flashbulb memory, by orchid mantis

flashbulb memory

by orchid mantis

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Jason Wooderson 96 Love this. It’s like a summer night… a cool summer night in your head every time you hit the play button

DJ CatsaNova This one was also a hard choice. I absolutely love everything Orchid Mantis puts out. I will never miss out on a OM release no matter what. I describe his music as a soundtrack for paintings or photos. I feel like his sound make still frames come to life. Favorite track: flashbulb memory.

jitteryjulius94 this reminds me of an uncertain and confusing time in my life and how I overcame that. Favorite track: reoccurring.

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1.	fog 04:27	lyrics	buy track
way, way after we left you on your own you called, and i didn't answer i just couldn't bring myself to move just, just like candles everything is melting away if you start to feel dizzy just fall over, it's okay and the fog rolls in i am lost in it drifting hopeless i get lost in it lie, lie here with me as our memories start to blur i, i can't remember if it was ever any better
2.	everything always gets old 04:19	lyrics	buy track
holding it over our heads i know i deserve it everything always gets old lacking a purpose to serve nothing i need the still, the seed all of your dreams come back to me i've lost your name this place, your face nothing the same i miss everything "...feel the colors, hear the sounds, feel the wind, notice the sky..."
3.	somewhere you've been before 03:54 video	lyrics	buy track
it's silent on the shore whatever you've endured beneath the trees you fall asleep somewhere we've been before you know to follow me i see the memories meet you're always here you reappear you follow what you fear
4.	flashbulb memory 04:42		buy track
5.	leaving 04:19	lyrics	buy track
sunk into a darker room i felt myself leaving myself but it doesn't matter at all and i won't be there when you fall nothing means anything save me somehow cause i don't know how soon you will be leaving me i take it back i take it i take it back i take it in a dream i floated away from you and all this time i missed the signs but it's over now the fires are all out
6.	reoccurring 04:22	lyrics	buy track
empty houses and empty parking lots i lost myself in something that was gone floor collapses, walls decay entire lives forgotten and we don't stay the same and you know it's all of the time you know just what you'll find things reoccurring and i am certain i know i won't feel this way again you are bleeding into my daydreams intruding quietly, i don't know what it means if we collapse and memories decay entire lives forgotten can we just stay the same
7.	these things won't happen again (time stands still) 05:02	lyrics	buy track
we stayed in your room you'd been up since last moon i'm trying not to hear you sinking feelings, i just wanna sleep and the days get long only after everybody's gone i want you to reach into my mind i wanna lose myself in your light say goodbye sometime
8.	aizu forest 01:40		buy track

about

11.13.16
The oldest track on Flashbulb Memory, Leaving, was written on an upright piano in my friend’s old house sometime during the summer of 2014. As I worked further on it throughout the year, it became deeply associated with my memories of that place. Now, that house is up for sale, and I’ll probably never step foot in there again. In a few years it will look very different, maybe unrecognizable. This past year and a half, as everyone I knew left for college, I stayed behind working on these songs; but whenever I tried to write about these more-recent experiences, I found myself painting with broad, impressionist brush strokes. In nostalgic fits I revisited old lyrics concerning my most vivid memories, all of them taking place in the old house. I could already feel those moments slipping from present to past, forgoing their urgency. There was a haziness in my recollection that I hoped I could capture, assembling fragments of memories that recurred ceaselessly in my dreams, each time growing more distant and pure. I don’t remember how it felt back then anymore – not truthfully at least, but these songs are about how I’m going to think it felt.

The cover of Flashbulb Memory is a film photograph I shot in high school while on vacation with my family. From our balcony we could see all the way down to the shoreline; the houses all stopped far before the sand, except for one lone house right up next to the waves. I don’t have any photographs of the old house before they moved and it went up for sale, but when I picture it in my head, it’s a similar image: The house is distant and obscured, surrounded by vast swaths of dark space. The lights are lit perpetually, but no one is home anymore.

Originally released on cassettes via Track & Field Records

Re-issued on cassettes via Z Tapes (ZT131)

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released December 30, 2016

all songs written & recorded by Thomas Howard.
infinite thanks to Kate, Lanny, Joseph, Neil, and all other friends who helped make this everything it is ❁

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