This is the six-song debut Merostomata EP on professionally reproduced and packaged cassette tape, in a large "books-on-tape" format, with an twelve-page B&W zine including original pen-and-ink illustrations and essays about each track, as well as the album in general.
Includes unlimited streaming of [001]
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just a child's voice
numbers on a radio
shortwave transmission
cumbersome codes tell you the way to go
critical condition
maybe yes maybe no
but when you stop codeswitchin
everything's debatable
it's a grasping hand
reaching out of your speakers now
it's the corner of your block after dark
that you never even dare just to peek around
and the water's off
tap won't stop with the leaking sound
ant-lion claws
just below a patch of the weakened ground
a one-time pad
decipher what i rap about
call the best and the brightest minds in the world
all to come and try to map it out
it's enigma shift
two-fifteen counts of threes
it's the flames of warfare
burnin down all your house of leaves
i speak in cipher
crypto, not the rhyming kind
try not to lay back
don't wanna be a cat with a reclining mind
this is codetalk steppin
this a hard rock weapon
this if fifteen counts of threes
in a turn just burning down your house of leaves
count backwards now
block of eighteen digits
got you on alert
and the caller says "B" while your "A" team figets
we're real austere
no time for piss and rage
but what's happening here
is a playbook left with a missing page
i will x your o's
i will dot your t's
i will cross your i's off the list
as we go, got a lot of these
binary backwards
writ in steam on a mirror
when you work it out, though
you'll dream awful clear
a one-time pad
decipher what i rap about
call the best and the brightest minds in the world
all to come and try to map it out
it's enigma shift
two-fifteen counts of threes
it's the flames of warfare
burnin down all your house of leaves
i speak in cipher
crypto, not the rhyming kind
try not to lay back
don't wanna be a cat with a reclining mind
this is codetalk steppin
this a hard rock weapon
this if fifteen counts of threes
in a turn just burning down your house of leaves
credits
from [001],
released September 28, 2018
written and produced by j. w. friedman
tools: sequenced synths, a drum machine, electric guitars, electric bass guitar, this thing i have that is shaped like a frog but makes a chirping sound when you scratch its back with a wooden stick, djimbe
Oops, all bangers! Doc’s songs are all incredibly catchy and clever. I’m pretty sure there’s at least one wrestling reference in every one of these tracks if you’re into that sorta thing. He’s a funny dude, too. Buy this album! gutsygillesbie
Malci's inventive production and rapping shifts between jazzy boom-bap and something more intimate, curious, and experimental. Bandcamp New & Notable May 21, 2019