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Phantasmagoric Menagerie (LP)

by Animal Holograms

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    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    Purchase of the EP also includes three (3) bonus tracks; an acoustic cover of Elliott Smith's, 'Son of Sam' and two (2) unreleased b-sides. All three additional tracks are exclusive to Bandcamp and unavailable through other retailers.
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  • Limited Edition Cassette with Alternative Artwork Pressed by CMM (only 50 made)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    High bias Cassette Tape featuring "limited edition artwork custom designed for this single pressing". ONLY 50 COPIES! All cassettes hand signed upon request (email: animalholograms@gmail.com).

    Included with the purchase of the cassette is a digital download of the entire EIGHT track album (includes three [3] bonus tracks).

    All proceeds from both digital and physical sales go to Thresholds, a non-profit community outreach program that assists those suffering from mental illness. For more information visit: www.thresholds.org

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1.
Black Cats 04:30
I've been going over black cats in my mind I don't know if I can make it but I know I'll try I put on my shoes, but I do not lie You've been making me to choose but I don't want this life You've been making me to suffer, but I don't know why Come and waste time with... Black cats scratching at the screen on my front porch Turning the metal into cinders for this torch Fires burning the city down to glass Turning the atmosphere into an oxygen mask I was in the other lane I was going the other way I was in the backyard waiting for my train I didn't think that it was going to come anyway I am a moral cripple whose actions react and ripple Through time like vines crawling High in the atmosphere it's where light is loud I can almost hear it And now that we've finally found peace with the ground I've been going over black cats in my mind I've been dreaming of a dark dance behind my closed eyes I put on my shoes, but I do not lie I've been going over black cats, black cats in my mind...
2.
Psychoasis 04:42
[Audio sample of a Hunter S. Thompson quote from his novel 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas', taken from Terry Gilliam's film adaptation of the novel and recited by Johnny Depp in his portrayal of H.S. Thompson: "We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”] You've been wrong lyin' to your daughter And I've been long, longing for a partner But you don't know me half as well as you should Well I've been gone just a little bit longer With every time I get a little stronger But you don't know me half as well as you should We've been going over all the names the same way we do it in the games in our heads I'm dead We're dead Together we might feel alive I've been strung out for forty hours Wasting time cutting paper flowers But you don't know me half as well as you should Hearts gathered up and torn apart in two Four then eight until it's through I'm not done with you I'm dyin' to hear the truth Darts thrown into the face of your shadow Poking holes through years of damage I'm not done with you I'm dyin' to hear the truth I'll never be finished with this I'm trying my best not to be missed
3.
Swirling and shattering The heart of a century old woman Staring at me, I'm frozen; I can't move I was humbled by the paint And I stumble before I faint I was so captivated my soul was elevated To a height I had never known until now I don't ever want to come down I want to stay here until I drown In the brilliance of her My head is so full of chemicals I'm losing myself in the wall The dissolution of my thoughts into a stochastic syntactic fall I am helpless as I merge and become the son Of the Mother of whom I have no memory of Some sort of history comes in between us I don't want to hear about anything that we do I was brought here by you And I'll stay here until I find the Truth My head is so full of chemicals I'm losing myself in the wall The dissolution of my thoughts into a stochastic syntactic fall Well, I am helpless as I merge and become the son Of the Mother of whom I have no memory of Home is a warm cave in the Dark I lurk in a well for water to expel The Devil inside my pocket Made a bet with me and he lost it all The Devil inside the socket Electrocuted himself to Hell My head is so full of chemicals I'm losing myself in the wall The dissolution of my thoughts into a stochastic syntactic fall I am helpless as I merge and become the Sun Of the Mother of whom I have no memory of The Devil inside my pocket Made a bet with me and he lost it all The Devil inside the socket Electrocuted himself to Hell
4.
[Terrence McKenna audio sample: "...the psychedelic state, to transcend the belief in the inner world and the outer world as being somehow separate"] Blood no longer flows through my veins Everybody in my dreams are tryin' to kill me Open up your lie And talk with me tonight Let's get inside Inside... I just might be down enough On my luck to consider opening up Old wounds I just might be scared enough Of my Dark to entrust my embarrassments With you My Shadow talks And I'll listen to it Desperado, Frenchman lyin' down on the couch I am walkin' by An official by my side There's a plot to have me killed under these hallway lights A junkie kickin' his habit falls out of his habitat My chance to grab at that gun I shoot and run The hit man hired to do me in is just behind....
5.
[Max Tegmark (theoretical physicist & mathematician) audio sampled from BBC Horizon: "I think our universe isn't just described by math, I think it 'is' math. I think our entire universe is a giant mathematical structure that we're apart of and that that's the reason why the more we study physics, the more mathematical regularities we keep discovering."]
6.
Slipping on the winter ice I grabbed you by the hand Gripping onto you we headed out Into the night laid without a plan Speed Queen skipping under Holy bridges Wishing West coast wishes Trying to escape the whole nightmare Of the middle American path But don't get stuck with me In this cold and miserable old city Playing noughts and crosses with our feet on the sidewalk Three sheets to the wind With our Yacht-bound heading on our ship unsteadily Moving through backwater eddies Speed Queen sailing under flags all flailing She's thinking about somewhere else With every intention to escape attention She knows just where she's going She wont get stuck with me In this cold and miserable old city Slipping on the winter ice I grabbed you by the hand Gripping onto you we headed out Into the night laid without a plan Speed Queen skipping under Holy bridges Wishing West coast wishes Trying to escape the whole nightmare Of the middle American path But don't get stuck with me In this cold and miserable old city But don't get stuck with me In this cold and miserable old city
7.
Nobody's sleepin', The countryside is littered with open eyes The Devil on the moon dancin' like a fool Lures all the flies to our rotted fruit When the Gypsy Droves arrive They'll steal our hearts to turn into motorbikes And ride into the centre of your idyllic town To make the Earth there now a nomad Heaven Every afternoon a thousand children die The Devil dancing on the moon still attracts the flies If all I had to do was sin to prove that life's not boring That pouring rain is glory And that the last page in the book Isn't the end of the story
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credits

released August 15, 2015

All Music & lyrics written by Jason Williams
Recorded, mixed, mastered & produced by Jason Williams

Released on cassette by Custom Made Music (2015)
Visit the Custom Made Music website to check out some amazing records CMM has released by other bands and artists on their roster (Ringo Deathstarr, Comasummer, Rev Rev Rev, The Cordial Sins and CMM alumni, CLUSTERSUN):
custommademusicva.com

Digital album released by Monoblack Records (2015)

Jason Williams: Vocals, guitars, dulcimer, programming & synths
Ryan Dahl: Bass
Sam Brown: Drums

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Animal Holograms Chicago, Illinois

Psych-rock sextet sometimes labeled a grungegaze "outfit?" making dream pop music for downtrodden scumbag droves sporting mothball, over-sized flannel & fashionably expressive shredded, sewer-stained, denim heirlooms called "My fucking jeans, you fascist!". We're admittedly naive to the grunge/90's alt rock revival subculture apparently all the rage suddenly...

Jason, Alex, Zach, Sarah & Danny
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