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Katabasis

by Nightosphere

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big suit david byrne
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big suit david byrne Was drawn in by how much I loved the cover and then ended up loving the music even more Favorite track: Foxfire.
Terrence Falconer
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Terrence Falconer Tinges of Low (vocal style reminiscent of Mimi Parker's) and Chelsea Wolfe on this release. Amazing take on shoegaze / slowcore! Thought Forms comes to mind as the closest band to this magnificence Favorite track: Hubris.
Nolan DeBrincat
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Nolan DeBrincat Nightosphere is one of the easiest Kansas City bands to get excited about, and their debut record does a phenomenal job of cementing themselves as key figures in the scene to look out for. Favorite track: Hubris.
Erik Delaney
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Erik Delaney A unique band, lineup, performing style and songwriting—Nightosphere is creating their own world of sound and you’ll be better off having listened to them. ❤️
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1.
found a baby squirrel he'd fallen from the oak tree I picked him up and his lungs were in my hands life is just a series of near misses drove a car for 3 three hours to see you next thing I knew I was upside down on the wrong side of the interstate life is just a series of near misses
2.
Foxfire 04:57
passing through days on fumes time is measured in stories consumed by a languid body there's a safety in apathy creature comfort chosen to swallow, dissolve any resolve in a mired mind
3.
watched a spider crawl down your arm while you fixed your sharp eye on me everything you have you took from someone else but you say you still feel empty don’t look at me when you’re thirsty don’t look at me when you’re hungry
4.
Hubris 05:18
crack a smile kid for times are changing and all you’ve known is dust on your palms desperate compulsions to deny survival kept tight the blue cloth that bound you to the kitchen chair and oh, you’ve had a long day can’t bear to mull all this over you’d rather wait, wait for the right time a time in a place where everything lines up just right crack a smile kid for times are changing and all you’ve clung to is pain veiled as discipline and oh, you’ve had a long day can’t bear to mull all this over and yet, there’s a relief here delving deeper into this discomfort
5.
Two Heads 04:59
dreamt you had no hands and I was the only one who noticed stubby reminders of the possibility of loss and loving it’s the fear of the feeling I don’t know tonight the two headed calf is alive in the grass but she’s dead on display housed behind glass tomorrow the uncertainty of living and the certainty of dying the uncertainty of loving and the certainty of losing so we’re moving our legs for as long as they’ll move planting seeds not knowing if there’s a future where we can grow fruit touching each other however we can touching however we can breathing, breaking
6.
Pining 05:42
felt the sun on my shoulders didn’t mind it was in my eyes we sat in the tall grass and knew we were alive you drank from the water clear green and blue you drank til you were full and I did too now this long-fingered winter has me pining for the sun the weather’s always got me under its thumb buried my cherry pits in the sand with toes too hot to touch honey dripped from our mouths to sweeten the sea moving between us now this long-fingered winter has me pining for the sun the weather’s always got me under its thumb she’s always got me under her thumb
7.
Swidden 05:54
we bought a house full of spiders and un-emptied boxes and unspoken words in this life there’s always unknowns but our learned behaviors were dragging us down i thought that we’d die together bound by our labor our record of love but we already died

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released April 14, 2023

guitar/bass/vocals: Claire Hannah and Brittany Sawtelle
drums and lap steel: Dekota (Hop) Trogdon
additional guitar on "Hubris" by Deano Erickson

recorded & mixed by Morgan Reed Greenwood
mastered by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering Service
artwork by Kasper Durkin

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