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Align 04:20 video
What the hell Got a couple more years Do we really need an excuse To allay all our fears? There’s a little time To make amends Throw a thought into the sky Hope it sends Just a little shove Lends a little zephyr To the incessant doves And it all takes time No matter what we wish to align
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Neonicotine 04:08
And the new moon didn’t change things this time And the kings rule over imminent skies The flowers crying for the past and the horrors they can spread I look to the sky and fail and the animals keep records of our fate
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Cycles upon cycles Orbits within rounds Perspectives ever shifting Glimpses through the clouds Cycles upon cycles Orbits within crowds Adhering to causality Was getting us all down Seemingly so spurious No hints of truth in rhyme All the world is painted By a pinhole in the sky Peering through the atmosphere We’re survival bound Molded in deference To this heavy, heavy crown Everything we see Is a trick of the light Anecdotal evidence Scrawled into the night What stories can we hope to hear Before we all go home? Weaving through the megaliths Unshackled by stone Dancing through the ether Of a moth-eaten backdrop Or stuck in an old pincushion Sitting in the shop We’ve either lost our way Or the way has come alive Just say some thing uplifting And everything will turn out fine But the calamities of yesteryear Were stuffed into a drawer And it’s being edged open By a toddler without a care Without a score to settle Without a score
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You deep lonely hollowed and green I stand under steel forever wanting the grace to erase yesterdays man You dive slowly colored in green I stand under siege forever wanting the ease to forget yesterdays man My one and only Only one of many How many waves Are in me From yesterday
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Up Below Down Above Dualistic Duelling In The Noonday Sun An Unforgiving Chosen One Intrinsic Mimicry Simian An Assimilationist Your Motivation Is The Frequent Fires List Unknown To Exist Imparting Departure Fractional Sadomasochist Kill Them With Kindness Lead Them Into Blindness Hallowed Be Thy Grave
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Skyerne har arme Træerne har øjne Havet har hænder De holder mig af De ser mig til De rør mig om Der hvor havet stopper Der skal vi hen Der, hvor himlen falder Der skal vi stå Så tar vi afsted Langt henderligt I træk som fugle
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Black bee on the Southern Sea The old horizon looking at me I always wanted to be a charioteer But we’re a mountain people Have no need for wheels I used to grind the grains And imagine I rode into the rays Scratch into the rocks That I am alive But it was on that horizon Trees poked through the blue I had heard the stories Of raiders from the moon “The Sea People are coming!” From across the water They spell our certain doom Perhaps they will not find me Hiding in my room We will never surrender! I don’t know the Sea People But I will be one soon
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Amazonia 05:09
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Well I don’t know about you Friction makes me come unglued When you worked your way around…. Hopped in your bouncy castle Custom license plate that says “asshole” Head on out to the roadhouse to get screwed We got another century of glowing teeth Glossed up lips and popsicle sticks Parties on the beach and laughing cow cheese Keep them juices flowin till it can’t be believed Come out west in a Cadillac Trade it in for a piece of crap The wind keeps blowing in all directions Wind is blowing No deflections Turn your blind eye

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released October 7, 2022

Recorded by Gilles in Studio Olivia, in Portland, Ore.

Mae Starr - vocals, keyboard, synthesizer,
Monte Allen - bass, synthesizer
Gilles - drums, percussion, synthesizer
J Breeden - vocals, guitars, synthesizer
Sara Johanne - vocals, keyboard, violin, synthesizer
Galen Ballinger - guitar, đàn bầu

Mixed by J Breeden & Sara Johanne in Appleton Heights, Lyle, WA
Mastered by Gus Elg
All songs by Nigh Chaparral 2022
AIO-031

Cover art by Sara Johanne

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Nigh Chaparral Portland, Oregon

Nigh Chaparral was started in Stockholm in the aughts by Jason Breeden (Susurrus Station, Oscilero), Oskar Moberg (Thulebasen) and Sara Johanne (Pikara), tinted by a nostalgia for an imaginary America. It has continued in a similar spirit with others, including Andre Coberly (Night Mechanic), Mae Starr, Monte Trent Allen, Gilles (Rllrbll), and Galen Ballinger (Dumb Balloon). ... more

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