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John Pfeifer- Vocals, guitars, bass guitar, synths, piano, lyrics, music; Matt Scott- synths, drum loops, samples, accidental snares, music
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An amalgam of anything that passes thru one ear and out the other -- see our Interview page for details.
In our music, you'll hopefully find everything -- rock, orchestral, trip-hop, spacey/ambient, whatever -- most times all in one tune!! Mwah-ha-ha.... We follow no labels, guidelines, trends -- we write what we feel at any given moment; industrial one moment, folk the next. You might hear smatterings of Floyd/Waters/Gilmour, a touch of Mike Nesmith, some Metheny, maybe even some Vangelis or 80's pop, classic rock, sheer noise, Air, Terje Rypdal, and if you really stretch in order to make us seem more relevant to the times, maybe some of The Shins, Sigur Ros, etc. Basically anything that makes a noise can inspire us.
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Alternative • Experimental
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#2 in subgenre Peak #1
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Peak #3
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John Pfeifer / Matthew Scott
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John Pfeifer / Matthew Scott
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January 03, 2015
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MP3 5.8 MB • 160 kbps • 5:02
Story behind the song
Probably not one of our more toe-tapping, heel-kicking, "O, What a Beautiful Morning!" butt-shakers, possibly leaning towards depressing and disturbing, this was a song that had to be written, sort of as a post-facto exorcism. It was started in 2000 but went through a million rewrites/re-arrangements/remixes before we were confident that we'd made it as powerful and significant as we could, and as the concept inflexibly demanded. The song had it's birth in an attempt to record an album with countless levels of entertwining elements not just amongst the tunes on that album, but also from our "back catalog." The title was derived from "On the Heights" ("opening.../On the Heights/Main St."): a contrast between lofty beauty and unfathomable decay. The melody for the verses is also a shared component between "Heights" and this: on the former, done instrumentally in 4/4 at 40-odd beats-per-minute, and here at 100 BPM in 6/4 (then after the chorus, we transpose, but keep -- Wait! Can't divulge all our secrets!! Let's just say, "We savor that coppery tang of polymodality" -- disintegrating college degree to the rescue!!) After the "brutally honest" chorus, we allude to some lines -- with an inevitable wrenching twist from the original dreaminess into dark despair -- from one of our older currently-posted tunes (we smell contest...??). So we suppose we put a lot of attention to detail into this one, from Matt's string arrangements to John's french horn section ("Orchestration and Instrumentation 301"..."), thru the de-guitarification of a Strat, the borrowing of the last piano part from yet another tune (unreleased, yet on that same album, mind you...), and all the other minutae accrued over almost a half-decade. We gleefully invite you to keep a smile plastered on for 5 minutes -- Enjoy! ("...we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it...")
Lyrics
Deep inside this shell I wear you'll find me somewhere A veil of hope of no avail your last nerve twisted and frail... Could you help me determine how the fuck I wound up here -- A billion miles from the mark, paralyzed by countless fears --- God help me please deliver me from this disease... A hand once kissed a wink once tipped your smile has slipped Locked inside this cell I've built isolated in my customized hell...
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Lyric4him1
Nov 01, 2022
second listen sounds even better A=+song- friend wow
Lyric4him1
Feb 07, 2020
Very nice differnt very good vox efx love the song
KLANGGNOM
Feb 09, 2016
real fine sounds like pink floyd i think
ABSTRACT CONCEPT
Apr 30, 2014
wow... talking about Pink Floyd influence))))).. even the vocals sound indistinguishable from Roger Waters')) Very nice !!!
C Norden
Aug 28, 2011
i've read your background story, but I wouldn't have had to in order to understand the amount of time and work you're putting into your productions! - like this magnificent piece. I'm enjoying all details of it. Besides your mentioned influences I also associated in this one with Supertramp.
Ed Drury
Jul 03, 2009
Flyod influences most obvious in this one. It's well done though - I love the production of the track. Very spacy, but grounded and structured around the essential concept and them of the song.