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Thwarted by the drone of my unsatisfying voice
And by the fumbling of my clumsy hands
My song stumbles across the air, nobody is moved,
And though many things in life depend on chance
Many selves in many lifetimes will experience this failure
There is something in the failing that binds us to the earth
A voice that tries to cut across the gaps of empty hours
In the hope that something real will be heard

But everyone is sending, no one is receiving
All our voices drowning in a sea of empty noise
Everyone is speaking, nobody is listening
Our hearing overwhelmed in the illusion of choice
I'm trying to say something but I don't know what it is
I only know never comes out right
I can't pause and take a breath and hear how someone else would say it
I insist I have to be the flame that sets the world alight

With the world around us trying to reveal its true nature
But its radiance diminishing, and growing ever fainter
And the people that surround us are no longer so appealing
and our solitude is calling in its small, insistent whisper

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from Love Among the Ruins, released March 24, 2023

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Electric Brain Electric Shadow Olympia, Washington

Electric Brain Electric Shadow marries the compositional sophistication of progressive rock with the textural richness of ambient music, the dynamics of post-rock, and the emotional vulnerability of alternative and post-punk. The resulting sound is complex yet accessible, attentive to details of sound and arrangement, and evocative of thoughtful melancholy. ... more

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