead with the saliva of obedience? their future is a bag packed and set beside the door that they have filled with their most precious things, expanding softness testing zipper toothed grip, and which i have replaced with shoes that fit, with water. their future is to run.
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turn around 03:48
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the chase 05:37
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letters home 03:34
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even in sleep my vision is suspect roaming city streets with unreliable eyes the cornea of mind scratched and warped must place my trust in what i feel, in palms, soles, soft drums of ears, which know by the crunching underfoot that i am in a lesser playground where by day children scrape plastic cups into piles collecting baby teeth, bone shards, splinters of tibia, femur to build castles, pat into cakes, and emerge like ghosts under a veil of ash, coughing skeletal dust – but it is night and cool the playground is empty but for a few of the older children who came here to smoke and curse to press their mouths together to find softness their skin glitters with bone in the moonlight my lying eyes say beautiful but their shadows are bloody pools (excerpted from sleepwalker, sarah iyer 2020)

about

on september 9th, 2020, when the smoke choked the sun from the sky, we took shelter from the cascading catastrophes inside the recording studio. that night’s improvised session became the bulk of this, our second full-length album, “love letters from the end of the world,” which drops July 19th, 2021. Their debut single, “do we run?” captures the ominous dread of that day, when everyone in the Bay was collectively looking out at darkened skies and wondering if it was already too late.

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released July 19, 2021

we are so grateful for the wonderful musicians who blessed this album with their diverse contributions. you all pushed the music in a myriad of ways, and made each song feel like a different chapter in this odd little book. huge thank you's to:

Scott Amendola & Rahul Iyer on the drums

Hondo Felder & Clark Funk Father Sims on bass

Carl Nash & Joey Muller on keys

And thank you to Christopher Hauf for the stunning cover image

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