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b​-​sides & ephemera (2014​-​2020)

by orchid mantis

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so far gone it's all undone i hold your name i hold your name
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there's nowhere for you now we're just passing down there graveyards & lost dogs i think i can help you but i've been wrong broken houses, two dead deer passing through a field & i see you, i see bloom there's a place we're running to where there are bright lights getting dim where do you begin there's no home for you now i just drive you around burnt barns, and empty lawns and there's no other the moon will sink, just to rise again
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harsh sound 01:14
it's a harsh sound make it back somehow turn me around cast me out
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i won't stay too long just lift this from my thoughts i don't care at all just tell me that you're wrong cause i can't blame you for this sadness and i know that it's all a habit you take it and fall's gonna turn to winter and the days are gonna lose their glimmer you'll take it, believe me sleep till i exist feeling out of it don't wake me from this tired uneasy
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don't blame yourself no change can help and if you don't mind i will hide what's left inside cause what you left there wasn't ever ours to bear
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woke up in a gloom in the dusk with the sun in your eyes setting beside you and your voice somewhere outside lavender dreams with the half light the poltergeist come here to show you what we are and what is outside
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white smoke 00:55
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the windmill 01:07
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i can see through the windows of the house thin strips of light cast around like it peeks out out of the clouds dark green curtains turn to neon
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outside 2am 04:06
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liminal 02:17
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half-awake 00:55
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when i 01:14
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actual gibberish, honestly
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why not waste my time why not waste my time i remember conversations i'll pass it down in the meadow never backed out come pass it down gone away why not waste time why not waste my time
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helix palace 01:23
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coptic light 01:20

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demos, experiments, instrumentals, and b-sides amassed from the first 6 years of this project. this is not a polished, cohesive release - it varies heavily in form and genre in order to give a glimpse of my process and how divergent styles of music have informed my instrumentation. some are relics from musical tangents that never quite culminated into a full EP or album, some explore outside the boundaries of what i intended to share with orchid mantis, but nonetheless they seem worth sharing despite their eclecticism. they speak to me and i hope that you feel the same.

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released December 25, 2020

portasound man - rory roe (school buildings during break, outside 2am)
all samples credited to their respective artists

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orchid mantis Atlanta, Georgia

found sounds, tape collages, and pop songs about forgetting.

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