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Dream Baby (HTRA009)

by Anamai

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1.
Dream Baby 04:34
All my babies had the softest skin Too tender to touch without breaking it It’s a dream, it’s a life Say we won’t, not tonight Dream baby, dream You had one and you’d had them all Led them by the hand, watched them fall I couldn’t carry them all I don’t care at all An abject love, a killer touch Even without it I still feel you too much Dream baby dream Dream baby dream Dream baby dream
2.
Give me hell Look how the water crests over the ledge See how it seems to soften as the light bends Are you the blade beneath or the watershed? I’ll give you what you need if You give me hell I’ll give you what you need if You give me hell Feel how your fingertip can pierce the stream A pinhole pain to that shatters my tempered screen I crave your touch to balance my fantasy I could go further if you tell me first How we are made to be as sharp as thirst Move back inside to take your picture’s place I’ll give you what you need if You give me hell I’ll give you what you need if You give me hell
3.
The Holder 04:05
It’s tempting not to see the thing that has a hold on me I place myself in someone else’s body Just in case you can tell, I tell you first I am my worst now I am a splitting cell Can you tell? I don’t mean to take anybody down We would never make a new body now Take in care and be free of concept I have nothing to protect I slept with my back pressed to the wall Placed my hand on the bricks and then I don’t recall Anything at all Where is your man? Miss, can you stand? There’s a hole in the door Spat on the floor Is that how you talk to the woman you love now?
4.
Bank Towers 05:13
Once my embers, ash and soot Settle into place I’ll keep quiet, I’ll stay cold I’ll have been erased I won’t tell you how I’ve been Wanting less and less A cold heart, you of all should know, Can never be at rest You have never left your city Too hung up on the thrill Heard you found and lost her there So now you never will Staring out at someone else’s sunset in the West Turn around to face my hometown And feel nothing From down here bank towers glow gold twice a day If you were to reach me now, how would I stay sane?
5.
Easy Again 03:21
I kiss you both the same By any other name I’d be cut back ‘til it hurt By some amateur The garden is alight I tried to keep it live A couple grew, and every night I sold them at a loss to you I feel like lying lately Leaving everything you gave me In wrecking lots to rust Easy again I held your breath to make it better Intimacy is quiet I love the way we try And I’ll talk around These words I’ll never say to you When you’re with her I feel like lying lately Leaving everything you gave me In wrecking lots to rust Easy again Threw you out, baby, with the water Kept the time that we forgot her Easy again
6.
Swelling 04:38
Everyone has been your lover Shouldn’t be Nearly this hard To forget each other In a rolling hell Fall in daily Shore’s eroded will I ever reach it safely? To save yourself you’d give us up God, never asked you to do much at all Believe that we are all for one Till I feel you pull your hand out We are cradled now Make a tight fist Who did you hurt to deserve this? Undoing my shirt Everyone has Been my lover Shouldn’t be Nearly this easy To control each other To save yourself you’d give us up God, never asked you to do much at all Believe that we are all for one Till I feel you pull your hand out Be enough Shouldn’t love Be enough Shouldn’t love
7.
Cold House 05:06
So What, I’m through Ask me, what have I ever done for you? Dark time, slow build Don’t look now, but isn’t that him? In a big house, where we all live Bring a big gun Don’t know how to use it I watch the kids While you stay fun I walk in, find you all at once Full bed Real blood I’m un-jaded When the floor swallows us up A way in without touch Past the skin, I feel you too much All I say is “I feel left out” How reserved for a dream-self Outside there’s a cold front approaching the city Keep the windows shut Wait on the roof for a long time Or tear down the walls while we’re still inside
8.
I built a dullness Because I don’t want this What do you call it When I don’t want it To be real you’ve gotta feel Nothing for a while If you make it through One day You’ll be all right Fuck up and and call them Set yourself up to fall in Pull back from your old skin You’ll shed by the morning To be real you’ve gotta feel Nothing for a while If you make it through One day You’ll be all right If I get honest I found my problem I could be realer I can’t love him
9.
Three Suns 03:00
Gonna buy an old car And drive to Florida Sun dogs on a Wednesday Hanging over us New moon bringin’ in blue sun season This is what they call cold in North Escambia It happens in the way This is how it’s done In the Parhelion Never travelled this far From where we grew up If there is something out there It won’t find us New moon bringin’ in blue sun season This is what they call cold in North Escambia It happens in the way This is how it’s done In the Parhelion

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ANAMAI is the experimental folk project of Anna Mayberry and David Psutka - soft sounds to dent skin and flesh. The music is naked and exquisitely personal, threatening banality, but mainly an embrace of the commune. Dramatic and confidential anthems of divine insignificance. Across three studio albums the project has explored the nature of intimacy with tiny confessions released into vast lakes of sound. Simple songs punctuated by clusters of detail. The project is built on contradictions: traditional yet modern; miniscule yet infinite; proud but deflated. Something for everyone and nothing to no one. A search for peace?

ANAMAI will release their third album, Dream Baby, on Halocline Trance this fall. Listeners will hear residue from Psutka and Mayberry’s other projects - the scratchy expression of HSY + the functionality of EGYPTRIXX + the baroque digitalia of ACT! but ultimately the record breaks new ground in a long-running series of collaborations.

9 tracks of liquid sonics suggest an antecedent in early Harold Budd or a spiritual homage to the performative intimacy of Bossa Nova artists Joao Gilberto and Gal Costa. Drips of colour across an axis of sound, dimension and human experience.

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released October 25, 2019

Dream Baby is out on October 25th on Halocline Trance (LP, WAV). The album features photography by May Truong and design by Olenka Szymonski. Mastered by David Psutka and Jeremy Greenspan. Distributed by SRD and available to purchase via fine music retailers worldwide. All songs by Anna Mayberry and David Psutka. Press enquiries: Nico@modernmatters.net

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