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Secular Works, Vol. 2

by Extra Life

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impressivelad Brilliant union of early music and rock. Strong Cardiacs vibes. I find a lot of chamber rock to be meandering and aimlessly angular. However this stuff is different, the compositions are extremely tight and diverse. The instrumentation is sparse and rickety, but has these brilliant flashes of grandiose orchestration, it's very balanced. I don't think I've heard a more successful integration of early music into modern forms before. Absolutely a modern masterpiece of progressive "weird" music.
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Seath This rules :] thank you Favorite track: What's Been Lost?.
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W. So this guy just quietly dropped AOTY 2022 like that? Ok then.
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Statue so real, so real and hard So hard, pure and hard Fate made of stone No choice but to love what is carved No escape from the shape so pure and hard The lines of the face that’s carved Misshapen marble… So real, cold and real Lines carving love
2.
Coming Apart 10:06
I cannot hear your voices anymore, my dearest friends Repeating magic words, gesture and ritual, chanting irrational to different gods Idiot gods I see too much, no turning back The walls of the chapel, I see the cracks, and now I’m coming apart Prayers of the blind, rites of distrust, the eye of contagion, vision’s poison touch, and now we’re coming apart And I won’t speak the language of the war The walls have ears, hearing what they want to hear My brother wears a wire, my sister’s watchful eye Document my every thought, they’re mounting their case All day cold war Every day cold holy war
3.
There are still things that I can never say to anyone (I think you know) My melody marks a trace (I think you know) I can’t forget, I can’t unsee it the afternoon I saw The curtain rose, blood red open to start the play of tooth and claw The noble lies, the words I speak to keep us warm and dignified (Power laughs) That melody that you don’t want to hear (Power laughs, the secret song) I can’t forget, I can’t unhear it the afternoon I heard The choir’s mouth, blood red open to sing the play of tooth and claw
4.
Our lady of the wagging finger, Saint of lies, and maybe even truths, a functionary Nothing but a gargoyle on that bloated old cathedral they pay you not to see You and me are not the same We are not the same You and me are not the same Definitely not the same Our lady of the pushed paper, File our sins, perform confession, a form apology Offices and incense the moral smoke of witch-flesh at the DMV Queen of your department both cunning and retarded
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Deeds of rage, total deeds Fallen from what? What’s been lost? Bloodless life, honorless Tethered to no earth and tethered to no sky What’s been lost? Singer, singer, sing in a world without a hero Singer, singer, sing in a world without the gods Draw breath… Prayer, prayer, pray in a world with nothing higher Prayer, prayer, praying a merely human love Draw breath… Fighter, fighter, fighting, with nothing he would die for Fallen, fallen poem, the history of men Cano, cano, cano, virumque arma cano Principium non vidi I only caught the end Draw breath
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Looking for an exit Fleeing sideways into prayer Becoming imperceptible, quickened by Hermes I bide my time, a border-guard in no man’s land No love for law, no love for crime Unmoving in my sovereign attitude Diagonal power… Freedom from resentment May my stillness be my flight Useless to the Clown Word, a gentleman obstacle Diagonal power Quickened by Hermes Winged by Mercury
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How to Die 09:07
Learning how to die, releasing my intensity Pressure of desire, the river seeks the sea The world without me Capture the flow Pooling inside of the fold of a life Press through the vessel slow Only to flee to the outside Open the flow…

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The return album by Extra Life. A sequel to the debut album, 'Secular Works'.

ON TOUR IN EUROPE, MAY 2024

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released July 2, 2022

Charlie Looker - voice, guitars
Caley Monahon-Ward - violin, viola
Toby Driver - electric bass
Gil Chevigné - drums, percussion

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Nate Wooley - trumpet
Michael Atkinson - horn

Recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Mastered by Matt Colton

all music by Charlie Looker and Extra Life
all lyrics by Charlie Looker
Vibe Abyss Music (ASCAP)

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