Your past lies

from the magic y/ear by Le Weekend

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
This features truly AMAZING artwork by Lincoln Hancock (with help from Ben Spiker). You get a CD with all 12 songs of the album proper, plus a free download that lets you snag digital versions of those songs and 32 other bonus tracks.

Includes unlimited streaming of the magic y/ear via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Recorded by Nick Petersen at the Pinhook with overdubs recorded by Nick at Track and Field Studios and by Le Weekend at the home/s of Le Weekend
Mixed by Nick Petersen at Track and Field Studios
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering

lyrics

I swipe at your motions in public up until the cameras move on
Until the cameras shy
Just enough mistake to keep their attention
Their need to print what all mouths say
To play it where it lies

Speeches in stasis from the gift horse mouth of babes

Your straight lines escape me
A mighty short path scrapes the knees of my thought
Style points and laughs
The calendar caper
Peace only on paper
Like sentences slouching off
Gritting as they plod

Put through your paces like the gift mouth horse of babes
So long to places, a like for which you'll never feel again

Sounding familiar like you've never heard before
Hindsight is 50/50
Small concerns weren't always with me
As we rush to push
Exhort, extol, extort, exhume
The harsh lights keep the cold in place
Stand at the sink to cut my face
With razors like attention
Cataloging slight improvement
Damn faint praise from this flapper movement
When damning's not enough

Solidarity in liquidity
Slimy figures, gross receipts
Honor thy Father, honor your corner
Start slouching toward Bethlehem
3x a day
3x a day

credits

from the magic y/ear, released October 19, 2012
Robert Biggers - drums, percussion, chairs, cue ball
Matt Kalb - guitar, vocals
Bob Wall - bass
Charlie Hearon - congas, other percussion

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Le Weekend Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Le Weekend is a progressive-minded, skewed-pop-leaning, hyphen-employing rock band from Chapel Hill NC, est. 2006. It faithfully and exuberantly generates the sound of itself playing Le Weekend music. It knows a little about a lot of things, and something about the value in hiding and showing. The rest it kind of fakes, but you could totally have fun with it. ... more

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