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by La Bella

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1.
Germinal 02:19
we can find each other using veins as maps tributaries for our vexed bones when our hopes collapse can we find each other in these small dark rooms? screaming for new worlds without lending hands you'll know the feeling before the final beat of your heart the echo of a rhythm can fill the void for only so long and in this endless regress we lock our fingers scant bones for a new process reclaim the joyous all we've lost all we have to gain new poems on our lips shatter old refrains build to break using our coarse throats lift this song on high to strike new blows we can take what's ours we can forge new bonds "we are the birds of the coming storm..."
2.
Thrush 02:27
we are columns of black dust that constrict airways of loved ones always receding in new ways these lines keep playing out the same tongues stay bridled as corpses bloom in our mouths finding paths around broken words a new light beckons us to learn a myth to hold us to break our backs the weight of history in all that we lack the fallowed land that we pile in the hearts of our friends let it end let it end with us bite the tongue and fill the mouth blood all Adornos All Bordieus we're all left dying to know spilled from lips fled in droves no return to our burnt homes us pale shapes we waste away we've all been lost at the gate
3.
Silver Spool 02:17
count the times that we woke up late and walked the miles to the water's edge spoke soft voices left us useless as they burned the rows to build new Romes revitalized and displaced sanitized and erased in the year that we licked our wounds and we stood in kitchens and could not agree sheared the branches beckoned progress stood in shade of last century I'm an unknowing missionary trading in gunpowder for the dull roar of bulldozers a quiet penchant for decimation I guess it flows in the blood as I walk my feet break ground this skin can afford me place the bleaching of histories we're complicit in torch their map of tomorrow render unto them that which is theirs refuse the ease of this sorrow render unto them that which is theirs
4.
Wellspring 02:47
how much more must we kneel to learn in the way that our bodies burn in the flames we found a respite with our palms we work through the night embers leap to birth joyous flames intertwined they stake their old claim communion in the haze filled street deign to ask what is their peace? left us arid left us barren stole our hunger left the pangs from our friends we ask this keep the names burn the rest we've chosen life over the order of their past built up the might to bring to bear what's longed for in our last breath we surround blooming breaks the din our feeble wrists push through the ground all our lore all our myth golden lies sung in the comfort of our lives hand in hand calling out multitudes the dead will guide us to the spring
5.
Subaltern 01:45
swallowing dust and pebbles can be as easy as eating figs and honey at least that's what they say at least that's what they'll tell you miles, miles, miles grey concrete and silver razor no olive branch for wounds just pounds of flesh in bloom breaking bones like we break bread zion's noose rests 'round their necks the trees uprooted as the world narrows in as the gates rust shut left so bitter grab a hammer give the monolith back to the desert
6.
Harbinger 02:51
in spring we're reborn just as the buds do blossom write history not by ink and pen but by the stones we hurl at those who wish to bind us break up the pavement find what lies beneath it and with our breath in tune the task before us renewed to rewrite the hymns with life's new exaltations we break the light by way of darkened skies our once feeble tongues now singe the praises of a new appeal to the storm within us and still we thunder our voices join in cadence the tempest rages as we build from within to break their power and bring our liberation
7.
New Hymns 03:09
the spectre of our past looms heavy with the guilt of impasse wrench from it a witness freed from the circle that this dirge holds endless we're left with blank pages the words unwrote give over us to perdition the ocean refuses no river but the ties that we make may just as soon sever history yearns to be forgotten we can only promise to oblige it history yearns to be forgotten we can never promise to oblige it we thieve our own time from the hand to the mouth our final words get crossed out with new abandon songs echo from throats negate the past that they wrote we're torn asunder what was once is now gone in all we held wrong and now our hands bleed golden words on our lips belie the power of myth sing the new hymns and rend what's due unto them sing the new hymns
8.
Skein 02:08
in falling in blooming left nothing but the lies slipping through our teeth impartial unflinching still screaming a war song that falls on deaf ears new speeches old fictions collected in the dirty gutters of our wrists - damn the habits of blood work or the way we've let the words fade like those before us language changes but can't absolve us still bending under the weight now the beat breaks and skips out unexcused cursed mouths as the tide wells up inside our chests bound to intimation a dull blade for what's expected weep without crying "a single spark can start a prairie fire..."

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released January 20, 2016

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered
by Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden
in Palo Alto, California

Vinyl pressed at the Cascade Record
Pressing Plant in Portland, Oregon

Produced with help from
Sombras del Progreso

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La Bella Los Angeles, California

los angeles d.i.y.
four of us.
2011-

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