Full-length album from Luke Lalonde
Nov 22, 2019 Paper Bag Records
Includes unlimited streaming of The Perpetual Optimist
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Full-length album from Luke Lalonde
Nov 22, 2019 Paper Bag Records
Includes unlimited streaming of The Perpetual Optimist
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 10 days
Purchasable with gift card
$24.99CADor more
lyrics
the tenderness, the violence
the symphony of silence
humanity becomes a bore
a symptom of a plague
a chore
suspended on a wire, in a hurricane
...and
I walk the same wire
high above the same fire
happiness and peace, my balance rod
the arbiter is the storm
love is the eye, so warm
some have the nerve to call it God
and in the same breath
the force of Coriolis
what's left, what's right, and who can tell?
the fault line splits
through the mantle, lava pits
some have the nerve to call it hell
but it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
no it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
oh no it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!what do you do with the mad you feel?
do you store it up until
it bursts out, purging like the rain?
do you do the same with love?
pour it out in buckets of
trust. lust. over rusty pain
I get it wrong too
I gravitate to panic. fear
half empty bottles.
waste
but I know in my heart
these two sides shall never part
some have the nerve to call it faith
but it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
no it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
oh no it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
the tenderness, the violence
the symphony of silence
humanity becomes a bore
a symptom of a plague
a chore
suspended on a wire, in a hurricane
but it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
no it's...
NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!
oh no it's...
NOT MY SPIRIT-SPEAR-RITUAL GUIDE!
supported by 8 fans who also own “[Not My] Spiritual Guide!”
Cooler than that half bottle of rye you left in the snow last night. Warm as the couch you just woke up on. Bright as the Sunday morning winter sun... indoor with sunglasses on. d2tharoc
Nashville’s Passion Fruit Boys nail the effervescent janglepop of ’80s college radio with bright guitars and immediate hooks. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 1, 2022
supported by 5 fans who also own “[Not My] Spiritual Guide!”
I saw Trace Mountains open for Wild Pink at DC9 in Washington, D.C. I like Wild Pink a lot but Trace Mountains was an eye-opener that night, and I only later realized I had previously seen Dave Benton perform with LVL Up at the 9:30 Club. This album is just eminently listenable: great instrumentation, easy lyrics, a lot of spirit. Jake Grubman