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Dystopian Dream State

by LRAD

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1.
G20 A Go-Go 05:23
you've got her primmed up real proper now dressed in the finest of gowns and she feels like shes fakin' with yr banners draped all around but you've promised her such sweet rewards when you finally come to town so her every peep of protest is nothing more than inaudible sound for you whisper such grand promises into her ear oh you whisper all the promises you know the world wants to hear so you can come and go and bring this city to her knees so you can come and go and use her as a base to plot yr schemes so you can come come come and go and leave in yr wake deceivingly cloaked lies bursting at the seams so here you come now to use her and disrupt her space and before you leave you'll be sure to spit in her face so you come now now to claim yr so called rightful meeting place assuming yr position as the worlds savior when yr really only its disgrace and now you whisper such harsh threats into her ear yes yr silencing her into submission through yr tactics of fear so you can come and go and bring this city to her knees so you can come and go and use her as a base to plot yr schemes and she can feel you coming in her crookedly sloping sleep... yes she can feel you coming as the days they slowly creep oh how you'll come come come and go and when you leave you'll take this city's soul oh you'll come and go and leave nothing but a hole deep scars from the blades of yr oppression driving her into another dark depression but you wont even know for yr just here to come and go yes yr just here to come and go oh no...
2.
a storm it is a-boilin' i can feel it starting to swell for no empire can topple without the fight to be fell which side are you on? which side are you on? which side are you on? which side are you on? and oh when they come a steppin' up come a knockin' upon your door will you try and hide or will you just try and ignore when they come poundin' they come a knockin down yr door will you be standin' up to them or will you be cowering on the floor (chorus) and will you be listenin' to every word they say and will you be kneelin' down when they tell you to obey - and will they have to take you will they have to break you or will you have already given yrself away? which side are you on? which side are you on? which side are you on? which side are you on?
3.
there's an infestation crawling in my skin and there's a sensation of insatiable itchin' like all of my anxieties- scratching out from deep within all my fears and phobias crawling beneath my skin- crawling beneath my skin and oh these nocturnal nuisances are eating me alive just keep telling myself wait it out, wait it out, just a little longer while i can no longer hold the burden of my own denial - just stuff it in bags and stack it up in haphazard piles for there's an infestation crawling in my skin oh there's the sensation of insatiable itchin' as the gravity-of the reality slowly starts to sink in and always oh always itchin' i am numb yet crawling in my skin oh i am numb and crawling in my skin and from these nocturnal nuisances i feel i'll never be free just kept asking myself what it could be oh i wonder what could this mean... for i didn't want to look at the way i was living- and to go on pretending was easier than admitting- the blame... oh and these nocturnal nuisances have me feeling dirty... just kept telling myself no it cant be oh no it couldn't be... for i didn't want to look at the way i was thinking, and to go on ignoring it was easier than admitting- the shame... so now there's an infestation crawling in my skin there's an obsession of insatiable itchin' like all of my fantasies- scratching out from deep within oh all my secret longing for to crawling beneath my skin oh crawling beneath my skin... oh now there's an infestation oh there's an obsession oh there's a sensation of insatiable itchin' oh insatiable itchin'...
4.
Ominonymity 06:50
and often these days i find myself wondering oh so often these days i find myself wandering with softening edges through staggering lines with a shadow that stands so stark & defined-- and often these days its like i'm always seized in wakin' oh so often these days - it like i can feel the walls within me breakin' (down)-- to taste of the sweat and the fear that leaves me shaken (now) i better keep it in line now and keep it down real low gotta keep it encrypted and keep it in code oh keep it down now and keep it down real low keep it down so loud now that everybody knows that lately these days i feel like a walking contradiction and it seems sometimes these days as though i've found a new addiction in softening my edges on the borders of obscene and always toeing the line between these polar extremes and lately these days i cant seem to get a grip on the reality that always this plagues -- and its such a simple concept steeped in complexity conflicting desires welling within the realms of fantasy but i don't think ill be able to reconcile with this duality so instead i'm just baskin' in the ominonymity is it wrong to bask in the ominonymity (but i know i just have to) keep it in line now and keep it down real low got me wound up so tight i'm about to implode but oh keep it down keep it down real low and keep it down keep it bound where no one will dare to go gotta keep it down keep it down real low and keep it encrypted always keep it in code keep it down now and keep it down real low keep it down so loud now that everybody knows keep it down so loud now that everybody knows about all the soft edges and the rough outlines in the staggering sway of desires confined to the captivity of shadows all up and down the street with a mind so debauched and a body not so discreet and ill keep it down so loud now that everybody knows that i'm just baskin' in the ominonymity if yr askin' its just the ominonymity i'm just baskin' in the ominonymity...
5.
there's more than just the birds ringing in the spring i can hear a twist amidst the silence screeching i can hear a barking and i can feel a breaking- i can feel a breath every time the wind blows, and i know- there's more than markets crashing outside my window- beneath which i hush and hide hunkered down low-within the cracks of space time upon such plateaus- that send tremors down my crooked spine and ever so slow- it starts to settle in//settle in like a bruise such a deep ache of which i know not how to//know not how to attend to//tend to so could you lick the pollen from my oh come now lick the pollen from my oh wont you lick the pollen from my wounds the pollen from my wounds... - (for) there's more than just the blossoms building up this spring i can see it all around when i go seeking it out and scrolling down- right aside above and now- i can feel it closing in every time the wind blows and i know- there's more than seasons changing outside my window- where i wait for never to subside tucked in silk and scan and a great divide that sets them all aglow- the faceless plates and thin blue veins amongst the static flow- of a not so secret refrain and ever so slow it starts to settle in//settle in like a bruise such a deep ache of which i know not how to//know not how to attend to//tend to so could you lick the pollen from my oh come now lick the pollen from my oh wont you lick the pollen from- such deep hues of which i know not how to//know not how to attend to//tend to so could you lick the pollen from my wounds oh come now lick the pollen from my wounds oh wont you lick the pollen from my wounds the pollen from my wounds...

about

There are a billion things i could say to try and describe this album...
but none would do justice to try and explain the all consuming concept...
it is a duality of desires & anxieties...
it is a passion amidst ever present oppression...
it is a gut wrenching contradiction of heart wrenching obsession...
it is a coming out and a breaking down...
it is the state of things...

but don't take it from me, you just have to take a look around & listen & you'll figure it out...

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released April 5, 2013

All songs written & performed by A. Trautman
(except the chorus & concept of track 2)
cover art by A. Trautman
All songs recorded by Sean McNeilly

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