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Squall

by DOWNHAUL

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Ava Schwartz This feels more like one meandering song than an EP, with each track blending into the next so seamlessly, it took a few listens to know exactly one ended and the other started. Like making your way down a lazy river on a blustery day with your eyes closed. Lovely and biting. Favorite track: Autumn.
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1.
Fracture 03:18
When all the flight is clipped at wing And felled at bole to count the rings May all your anger fill the lake To quench your thirst and replicate The way you felt before you knew Before all this, when it was true But melodies were only scales Our riverbed, the tallest tales So you set the fracture in cases of plaster That it may sit the way it’s meant And you keep it dry, when they ask you you lie Cuz you’re too tough to learn but also too soft to die They offer nothing more than what you’re asking for You curse your luck, the way the currents dragged you out Reach for the nearest beam, feel it strain under your knees It’s all a blur from there and fluorescence wakes you up - to find that They’ve set your fractures in layers of plaster So you can heal the way you’re meant Come down as your head spins, you search for the exit You’re too old to learn but this time too tough to die So you climb the tree and set yourself free
2.
Sink 02:37
Silence, sirens The reflex is mindless When the sky opened up We had already seen too much Flat on our backs The hood of your car Cracked like a laugh Sink like a scar Sink like the fall Sink like the Silence, sirens The reflex is mindless Will it be today? Will it be today? Can you hold the rain? Will it be today? Are we still the same? Will it be today? Will it wash away? Did you play the game? Will it wash away? Will it be today? Will it be today? A heavy-handed sigh Breaking through the power lines This rhythm runs too slow A symptomatic urge Decompression of the nerves It’s time we let this go
3.
Autumn 03:24
And so we race the storm To the eastern shore Where they went to downsize And we went to wash out In a one-hallway house Two restless nights on the fold-out couch While the generator Was put through its paces You want something beautiful And all I want is quiet The tide rose to meet the front door Like Waterford crystal on the driveway Squinting now as the call came down But I woke up the same You want something beautiful And all I want is quiet Hanging on the tangible Before we both expire Virginia autumn It’s not your problem Draw back the curtains Was all this worth it? Left in the morning Days start to shorten Back up the turnpike I’ll see you sometime I hope
4.
Up 02:38
Limp a little less When the elevator hypnotist Is making his rounds So we went Up and up and up It took em long enough I still see it all, I still hear the call Splashing on your paper gown And soaked to the bone A hundred miles from the ground I told you what I know It’s wearing off too fast Dizzy in the back seat They never signed your cast But I’ll see you sometime So sink like The ceilings meet the walls It was timed right But a curse leaves a scar And of course it’d be today When the banks all spilled over I couldn’t hold the rain But I’ll see you sometime I hope

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released May 10, 2023

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Produced and engineered by Chris Teti at Audio Vérité in Richmond, VA.
Mixed by Chris Teti at Silver Bullet Studios in Burlington, CT.
Mastered by Zach Weeks at God City Studio in Salem, MA.
Art by Evan Wachter in Harrisonburg, VA.

Thanks to Reverend Guitars and EarthQuaker Devices.

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