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Subterranea

by Sunglaciers

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1.
I'm a temporary Uplifter Seeking something Incidental Always know exactly what to say Feeling more alive in all the negative ways Contemporary Shapeshifter Under the surface Another coward Gone and ruined my plans On a one night stand I could not resist Weak as I am And I'm losing my mind Trying to analyze Find the underlying Reasons why I never think it through Get lost in time Familiar feeling Bluish light And I'm sleeping through The day again Drugs and false awakening
2.
Avoidance 02:28
Breach of trust Night provides no cover Against surveillance You fall Into a pit of sorrow A hole inside the mind Your friends Slip between your fingers Terminate the pact Their love Coloured your existence Gave you shelter (Avoidance) A secret buried will be unearthed (follow us) Do you remember where you were before the wheels started coming off? Steady ground we were standing on (Give away) Deranged, disengaged A new life colourless Reach within Your history, the spirit Visits in your sleep Reflect What you shared was sacred Belonged to no one
3.
Go away, please, I can't sleep And I'm bored out of my skull By all the white light leaking Through the crack beneath the door On my knees, broke Pulling weeds The inspiration gone Crowds pack below the flat Hold out for something more White light Poured out of my skull Five shots in '69 But they only got the car Birds flying over land sing "Paradise is dull" Had it made, could read his name Spelled out in yellow bulbs Stood still, took unchecked power To the right side of his skull Unchecked Power to the skull
4.
Order 01:55
What never lived cannot be killed Stop thinking someone's pulling strings Nothing gets you up Like knowing nothing will Your god is dead, there's nothing more For spirits trapped under the floor Who never heard the higher message Still nothing keeps it off Your frail mind When words are meaningless Statues crumble Devoted life, scared of the truth And now it mocks my wasted youth The void is laughing In my face again The same result every time No matter the angle or my cries I don't understand, I followed to the letter Still nothing keeps it off Our frail mind When words are meaningless, Statues crumble
5.
Subterranea 02:19
Dark days, we're talking to gods The all-knowing call and response Eyes down, it's no wonder That we are all Helpless, responsible I sense a shaking from within A future subterranean Escape to space, they fled the scene No helping hand, you'll never leave I had a feeling, but it faded away I'm so pale, you can see right through me And I've grown allergic to all the dust Competing waves destroy us I sense a shaking from within A future subterranean Sell off your worthless possessions No help from love and you are done
6.
Thought Maps 02:45
Bad scenes Stored away forever Buried Bottom of your memory It's easier Lose yourself in ecstasy The distance Simulates security Resist, don't fade Increasing heart rate Suppress reflex No more time to waste Resist, don't fade Sun is burning off the haze Brainwaves, deep space I feel out of place Resist, don't fade
7.
Stayed 02:30
Dilute your mind Dispel your fear It doesn't matter Where you wanna go We're never going We're here laying low It's not your problem If you just let it go Before too long Evening swallows Us at last into its mouth Dilute your mind Dispel your fear It doesn't matter Where you wanna go We're never going We're here laying low It's not your problem If you just let it go
8.
Glue 02:42
Over and Over his head He needs spiritual fulfilment I drag my body Down the hill Cut ties with countless disappointments Hey, ma Look at me I'm exactly what you feared I'd be Hey, dad Wait and see Manifesting all your prophecies
9.
Draw Me In 02:28
Yours might be the only face I recognize from far away And how the line along the jaw Can draw me in and paralyze Looking at the ceiling tile Let in the light, dissolve the line Do you look up so not to cry Or is it for effect? I have never gotten up From falling down, I only feel I'm losing ground, still I Have never felt so good about Anything so vague to me Stay patient in the urgency That feeling's never lost on me, but I try, I try Isolation in the mess To analyze the head and chest No outside cure for loneliness It gets me every time Imagine that you're fast asleep You've got no eyes but you can see The fireworks coming out of me The reckless die inside their dreams We are still in early days You call me on the things I say "It's not that you don't think It's that you don't think far enough away" I am not too old to change It's early death to think that way And if the rope is wrapped ‘round me Untie, untie
10.
People keep saying That all things will pass The less I believe it The longer it lasts Cause I feel like I'm missing A piece that I need In your image Maybe I could be something Can you feel its presence? Just tell me something Something I wanna hear Lean in towards me Whisper in my ear Say you're losing your patience Your desire to stay here In this backward city, Taking all of your best years Can you feel its presence? Breaks your circuit That's when she told me It's something in my brain A mechanism Makes me say the wrong thing And I know it's a symptom That I can't control The source is elusive And I ain't got no soul Can you feel its presence? Breaks your circuit Breaks your circuit Thoughts are circling You know it's a danger To stand close to me They're killing dissenters For thinking critically And now, it's so simple Your presence compels My desire To be anywhere else
11.
No Horizon 03:02
Set all your bad sight Trying to see further There's no horizon Waiting in the distance Places we only Dream, but never visit Eyes on the next world Life will flash before you What was born today Did not exist before Wrapped in a blanket And shaking in the cold There are no old souls Nobody's born again If you're still breathing Then you haven't reached the end Oh no!
12.
Cause/Effect 03:18
Cause or effect, anxiety spreads And debris from a pulsating mind Is lost in the infinite backdrop An ever-expanding hole in the light Watch yourself Nothing I tell you is true It's just something I want you to be So pay undivided attention And tell me you know just what I mean Watch yourself I'm lost in unconscious complacency I'm tired of feeling tired of feeling tired Dead dreams are circling into themselves Change your approach, leave them behind Wait, where'd you go? You disappeared with the cash Can you teach me how to vanish? Cause I've been hanging by the door Thinking this is my chance To leave you wherever you are I'm just trying to keep my feet on the ground Trying to keep the moon under me Everything has gone upside down When I fall, I float away I'm just trying to keep my feet on the ground Trying to keep the room from spinning out And rearranging all my components
13.
Roundabout 02:00

about

Sunglaciers’ music blurs the boundaries between dazzling indie-rock and icy post-punk experimentation. On the Calgary band's sophomore LP, Subterranea, co-produced by Chad VanGaalen (Flemish Eye, Sub Pop) and mixed by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Yves Jarvis), they carve out new sonic spaces with laser focus. While past releases explored a maximalist approach, these 13 songs emerge and vanish in rapid succession, never outstaying their welcome. 

“We tried to write vertically instead of horizontally,” explains multi-instrumentalist Mathieu Blanchard. “Our last album Foreign Bodies and the EPs that came before it had lots of long songs with different parts drifting back and forth. For this album, we decided to strip our songs down to two or three minutes with only a few ideas in each of them.”

The result is an urgent and cohesive full-length statement, drawing on influences from the high drama indie-rock of Deerhunter, Total Control’s post-punk tenacity, and the woozy grooves of BEAK>. “Subterranea came together during the pandemic and the changing of gears that we had to do,” says Resnik. “Essentially, we took all of our musical tendencies and mashed them up into one thing.”

credits

released March 25, 2022

Producers: Mathieu Blanchard, Evan Resnik
Additional Production: Chad VanGaalen
Studio: On Air Studios (Calgary AB)
Mixed: Mark Lawson (Montreal QC)
Mastered: Richard White (Montreal QC)
Artwork: April-Lee Johnson

All songs written and arranged by
E. Resnik & M. Blanchard.

Bass by K. Crough.
Additional arrangements on tracks 1, 2, 4-9, 12
by Chad vanGaalen.
Additional instrumentation by
Laura Reid (violins), Jennifer Crighton (harp)
Additional vocals by
Louis Cza, Helen Young, Chad vanGaalen

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