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Winter Haunts

by The Rational Academy

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1.
bodies wail and i've watched them pull on forces to bring them down don't lose yourself follow waves as they wash down borrowed forces with the moon forces that you have known don't lose yourself forces that you have known refuse them bodies wait and i watch them foreign forces against the moon forces that you have known don't lose yourself forces that you have known refuse them
2.
shiver stone bardot traveller fatal and free love won't let you escape hurt singers slowed down and sinister heavy with pearls possessed almost heathen it breaks on your lips who bruises now? who lets you bleed? break from your wrists let it bleed from your insides stone bardot traveller patient and bleeding press hard with your fingers silver sewn through the winters and most of our lives resist our most evil who bruises now? who lets you bleed? break from your wrists let it bleed from your insides
3.
Great Care 03:15
she came home through the cracks in his wall bright bodies trying for peace a night spent out under dry leaves were you ever so sincere? the morning dawned as she combed through your hair a mention you were close to her and moments you traded for sleep softly
4.
soft bruising touches rushed through blood and worn all summer tell me rest under your care and carve out all my lovers names like soldiers etched into a wall right next to all your lovers names remembered climb over these walls your lust won wars your heart beats like a husband salt washed through cuts forced from your hands so we'll remember how to heal each other when we look on all my wives and lovers next to all your lovers cast as husbands all our miscarries and children climb over these walls your lust won wars your heart beats like a husband
5.
calms the dust that blacks horizons the vast uncertain we are ready now there is nothing left to leave with but the air in my heart the smoke in my lungs so how's the world on winter nights while you sleep afraid to go outside how's the world with you tonight? we already know we are ready now haunts a voice that spans horizons we already know
6.
Yellow Pony 03:41
pressing your hands as pillows soft fists bruised on skin recast in books as poems hard against your chest cradled on equus riding off to restore themselves dressing your hair in simple braids woven through rings promised to love and be loved saved on earth and clean cradled on equus rising off to restore themselves
7.
Storms 05:01
storms sided with the oceans release cold answers called over seas all you've swallowed up inside of them won't keep you warm won't wake you they drag you deep storms sided with the mountain repeat cold answers drawn underneath all that's swallowed up inside of them won't keep you warm won't wake you they draw you deep
8.
Anita 03:41
star sign creep through the canyon gold leaf carnations anita sleeping up in her room haunting zich overgeven don't come through anger black magic whispers told to the wind street fascination tend to their sweethearts open their wounds smoke smells the same out of your mouth star sign sleep through the storm and all of creation anita sleeping up in her room smoke smells the same out of your mouth
9.
i swear this place i do not know these new surroundings how? what? where? i got in here i thought i heard your voice repeat i'll leave a key, i'll leave a key why and where are you hiding? are you hiding in these new surroundings i catch the warmth under my coat like fires i have coaxed inside this silent corner of some building wide fixed stare these new surroundings winter gloves heavy in the morning side with me i straighten up i am alone gathering sticks and sparking stones i catch my breath against the stove frosted clouds escaping one, two three i was singing i thought your voice would come and find me inside this building i was haunting one, two, three i was singing songs i thought you would know if i sleep now will i wake up with you beside me? will i wake up to find you've crept inside my coat? your small arms wrapped in circles all around me your pink neck standing steel against the morning your pink cheeks, your slow breath hardly moving will i wake up the silent tenant of some building? with my winter gloves damp in the morning carry me if you can hear me i check your mirror pull my hair back into shape my eyes a mess i feel ashamed and maybe someone else is sleeping through this morning and maybe other fires burn throughout this building and i should put mine out to ash while i'm still standing

about

"A masterpiece woven together with a staggering sense of vision" - N0TED.NET (EU)

"If you ever cared for Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter or Boris (in heavy gaze mode) then this will be one of your top albums of 2013, thank me later. A beautiful, totally zero-fucks-given, last-ditch all-out swan song from one of Brisbane’s best ever bands." - THE VINE (AU)

"When it plays on my stereo, all I can hear is some kids from Toowoomba staring into their bedroom walls thinking, “Imagine if I made my life into something magical.” - MESS AND NOISE (AU)

"The result overall is exceptional songs almost spectral beauty serving a melancholy atmosphere, magical and unreal, present in each and every one of the notes of the album. " - DEPUTES (SPAIN)

"Winter Haunts" is definitely one of the best albums of 2013" - GERDAS TANZCAFE (GERMANY)

"The most beautiful album released by any Brisbane or Australian band in 2013." 10/10 - HEAVY AND WEIRD (AU)

"The Rational Academy have never felt more relevant, more alive – more there – in any of their other incarnations." - SONIC MASALA (AU)

"Tears the curtain down on another chapter in a wall of feedback, walking into the blinding light to disappear." 4.5/5 - TIME OFF (AU)

"Benjamin Thompson and his remaining crew have poured their all into this and are now giving up. If that is indeed the case, this send off, by turns warmly crushing and sweetly beautiful makes me feel again that this band were, somehow, bigger than the shyly artistic instution they have been for Brisbane for the last ten years." - 4ZZZ (AU)

credits

released January 2, 2013

Produced by The Rational Academy
Mixed by Cameron Smith & The Rational Academy
Mastered by Lawrence English @ 121
Artwork & Layout by The Rational Academy

Recorded by Cameron Smith @ Incremental Recording Studios
Additional Recording by Cameron Silk, Todd Dixon & Benjamin Thompson

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