you talk about not being able to feel
but your eyes tell a story your mouth can't conceal
and the pain and the darkness are as real as the light of hope
the ways I imagine the ways you inflict
these cuts on your flesh can't compare to the truth
of confusion and sadness in you
that could bring you to such drastic measures
all of the room inside is for you to hide in
credits
from a collection of sorts - 1998-2014,
released May 31, 2020
mark bradford - guitars, bass, voices, glockenspiel
tyler drainville - drums
ryan primrose - hand drum
recorded, produced, and mixed on GarageBand by mark.
supported by 4 fans who also own “drastic measures”
On first listen I immediately felt a feverish familiarity, a spacey, frayed-wire connection to that dreamy echo of an angsty youth. I imagined Eno singing over Kilbey arrangements, and the dark embrace I always got from most anything on the 4AD label... from 80s Cocteau Twins and Bauhaus to Red House Painters and Lush in the 90s... really the entire cast of wonderfully introspective bands spawned during those decades. Wrenching, drifting... insistent, compelling. And deeply moving. Marvelous! Dr. "Buzz" Frenzy (Matthew J Hesse)
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