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Marble Mouth

by Pillar Point

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1.
Part time love, yea I got that part time love But that part time stuff's not good enough I need the full time cuffs That I been dreamin of Because that part time stuff's not enough Yea that part time love, no - not good enough Anything you want for that mess, and I'll offer mine Soaking slowly with those hazardous eyes Put me at peace in your primordial pit Cleanse me - yea I can handle it I can't stay cool, I've tried If I could find some.. Black sunshine, yea I want that black sunshine Cuz that soft white light - far too shy I need that reckless touch That I been dreamin of Because that soft white stuff's not enough Yea that part time love, no - not good enough
2.
There's a jukebox in Bywater that'll steal your sons and daughters cause it's so good that it feels like a God And the wandering romantics want that obsolete enchantment so they put the dollars in and can't stop Let the red fumes pull ya down south, we could disappear and turn it out She's a bloodsucker with a silk mouth, make your eyes sweat, drink you up and spit you out Love in the age of potpourri, baby wants her bottle and an mp3 A scary thing about being free: all your bad ideas have the space to breathe A white wall The black fly A strange trip This good life
3.
Strange brush paints me in ways that feel strange Cold touch colors the look so deranged Spring is the loneliest season, where newness is always allowed I shake my old dreams in new rhythms, but heaven will never make sound What can we do with the crowns of kingdoms that never worked out? I fell in deep with it, struggled to see through the crowed noise Strange brush paints me in ways that feel strange Cold touch colors the look so deranged I slept on the knife of your life line, it cut away all my desire The changes we'd make in each other, if heaven would only make sound You fell in love with a crowd, but group love so rarely works out Careful to speak it it, I lost my peace in the crowd noise [Rest your body next to mine, I'll get right just a picture of you and I - can't tonight] The creatures released from their caves Can't find the feeling the winter unmade I try to lose problems I've saved But I can't look real in this light, I can't tonight
4.
Dove 04:34 video
Girlfriend tell me what you did, I don't have the time to worry who you kissed I been spending my whole day, in a phased out haze You say we feel outta touch, but gimme some more time I'm back within a month I know you don't like to wait, but this love is not a race So take that watch that's on your wrist, hide it in a drawer and don't let it exist I will shine within your shade, until you feel awake It's no road that I'd run without a curve So baby would you come in close at the turn And let a different love song pass your lips Or we might suffer shipwreck with the ship Without love you're just a stupefied dove Let me linger in your dreams, there's all the other guys but I'm the one you need Baby you stay in my thoughts, but is that enough? All the songs that i could sing to show you that I feel this - would they change a thing? No matter which way this wind blows you know I'm coming home
5.
Lafayette 03:16
All good children hit the ground Shouting madly at their dreams In Lafayette they search the clouds But mother's milk is in the streets How did I go blind? How did I go so blind? How do I get down? Strange new faces come in threes Always passing with a song King James and his special beans Come to turn the night lights on When did I go blind? When did I get so blind? How do I get down?
6.
Gloomsday 04:44
Such modern feelings as live outside can best be hunted with a very long drive You wanna go? Then let's go. That's when the rubber really hits the road Turn up the speakers, forget the rain, strike a pose that makes your body unchain Nothing to run from, nothing to hide, close your eyes and taste it as if it were a crime We need a drug they can't prescribe - midnight in the garden of our shallow delights Hey can we make it to the club on time? We gotta sneak it, sneak it, sneak it on the 99 Seattle clouds - such strange desires I tried to show you but your brain's barbwired We need the shadow it reveals the light I wanna take you to the party tonight
7.
Playtime 04:02
Let's pretend we're art from heaven, you be Bosch and I'll be Rodin Eyeing all your lovely shapes Golden apples twice deceived me, bound my hands and suckled neatly Wait until you suffer mine! Gotta clear out, let this ride And I shut my eyes Heavy clouds soaked in the air, let's enjoy but soon beware Those dripping daydreams Why have fun just in the night? Now I see such clear delights Like the beat of the drum it's... Playtime - ya never have to leave the house Good god when we freak out ya never have to leave the house Playtime - dripping from the mouth Oh no did we go out? We should've never left the house.. Wait! let me grab my tape recorder, we'll sing about this pink new order Easing all our worried minds Strange definition health condition, two funny faces on a mission Never knowing what we'll find Ah! We gotta live falling down. With such a curious mind.. Oh no I'm stuck in the ground
8.
Underground 05:20
Gimme what you need, I've been working overtime Carrie caught the fever strong this time That dark touch was burning too too bright So Van sat vigil through the night Through the night for her Diamond danced a while in a dangerous place She never cared what other people say Till she met Maxi in the backstage And they never danced again For your love (I'm underground) Jesse lost his job at the record store Left him feeling far from hardcore But Gigi waited at his door At his door with gin Bobby bummed around in an aimless state The breakup became too much to escape So Derek drove him outta state To pull him from the mud
9.
Is there a love song that cares whose mind she's on? Does it answer her prayer when you sing along? When you dance like you wanna die She's heaven every time She slows it down and turns out your lights Leaving your mouth like a sigh wanders back into the night Is there a secretive hope you'll lose your spark? As she hangs like a star waiting for dark.

about

Scott Reitherman was planning to record the second Pillar Point album at home in Seattle, when he received an unexpected invitation -- extended backstage in Phoenix after opening for of Montreal -- to cut it at Kevin Barnes' home studio in Athens, Georgia.

"I couldn't believe it to be honest," says Reitherman. "I was overwhelmed; we're halfway through the tour and I'm already having the time of my life."

Riding high from the news, the former Throw Me the Statue frontman devoted the next few months to crafting demos that would bring the solemn but sprightly dance-pop sound found on his self-titled debut into full bloom on his sophomore full-length.

Once those were ready, Reitherman traveled to Barnes’ house for a month to eat, sleep, and record -- often in the late evening and early morning -- alongside such guest musicians as drummer Cameron Gardner (Washed Out) and percussionist Philip Mayer (Kishi Bashi). With the arrangements and basic recordings for Marble Mouth firmly in place, Reitherman fleshed out the vocals and lyrics for the full-length over the next six weeks in New Orleans.

"New Orleans was the most meditative and mysterious part of making the record," he explains. "I wanted to sink into that city and scrutinize the romantic southern sojourn.

"I knew I’d return to Seattle with a finished record," he continues, "but the big unknown of what the new environment and new collaborators would impart onto the finished record really influenced how wide open and exciting the writing process felt. In those months leading up to going down South I just had fun rolling the question around in my head; what would this record that Kevin and I make together sound like?”

The result — recorded and mixed by engineer Drew Vandenberg (Toro Y Moi, Deerhunter, of Montreal) — speaks for itself as loudly as the records Reitherman blasted in his childhood bedroom, from the twitchy post-punk of Talking Heads to the Top 40 takeovers of Michael and Janet Jackson. It's more than a mere nostalgia trip, however; much like the red-blooded dance party that is Pillar Point's live show, Marble Mouth is a therapeutic sweat lodge of bold drum beats and lean synth lines that layer and wrap each song in kinetic skeletons.

Featuring a hybrid approach to the presentation of its heavyweight pop hooks, the album plants one foot firmly in the '80s, with the other exploring the outer realm of ultramodern electronic music. Meanwhile, sun-baked samples and vapor-trailed verses allude to everything from LCD Soundsystem to Broadcast, with Pillar Point's surface-level gravitas hiding in plain sight, as sharp as ever.

With its sparkling odes to Seattle's famous rain clouds ("Gloomsday"), long-distance relationships ("Part Time Love," "Dove"), and New Orleans and Athens themselves ("Lafayette," "Black Fly on a White Wall"), Marble Mouth is catchy and compelling in equal measure and about as honest as a pop record gets. "Dance Like You Wanna Die" indeed.

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released January 22, 2016

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