AutoEroticBiography: With a verse chord progression written while watching Hubert Selby Jr’s Last Exit To Brooklyn adaptation, and a sonic trip to a 1950’s high school Sadie Hawkins dance for the chorus, all else left to do was pack the gaps with musical math equations. Like most of the album’s lyrics, it’s a battle of Id and ego and AI. Much of it starts as computer cut ups of very bad poetry, warped through Bowie’s Verbasizer software precisely 36 times (shout out to Wu Tang for my numerological superstitions), until it’s a jumbled mess of pure dream imagery. Then I go in and sculpt (though it’s more like scab picking) until it resembles something worth saying into a microphone. As far as I can tell, this one’s about a sex worker who takes down Big Pharma. The field recording outro transports us from the confines of Drummer Aaron’s guest room turned track factory, right out the window into the beautiful August day happening in the Woodhood, birds chirping, lawns being manicured, and a plane Dopplering thru the last guitar twinkles, landing deftly on the tonic of the song.
lyrics
Apologies
scrolled across suspicious x-rays
backlit with genuine color
the truth of light cannot uncover
another town
another buyer of the masses
stage one phases in and out
contradictory evidence played aloud
tell this flying fuck face your every want
study his reactions and judgments
think of the fine car and who in it
you can’t out run your desires
barefoot in the headlights
one swerve of the wheel will overtake you
shove this
asymmetric April symmetry
the reactions and the judgments
of all the wives and husbands
the downsides
of sincere touches overwhelms them
makes you want to cum emotion
makes you want to cum a man-lake
silently sawing at your delight
he revealed his worst unconscious
in folded bits with golden cases
banging all asymmetric
one swerve of the wheel
and fate overtakes you
another mind
leaps up and delivers danger
under long salt hair of shame
I consume the cancer
you saw me
you saw me in half
you saw me in half with your sex
credits
from Recorded Instruments,
released January 1, 2020
Sean Meyer: Vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitar, manual FX pedals.
Todd Smith: Electric guitars, bass VI, ambient guitars.
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Mind and heart expanding avant-prog that's creatively off the charts but ultra catchy as well. The musicianship is excellent but never overshadows the joy it sounds like everyone had while creating this awesome album. Can't wait for Part 2! Thomas Gelfer
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No one does music quite like Camille and Xavier do. I see their music as being akin to soundtracks for unfilmed movies. In this instance it is a movie about explorers of mountainous terrain, perhaps the terrain of our lives. Merci pour cette musique si intrigante. :-) sumbuk
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The sibling in spirit to Zopp's Dominion, at least from my point of view: It, too, has been on the wishlist far too long and I'm more than glad that I finally bought this. And also a cornucopia of good things prog, past and present!
Strictly musically speaking this is a little harder hitting affair than Dominion, though. Carsten Pieper
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