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Dress For The Future

by 8-bit crEEps

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1.
amateur psychiatrist help get me out of this i know that you thought that you knew but you don’t i just want to feel something good i just want to feel something good tear down the building now brick by brick, i’ll show you how disassemble, all you remember and grow yeah I've grown what was i meant to do? what do i need to prove? the old apartment carpeting torn to shreds and olive green it doesn’t matter, when you’re a kid and you’re home yeah it’s home the gravity of consequence you said that you were on the fence can you tell me, tell me things i should know? but you won’t i just want to feel something good i just want to feel something good i just wanted to feel something good i just wanted to feel something good
2.
that was close, but we’re still alive sit in the back, let Mr. Abba drive we made our move do you follow? the church doesn’t pay tax you say? i heard it on the news today yeah, i’m confused i do not follow with growing concern, as the brush fires burn, it was tuesday discard all your joy, like childhood toys, we knew Mr. Abba, the winds have changed! tell me how to play their game it’s my move and do you follow? the trains that i hear in the still of the night and i can’t fall asleep 'cause i can’t get it right (feel's right?) do you follow? with growing concern as the brush fires burn, it was tuesday discard all your joy, like childhood toys, i knew we could do better yeah it could be worse looks a little smaller a strange little quirk, a gift shop in a church belief in a work, made of plastic we sit and we watch, with growing concern the forest it burns, for nothing try to explain what we can't understand a blue speck of sand, in the black ocean we sit and we watched with growing concern the brush fires burn, for nothing
3.
i Lose 04:06
come on, come on, come on we’re so much more than just our jobs, our stocks, our bonds no matter what I choose i lose (i lose) make believe at night run in circles and call it a good life forgetting everything i knew (i knew) beyond this great divide, our shriveled hearts in bloom come on, come on, come on the perfect moment passed you by and now it’s gone trade a piece of you i lose (i lose) beyond this great divide, a clouded thought's in tune
4.
i stand corrected i was out-of-line i shared my feelings i spoke my mind ahhh ahhhhhh beau mondes and debutantes, princely dandies disembodied heads, please tread lightly stately decorum get your face out of mine shall we die of boredom? any place, anytime ahhh ahhhhh beau mondes and debutantes, princely dandies disembodied heads, please tread lightly
5.
6.
Madness 05:42
it was 3am, I was wide awake shots rang out, in the dark helicopters, late at night slow search lights, in the yard a reckoning has come I saw a man, die on live t.v. how can you, not feel changed? apathy, for humanity angry sea, begin to rise a reckoning has come the streets were full of tear gas it was, worse than I imagined the cops hid their faces they put, tape over their badges big ideas it was all madness a man was crying he said, "tell me how this happened?" I want to say something, I didn't say a thing I don't know the way, it's been lost you raise your hand, did you find your voice? is there still a choice? I don't feel at home the streets were full of tear gas it was, worse than I imagined cops hid their faces they put, tape over their badges big ideas it was all madness a man was crying he said, "tell me how this happens?"
7.
dates and names cut in stone, will still someday erase we’re lost, dumbfound graveyard thinker can you find your sound? before it’s time to go my oldest friends it was better, it was simple then backyard car blow off steam, beneath the stars oh i know you make fun of my dated clothes ooh there’s time come upstairs, should you change your mind we’re getting close now i hear the siren song strung out poseurs passed out on the lawn reflective lovers they got it wrong dead oak tree keep your secrets safe inside your rings golden song will i find you? will i live that long? ooh i know make fun of my dated clothes ooh there’s time come upstairs should you change your mind we’re getting close now i hear the siren song strung out poseurs passed out on the lawn reflective lovers you got it wrong
8.
Bloody Nose 05:02
false alarm, I'm feeling sick, your eyes look pink, abandon ship hype it up and let me down, worlds spin around there was confusion for a time dinosaurs wake the dead, funny thoughts in my head a moth to the light you’ve got a bloody nose do you remember where we parked? summer girls drive past us in your cars false alarm, feeling sick your eyes look pink, abandon ship broken treaties broken trust setting suns in the dust there’s collusion for a time all these futures, gone to waste can’t seem to find my place, be a loser for a while you’ve got a bloody nose do you remember where we parked? summer girls drive past us in their cars it’s a fever it’s a dream things are not, what they seem cause I’m shaking, shaking down, shaking down
9.
Clerical Pop 03:25
i was coming in pretty late, at 10:30, it’s alright they’re in a meeting, so far away from here. and the files and the folders you’re preparing for tomorrow, i don’t care i’m daydreaming, at the window sill the clouds, the trees, providing me detachment no, no, no, no, no (what did you say?) oh my god decadence broke our minds damn this job took the best of your life oh my god 10 years passed me by it’s so important, i hadn’t noticed (let’s go) there were rumors of a layoff in my department, it’s alright felt heavy, for such a long long time the pressure in my blood was a number that was, quite unhealthy so they said, i walked to the window, to see what i might find the clouds, the trees, providing me detachment no, no, no, no, no (what did you say?) oh my god decadence broke our minds damn this job took the best of your life oh my god 10 years passed me by it’s so important, i hadn’t noticed (let’s go)
10.
it seemed near, it seemed far a blackhole from a collapsed star so many suns, hard to choose i’ll drink whiskey til i’m feeling loose off the starboard bow, laser cannons now bearing point-0-nine think we’re out of time the force fields and the ray shields space pirate fun the force fields and the ray shields space pirate fun we come in peace, release the doves out into the nebula tell me bout the atmosphere, it’s hydrogen and belgium beer off the starboard bow, laser cannons now bearing point-0-nine think we’re out of time the force fields and the ray shields space pirate fun the force fields and the ray shields space pirate fun
11.
The Escape 01:54

about

Has it been a few hundred days? A few hundred years?
None are left to tell.
Nature has begun to rebalance itself.
Forests sprout from the ashes as new animal species emerge to claim the overgrown ruins of our metropolises.
The sky unpolluted by light is an ocean of stars.
If only we were there to see it.

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released August 5, 2022

written & produced by 8-bit crEEps

Ginger Glitch: synthesizers, organs
J. Bird James: bass, spoken word from the shadows
Just Andy: drums
Mick Kong: vocals, guitars, synthesizers

Mixed by:
Ryan Deffet (tracks 2, 4 & 7) and
Mick Kong (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8-11)

Mastered by: Carl Saff

Drums engineered by Douglas Malone
at Jamdek Recording Co
All other instruments recorded in-house

Artwork by: Michael Danielsen @inradiator

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A psych-wave quartet in a polygamist marriage with new-wave synths, fuzzed out guitars and big beats. New sounds from old circuits, for your daily bread and circus.

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