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Two Mountains

by Gabby's World

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Cody Ariel Shaffer
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Cody Ariel Shaffer Gabby made something impossibly beautiful with this record. It's a breakup record with the grandiosity of nature, both intimate and epic, as gorgeous and lonely as two mountains. Favorite track: There Are a Lot of You.
mitch
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mitch Sad, hauntingly beautiful, and joyously original. A musing on relationships, with an honest and heartfelt (and at times hurting) narrative. If you listen closely, this album will take you on an emotional odyssey. (A very heavy one, at points: the finale track is a musical punch in the gut.) Favorite track: Hills.
dr_w0rm
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dr_w0rm Eskimeaux and their sound are something special to my heart. This old rerelease is an amazing throwback for those who have only heard O.K. Great job on the rerelease Gabbi! Looking forward to the new e.p. :D Favorite track: Untitled, Part II.
Justin Leider
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Justin Leider taught me how to breathe correctly Favorite track: Two Mountains.
apihonak
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apihonak Its so beautiful and peaceful Favorite track: Whipped Cream Waterfalls (Don't Go Chasing Them, You Might Get Sticky).
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1.
Winter is young and timid hiding in september's arms A shred of dusk, a scrap of dawn I'll weave these moments into a song When icicles bare their teeth we're shivering in the street our booming hearts are waxing our breath is curling With summer's benevolence came an overbearing silence an unforgiving distance one string supporting two mountains
2.
Hills 07:04
Your frame became a gentle nest where I could rest my eyes, a place to lay and let the country go careening by Your fingers laced my locks and traced my hillsides bodies curled about heavily swarmed with butterflies I recall the day the way you said my name changed One day we climbed the tallest hill to feel mighty and high While winds they raced, locked in embrace, we closed our ardent eyes Ravenous as kings, they nearly had us on our knees but I swear right then I felt the world had melted at our feet and all of California was our kingdom the Golden Gate meant to placate the tyrants we'd become and all of San Francisco's hearts would synchronize one beat would quake the earth and make the skyline yours and mine I recall the day that your brother laid his face pressed to the grass so green the wonders before him unseen Fifty suns arose and fell until back home I came and forced to face to what I'd gracelessly betrayed A love I'd left alone in my abandoned bed to lay; the butterflies all up and died with 'guilt' written on their graves So, my love, I walk now upon eggshells teetering like the lightest tree trunk trying not to be felled So, my love, I bring to you the truth in offering enlighten you with honesty and warn you tenderly that I am made of bones as delicate as nature and I am made of skin tough as an elephant's hide and I made of two hearts, one that can beat faster than the hummingbird's wing flies but it must be fed, it must be excited It must be pumped by a strong and eager palm but every hand will inevitably tire and then my fire's flames, they calm
3.
eskimeaux, what have you done? acting like a ghost, hide and run eskimeaux, what have you done? drop your head into your hands shame points to you like a gun weight you can no longer withstand
4.
Discarded 05:04
I have no choice but to treat you like you died sprinkle the soil, to bury you We can no longer bear your Jovian will; it's a massive thing, but in the end it's just a cloud All we did was build ideas, unreachable and cavernous, omnipotent, ravenous! A shady lane, a picket fence and all was based on faithfulness on hollow, trustless lust and sex And I can't believe we were so bold to sculpt and mold what the future holds because our woods burned down two weeks ago and our pond dried up to reveal the bones of our child who drowned when she was too young and my body couldn't bear the second one Now all that's left is our empty home, a flame-bitten exoskeleton So in a thousand years when I've renewed I'll tear at the soil that buried you desperately try to exhume but there'll be nothing left that I knew of you You'll be somewhere far away a new girlfriend, a better place a house, a home, a dream fulfilled and I hope with a newfound iron will
5.
Don't let your hairs fall from you, dear or your skin loosen on my behalf don't waste your time on blame or what never was, but could have been Our meager means turned our bonds to thinning strings, held together with spit and cockroach wings Unfaithfulness leaves a nasty scar but, my dear, I'll bear it like a star 'til winter's young and timid hiding in September's arms Our meager means turned our bonds to thinning strings, held together with spit and cockroach wings
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7.
A Light 04:14
I saw you, you were the water that would quench my raging flames I heard you, your sweet song that would cast out my winters A light at the end of the tunnel a breath of fresh air but I am poison I bring my winters back
8.
Nothing 03:26
I am nothing when I am not with you and when I ask myself "What would 'nothing' do?" Nothing would be nothing, would be quiet and subdued be an ever-heavy presence, blessed, holy, and abstruse Abundantly, infinitely be emptiness be boundless, be hollow, be true and nothing would change should nothing cease and nothing should change should nothing cease
9.
Our love was cut from a cardboard box so many have lived inside before us and the ones we raised and brought in from the rain they have grown and gone And I wanted to keep this alive but I couldn't help my drifting eyes and my mind became too open our family became broken and our things became yours or mine You have become a walking grave your bones buried inside your shape arrested by your fragile frame I thought it would be easier for us to stand on four legs like a dog would but I need to stand on two legs like a man would So don't let your hairs fall from you and don't let your skin loosen from you because I could not be what I thought I could Because all we thought we could change blew right up in my face so don't waste your mind on blame because I'm not quite what i thought I was
10.
Nanuq 02:52
All that we built while shoddy and brief is molded and wilted and crumbling at our feet We'd cross paths if not for the vastness of our country Unfaithfulness leaves a nasty scar but I'll bear it like a star We'd cross paths if not for the vastness of our country and I can't lie and say that I will always miss your hand in mine

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released October 23, 2015

"This record is fucking magical. It has woven a tender web of sound around my head and ensnared the senses completely. It is everything I love in music; the delicate dance between the alienation of drone and the total sexual intimacy of a single voice."
- Eriq Nelson, Crappy Indie Music blog

"5 second review: When I close my eyes and listen to Two Mountains I find myself whisked away to an Arctic tundra (maybe it’s the name helping out). As I continue to listen I invision myself lying on my back with the soft sound of the ice breathing below me and the wind softly tickling the snow dusts around me. Her voice reminds me of twilight in the winter when the sun has dipped below the horizon and there is a fine royal blue trim of sky hovering under the looming darkness. And in that moment, if I happen to catch it, I always invision there’s a soft voice stretching out over the lands – that’s exactly how I hear eskimeaux’s voice. Each song on the album whispers elegance and embodies the ethereal chords of choir boys. If I reviewed this song-by-song each song would read: “angelic orchestration of vocals and music”. Each and every song fulfills this description. There is not one disappointment on the album."
- Volume City blog, UK

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Co-produced by Benjamin Schurr & Gabrielle Smith
with awesome help from Stella Jones, Keith Hampson, Dan Angel, Elliott Harvey, Henry Crawford, Noah Britton, Oliver Kalb, and Sophie Samul
Track photos by Gabrielle Smith unless otherwise specified
Mastered by Benjamin Schurr

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