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Vision of St. Cross

by Dear Laika

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lovely lovely and relatable album by a lovely person, one of the many people who inspire me as an independent artist myself Favorite track: Granite.
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H Fitzgerald My favourite record of 2017 for good reason. Dear Laika delivers a startling, hauntingly beautiful album that blends so many genres that it is impossible to box into anything. A wonderful balance between a soft, tender, folk-y spirit and glitchy, ambient influences is present throughout. A must listen. It feels strange to be here before the rest of the world. Favorite track: Granite.
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suncaverns A sensitively-produced synthesis of genres into a work of stunning cohesion. Both intensely personal and transcendentally spiritual, and woven together through immaculate and original soundscapes. Favorite track: Granite.
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shin beyond beyond beyond Favorite track: Granite.
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thomski Offers a tranquil sense of floating; the best way I can describe the tracks without lyrics is that they introduce some kind of weightlessness. Just me rambling. Favorite track: December Sequence.
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1.
Silver Sun 05:39
my hammock under tree my unsolved mystery my rocky alifie my ornithology we'll float like a chagall across the silver sun and when our flight is done  sleep in a sweet chorale but we're cities apart now we're kisses awaited we're words illuminated
2.
many years a brother  you're the first to say "why do you laugh so high?" new atlantic sailor in august midwinter were you at all prepared? darkest fruit in your grasp sourness on your tongue and sword through your spine  (a sword goes through your spine) you return shaking  with blood on your hands  and barbedwirebirdeyes  raw in morning light but as the season breeze  brings dust from the east pain is gone with time
3.
pourquoi mes cauchemars, ont-ils encore lieu à saint croix? pourquoi rassemblais-je des chèvres? pourquoi y avait-il des grenouilles qui sautaient en racontant des souvenirs de leurs vies antérieures?  pourquoi mon père, conduisait-il à l'aéroport? pourquoi ne courais-je pas bien?  je sais pas...
4.
and at the sound of the seventh bell i heard the most beautiful word clearer than the slovenian lakes and brighter than the silver sun
5.
Hymnus 01:44
how can I laugh when all is said with all but chosen church misled and death reserved, no love to show to us determined down below?
6.
Part I what can i do? what should i do? don't look at me, friends  i know i look distressed  and i look at my chest  as i would look at the heavens  to cry to the predestined and i can't love you and i can't kill you Part II mais dès que j'ai atteint la cime de la colline de saint croix, j'ai levé mes yeux et regardé une étoile... et j'ai vu que l'étoile était une petite chienne dans une capsule en métal... elle se sentait très seule et elle ne rêvait pas... elle ne savait pas ce qui se passait... et moi non plus... Part III we try but cannot be discrete  ‘cause all those boys and girls we meet we sidestep, magnets north to north we're just on different trains of thought  different strain of heads and how does it feel when  half the world now wants you dead?
7.
Granite 03:50
in our embrace i don't match you  i'm stooped too broad too cubist  i fall apart i turn away  how do i not frighten you?  the moment has passed  and every inch of me is granite it'll be like this for the rest of my life they look at me and say... shave away my neck and shave away my shoulders shave until there's strawberries and cream in the boiling summer rain  shave away my waist then shave away my nose my jaw my legs why don't you just shave it all...
8.
Ronan's Song 05:05
midsummer evening on the beach  my mother swept ashore for heat  disrobed and shook her velvet skin and found a father for her kin the waves pulled her in again  my father drowns himself now and then  my sister's island gave her rest  i found her lying with a shag's nest in her chest 

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an album about fever dreams, love in the time of internet, heartbreak, medieval monasteries, distance (both emotional and geographical), bad religion, large bodies of water, gender identity, scottish mythology, isolation, and soviet space dogs

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released January 12, 2017

all songs and lyrics written by dear laika
text for "blare's nightmare" originally written by blare coughlin, adapted and translated by laika. since making this album, it has come to light that blare badly abused a friend of mine. so fuck you, blare. you deserved that nightmare.
thanks to james cockayne for lyrical inspiration for "chokecherries"

dear laika: vox, piano, guitar, violin, viola, laptop for making the sounds and samples go
spoken word on “blare’s nightmare” and “half the world now wants you dead” by marie andré

~ all samples are presented and repackaged under fair use ~

“mixed” by dear laika
mastered by tamara westwood (musicbyfreya.bandcamp.com)
artwork by ruth culham (www.instagram.com/rllustration)

huge thanks to alison, angus, deirbhile, eliza, jack, jamal, james, joe, kiran, lori, marie, max, nick, olive, oli, rollo, ruth, sage, tamara, my parents, my few online supporters and followers, and all my friends and inspirations <3

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