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Threshold

by THISNESS

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1.
Gone 06:48
lyrics
The intrusion of silence Masked our soft faces Time through our hands In a land without places The pink moon goes out Temperatures rising, when you’re gone the matches explode and the Canyons flow over, when you’re gone it’s the Winter of citrus Children are breathless, when you’re gone The rafters have fallen Creeks are all swollen, when you’re gone When the sun goes down The fires are climbing, when you’re gone The weeds get cold Puzzles smolder, when you’re gone When the bunkers are empty Filled with darkness, when you’re gone the blue -flights flashing They start asking questions, when you’re gone Sand in your sheets Sweetness on snake tongues We walked empty streets Our movements were unsung When you find you’re alone In the comfort of home Our world is bigger on the inside When the doors are all gone When you're gone
2.
Future 04:13
lyrics
We begin in the end With a single need Stick to the ground Till the strays come out Whoever lives will see The future will tell They will slowly dance Robes of white wool The friction of the moons Lighting up the wood Nothing Before Nothing More We are unbound Till the coals die out Whoever lives will see The future will tell Qui Vivra Verra
3.
Gravity 05:11
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Gravity is in that fall You haven’t seen it fall away From the sound you took At seventeen you called With a clear dream of danger your hand to the wall Without a signature In the scene that killed the stranger When the sun blinds your heart Remember angels When you walked in the graveyard fog doused the candles When they fall away When the prophets call Run the queen of hearts to save us Like you’ve always done We couldn’t feel the pull Of the spade upon the basis Found upturned ground When the guards crawled majesty upon their faces left them no choices When the joker calls The kisses fell upon the pavement And you passed your life misshapen Tears fall as one in between
4.
Imagination 06:43
lyrics
tree bark looks like a wrinkled face Time passing emerges from the flowing creek An owl dead in a tree devastates his crooked wand points beyond the peak Imagine stars in another realm Their hands touch the sky Imagine dams get overwhelmed Their hands touch the sky The grit of the earth has disappeared Along a cliff heart in your head pounds Ghosts in the attic interfere The guards rise to release the hounds Imagine stars in another realm Their hands touch the sky Imagine dams get overwhelmed Their hands touch the sky The gravekeeper digs bodies from the soil Fictions broken upon silent boughs The flood overwhelms the hydrofoils The boatswain raises the children above the prow Nature kills the imagination Imagine stars in another realm Their hands touch the sky Imagine dams get overwhelmed Their hands touch the sky
5.
Tractor 05:04
lyrics
The tractor stuck on the shore The waves crashed through the door Horizon filled with lightning Shadows cast on the floor Light shown through the cyclone Night broke over tombstones The sky opened vibrations The cloud of down overblown The book it falls to the floor Its pages soaked with rancor We opened up the future The tractor stuck on the shore
6.
Asylum 05:12
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Erasing couldn’t beautify The plague of being alone Talking couldn’t purify Hands washed over coals Nausea spread far and wide Objects command our desires Forced to look deep inside All we could see was the fire Prophets couldn’t identify The prospects for a poem The poets couldn’t pacify Words flashed through our minds Fear just under the surface Slow crumbling of empires Hid our eyes from embrace All we could we see was the fire You walked through Fire You walked through Fire Close your eyes to mystify The future nature foretold Touching couldn’t mollify Floods beyond thresholds Quietude caused our peaking We hoped we could suspire Hearts deep in the creek All we could see was the fire You walked through Fire You walked through Fire
7.
Whirl 04:46
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When the soil pours out The wolves quiet their howls The ground falls away When the mood wells up The Force fills our lungs The ground falls away You're reaching for the moment When you feel the whirl You're reaching for the moment When you feel the whirl The ground falls away The ground falls away The ground falls away The ground falls away You're reaching for the moment When you feel the whirl You're reaching for the moment When you feel the whirl
8.
Whims 06:48
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Tripped over campfires, fantastic You wanna fight, I’ll fight Show me to the room Fell 100 miles The Whims Will Purify Walked through flames to get here She spoke She spoke It broke Broken plastic tinged with laughter Exotic lipstick covers her face The Whims Will Purify Held onto raccoon hands Blandscapes landscapes Felt the world through frightened eyes Molyneux touches the boxes The Whims Will Purify Makes dirt into shapes Hands felt into fixations Elixirs poured out for ancestors How many will scratch for it The Whims Will Purify Fancy cars Start the wars Lost occupations Signs in the streets Stealthy voices Blister their ears Blank premonitions Holding the future And you’re hunting… hunting… hunting… You’re hunting me With your pickup and drop off You didn’t show any restraint Your phone is ringing It is your prudence Con art and convicts You know you can’t see through this window Past sunsets ascend Into the ether The stars are cutouts Of Strife in Heraclitus The eggman disemboweled Hater’s on the prowl Hunting the precious life Streets of our daffodil city Haikus and devil’s spells They lead you astray “Remember me,” he said Fake money shines from above We need extra lines Tally the last of our failures Whims upon the shores Whims taken from us Whims break our chests Whims upon harbors Whims within lovers Glasses gather in masses The holy burglar fakes He takes he takes he takes places Under the overpasses cinderblocks stacked The whims will purify Avoids the sun every day Burns the queen of cups Bars of soap and stars aghast Takes off the pagan holidays The Whims Will Purify Porch paintings stolen slogans Her red rooster china in flames She doesn’t show any restraint Fireworks blew the amplifier The Whims Will Purify You need a new best friend Con artists and convicts Past heights ascend Her dogs dream of wealth The Whims will Purify The river is rising high The whims will purify The river is rising high The whims will purify
9.
Dark 05:52
lyrics
You were dancing Left me swaying in the trees No one could follow stars the infants saw blackened skies You were looking For the portal through the pines couldn’t understand your calls Only the wolves could hear Cave lights flash over me The Soil is motherly Blurred objects from the beyond We’re in the dark We’re in the dark You were breathing We dreamt of basic needs The sun couldn’t keep us warm The creek put us to sleep You were howling From the caverns beyond the wall No one could find you Until morning broke quietly into… The Skies write drunk alphabets Bent shapes underwater Good night from the beyond We’re in the dark We’re in the dark
10.
Mirror 06:14
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sewing patches of earth together the creek rises and calls ivy gathers and stretching its tethers we wait for the night to fall needle pulsing and vinyl clicks at the end of the grooves river drenches all the matchsticks the beasts paw their hooves Patterns eternally recurring Patterns eternally recurring Patterns eternally recurring Reflecting the Mirror through bundles are snappishly hurled back again for another round boards and blankets come unfurled the repetitions slowly rebound Floods of light and dark Washed with the sun Rising tides left their marks All our dreams come undone Patterns eternally recurring Patterns eternally recurring Patterns eternally recurring Reflecting the Mirror through difference and repetition difference and repetition Patterns eternally recurring Patterns eternally recurring Patterns eternally recurring Reflecting the Mirror through

about

Threshold was recorded May-August 2021 at Wildland Studio (Hickory Hill, AR) with additional recording in Little Rock and Conway, AR; mixed by Michael/Thisness in December 2021; mastered by Chris Moore at East Hall Recording (Fayetteville, AR).

All of the tracks on Threshold were recorded, mixed, and mastered specifically for the album. (The album version of Gravity was released—with an earlier mix—on the Out From the Cold compilation in October 2021. Earlier mixes of Gone and Imagination were released as videos, first for a streaming event benefiting Arkansas Community Advocates in October 2021 and later on the Thisness YouTube channel.)

Album art by Sydney Chastain-Chapman (sydneychacha.com)

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released February 25, 2022

lyrics by James Dow / Music by Thisness
on Threshold, Thisness is:
Jesse Butler - guitar
Chris Carrier - drums, percussion
James Dow - vocals, guitar, samples & loops
Michael Norton - bass guitars

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THISNESS Hickory Hill, Arkansas

Thisness plays dark psychedelic post-punk in central Arkansas

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Jesse Butler — Guitars and other stringed instruments
James Dow — Vocals, Guitar, Loops, Tape Machine, Saxophone
Adrian James — Drums and Percussion
Michael Norton — Bass Guitars ... more

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