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Skinless Takes A Flight

by supernowhere

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    First press! Limited to 200 copies :) Pre-order "Skinless Takes A Flight" on a beautifully morbid vinyl record, the color of you without your skin // expected to ship mid-April 2022

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1.
Circles 03:33
when the spring is on its way the compulsory things will always happen I will never know the math behind the atmosphere when the spring is deathly dry, the queen annes lace is suffering for water I will never know to turn the drops into a flower a decision’s on its way, my motion circles over knowing just what is true pour a little water into the cuts, they need it I drag my broken glassy fingers across the mist over the window keep the light on for me pour a little salt into the cuts, locate and speak what you know
2.
Dirty Tangle 02:46
what’s to ignore? the fall will come the pestilence of diluted time comes from the unseen the progression of doppler moans the hair that falls from the head and then tangles up in the teeth woe to the human, still believing, doesn't even need a reason a triangle, empty like light, it promises sustenance as approachable as the moon the thought persists, the word kills anaesthesia recklessly when they come home, they will decide to be bled no more funny little fool you won’t convince them, why don’t you just choke on that secret? it could happen tomorrow, you know, simply moved into just knock on the door, just shoot at the door
3.
Amphibian 03:19
voices that I can remember you by creeping up from the shadows descriptions will eat at each other’s roots, split in two down the middle and I’ve heard this all before now, dirty mirror of the eastern days we’ve been consumed before and I will not listen to a thing you say from the underwater, I’ve lived in the underwater before, you’re getting thrown around don’t matter if you deserve it now cherry tree’s last petals lay on the sidewalk turning brown I’m living in a daydream and it strains my mind and I will decay until I’m dry (in my dreams he’s pushing you down in the water) when I am dreaming you will show me to the water (dreams... reaching you out... in the water) when I am dreaming I will hide among the hallways (dreams... pushing you down... in the water) and in my dreams there I can see my own resistance to those songs
4.
there is a man, inside my room, inside my room the carpet’s green the sunrise comes illuminates the shadow new year’s glibly dancing dream I plan to fly away toward light emerging from the serpent’s throat glinting off scissors slashing through the cobwebs tangled in its throat and with our bellies pressed together we regret that there’s a seam I have no depth perception standing on the edge and then I leap oh I hope I am not mistaken my sweetness, I want this to be true a caravan across the field of corn and now I understand the lovely mouth that speaks words to distract me from your bitterness I saw there was a snake inside my basement and when I peered in to see one quick emerged to chase me with a smirk upon its hopeful teeth oh now can you hear the fantasy breaking the ghost guessed that you would be so cruel
5.
Say nothing leave without warning the threads are familiar and beguiling they come into my bedroom and spin silk on the blackness behind my eyelids hey skinless scared of the sunlight, what if it wants for my flesh I won’t touch it at all, even if I’ve grown back as many times as I died she's dreaming carried by birds, all around under river beds, the land carved away as the water sinks into the earth
6.
Augury 02:26
I stumbled out of the wildwood jumping at every animal I find rummaging through garbage as though it hunts my hide I will carry stones I found, each one with aeons written in the grain object sitting in the river quickly becomes a hierophany I will carry bitter herbs and call on the augur who speaks to the ghosts who know where the strange looking flowers turn into the uncanny beast’s abode
7.
The Hand 02:46
flying over hills, hills of green, all the pretty homes I cannot see through my devotion, to those walls flying over heads, feeling free, grabbed by the hand it pulls me ‘round my devotion, to the hand
8.
Gently Inert 03:49
9.
Ecdysis 03:44
death climate and I ask to it come stillness will I still exist or will I melt into the crucible only my resonance echoing around without thought to command the seeking could I know if I did enough? please how’s it wrong? I’d be sanitized my tissues are soured by the retained debris of the loving like there’s never been and the acid boring into the skin an icicle that grew off of the roof an unstable life an obvious death I burn these at the end of times I burn these as I’m falling asleep

about

The majority of the nine slithery songs that comprise supernowhere’s 'Skinless Takes A Flight' were originally cuts that didn’t make their debut 'Gestalt'. But after collectively moving across the country from Burlington, VT to Seattle, WA, the scrapped tracks transformed substantially into florid, at times entrancing compositions.

The pulsating “Circles” opens the album with lilted reflections on empathy, breathing in midtempo syncopation with subdued guitar tip-toeing around melodic drumming. supernowhere’s cast of Meredith Davey (bass, vocals), Kurt Pacing (guitar, vocals), and Matt Anderson (drums) share a collective ambition for maximum interplay and collaborative writing, materializing cleanly knotted compositions that evoke vivid dreamscapes and the profound epiphanies drawn from them (“The Hand”, “Ecdysis”). On upbeat “Dirty Tangle” Davey’s voice glides through Pacing’s angular arpeggiations, carving their own rhythmic lane with their distinctive, descanting singing style.

'Skinless Takes A Flight' notably would not have come to fruition without the help of engineer Dylan Hanwright (mix. Gulfer, mem. Great Grandpa, I Kill Giants), whom the band met shortly after relocating to Seattle. Hanwright offered up his practice space as a temporary rehearsal and writing space during the early pandemic, which in turn gave him intimate familiarity with the music, resulting in an album that was recorded as intimately as it was written. Hanwright helped make the little moments shine too, as heard in the fleeting vocal harmonies on "Augury", or the spiraling chaos in "Basement Window," a further testament to the collaborative, everyone’s-input-matters nature that characterizes supernowhere’s dizzying yet meditative sophomore record.

credits

released March 4, 2022

Engineering and mixing by Dylan Hanwright
Mastered by Rachel Field at Resonant Mastering

Meredith Davey - Bass Guitar, Cello, Harp, Vocals
Kurt Pacing - Guitar, Vocals
Matthew Anderson - Drums, Modular Synthesizer

Inspiration and support from Todd Henry, Jamie, Mac, Kirsto, Alex K, Werewolf Vacation, C. Devereaux, Ian Gwin, weird skinless dream creature, Love is Respect Hotline, Seattle Housing Justice Project, and John Worley. Special thanks to Dylan Hanwright for providing us with a safe place to practice and record during the pandemic.

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supernowhere Seattle, Washington

supernowhere

formally known as Gestalt (ɡəˈSHtält)

A whole>sum trio.

Formed September 2016 in Burlington, VT. Currently based in Seattle, WA.

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