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mass observation

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you look out across the street what is this commotion all about? there's a smell across your nose and the smoke is getting to your eyes it's not an act of war it's just a solution of arithmetic it's not your fever rising it's just the phrasing of your politics i swore, i'd close my eyes keeping to myself working on the line they're closing off the roads, and beating people in streets they say we started it, but i say they're lying through their teeth it's not an act war, it's just a way they keep their capital it's not your fever rising, it's just a violence they make casual i swore, i'd bide my time keeping to myself, working all the time
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temperature 04:04
you get this feeling, your stomach twists, whenever you walk through a crowd, you can't tell if you're breathing strangers look, their eyes are watching you now it's not the temperature, it's not the temperature, it's not the temperature, that's making us hate you've gotten good at keeping your distance cause you know that people they always let you down so you're left adrift and alone do you feel like an abandoned lorelei? it's not the temperature, it's not the temperature, it's not the temperature, that's making us hate it's not the temperature, no not the temperature it's not the temperature that's making us hate
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you're lighting the pipe and drinking the mead you gather your myths, and you're drawing your leads aaaaa--oh aaaaa--oh sent in your prime, to go check these stories out do they always fit your structure? are there no surprises now? this is control this is control the animals, you ponder in dreams what purpose they serve? what do they mean? well your charts they know so far from home how is your mission? deconstructing the bees, what purpose do they serve? what do they all mean? this is control this is control this is control this is control
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out on the town it's so clinically cold run for fun until your knees explode another number comes on you comprehend but can hardly explain the kind words only hide your disdain another number comes on unctuous smug slug character among the leaves of gray what a very bland thing to say they like their purge with a personal touch she don't agree so she doesn't talk much reaching through the gate of a wrought iron fence with an intricately designed family crest another number comes on caught in a pool of emotional spray you work at night to keep the thing at bay until your number comes up you comprehend but can hardly explain the kind words only hide your disdain another number comes on

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Mass Observation is a remote collaboration from Davis White (Lorelei; We Capillaries; The New Lines) and Hewson Chen (Lake Ruth; The New Lines). The music can be loosely described as post-punk, with a slightly different character from their other bands. Recorded in a VA living room and NYC kitchen cupboard during the COVID-19 quarantine, some themes from current times are certainly in play here.

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released August 7, 2020

Artwork by Anthony Nine

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Mass Observation is a remote collaboration from Davis White (Lorelei; We Capillaries; The New Lines) and Hewson Chen (Lake Ruth; The New Lines). The music can be loosely described as post-punk, with a slightly different character from their other bands. Recorded in a VA living room and NYC kitchen cupboard during the COVID-19 quarantine, some themes from current times are certainly in play here. ... more

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