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Inlet

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1.
Inlet 05:28
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Half-sunk in brackish water As the tide pulls itself away I watch the floating remnants Drift into the ending day Framed by the bones of buildings The sky's unnatural colors Highlight the fallen roadway And cast shadows of the others Face up I drift The tide crawls out Sun and air above Water and steel below
2.
Zombie Prescription 05:44
lyrics
No representation of my voice Your prescription set to destroy Our persistence to boycott Silent partners you know we are not We are the signs Of the changing Perseverance, we've come of age Collective interests to engage We are the signs Of the changing times Cut you down to size These are changing times Your preconceptions Condemning race And your solutions They cramp our space Self-sufficience That is my goal Recognition of some self-control We are the signs Of the changing times Cut you down to size These are changing times
3.
Swimming Song 04:05 video
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This summer I went swimming This summer I might have drowned But I held my breath and I kicked my feet And I moved my arms around Moved my arms around This summer I swam in the ocean And I swam in a swimming pool Salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes I'm a self-destructive fool I'm a self-destructive fool This summer I did the backstroke And you know that that's not all I did the breaststroke and the butterfly And the old Australian crawl The old Australian crawl This summer I swam in a public place And a reservoir to boot At the latter I was informal At the former I wore my suit I wore my swimming suit, yeah This summer I did swan dives And jackknives for you all And once when you weren't looking I did a cannonball Did a cannonball This summer I went swimming This summer I might have drowned But I held my breath and I kicked my feet And I moved my arms around Moved my arms around
4.
Quit Everything 08:23
lyrics
Pull the ground up over me and let me quit everything.

about

This album is a sort of abbreviated musical autobiography. The first track is a simplified description of half-remembed dreams from my early youth, filtered through the lens of my now less-youthful mind. "Zombie Prescription" was profoundly important to me in my teenage years and contains sentiment still very relevant. "Swimming Song," although older than I am, struck a powerful chord with me these past few summer-autumn shifts, a time of reflection and nostalgic melancholy. The last track is a quite literal decline into a single line of text taken from "Pilgrimage" by Zenna Henderson, a line that embodies facing the inevitable.

Reflecting backward, projecting forward. Not much difference, I tend to think. And here is the sound of experience in the middle, in the midst, in the mist, burnt away by the new day's rising sun, by the declining earth yielding itself to the warming rays, dispelling shadows for a time, until they yet again envelop us.

An inlet, an outlet, the something that exists in the transition - that is, the change itself, the unknowable knife-edge point (or even yet the haziest expanse) on which the distinction between opposing notions rests.

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released September 9, 2022

"Inlet" and "Quit Everything" written by Nathaniel Parker Raymond.
"Zombie Prescription" written by Snapcase.
"Swimming Song" written by Loudon Wainwright III.

Additional production and mixing by Nick Filth.
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios, Stockholm Sweden.
Album art by Omscic Comics.

Video for "Swimming Song" generated by Artificial Intelligence text-to-image (-to-video).

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