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Deluxe Edition: White with Black and Orange Haze 12" Vinyl LP + Companion Zine
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Deluxe Edition features White vinyl with Black and Orange Marble/Haze + 16 page companion zine featuring poetry and prose from Jake Woodruff of Dreamtigers, designed by R & AD. Limited to 50.
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Footfalls in the dark near me
always quicken my pulse
Why must you always so secret be
Why play me false
Seattle was never the place for you
Do we have the same favorite tree
If I can’t find you, may you never be
found
May you always run wild and free
Who harmed you when you were young
Who took the trust from your face
Scared of the wrongs that were done
Nothing I can say
If I can’t find you,
May you never be found
May you always run wild and free
When Time is over
All time is Now
Threads of bodies scattered,
Weaving in and out
Look how they cluster
And stretch so thin
They think they started weaving
They think they know
What do you know?
Look what it says here
What do you know
And from this distance, all turns to smoke
Went wrong before we started
The sickest joke
What do you know?
Looks like we’re stuck here
What do you know
What do you know
before the long years
What do you know
Stuck at every turn
Weaving all the wrong ways
Clustered over time
How long till the seals break
As I get older,
I have less and less to say
What would it be to not forget
The things that haven’t happened yet
And find a simple way to choose
The things we wouldn’t have to lose
Last night I thought I saw you there
But it hadn’t happened yet
If we could, what would we choose
The things we wouldn’t have to lose
And I saw the last time
(Picking up right after)
Traded twelve for twenty more
We wake when no one is watching, mirroring
We wake when no one is watching, ringing out
It was early evening before they ran backward
Traded under, upwards, fear
We wake when no one is watching
mirroring futures we spell
We wake when no one is watching
ringing out our former selves
Ringing out
To find a simple way to choose
The things we wouldn’t have to lose
The things we would’ve have to
And I saw the canisters first
and then I heard your voice-
through the tubes you complained
they cluttered up your room.
The smell I could never place
with your perfume from Sunday.
You asked us how we were
and how was the trip up
Postcards and photographs-
we talk of foreign trips
and the time before he passed-
he was a good man.
And then I saw your face
just like it was those days.
But I write this on a plane-
I won't see you again
Oh my god
Sorry that it’s been so long
Took him away
Took him away
End of our day
Took him
And what do I do when it’s done
Oh mother where is your son
Took him away
Took him away
End of our day
Took him
Raise your hands in hallelujah
Raise your broken hands
Well I remember this moment
Midwinter on the quad at midnight.
You got the notion to run.
Boy, you’ve got a lot of notions
I remember this one.
It was furious and bright,
Brought you swiftly through the night
The night we all face.
I haven't seen you in years.
Oh how I’ve seen the world
Suck the joy out of everyone
I haven't seen you in years.
I hope you still
Have those moments
I’d love to find that
You're not rotted dry.
Took a walk outside,
past the morning light
Doesn’t matter now that’s all I like
Doesn’t make a difference,
I just do what I can
I don’t think I'll ever
See this city again
All the boulevards, the neon lights
Doesn't matter that I can’t tonight
Doesn’t make a difference,
I just do what I can
I don’t think I'll ever
See this city again
Doesn’t make a difference,
I just do what I can
I don’t think I'll ever
Pick up the phone,
Then put it away
Why do my hands shake
So many before
Unending array
What will I do now?
So much has gone,
those footsteps don’t ring
Lost until I hear
The sound of your voice
It drags me away
The sound of your voice
Drags me away
What do I do now
As the photos they fade
Feel it sink like a roof in the rain
Slowly lower
What do I do now
Screaming out in the dark and the fear
Waiting only for it to draw near
Even lower
Oh how long is now
Answers pass through my fingers
stretched out
Gone already with barely a sound
Is it over
But where are we now
They’re still hoarding the moments
they stole
While the rest of us out in the cold
Slowly smoulder
And it burns
And it grows
And it burns
The sound of your voice drags me away
about
“What would it be to not forget / the things that haven’t happened yet?”
What would it be to see the future? To understand ourselves and our communities in the full scope of time- reckoning with the past while seeing the possibility and danger of what could be. Dreamtigers’ upcoming full-length, “Ellapsis,” out February 18th via Skeletal Lightning, isn’t afraid to ask these questions. “Ellapsis is a made-up word that means ‘Time Sickness’ “ says singer and lyricist Jake Woodruff. “Taking “ellapsed” and making it sound like a disease. Each song explores how time can multiply pain, over years and generations. Time and decay weave the whole thing together.”
As the album was nearing completion, Woodruff and partner/bandmate Aisha Burns had to unexpectedly move across the country to help out with a family medical emergency. This upended everything in their, and this close-knit band’s, plans. Dealing with a medical trauma, and the chaos and exhaustion of caregiving afterward, is something that they’re still processing. Attempting to navigate the U.S. healthcare system in the middle of a crisis threw many things into question. “It’s definitely surprising that we still liked these songs after the most stressful and exhausting year of me and Aisha's life” says Woodruff. “I didn't really know if it was gonna hold up after that. A lot of things in my life didn't, and I’ve had a lot of trouble reacclimating to formerly ‘normal’ elements of life. When I got a chance to finish these songs and send them to mixing, I felt like I was hearing them for the first time and coming back to myself but in a new light. I’m thankful they still resonated with me.”
It’s not often that songs about such expansive topics get to the point so immediately. The album’s opener, “Six Rivers,” kicks into a massive wall of sound that still leaves room for Woodruff’s evocative guitar work, and Joe Longobardi’s (Woodruff’s bandmate from hardcore juggernauts Defeater) crushing, yet tasteful, percussion. Caspian guitarist and frontman Phil Jamieson proves he’s equally powerful on bass, providing nuanced melodic sensibility to booming rhythmic grooves. Woodruff’s and fellow songwriter/guitarist Andrew Gary’s vocals float over all of this- weaving, detailed and incandescent.
These louder, grungier guitar-driven songs that start the record elevate the vocal harmonies and provide a searing opening act, culminating in the bombastic and cathartic ending of “I See the Future,” which features the first appearance of Burns and Dylan Rieck (Burns’ former bandmate in Bamorhea), providing emotive and spacious string arrangements. These coalesce over Longobardi’s powerhouse drumming, while “find a simple way to choose / the things we wouldn’t have to lose” floats like a mantra over the song’s end.
This power contrasts with the understated nature of the first of the more minimal songs, “For Sally,” which harkens back to the band’s singer-songwriter origins. These contrasts shape the record’s dynamic narrative arc, propelling the harmony-laden, luminous vocals into a dreamscape-like world. For anyone familiar with these musicians’ other work, Dreamtigers feels like a fitting, yet surprising rearrangement, a labor of love that’s now unleashed a fully-formed LP. It’s not really shoegaze, it’s not really emo, but exists in the liminal space between, with fractured emotions evident in every note of these compositions.
Recording took place in several stages; beginning with Will Benoit, longtime friend and owner of Radar Studio, a 100% solar-powered studio in the woods outside of New Haven, CT. They tracked the foundation of each song live in 3 days, and devoted another day to overdubs and ambient layers. Daryl Rabidoux (Cancer Conspiracy) provided technical assistance. Vocals and remaining instrumentation were recorded by the band at home. The album was mixed and mastered by Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip (Nothing, Lauryn Hill, Turnstile, Quicksand, among many others).
Dreamtigers, much like the Borges prose poem from which they take their name, are constantly chasing an ideal —their recordings offer snapshots of the band’s development, organic and imperfect but pointed at the beauty beyond. These songs, written about and within loss and time and oppressive structures, feel immediate in a time where loss and oppression are continuous. In “Ellapsis,” we see a band finding new form, offering us a record both nostalgic and invigorating, lush, and powerful, in love and solidarity during what have always been uncertain times.
credits
released February 18, 2022
“ELLAPSIS” WAS RECORDED LIVE AT THE RADAR STUDIO IN CLINTON, CT BY WILL BENOIT.
DARYL RABIDOUX ASSISTED.
VOCALS, VIOLINS, AND ADDITIONAL AMBIENT TRACKS RECORDED BY
JAKE WOODRUFF, ANDREW GARY, AND PHILIP JAMIESON.
CELLO RECORDED BY DYLAN RIECK
MIXED AND MASTERED BY WILL YIP.
ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY DREAMTIGERS
ALL LYRICS BY JAKE WOODRUFF, EXCEPT “PERCOCET BLUES”
VOCALS BY ABBY CHAMBERLAIN AND JAKE WOODRUFF.
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