CD in gatefold card case, with beautiful, luxurious booklet artwork featuring stunning photography by artist Ross Cunningham. Includes lyrics.
Includes unlimited streaming of Luxury Mass
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 2 days
£10GBPor more
lyrics
Press your tongue against
the plate of your skull,
pull your teeth around
the skin of your lips.
announce and perform
an adoption
a surrender.
renounce and deform,
denounce and reform,
your mother’s tongue.
and when you arrive
the demands we make
are little surgeries
or open cast mines
with designs
to act
like a puncture in your neck,
a wound a valve,
an injury that marks
the severance
between here and there
so that the cut
of your tongue
will carry no weight,
and not enough air,
to bear
to relate
the distinctions the details the stories
of your negotiations
with the sea the mountains the towns
with the lines we draw
the thresholds that promise
peril for you
and luxury for us.
and when we hear
the mutilations
of our sovereign cant
we’ll call you out
to bear the sin
of the fury that knocks,
of the wrath that pounds.
on our thinning
skin.
credits
from Luxury Mass,
released September 14, 2018
Produced by James Joys and Rocky O'Reilly
Vocals by Pete Devlin
Piano, synths, and noises by James Joys
Lyrics by James Joys
The singular approach James Joys has long applied to deconstructed electronica, detailed sound design and carefully constructed language, folded into a world of choral texture and literally given new breath. Stunning, troubling and cathartic. Pete Devlin's voice is, as ever, a marvel. Cannot recommend enough. John Pope
The debut album from Maria Basel is electronic-tinged chamber pop centered around the artist's gorgeous piano playing. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2023
Art-pop that turns a critical eye on the world, as accessible as it is complex; sales benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 24, 2018
Mary Halvorson is a genius composer and guitarist who has developed her own musical language, and with Code Girl she has incorporated poetry into that language. Incredible compositions and lyricism (each track is a different kind of poem). Halvorson's playing is as great as usual, and all the other members of the band sound great. Robert Wyatt's singing in particular works extremely well in the tracks he's featured. Highly, highly recommend. rat