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safely nobody's

by tall friend

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    the record! olive green vinyl with lyric insert designed and handwritten by river! does not include cale :(

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    made a bunch of these for our last tour and still have some left! a comprehensive infographic of river's tour packing list. hand-printed by rachel levin on that good old gildan cotton.

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1.
Mother 00:29
(voicemail)
2.
we are made of glass and other natural things you light a match and blow it out 'cause you like the smell and you like me when i'm not so loud
3.
72 01:56
i'll tell you the truth for 72 hours we'll see if you still stick around biting down hard on a wooden cherry every day i am getting better what if every time someone new loved me a birthmark appeared on my stark body? a smattering of freckles on the bridge of my nose i'm harvesting my worry 'cause it's something that just grows and grows and grows
4.
Radio 01:37
a radio commercial reminds you of being small and a winter spent hobbling through a place that you're not fond of goodbye is a swear word wash your mouth with soap sometimes i say dumb shit tomorrow you'll forget i hope
5.
KB 01:58
my dad watches storms like he's looking in the mirror, like if he squints hard enough he'll become the lightning "i can recite three myths from memory" and at playtime i'm always the doggy nectarines are victory food, i bow my head as i sit in the pew and i hope no one around me notices i'm not talking to god, i'm just singing to you ashamed of my words and the sounds they create but i hope you can hear them 1500 miles away my dad watches storms like he's looking in the mirror and i love you, could i make it any clearer?
6.
Apoptosis 02:00
found a video where i'm dancing with my father i am four and i am out there in the open you weren't home, but i played your piano wrote a score in the key of doors closing free jazz record spins on your machine, you loved its chaos, but mine's just tiring so i went home and i played my piano wrote a score in the key of an ending
7.
Oats 02:13
i act just like an old man i eat my oats and i go to bed i smell just like a quitter tangy and bitter please let me rest mom calls from the hospital "happy birthday, now you're all grown up" "but mom," i tell her later, "i have been grown since i was small"
8.
Skate Ramp 01:32
i keep thinking you'll apologize if i give it some time and i keep thinking you'll come around if i leave you alone, if i don't make a sound talk to me about something touchy and we'll grant it some space, give it some room to breathe i'm still little, but what does that mean? sometimes pain brings us back to where we gotta be
9.
Small Space 02:07
i start to sing, you tell me to stop i can run fast, but not fast enough shrill is my voice and strained is my spine still wear your t-shirt all of the time think of a kid learning how to ice skate there's blood on the ice but he's quick on his blades i can't go out, i just cling to the wall robby tells me that it's okay to fall wish you could see how well i cross the street there's blood on the road but i'm quick on my feet (photosynthesis: take the harsh light and turn it into energy) (apoptosis: my cells are dark but they are a part of me) i am no one's i am sitting safely nobody's

about

this album is a documentation of me packing up and unboxing many, many years of hurt.

for a very long time i genuinely believed that i was alone in my circumstances. while i now know this to be untrue, i also know that there are people out there still feeling desolate and unsure of what tomorrow will bring.

i hope that these songs will provide a little bit of solace for those somebodies living in glass houses.

( "we grew up in spite of it" )

credits

released August 11, 2017

charlie pfaff- vox, guitars, bass
cale cuellar- bass, guitars, baritone guitar
jesse paller- drums, guitar on ‘small space’ and 'kb', vox on ‘72’

emily sprague- vox, guitar, shaker on 'kb', vox on ’kb' and '72'
jamie finucane- vox on ‘72’

lyrics by charlie

instrumentals recorded by jesse paller at gravesend recordings
vocals and ‘skate ramp’ recorded by emily sprague at her house
‘kb’ recorded by emily sprague at her house and jesse paller at kokomo

mixed by jesse paller
‘skate ramp’ mixed by emily sprague
‘kb’ mixed by emily sprague and jesse paller
mastered by carl saff

exploding in sound records EIS066

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