Limited 12" Record w/ Screen Printed Cover + Insert
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
It was my delight to take matters into my own hands with the vinyl side of this release.
Pressed by Groovy Dude Records, featuring a monochromatic, screen-printed version of the cover onto canvas done by Saul Garza and myself.
Features stamped inner labels and an insert only available with the vinyl release.
Limited to 50.
Includes unlimited streaming of Getting the Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Dubbed and designed by Nyquil Schoenholz.
Limited to 30.
Includes unlimited streaming of Getting the Blues
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Empty Heaven: Collected Writings 2019-2021
A paperback containing stray writings, both related and unrelated to the record.
Featuring poems based on songs from the record by Spencer LaBute and Ariel Clark.
Collage jacket art created by Tink Castillo.
Formatted by Spencer LaBute.
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lyrics
“What was the purpose of your swim?”
In the ocean, in a test tube; either way, I don’t wanna be rescued
If I’m in it, I’ve never been innocent, “being” as the experiment
Man of letters gotta watch out knowing that the smallest bit of water’s gonna blot out the point
of why I plot out on the points on the axis I float
Lovecraft in aft, Carol Oates in the lifeboats
I can’t help but laugh when the bills come
I must be alive, otherwise they would not keep sending ‘em
Swaying back and forth, Foucalt’s Pendulum; fuck that, I keep way too
much junk science in my gut; I wave frantically, I yell, “Cut!”
Some think the glass is half empty, some half filled
I don’t like the glass, and I don’t know if I ever will
I’m always looking for exits; it’s the exegesis of a colicky baby
Anybody else suffering from cholera lately? From Hera to Hades in a black Mercedes on the
River Styx, twine on a board connecting myths,
King Arthur on a saucer with ancient glyphs written on the side; I beam with pride,
step back and observe this stupid piece of shit
I used to beg for cootie-catcher fortunes, prophecy without distortion, in my control,
to cover up a big hole in my paw; I thought I saw an owl, now I don’t know what I saw
I can’t even drive without panicking, backseat every night and saying “thank you”
way too quietly, petard of my own sobriety, of stupid piety
I should get the lead out, but I won’t let it
I get the blues, but I’m still not getting it
The heart wants blood, but I won’t let it
I get the blues, but I’m still not getting it right
If I see God, I’ll slip the bill to him
“What was the purpose of your swim?”
Imagine a kid, then yell at them, put a little trauma in their brand new brainstem
with a big blow to the back, big grownup attack, then go see if that contained them
All that deprivation of heart, all of the newly-broken parts,
all will live as a meta-dermal, tetra-thermal energy in their performance art
But it ends bad, pretends it doesn’t
They say they had a vision, but we tell ‘em that it wasn’t what it was
We think it’s the right thing to do when they think it’s an ark when we go to the zoo
Try to live with that confusion
The light’s dimming
Don’t ever ask why I go swimming
I should get the lead out, but I won’t let it
I get the blues, but I’m still not getting it
The heart wants blood, but I won’t let it
I get the blues, but I’m still not getting it right
I see Hermes hanging off the rim
“What was the purpose of your swim?”
I’d be lying if I told you that it wasn’t always on my mind
credits
from Getting the Blues,
released July 9, 2021
Vocals: Jennie Lawless
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