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Animal Drowning

by Knifeplay

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enefrin This album has sustained me. Favorite track: Untitled.
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Robby Morgan The sound of a large bird soaring high above a snow covered canyon, but instead of feathers, it's covered in shards of shimmering glass. An angelic brutality permeates each and every note. This may become one of the most consequential shoegaze records of the decade. Favorite track: Nobody.
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cherryblossom000 I love this album so much. ‘Promise’, ‘Untitled’, and ‘Lonely Sun’ are my favourites. Favorite track: Promise.
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hardpacktrav hey just got the animal drowning cd with the topshelf records 2021-2022 sampler. totally loving the new cd also a Pennsylvania resident from up in Tamaqua pa in shifty Schuylkill County lol. I will always support you guys and all local musicians being a former musician myself. back in the day I knew punk rock pat from philly and had a ton of old Halestrom demos and such. my old friends band, the O-Zone Babies even got to play live with Liz and the crew in York a bunch of times in the days. luv ❤
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1.
Nobody 04:58
I am nobody but everyone I’ve ever met everyone I’ve ever met when I’m old I hope to make peace with everyone I’ve ever met everyone I’ve ever met when I go I know it’ll be at the hands of me at the hands of me
2.
Lonely Sun 04:18
tonight I will sink into my thousandth bitter sleep where future failures will flower rotting teeth today I will live my thousandth bitter life then like the lonely sun I will crawl back into the paper cut until the morning when through the window the lonely sun will bleed and tell me everything is what it seems everything is what it seems to be drowning spiteful laughter in blacked out misery fear becomes the slowest death but tonight I’ll forget everything until the morning when through the window the lonely sun will bleed and tell me everything is what it seems everything is what it seems to be
3.
Promise 04:47
you’re born into you’re born into you’re born into this shit and you are what you are you’re born into you’re born into you’re born into this shit and you are what you are there’s no such thing as growing up where the evil returns and repeats where rivers meet in lakes of mud and the animals sleep through heat and the dreams turn to morning sand on the hills of the broken promise land you’re born into you’re born into you’re born into this shit and you are what you are you’re born into
4.
Bleed 04:56
bleed your narcissistic wound drown in the eternal pool die your ironic death numbness always listens but you want a hug you want a hug you want a hug you want a hug you want a hug you want a hug you wanna hug your mother until you fade away bleed your hateful blood into the fabric of the ones you love you’re an independent spirit laying waste but everybody’s bein’ used for something until they fade away
5.
Animal 02:24
6.
Deserve 05:38
I wanna take this world with me I wanna take it down as it dies of slow changes and it cries for everyone addiction is endless and time is the same love dies so gently as beauty turns to age we’re gonna get what we deserve if we don’t heal we’re gonna stay hurt I wanna take this world with me her good years lay there in blood our full moons are stuck in dead eyes how much pain is enough? births gift is freedom as children we laugh but once you see sadness you cannot go back we’re gonna get what we deserve if we don’t heal we’re gonna stay hurt
7.
Hearts 06:32
will this bed be warm again? I knew what tear drops on the table meant panes of glass protecting pictures break as memories roll in like clouds allowing rain I can’t wake up again I can’t wake up again I can’t wake up again will this bed be warm again? a heart still holds our names in pavement darkness helped us become the same now time works on the wound that throbs when songs play I can’t wake up again I can’t wake up again I can’t wake up again
8.
Ryan Song 04:40
anger rot your soul like tired houses in your hometown no one lives in anymore judgement cast its shadow on your world like endless darkness and now that’s all you see and now that’s all you see anymore failure held its mirror up and teased you for no reason it put you in your place it put you in your place why’d they have to make you carry the cross? why’d they have to make you into a pure idea? why’d they have to make you carry the cross? why’d they have to make you into a pure idea? guilt made the memory play and play and play and play but you don’t get no blame anymore why’d they have to make you carry the cross?
9.
Untitled 08:24
the snow is falling quiet like the secrets we can’t know like the family member pushed away when its pride that builds the home but I wanna bring so many people back and I wanna feel those feelings that I had before I learned that the world doesn’t care and when you’re gone everything just stays there and the bitter end only hurts when you think of it tonight I hear the house settle and love feels so remote but even as a child I knew that everyone’s alone but I wanna bring so many people back and I wanna feel those feelings that I had before I learned that the world doesn’t care and when you’re gone everything just stays there and the bitter end only hurts when you think of it drugs will give and take from you memories they get old too and the bitter end only hurts when you think of it
10.
Cold Rain 04:53
cold rain cold rain comin’ back again

credits

released October 19, 2022

All music written by Knifeplay

Tj Strohmer - Vocals, Guitar, Songwriting
Alex Stackhouse - Bass
John Sciortino - Drums
Max Black - Keyboards, String composition
John Klein - Guitar

Engineered and Mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording
Produced by Tj Strohmer and Jeff Zeigler

Additional Contributions:
Jack Mcbride - Lead guitar throughout
Julia Peters - Cello Performance throughout
Molly Germer - Violin Performance throughout
Sam Digristine - Saxophone on Promise
Tom Fala - Piano on Bleed
Carrie Lessene - Vocals on Cold Rain

Cover Art by Unknown

Mastered by Fred Kevorkian

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