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Swaying Spine

by Serpentfoot

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O' Lowly Fog 04:04
when the sun rises so too do the reptiles. claw at the gates pile up at the turnstiles. oh shifting light ray what vice have you wakened? blooming with color my will is forsaken. oh lowly fog what new corpse have you concealed? when the sun rises what sin will be revealed? all in good time line it up double file. when our hearts fail we’ll depart with a smile.
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Under Thumb 02:18
on a bender on a rainbow. in a blender in a raincoat. polyester paradise. acid blood drops in my eyes. i’ve been looking out the window trying to see oh where the road goes. it’s a journey of the mind. satisfaction hard to find. fender bender broken piano. the keys are sharp but i’m a man now. does this mean my time has come? got my demons under thumb.
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a face so pale and white yet shadowed as the grave. a savage silhouette draped in sorrow. at the beck and call each night of any solitary knave. a scavenger of rot cooks the marrow. ravenous roaring rage. consume the forest smite the page. safer now in iron cage. evil now the burning sage. acrimonious bent with age. sour smile the puppet mage. mounted now on winds of change. endless now the war we wage.
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now you know young widow nature is red of beak and claw. you will throw stained window to the ground and write new law. when ice lays low the life you sow, for the sun the deep frost will thaw. children go with frostbit toe from mother’s womb to mother’s maw.
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Space Trash 02:26
drifting deeply staring silent. pierce the void my dreams are violent. yeast and brine leap forth with lust. the cosmic swine is born from dust. how can you even hear them? darkness around my head. it can hide me away now ignore it all instead. floating through cosmic ether bouncing through galaxies. destroying my sensations. leave it for none to see. particles enter my brain transform it all to mush. constantly breaking orbit seeking out my next rush. get lost among the lightness. coldness creeps in my skin. begging for someone near me i’ll never let them in
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Don't Tell 02:07
oh no stay at home don’t care. i’ll go out any other night. gotta dry out on my island. keep my scales out of sight. oh yeah fall back smoke haze and i stare up at the light. i don’t care about your party. i’m just a string without a kite. and if you don’t know don’t tell. yeah you don’t know so go to hell. oh no slo mo no air underwater knife fight. but hot and dry behind my eyelids there’s a fire burning bright. oh yeah laid back cheap glaze. shouldn’t kill me but it might. find my dream out on the highway. guess it’s gonna be alright. and if you don’t know don’t tell.
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hanging round on the east side of town just trying to figure it out. you’ve been waiting to go home cause you felt dragged along. convince yourself that you tried your best living a different life. make it out like you always do and tell them that they’re wrong. make it seem like you planned it all right. romanticizing the struggles in your life. head pulled sideways by the fucking clouds. seeing nothing but hopeful shiny shrouds. failures broadcast so you can seem so grown. losing grasp perspective has been thrown. words scrawled out to make it seem like truth. choked with ego until the lips turn blue
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Metropolis 02:56
hell. she’s in my head. drive down to the city. get pissed and get bled red. cherry bomb. tattoo on cold shoulder. she’s right but she’s all wrong. well i’m feeling dead. bike down to her front porch. share a cigarette. bet it turns me on to see her spirit dancing. she here but she’s long gone. another moth to the glow of the metropolis. scorched and dusty wing fall from the precipice. present the beating heart pulled from cavity. too old to fight too young for her depravity.
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crack your skull pull back the shell bring forth the light. i can see what’s hiding there behind the whites. transparency is granted me through straights and strife. i can see what ebbs and flows beneath the knife fuck your soul with jealous rage succumb to hate. endlessly i wander wastes to vindicate. sanctuary desecrated day by day. endlessly i flail in dark is this the way?
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Murder Glove 03:33
soundly bitten quickly turned. bloodless creature wrongly burned. a soulless cretin whose stomach churned. a witch sang damning. obsession spurned. keep forgiving. lips peel back. wet grief evaporate. skin char black. new perspective. define true love. die a villian. fit the murder glove.
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wandering eyes on my life. disappear just in time. how do i hide from light? scrutinize every word . overthink what is heard. make me hear what you want. every passing time. you can tell me just why. i should feel what you feel. understand what you are. not knowing your dark. take me out to drown you.
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darling will you put your hands up so i can see where you’re from. darling will you put your hands up to the sky so i can see where you’ll be. as i’m rolling across the plains of nebraska wishing i was on the lakes michigan. when we reach the top will we have learned each other’s names. and when we’ve finally hit the bottom will we have learned each other’s games. uproot the plants you put down so delicately and please make the finest wine you’ve ever known. can you feel the dirt beneath your untanned feet? can you wait for the day that we’ll finally meet again?

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A leap forward from the band's previous releases, Swaying spine is a darkly raucous and highly danceable psychedelic journey into the amorphous nature of the human mind; focusing on themes of temptation, restlessness, betrayal, nostalgia, and the brutalities and vastness of nature. A landmark album for producer Elliot Gacke and an emotionally ambitious composition featuring songs by every member of the band, this album is sure to push all your buttons whether you're a fan of reverb-laden surf, fuzz-worshiping stoner riffs, or just classic garage punk anthems.

The title "Swaying Spine" is meant to invoke images of the undulating vertebrae of the world serpent, the sensuous movements of a dancing body, and the lonely listing of a bleached carcass hanging in the breeze.

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released November 1, 2019

Tirelessly recorded, mixed, and mastered by Elliot Gacke at Nihil studios
Album Art by Hannah Visconti
Album Design by Jordan Twiggs

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Serpentfoot Tacoma, Washington

In 2015 the three founding members of Serpentfoot summoned the untethered spirit of surf and garage rock in a flurry of DIY shows and irrepressible creativity. Ratty garage surf punk turned has into massive fuzz laden riffs and dripping psychedelic sound-scapes, burning the band solidly into the DNA of Colorado psych rock. ... more

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