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from Recorded Instruments by Spine Readers

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Mission Statement aka “The Collage”: If you’ve ever played the game Exquisite Corpse, you’re half way to how this song and group done got made. The initial challenge, before anyone had even committed to being a Spine Reader, was to cycle thru short, multi genred compositions and tether them together in the tradition of a “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” or a “Paranoid Android.” Like, “I’m going to the picnic and I’m bringing a South African polyrhythmic chant section, a 90’s eurotrash piece, oh Todd just taught a unit on Enka music in his class so we’d better add some of that, and, and, and, and...” When we finally unfolded the picture and started playing the whole composition start to finish, we all liked what laid out before us enough to officially start a band together. Personally, it satisfied my attention deficit (or perhaps inspiration surplus) in ways no previous musical ensemble I’d participated in could. So naturally, we had to write another one...

lyrics

get hung my guardian
on the death movie drugs
they copycat their young
my smaller self jumps up
full from praying to your womb, woman

I’m November sick
that’s some narcissistic talk x4

kids kept in cages
audit their wages
it’s on the front page
quarreling ponies shoot Dilaudid
shout out to the deaf
birthday girls hold their breath
passed out on the floor
left in the morgue waiting room
fake tears for cameras
baby bottle of Viagra
white suits on crusade
out to spay the last mermaid

sticks beat seagulls
in the game of stealing trust
discovering magic
with the help of dead Stardust
time goes slow
scream marvel slow
crack 13 locks on a dead miners heart instructions read drag two back to justice
by their throats
and leave out door six
what sets the killer off on a blood fuck reveal like a blank check fed to the dead zodiac
trapped in a small Monday
Guà wò de jiānhùrén guānyú siwang dionying de dupin
A no-people crew dig their own Graves middle powered mutants still got to get paid Alice follows Floyd into the selfish room
the floorboards are stripped
by the light of the moon
ghost in flight pop Jackfrost thoughts
the USB blade wipes the accent clean
adult wig people all cease their hammer talk
while the family cabin killer’s bumpin everybody off
trapped in a small Monday

The money man hands me a faulty key
my god his fingers dissect memories
Rhymin and stealin and stealin and rhymin the snowman apocalypse nervously turns English red
disapproved of everything he said

highway and the woman
hope in the injuries
Eye witness tapes carjacking
stop moving Frank
inside the department Mendoza picture texts the girl

scars from movies
still drive you five dreams deep
if these keys are found by killers
shrink into my wife
keep your motives on silent
in the jigsaw introduction

credits

from Recorded Instruments, released January 1, 2020
Sean Meyer: Vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, manual FX pedals, keyboards, sampler, percussion.

Todd Smith: Electric guitars, acoustic guitars, banjo, zither, vocals, keyboard.

Justin Maurer: Bass, vocals, EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), keyboard, percussion.

Chris Stainback: Keyboards, udu, darbuka, bass, percussion, vocals.

Aaron Cramer: Drums, keyboard, percussion, vocals.

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Bellingham power trio specializing in all sub genres of pop music.

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