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decay

by watcher's woods

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Alex Everything I could want in a goth album. I think I could listen to "penokees" forever. Also super rad album cover. Favorite track: penokees.
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1.
caliban 02:52
the haunted ruins of the past accumulate with in our lives and as our words weigh us down can we learn to speak? I don’t know see the fields all lit with pyres illuminate the structures we live by history can’t be undone is it too late? I don’t know I’ll go to the fields and know what stood there are signs of so long ago - - - This song is about the witch hunts during the modernization of Europe. It’s about the biopolitical subjugation of women and how we need to reexamine notions like primitive accumulation, state formation, and the enclosing of the commons through a gendered lens.
2.
octahedron 03:06
the sun rings out in spirals in my room and the taste of numbness echoes in my mouth the porch light holds its posture in the gloom cellophane strains the windows of this house in those days without end blend to murky mornings peeling through and making clouds and the overflows of memories inside the creases fall through the palms of your hands teeth like rocks like calcite cut through fog it ruptures behind fluorite in your eyes sunrise dead birds spilled across my lawn frost-bitten paws pressing deep inside
3.
as the burning rage rings out only to go underground in a couple years, what’s left? the moment’s pulse still ringing through our walls who’s lost / whose loss? fires spread the words char leviathan’s armor and you come to see it’s more than skin peel it away, feel yourself come undone what’s worse? - - - The name of this song is from our friend Krow’s post-sentencing statement. The song is dedicated to those serving time for ELF/ALF actions and those who got away. It’s about the viability of arson, property destruction, and animal liberation as tactics (just kidding NSA). It’s about the struggle of seeing how our subjectivities are entangled with the world we’re working to end.
4.
penokees 03:09
I remember those days we spent in the northwoods in the hills washing our feet in the riverbed. The fear of the mine was long gone—it’d given us reason for some hope. You were always there those days. I remember those nights we spent—there were enough of us to stay warm listening to coyotes and snow owls. The next day we spent tracking those rabbits that you never caught and I wonder what they’re doing now. The world has turned around. - - - I wrote this song the day I quit a job that morally and politically I’d felt bad for working. It’s about trying to celebrate a successful campaign that prevented an open-pit taconite mine from destroying the Penokee Hills. It’s also about imagining a reality better than our own—one where a loved one didn’t end up going to jail.
5.
pure light 03:42
black dots and sewing needles measure years like dead liver cells as the crescent moons of my hands crack away more honest than faces all those things that we did, words that were spent—where are they now? looking for ourselves in places and found there was nothing to be found I don’t want to look back if I did it’d still all be there - - - This song is about loss.

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recorded over the past year between milwaukee and asheville

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released November 11, 2015

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watcher's woods Asheville, North Carolina

anti-civ post-punk

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