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Self​-​Titled

by Laser Flames on the Great Big News

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arcanusdevious Love the new release. Lashes and Beloved are my personal favorites, but as a whole the album is an exceptionally unique experience. I daresay an unheralded masterpiece. If grooving hooks, esoteric lyrics, and otherworldly melodic vocals with sprinkles of gut-wrenching brutality is your cup of eruditious audible tea, then purchase this wonderfully creative album.
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1.
Intro 01:02
2.
31 Years 04:13
31 Years What I thought I saw – gone Innocence with age – frail In the scene I sought – scorn Patient sacrifice Time is dead I’m feeling like I haven’t slept in almost 31 years In my mouth, in my throat I feel the burn of all those tears Red in tooth and claw Bloodlust that stains my skin I choose a life that overflows Over an uneventful drawl Grace is so far gone I’m feeling like I haven’t slept in almost 31 years In my mouth in my throat I feel the burn of all those tears And when I search I find The feelings have no meaning to them It’s only 4am and someone’s banging on my head You steal
3.
Lashes 07:54
Lashes Dreams of the heartstrings, Sleeping only in the sun Wed on a Wednesday, well There’s two things The first one- If only your love, Wasn’t blotting out the sun I’m still on your side, but There’s still only one Mister, lend your able hand What do you ask me for? I believe I used to know Lady, I’ve not loved you yet Let your past alone I believe you deserve more Tuned to the tight string, Of the poisoned violins Two for a Tuesday, If there were two things, We only begin- If only your love, The destroyer of my days I’m still on your side, but There’s still only one way Mister, I don’t understand What do you ask me for? I believe I deserve more Lady, you’ve not loved me yet Why do you tax me so? I believe I deserve more Lay down Stay down I feel the lashes Seems I’m falling way Way down (I'll lay down) Stay down (I'll stay down, my love) Feeling off sometimes Well I know, I know, yeah Changed the locks three times Well I know, I know, yeah Blaze it up my friends ‘cause I know, I know, yeah I feel the lashes Seems I’m falling way Way down (I'll lay down) Stay down (I'll stay down, my love) I feel I feel I can lay down my body and die I’ll forget my name Give up all my dreams I will lay down my life If you need me to
4.
Open, Dead and Doomed Eyes. My tormentor’s alive, yet, and sees. Then hear us say There is a truth I will do What the spirits say
5.
Beloved 11:32
Beloved Doll face to head case What of our intentions for the sun? If you say I never belonged, well Honey, you’d be wrong You’d be dead Hold on to what you believe Is sacred Bow down, admit your defeat Just walk home Breathe in, it may be your last We are rusting So far from where we’ve been Severed Three sides Yours and mine Now the truth You’re part of the problem Blood for soiled gold A gilded donkey A million sold In the mouth of a tragedy What your king stole The sins that make us men The weight that our elders carry We fall into this hole Up to our necks we’re buried Complicated by our own loves We’ll stop this with our sons Freezing And there’s nothing here to light my way It’s kept me so lost, but I found out why You’re bleeding And your trail has led me astray It makes no sense Why can’t we stay the same way we’ve been Beloved Since we are falling Will you lay down with me Child you were born with this bleeding heart Not your fault, You were set up from the start I realized I could never lift you high enough At least I tried And with no returns implied But its alright I know that I will get by I know, I will It was so long ago, after all Beloved The truth will never fall from your lips I never stole your light What you won't see is that it ever glows This dream you've carried so long And there's no time to draw these enemy lines And still you do It hurts so bad my love, even still Beloved The truth that ever falls on deaf ears Naïve I thought I'd sleep Let my dreams chase after me How could I have known I would dig my own hole Thank back to all I've seen Seldom pure and never clean This can't be all it means Not what I've seen Think fast to what I heard Honey my whole life blurred To your choice of meaningful words Die with your pride Freaky falling freight Freaky thrall free for all The/Why blade/do won’t/you lie/rely Once, twice again The/Die kings/with blind/your eye/pride Freaky falling freight Freaky thrall free for all Forever defeats been building inside (Why do you rely?) My foot’s on your throat now Have you lost your reason? Uncharacteristically low Maybe laughed it away Uncharacteristically low Cut the string, I’ll fall
6.
Flame High 09:23
Flame High Its been a long lonesome dawn Its been a long lonely dawn, I know You've been a low-down, a lowly old dog You've been a low, loathsome dog, I know Even alone now, lonely old walk You've been alone, along a lonely dawn, I know you Been a low-down, lowly old dog You've been alone, a low, lowly dog, I know you Bars on the cradle, your tactics are obscene My heart's off the table, my freedom my freedom Redemption of my life Flame high The medium falls from the chair to the floor He's filled up He's spilled out We don't need him anymore, for The ectoplasm cum Hell high The winter is endless under the frozen drone We keep on pretending You feast on my bones The ashes of my life Flame high Cast your crowns You throw your riches to the ground (These filthy holes were dug while blind) You know the drill You take your temper down (No remorse for those that lie, forsaking lives) Cast your cracken-call Your riches scatter to the floor, or (They grab and claw until they find) You know the drill You can't come home no more (Even less) I won't need your money And I will not say please I won't need the weekend Daddy I'll have no need for The flaming human heart Held high I welcome the end and I welcome the peace I welcome the release of your memory, love The lightning in your touch Flame high Now it hurts to die, but I'm not cold anymore I feel no connection to the meat on the floor, nor The ashes of my life Flame high The night has fallen Take only what you can carry on your own, child You best your belief in love Would you take your temper down Or you can't come home anymore

about

"A bird and a bear sing the same song in Spring, when the snow melts and the sunshine spreads through a leafless forest and familiar smells of growth and green waft up from the once Winter-dead cricks and cracks of season and time. Snow melts, water droplets drip, prisms in their hearts, onto bird-dropped seeds and a new, hopeful lichen starts to spread for new-walked deer to lick and suckle. And all the creatures of existence stand tall in anticipation of light wind and warm weather and big, happy death: and ancient mixture of hope, darkness and survival. Wild themes that transcend any human perception of time or life. Nameless but knowable.

And so too do humans attempt to spray and engage the world with melodies of feral desires.
And so too, do Laser Flames on the Great Big News, weave words, tone and tempo into innumerable form. And so too, do you listen."

- David Hall, Uneasy Sleeper

Fronted by the impeccable trade-off vocals and guitars of John Judkins and Stevie Bailey, Laser Flames on the Great Big News defy definition, master convention, and above all, drill a complex maze of hooks and emotion through your ears and down into your heart and further, down where the old things live.

Laser Flames on the Great Big News is:

John Judkins: Guitars, Vocals, Lap Steel
Stephenie "Stevie" Bailey: Guitars, Vocals, Banjo, Violin
Brian Myers: Bass
James Turk: Drums

Mikey Allred: Keys/synth on "Intro," "31 Years," "Flame High"
Guest vocals on "Beloved" by Chris Terry
Guest vocals on "Open, Dead and Doomed" by Steve Austin

Special THANK YOU to Don Delong, Mikey Allred, Brian Hongsermeier, Joe Leslie, Katie Blankenship, Natalie Prestia, Jared McLemore (RIP,) The Pinkertons, Chris and Laura Terry, LRAR, Steve Austin, Jamie Judkins, David Hall, Curran Reynolds, Jason Dietz, Brendan Donahue, Diana Zadlo, Dave Cate, YEAH!, Adam Reed, Patrick Gac, Jakub Moth, Russell Mullen, and any/all family and friends that have supported us over the years.

credits

released June 30, 2017

All songs written and performed by Laser Flames on the Great Big News
Produced by Laser Flames on the Great Big News
Executive Producer: Don Delong
Engineered, Mixed and Recorded by Mikey Allred at Dark Art Audio, Nashville, Tn. from May 14, 2013 to March 11, 2015
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audio Siege, Portland, Oregon March 2016.
Cover Art by Stephenie Bailey
Photography by Diana Zadlo
Layout design by Patrick Gac

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