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You Are Creating

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Thomas Watson
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Thomas Watson Greatest track from an awesome album. Sad I was late to 22. Wishing for more. Favorite track: You Are Creating.
Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) Prog from Scandinavia always is worth a quick listen, and this very interesting Norwegian band, unknown to me before, passed the test with excellence. The price of $15 is expensive in terms of the usual costs for good music on Bandcamp, but at least we get more than one hour top-notch prog in return. Like many of their compatriots and comparable bands from neighbor Sweden, "22" shines with flawless vocals and elaborate compositions that don't sound like I've heard them a thousand times before. Favorite track: Dillemanns Clarity.
kevbird
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kevbird prog rock at its best Favorite track: Staying Embodied.
Aleph
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Aleph Ces gars sont des magiciens et cet album a le pouvoir de rendre heureux! Favorite track: V.
thetristanfromglassnoose
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thetristanfromglassnoose seriously incredible. i don't have any other words right now. Favorite track: Call Me Trimtab.
DioHard
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DioHard What an experience! Tight mixing, well thought out songs, very diverse! Sum of Parts has been stuck in my head for months, since I saw them live with Agent Fresco and Leprous. These gentlemen will go far! Favorite track: Sum Of Parts.
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1.
Inspec 04:38
INSPEC AND THEN YOU HEAR A SOUND [ THAT BIG SOUND ] IT FOUND YOU ON THE GROUND YOU'VE HEARD THAT VOICE BEFORE [ LIKE AN OLD FRIEND ] NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D HEAR IT ANYMORE IT IS PERFECTION BECAUSE IT IS NOT PERFECT AT ALL YOU'VE BEEN ACTING OUT · EXPRESSING FACETS OF A COMPOSITE WHOLE AND IF I HAVE TO ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTIONS THEN I'D REALLY LOVE TO [ YOU KNOW ALL THAT I KNOW ] AND THEN YOU HEAR A SOUND... it is selection although you're not selecting at all comes with every choice · a different voice to slur · blur and confuse and if you feel the need to move · do it · but you do not really have to AND THEN YOU MAKE THAT SOUND [ THAT BIG SOUND ] YEAH FINALLY · HE IS FOUND [ YOU LIVE ] ALL LIVES AT ONCE · YOU SEE [ ALWAYS ONE ] YOUR PAST · YOUR FUTURE ALL IN ME THAT'S ABOUT IT · I DON'T KNOW MORE THAN YOU I HAVE THE SAME QUESTIONS TOO JUST KNOW THAT I'M HERE
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STAYING EMBODIED dwelling where i choose these walls are see-through there’s mass · hypnosis · dreams · drama and tear neuro-linguistic programs are spewed out to save you and the smiles in their pamphlets are top-rank watchtower smiles [ you’re taught what to think but not how to think your mind overclocks while it slowly shrinks ] KILLING THE MOMENT TO MAKE IT LAST MIGHT ENJOY IT MORE WHEN IT’S IN THE PAST STAYING EMBODIED IS HARD ENOUGH AS IT IS NOTORIOUS TO WRITE DOWN THE TASTE · THE FEELING AND SOUND SO THAT IT CAN BE REPEATED AT A LATER TIME we created pleasure so that we wouldn't drop out so that we would stay embodied in 3D doubt turns the absence of goals into a monster it's slow · but you know · your eyes are fixed on the veil KILLING THE MOMENT.. . THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT I CAN [ SO THAT IT CAN BE REPEATED SO THAT IT CAN BE REPEATED ] SING AFTER ME · REPEAT IT [ SO THAT IT CAN BE REPEATED SO THAT IT CAN BE REPEATED ] PLEASE · PLEASE · REPEAT IT
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Sum Of Parts 03:58
SUM OF PARTS [ NO ONE HEARS YOU ] SING IT AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU WE KNEW THIS FROM THE START WE ARE MORE THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS SING IT AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN IT’S NOT EVEN TRUE WELL OUR LOGIC WILL RELAPSE AS REALITIES COLLAPSE AND NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THEM [ GO ] why WHY would you cry out when there’s no NO one there YOU you are making sounds sounds that no one hears wearing you out you’re not all you’re not one you’re full of love · alone · you’rE on your own why would you cry when no one hears you BEEN holding on TO long and no no one cares SING IT AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU WE KNEW THIS FROM THE START WE ARE MORE THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS SING IT AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN IT’S NOT EVEN TRUE WELL OUR LOGIC WILL RELAPSE AS REALITIES COLLAPSE AND NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THEM GO you keep KEEP on crying out and it still makes no sense afraid AFRAID that it’s A CASE a case of pretense could you just shut up shut up and cry · and let it out not knowing why you would go so deep within your body · shut it down you’re sounding just like me are you a yes or a no-body information never consolates theories they isolate you need to stop figuring out why you want to scream and shout wearing you out you’re not all you’re not one you’re full of love · alone · you’re on your own why would you cry when no one hears you
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A MUTATION OF THRUSHES like a flock of birds or a pod of dolphins a bellowing of bullfinches a fling of dunlings like a mob of kangaroos a brood of hens a bazaar of guillemots just like a band of jays a shrewdness of apes a deceit of lapwings like a a host of sparrows a trip of wildfowles a mutation of thrushes like an army of ants an ostention of peacocks a down of rabbits like a rumba of ratllesnakes a run of salmon a bob of seals like a kettle of hawks a nest of hornets a gam of whales a quiver of cobras a dole of doves a shoal of shads a company of angel fish a glint of goldfish a knot of toads DID YOU EVER HAVE A GO ? EVERYONE MUST HAVE A GO IT'S YOUR NEXT PENROSE STEP the ONES WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR TIME ON EARTH HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF GLOW YOU PUT IT ON HOLD BUT SOON YOU'RE GIVEN BIRTH YOU LEAVE EVERYTHING SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR WORLDS ALL YOUR WORLDS ALL YOUR PRETTY LITTLE WORLDS like a bloat of hippopotami a warren of wombats a zeal of zebras like a generation of vipers a bale of turtles streak of tigers a glean of herring a hover of trout a wisdom of owls a murmuration of starlings a dray of squirrels a spring or a harem of seals like a drove of sheep a leash of foxes a skein of geese a tower of giraffes a knot of frogs a memory of elephants a weyr of dragons SO YOU DECIDE TO HAVE A GO AND EVERYBODY HAS TO KNOW IT'S YOUR TIME all the ones that have SPENT THEIR TIME ON EARTH HAve A DIFFERENT KIND OF FLOW SO YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU JUST MIGHT LET GO OF HOLDING LIGHT WE HAVE THE SAME THOUGHT AT THE SAME TIME AFTER TIME NEVER RUNNING OUT OF TIME our movements trace invisible patterns we draw in the sky using no eyes a living matrix hexagonal atonal a framework of sound as we're letting you down a shower of rain a bevy of ladies a blush of boys an ambush of toys a den of thieves a coven of witches a worship of READS a curse of painters like a conspiracy of ravens like a brace or flush of ducks A MASK OF RACCOONS a crash of rhinos a mute of hounds a warren of rabbits a turn of turtles like a shiver of sharks a SPAN OF MULES a school of sea stars a gulp of cormorants so zebrine, so hipptigrine so eranaceine so helminthic and so formic anisopterian iguanine pteropine so it seem so galagine so perfect so hyenine ALL THE ONES THAT HAVE SPENT THEIR TIME ON EARTH THEY’VE LIVED LIVES YOU'LL NEVER KNOW NOW YOU WANT TO GO DOWN THERE THOUGH YOU KNOW IT WILL HURT LET GO OF YOUR WORLDS
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ADAM KADMON BODY MASS INDEX YOU ARE MORE THAN CHEMICALS YOU ARE MORE THAN ENDLESS FRACTALS MEEK WONDERS OF A WAYWARD SUN YOU ARE MORE THAN ANOTHER RUN CUNNING · CIRCULAR · ALL PRECIOUS FEATS ALL THOSE SECRETS WAITING TO LEAK NO WONDER HOW DUPED WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN THESE REALMS SUCH THINGS CAN OCCUR WHAT IF YOU FAIL FAIL TO FAIL AND BREAK RIGHT THROUGH ? WHAT WOULD YOU FIGHT ? WHAT WOULD YOU PUSH AGAINST ? WHAT IF THE STRUGGLE DID END ? WHAT WOULD BECOME OF US THEN ? I'D RATHER SPEND MY LIFE BANGING ON A WALL THAN WALK RIGHT THROUGH AN OPEN DOOR COMING FULL CIRCLE ON OUR HANDS AND FEET ALL THESE ENDS ARE WAITING TO MEET IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT YOU CAN ALWAYS COAST YOU NEVER GIVE UP THE GHOST WHAT IF YOU FAIL FAIL TO FAIL AND BREAK RIGHT THROUGH ? WHAT WOULD YOU FIGHT ? WHAT WOULD YOU PUSH AGAINST ? WHAT IF THE STRUGGLE DID END ? WHAT WOULD BECOME OF US THEN ? I'D RATHER SPEND MY LIFE BANGING ON A WALL WHAT IF YOU FAIL FAIL TO FAIL YOU’D WALK RIGHT THROUGH NOTHING TO FIGHT NOTHING TO PUSH AGAINST WHAT IF THE STRUGGLE DID END ? WHAT WOULD BECOME OF US THEN ? SO WHAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE THE MEANING OF IT ALL IF I CAN WALK RIGHT THROUGH THAT OPEN DOOR
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Ectypes 03:18
ECTYPES maybe you're not who you thought you were, you spent some years on earth somewhere you have got photographs and history know many a branch on your family tree maybe you have been asleep and every picture you keep show just one of a million sides know your wrongs know your rights you live out every probability to the best of your ability live them all at the same time at the same time no one knows who they really are nobody knows who they really are no one know who they really are you know who you are
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YOU ARE CREATING FOR EVERY EVERY STEP THERE IS A STONE FOR EVERY PRODUCT : A CRAFT YOU HONE MUSIC IS NOT ABOUT THE WORDS AND TONES YEAH WE PLAY IT AND THEN YOU MAKE IT INTO MUSIC WE RELY ON YOUR EARS TO HEAR DISCOVER WHAT WE DID NOT KNOW WAS THERE ALL YOUR EXPERIENCES DERIVED FROM YOUR SENSES EVERY LETTER IS AN EMPTY CONTAINER AND EVERY NOTE : A VESSEL YOU RIDE THE VOICE YOU HEAR IS A VOICE INSIDE YOUR HEAD IT'S NOT A PICTURE · IT'S NOT A TEST IT'S NOT A METAPHOR · AN ANALOGY LEST YOU WANT IT TO BE IT CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE EVERYBODY'S FEELING LIKE "OH MY · THAT'S MY SONG" AND IT IS BECAUSE YOU'RE HEARING YOURSELF BY MEANS OF US THERE'S NO QUOTE UNQUOTE YOU'RE CREATING THIS NOTE ALL YOUR EXPERIENCES DERIVED FROM YOUR SENSES [ THE TOOL OF ART CAN ONLY TAKE YOU AS DEEP AS THE ARTIST WHO MADE IT DARED TO REACH WITHIN THEIR SELVES, THAT'S THE ONLY QUEST YOU NEED WORRY ABOUT · FORGET THE REST ] CHOOSE YOUR WORDS FOR WHAT THEY CONVEY AND NOT FOR WHAT THEY MEAN OR SAY YOU'RE USING THESE LINES TO COME THROUGH TO YOU EVERYBODY'S SAYING HE IS SINGING ABOUT ME YOU'RE SINGING TO YOURSELF, YOU SEE WHO MADE THE JOY WHO MADE THE STRIFE YOU’RE CREATING YOUR LIFE OBVIOUSLY I'M NOT SINGING. IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG YOU'RE CREATING EVERY SONG TAKE CREDIT AND BOW 'CAUSE WE DO NOT STAND UP AND RECLAIM YOU CREATED THIS REFRAIN
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Node1 02:05
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Node2 00:53
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Call Me TrimTab hydra-headed thoughts are making my eyes cross all these spheres · hypothetical [digital] geodesic domes resembling chromosomes i moved into a dymaxion [dwelling machine] and we keep inventing jobs [and we keep on righting wrongs] see us turning into stones [now they’re all gone the do’s and don’ts] REF not today not today not today how i love to put it off how i love to be taken care of and weep venture into polyphasic sleep icosahedron i don't need to rest have to do my best call me trimtab i'm a man of the future feed into my picture all this time to configurate [draw figure 8s] oh no storm is coming you're only becoming and we keep inventing jobs [and we keep on righting wrongs] see us turning into stones [no one confronts the do’s and don’ts] REF and we keep inventing jobs [and we keep on righting wrongs] i can do it too, but.. not today not today not today how i love to put it off how i love to be taken care of i'm set if you could only take the first step icosahedron i don't need to rest have to do my best call me trimtab
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DILLEMANNS’ CLARITY one day i got this clip it was from a friend of mine his name is BB he's a writer i met a painter who was talking about art a voice so confident and strong from the heart with the clarity of a man who goes for experience in its truest sense you can't create the art sublime in your spare time we all have sparks you compromise in life but not in art he said [red boxing gloves his punching bag hurts his body firm he's punching harder] a part-time painter is the worst the people who are partly anything they are the worst kind you have to try to be the whole you have to sacrifice but the biggest sacrifice is being half his muscles are contracting they emphasize everything that he is saying no philosophy just his truth [watch?v=hCeMgtoRago] REF we all have sparks you compromise in life but not in art [so sublime] in your spare time we all have sparks you compromise in life but not in art he said [red boxing gloves his punching bag hurts his body firm he's punching harder] REF being trendy is dying a little you don't have to be hip you just have to know poetry anything that stands the turning of time to create the art sublime [it’s gonna take more of your time] seeing modern art, of course as modern as possible they don't want to seem like old farts this is causing all the people to walk past the trees without seeing the art
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AUTUMN STREAM IN THE AUTUMN WHERE THE PINK AND GREEN FLOW SHOOTING ARROWS WITH RAINBOWS WE LEAVE · we leave THE TREES [WE'RE WALKING ON HANDS AND FEET] WE'RE WALKING ON CLOUDBERRIES WE ARE STANDING IN A STREAM [HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT YOU’V E SEEN] I HAVEN'T BEEN WHERE YOU'VE BEEN YOU TALK ABOUT TAKING THE PLUNGE I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN BETWEEN TWO ROCKS · I LUNGE WE'VE BEEN OUT HERE ALL DAY YOU SAY YOU'LL FOLLOW YOUR OWN WAY IN JOY WE MANIFEST QUICKER AND AS THIS REALM GROWS THICKER BETWEEN REALITIES WE FLICKER YOU ARE YOU AND I AM ME WE ARE STANDING IN A STREAM [TALKING ABOUT LIVING THE DREAM] AS THE OLD IS RIPPING BY ITS SEAMS AND HOW IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PATH U TAKE YOUR PREFERRED REALITY YOU ALWAYS WILL CREATE IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT MUCH BETTER THAN YOU THOUGHT WHEN LETTING GO OF STRAIN ·LETTING GO WHAT YOU OUGHT WE ARE STANDING IN A STREAM [AMID THE ELEMENTS WE GLEAM] AMID A VISTA OF GREEN AND THEN WE PLAY AROUND AND GENERATE A SPACE BEYOND HYPNOSIS AND PROGRAMS THAT ARE RUNNING THE RACE WE CREATE A BEING REFRACTED THROUGH RAIN SUN ENLIGHTENED HEATHER ON A MOUNTAIN PLANE WE ARE · AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO SEE [HOW ALL THE ENERGIES ALIGN] WHEN YOU SET THEM FREE THEY FORM AND MANIFEST IN PHYSICALITY [YOUR VERY ABSOLUTE HIGHEST PREFERRED REALITY] YOU CAN ALWAYS CREATE [IN A FANTASTIK FASHION] A REFLECTION OF YOUR HIGHEST PASSION WE ARE STANDING IN A STREAM [AND NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS] I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN AND THERE IS NOTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ARRANGED WE TALK ABOUT FLOW AND THE BEAUTY OF CHANGE
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Chroma Key 05:13
CHROMA KEY it begins and it's ending with you there's no one turning your page there's only you turning all that rage on yourself so what happens when you follow that whim do you love her or him ? love yourself or your kin ? please over understand this that this world is a looking glass and it will never burst unless you break it first being is not is not subject to time to time [don’t forget] there's no beginning and there is no end time is a construct [it’s yours to bend] there is no great library of what you did done do every moment and thing in here is nil you’re meant to charge them they reflect your will this world is a looking glass and it will never burst you can't tell a reflection to change you have to do it first it is not what you experience that will expand your range [don’t forget] it's how you react and perceive it that'll make the change [make for the deepest change] so it comes back to me reciprocality [don’t forget] every encounter you've with ever dealt has never ever happened [has only been felt] what beliefs am i projecting they're bouncing off the glass all the things that happen to me · my potentials turned to mass then never any thing was really about you there's no one turning your page there's only you turning all that rage on yourself what happens when you follow that whim do you love her or him ? love yourself or your kin ? please over understand this: that this world is a looking glass and it will never burst you have to break it first being is not subject to time [don’t forget] that if you're waiting waiting for the end then that is your choice [see you around the bend] so it comes back to me reciprocality every encounter you with ever dealt has never happened [has only been felt] what beliefs am i projecting they're bouncing off the glass all the things that happen to me · my potentials turned to mass and if you get some shit then you can ask yourself what is it that i hold as true creating this situation
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Sylphs 03:52
SYLPHS HOLD MY BREATH COUNT TO THREE I'M AWAKE OR SO IT SEEMS THEY ARE COMPASS NEEDLES POINTING AT YOUR HEART YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO START WALLOWING IN FOOTSTEPS WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE ? NO ONE KNOWS YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW THEE REF ALL YOUR DREAMS YOU HAVE TO LIVE THEM OUT THEY WERE MADE FOR YOU TO LIVE THEM OUT AND IF YOU DON'T THEY'LL HOLD YOU BACK THEY SEEM SO PERFECT IN THE OUTER SPHERES BUT IT’S BEST TO LIVE THEM HERE [PERFECT IN THE OUTER SPHERES] WAKE UP AND LIVE THEM HERE YOU WANT TO KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE TO WHAT YOU REALLY WANT YOU CAN ALWAYS HIDE FOREVER RUN ACCUMULATING REASONS WHY SAYING WELL I SORT OF TRIED NOW THEY’RE FAINT ONE OF MANY GAMES THEY'RE ALL THE SAME ALL YOUR DREAMS YOU HAVE TO LIVE THEM OUT THEY WERE MADE FOR YOU TO LIVE THEM OUT AND IF YOU DON'T THEY'LL HOLD YOU BACK EVEN A SLIGHT DREAM THAT YOU BRING TO EARTH MORE THAN GREAT VISIONS WORTH [SLIGHT DREAM THAT YOU BRING TO EARTH] MORE THAN GREAT VISIONS WORTH A LIFE IN LA LA LAND I LOVE WHAT I DO HATE WHO I AM DON'T BUG ME WHILE I’M DRIVING NOW I CAN'T CHANGE BANES ONE OF MANY GAMES THEY'RE ALL THE SAME ALL YOUR DREAMS YOU HAVE TO LIVE THEM OUT THEY WERE MADE BY YOU SO LIVE THEM OUT AND IF YOU DON'T THEY'LL HOLD YOU BACK THEY SEEM SO PERFECT IN THE OUTER SPHERES WHERE THEY’RE FAR AWAY FROM HERE [PERFECT IN THE OUTER SPHERES] BUT IT'S BEST TO LIVE THEM [BEST TO LIVE THEM] IT’S BEST TO LIVE THEM HERE
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V 05:12
V [quincunx] electronic beeps · the pulses and zings all those gadgets · those things no doubt · i would trade them all in to teleport and fly but not this time when someone comes on like an icon just tell them you're fine take a deep breath take one at a time “bye” there's no meaning “why?” we are all connected · connected as one so say the scriptures · and so says my phone [28.8k modems] we laugh but we're not that modern there's a reason why old rules don't apply [carry wood and chop water] nothing is different everything is the same yet all has changed everything that we create reflects an innate sense of how things could be don't talk to me about left and right and wrong i have to go i've waited long in line now we all know how we can talk to each other without words no matter the space between us “Hi" do that and more if you like but it's no goal they're artifacts of being whole communication sells we're all connected connected as one so reads the qabbalah and so reads my phone [i am out of touch give me buttons] there's a reason why you can try and try [carry wood and chop water] everything in perfect order we're all connected · connected as one so read the dead sea scrolls and so reads my phone [remember aeroplanes once were magic] NOTHING IS DIFFERENT EVERYTHING IS THE SAME NOTHING IS NOTHING EVERYTHING IS THE SAME
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Akira 02:09
AKIRA ALL THE LIGHT ALL THE CHANCES ALL THE SILENCE ALL YOUR GOALS ALL YOUR SECRETS OUT IN THE OPEN ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT YOU SOLVED ALL THE HEAT AND THE COLD ALL YOUR RALLIES IN BACK ALLEYS ALL THE WALKING IN THE FALL ALWAYS WANTING TO MAKE THAT CALL NOW WOULD YOU UP AND DISAPPEAR OR WOULD YOU RATHER STAY HERE

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released November 23, 2018

Magnus Boermark, Andreas Kjoel Berg, Mats Paulsen, Per Kristian Trollvik

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22 have defined their own musical domain as an eclectic, melodic, energetic and stadium-appealing progressive rock outfit.

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