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Eskimeaux

by Gabby's World

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1.
Eskimeaux, your eyes are bigger than your heart the knife scrapes where you thought there was more to spread you're ignoring your heart of hearts you won't learn to walk but you'll dive into the deepest river scared and never alone you're there, bare and trembling swear under your breath you're a prisoner of your bedroom every shoulder's already wet and no one wants to hear the same story again fortify your heavy chest run away out west where no one will know you scared and never alone you're there, bare and trembling swear under your breath you're a prisoner of your bedroom silently creeping out the door trying to find warmth in another bed you should be cold and alone you have brought this one too close to home
2.
Trinkets 03:01
Thumbing my igloo and grasping my snail my hands in my pockets, my body feeling frail I guess I had hoped that even in your flight you'd leave me with something you'd leave your ghost behind Then I mistook the wind in my hair for your mouth in my mouth, I thought you were really there I guess I'd hoped that even in your flight you'd leave me with something you'd leave your ghost behind
3.
Wings pressed up against you tucked between the sheets little angel reprobate you were built to break me Feathers falling from you are all that I can take bones of solid marble none that I could ever break wings pressed up against you between the messy sheets little angel reprobate you were built to break me
4.
Westward, the sky set aflame as the last gasp of warmth was breathed by the dying day our cheeks reflected rosy against the sky and the horizon lay broken as a feast before our eyes but my antlers will become apparent as the jealousy will infect the meat adorning our bones our eyes will remain evasive I guess I'll only know your shape when my eyes are closed In the dark you couldn't see it but as my bones almost met your healthy body at the knee my rosy cheeks weren't just reflections and the hairs on my arms fought to stand up through my fleece that night the sky seemed closer than ever as the constellations cried hot streams of momentary light though I was warm inside our secrets as our breath cut hotly through the cold November night and I'll stay warm inside those secrets and my palms will perspire when I think about your eyes but my antlers will become apparent as the jealousy will infect the marrow deep inside our bones as our eyes will remain evasive I guess I'll only know your shape when my eyes are closed
5.
Vos Es Verum 03:01
I thought I was open to anything but I was not looking for anything and I know you are the truth it weaves through your hairs they are dark they are light they weave left they weave right and they are mostly golden I would stretch two cans I would stretch the longest string from filth to Virginia just to hear everything you could ever say because everything you could ever say is mostly golden
6.
The fog over Newark holds hands with the frosting of winter that lingers and sings through my lips the car glides so harshly to punish the pavement mocking The Garden State Now I see your icy eyes, they are fixed stiff balloons in your head betwixt the pillow and my bony hips you can find me out in a towel with my eyebrows furrowed and shivering thinking, "My god, I am spread so terribly thin" The driver is speeding New Jersey is bleeding but all I can see are daydreams of what you'll be your nostrils are flaring your wild eyes are blaring and Br'er is staring at you your music is covering my eyes like a child would and watery faces are swimming and drowning your features are branded in my state of static as you melodramatically pour into me Now I see your thoughts written across your cheeks your eyes darting all around the street escape routes in every nook and cranny you can find me under a towel with my eyebrows furrowed and shivering thinking, "My god, I am spread so terribly thin"
7.
Your heart, deep and wide like the moon shifts my tides and your voice, river-deep touched my skillfully you found me spiraling charybdically covered head to feet in ash and grief While we won't watch winter struggling in the jaws of the spring we won't falter or flee 'cause all we are is we All your sadnesses resound and all your fears are grounded because your tears become heaven's clouds and salt the surf to which you're bound While we won't watch winter struggling in the jaws of the spring we won't falter or flee 'cause all we are is we Though you don your father's name it does everything but define you because your skin, it enrobes your mother's warm and solid bones While we won't watch winter struggling in the jaws of the spring we won't falter or flee 'cause all we are is we
8.
Curses 07:38
A curse lies on your body, nestled in your throat keeping you in hospitals keeping you alone A curse lies on my body, nestled in my heart keeping me in New York keeping us apart My stomach's in my chest what I'd give to rest on yours my heart beats in my throat and it resonates your shaking bones Maybe I thought a kiss could lift the curse and still your bones but the detail I had missed was that I still had my own to lift And if I could rip my skin off from my determined frame I'd unearth my healthy body in service to your failing limbs I'd fill you with my meat and sinew and taking root they'd fill you in and you would grow so brave and strong your throat would fill with songs Maybe it would be the same, but at least you would have me to blame and your sickness will be broken and you'll never be alone

about

Did you know that this album has been re-released on cassette by BLIGHT. Records? Go get one now at http://blightrecords.bandcamp.com!

Eskimeaux is the re-realized iteration of the previous collection of demos, Ixsixán. Originally written in 2009, these songs were given ample time to ruminate and be re-worked into the sonically cohesive, fully formed, calcified and crystallized songs that they are today. Eskimeaux is the second truly collaborative, now high-fidelity product of the duo. The album is going to be released digitally by Human Kindness Overflowing and as a cassette tape on BLIGHT. Records.

"Comparing this to their earlier works, vocalist Gabrielle Smith receives company of a faint, but significally more computer-based production, in many ways like an isolated child of Hundred Waters, but sulked in a more organic, almost anatomical tonal structure."
- No Fear Of Pop

"Gabrielle Smith and Benjamin Schurr create haunting, atmospheric electronic music."
- Prefix

"Gabrielle Smith's voice is "pitch perfect charming meets delicate meets highly trained/easily agreeable with most listeners". Every tone that comes out of her mouth sounds eternally endearing and honest. Benjamin Schurr's sampling, beats, back-up vocals/other instrumentation gives this record an incredibly unique approach to "modern Indie Folk" music. Them together brings to mind Vashti Bunyan meets Current 93, maybe T. Reznor.."
- Everything Is Chemical

"...stuttering percussion like the hammering of typewriter mixes with ghostly guitar, feathery lead vocals of Smith, a scratchy white noise, before blossoming into eerie and heavenly backing vocals. It’s a perfect balance of tension and refinement."
- Their Bated Breath
theirbatedbreath.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/eskimeaux/

"Eskimeaux is a shrine to quiet exploration."
- Elizabeth Gunto, Philadelphia City Paper
www.citypaper.net/music/2012-11-29-recommended-new-releases.html

"The album’s production is layered and lush, while maintaining a sense of sparseness. A lot happens under the surface of every track. ...There are worlds within each track to be gathered."
- Kitty Sneezes
kittysneezes.com/2012/12/03/review-eskimeaux/

"ESKIMEAUX is one of the most unique music producers I have come across over the past year and it’s exciting to think about where their artistic vision will take them in the foreseeable future."
- Through My Headphones
www.throughmyheadphones.com/eskimeaux/

"This Philidelphian dreamwave duo serves up some of the finest gothic sound since the early days of 4AD. ... One of the finest cassette releases of 2012"
- HALF-GIFTS
half-gifts.blogspot.com/2012/11/review-eskimeaux-eskimeaux.html

Human Kindness Overflowing (humankindnessoverflowing.bandcamp.com) is a charitable label based out of Philadelphia. When you purchase this album from Human Kindness Overflowing, 50% of the profits go to feeding people in need through Philabundance. For every $2 you spend, you are purchasing four meals. To download this album, go to humankindnessoverflowing.bandcamp.com.

BLIGHT. Records is a new cassette label started this year, 2012, by Benjamin Schurr and Gabrielle Smith. It is meant to be a meeting place and a vehicle for aesthetically like-minded, noise-inspired musicians and artists. Eskimeaux (self-titled) is the first release on BLIGHT.

credits

released November 7, 2012

Lyrics by Gabrielle Smith
Music and production by Gabrielle Smith and Benjamin Schurr
Mastered by Ali Jaafar
Guest appearances by Darian Scatton (harmonium, harp), Stella Jones (clarinet), Sean Elligers (trumpet), and Steve Yankou (cello)
Recorded by Gabrielle Smith and Benjamin Schurr at Hollywood BLIGHT. in Philadelphia, PA in 2012

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