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IX: The Hinge

by The Plaster Cramp

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The Hinge 04:25
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2.
Portrait Without a Face 06:11
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3.
Cherry Coke + DXM 03:03
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4.
Blue Circle (Contracture) 05:29
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"People tell stories, exchange stories. I don’t know any stories. You know things about him that I never knew. This means nothing to me. There are no stories. You’re here for the wrong reason. If you’re here to honor his memory, it’s not his memory, it’s your memory, and it’s false. There are no stories. There are other things, hard to express, so deep and true that I can’t share them, and don’t want to. In the end it’s not what kind of man he was but simply that he’s gone. The stark fact. The thing that turns us into children, alone under the sky. When it stops being unbearable, it becomes something worse. It becomes the air we breathe. […] He goes nowhere now, into nothing. What powerful work he had it in mind to make. Untitled, unfinished. But not nothing."

—Don DeLillo, from the play Love-Lies-Bleeding

I once had a friend who I loved dearly but treated poorly. He died in a foreign place decades ago and I miss him to no end. These songs are some reflections of him from inside me. I hope they are not false.

Samples provided by tomerbe and miklovan courtesy of Freesound.org

Extra thanks to Dean C. Thornton for setting the parameters that resulted in "Portrait Without a Face."

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released March 1, 2024

Ants
Dead Charlie
Douglas
Kes
Lawrence
Pella
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Punk kids with horns and a piano, bowed strings and percussive gadgets. Electronics that purr and electronics that glitch. A communal house and a lack of dogma. 10,000 ways of breaking something apart.

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